‘you can’t fight the weather!’

For two weeks every year a windswept, rain-lashed but beautiful and magical island in the Irish Sea becomes the centre of the bike racing universe. Bike celebrates this year’s action and the people, bikes and stories that make it unlike anything else on Earth

Look (as a certain Sky F1 presenter and politicians say when attempting to sound convincing), forecasting British weather can be tricky. But look, I can confidently say that, even if it tips down at S

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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

One minute we were rubbing in the sun cream, the next hunkering under brollies as the good old UK weather kept the British Touring Car Championship guessing at bucolic Oulton Park. The series’ annual

I’M LYING ON A MATTRESS IN ROS’S FRONT GARDEN, arms folded over her garden wall. Half a mile away the first bike leaves the line. Before it gets to us in about 13 seconds time it will already have had