Passo sella

Switzerland is rich, especially in clichés. Many are largely true. There are some I’m not so interested in – banking, precision watches, nuclear shelters and referendums. But others, I certainly am –

In the closing years of the last millennium, Vuelta a España director Enrique Franco was searching for a spectacle to help his race compete with its more famous French and Italian rivals. He believed

Naysayers silenced as crowds roar for the Tour

The Victorians confused these Shropshire hills with the Alps. How? Why? Trail dons its lederhosen, downs a glühwein and reaches for the Stretton Skyline to find out.

For one morning each April, the birds of Mallorca have to swallow an annual dose of their own medicine. At an ungodly hour, for once it’s them being woken against their will by thousands of freehubs b

Thirty-six years after Superbagnères played a starring role in the iconic 1989 Tour, the legendary climb is back. Peter Cossins takes it on