Great inventions of cycling

Humans have always cheated at sports; in fact, you could say that as soon as we started measuring, we started cheating. The ancient Olympic Games was a hotbed of bribery, trickery and doping, even tho

The Doc’s half-arsed training’s not even fooling himself

The Doc takes a ride down memory lane – for the 2,000th time...

Recreational and competitive cycling are enjoying huge popularity worldwide, and this has rubbed off on the women’s side of the sport. From road races to mountain biking and everything in between, mor

The Doc weighs up the mixed blessing of cycling gadgets

Despite decades of scientific research, getting fit on the bike still hinges on old-fashioned hard work. Are we looking for complexity where the answers remain simple, asks James Shrubsall