CYCLIST SHOP

How do you leave for Flanders in the morning, ride 80km over the Koppenberg, Kwaremont, and Paterberg, and still get home for your tea? Cyclist issue 151 has the answer, in our guide to Flanders and back in 24 hours. It is brutal, brilliant fun. And there will be time for Leffes.

This month we ride up Spain’s unsung gem, the Vallter 2000, traverse France and Angleterre during the Pan Celtic Ultra Race, and meet up with meteorically rising British talent, Pfeiffer Georgi. Felix Lowe visits the Middle East for an in depth report on just what the oil money is doing for (and to) cycling; we take the deepest detailed dive into bottom brackets (get the kettle on); and catch up Lidl-Trek’s Tao Geoghegan Hart. Bikes tests come in the form of the Colnago C68 Allroad, Basso Astra and Lauf Úthald, plus there’s an extra special showcase of the so expensive they wouldn’t even tell us Aston Martin x J.Laverack road bike. It must be seen to be believed. Extraordinary. Just like this issue.