NATIONAL CHAMPION AND 1950s RACING PIONEER

Following her retirement, Helen Rowe, 70, from Benfleet, Essex, took some wise words to heart – with very positive results

THE WORLD’S GREATEST BIKES

When cycling’s your job, real-world skills remain frozen in time

Legend has it that Ernest Hemingway once bet a rival he could write a six-word story that would make the reader cry. The result was: ‘For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.’ I found a real-life cycling equ

In 1974, I hitchhiked with my girlfriend Lesley from John o’Groats to Land’s End in 10 days. After 46 years of happy marriage, Lesley died from breast cancer in October 2022. Losing the love of my lif