Cycling Plus

Cycling Plus is the manual for the modern road cyclist. Whether you're cycling weekly, an occasional new rider or a Tour de France fan you’ll find everything you need. Each issue is packed with buying advice and tests of essential cycling gear - everything from bikes to bags! Cycling Plus is the place to find training advice, nutrition secrets and practical tips guaranteed to improve your bicycling. It's also full of inspirational rides, real-life cycling stories and entertaining riding-related features.

FROM THE EDITOR…

CYCING PLUS • THE UK’S BEST TESTS FOR OVER 25 YEARS

Need for speed • Scott Addict eRIDE Premium

Rough, tough & fast • Ridley Kanzo Fast GRX Di2 Classified

Smooth as steel • Genesis Croix de Fer 10 Flat Bar

HUB

GROUP THINK • Solo feats have hit headlines, but 2020’s isolation has us yearning for the communal experience

SQUIRE STRONGHOLD 50 LOCK & CHAIN AND SQUIRE GROUND ANCHOR

FOUR ESSENTIALS

WORCESTER • Elgar’s backyard offers quintessentially English rides

SEG WAYS • Segregated cycle paths are 200 years old this year. Rob Ainsley feels the love…

HASSOP STATION, DERBYSHIRE • Sitting on the Monsal Trail, this Peak District cafe serves terrific, locally sourced food

ROAD RUNNERS • We trial a quartet of fine road machines hovering between £2000 and £3000, which promise both performance and value

TIFOSI SCALARE DISC 105

SENSA GIULIA G3 EVO ULTEGRA

BOARDMAN SLR 9.2 DISC

PLANET X PRO CARBON

BOARDMAN SLR 9.2 DISC • It’s all in the frame…

ENVE FOUNDATION 65

HEAD TO HEAD

RUDY PROJECT CUTLINE

AFTERSHOKZ OPENMOVE

PROLOGO PROXIM W400

ABUS STORMCHASER

STOLEN GOAT RAGGAMUFFIN 20 ORKAAN JERSEY; ORKAAN WEATHER RESISTANT ¾ TIGHTS

Aurum Magma Zipp

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THE SCIENCE OF HEATHY HABITS • Whether your New Year’s resolution is to commute by bike, start a daily stretching routine or eat healthier snacks, it’s time to ditch your dependence on flaky willpower and build bullet-proof habits instead. We reveal how to inject winning habits into your daily routine

SIMPLE HEALTHY HABITS TO START TODAY

COMMUTING OUTFITS • Despite Covid shutting offices, the signs are that riding to work’s on the up. And that’ll continue with the right clothes…

SHORT-DISTANCE COMMUTER

WET-WEATHER RIDER

NIGHT RIDER

WINTER WARMER

TRAIN TO WORK

LESSONS FROM THE EDGE • Athletes who push their bodies to the limit develop powerful strategies to master pain, fear, anxiety and pressure. We talk to the world’s toughest cyclists to reveal how they steel their minds in the most challenging situations

THE RACER

THE PERFECT ALL-ROUNDER? • A versatile aero gravel machine, the 3T Exploro RaceMax could be all the bike you need

WINTER TRAINING • How to prepare for a memorable 2021

Reza Pakravan • Explorer and filmmaker Reza Pakravan holds the record for cycling the 11,000-mile length of our planet from north to south. Here’s his regular routine back in London…

CRUNCH TIME • Winter is the ideal time to introduce vital off-bike exercise routines into your life, writes Norman

SHOULD CYCLISTS GO RUNNING? • There are real benefits to leaving the bike at home, including boosting all-important bone density

Five things we learned this month…

THAI GREEN SALMON BURGERS WITH SWEET POTATO WEDGES • Each month we take a look at a quick and healthy recipe that’ll fuel your riding A delicious, nutritious taste of the east

Festive feeding • It’s time to drink, be merry and manage indulgence…

HOW CYCLING CHANGED MY...