How to tackle l’étape du tour

Seventy-five years ago, the Cyclo Club Béarnais in the French city of Pau devised a devilish cycling route that went coast to coast across the French Pyrenees between Cerbère and Hendaye, sticking as

Organised chaos and hot stress. That’s the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the Tour de France. Then I worry if I will have enough shirts to last over four weeks on the road covering fir

Want to cycle 1,000 miles across rugged Scottish terrain, climbing more than twice the height of Everest? Oh, and it’s totally unsupported. Then try the Trans Alba race: you don’t have to be mad to do it, but it probably helps!

Previous pages, top right: ‘The whole of Alto de El Morredero on Stage 17 was a barren, blackened landscape as far as the eye could see. Spain had had some of its worst ever wildfires there about a mo

For Austrian cyclists climbing to the border with Italy, it’s known as the Timmelsjoch. For Italian cyclists climbing to the border from the other side, it’s known as the Passo del Rombo. But long bef

In the mid-1980s, despite regularly making nuisances of ourselves at our local bike shop, my girlfriend Josie and I were determined to resist all attempts to turn us into racing cyclists. While happy