Great inventions of cycling the sticky bottle, circa 1900

Whose team could change four tyres the faster? Ken Tyrrell and McLaren’s Teddy Mayer had £600 riding on it. The former’s crew – a gun guy at each corner, a jack man at either end – was said to have go

For the Doc, riding alone is a blissfully thought-free zone

The Tour de France is still the only race that counts for ‘them’

An old-fashioned hardback book often still beats the internet, doesn’t it? When you can get hold of one. Right now, there’s one, in a package with my name on it, stuck somewhere between a second-hand

Saintly helpers make ultra-distance time trials tough to quit

Graham Keilloh looks at images capturing the drama and – sometimes – controversy of this decade