CYCLIST SHOP

What’s 299.5km long, lasts all day and notches up nearly 10,000m of climbing? That’ll be issue 159’s Big Ride, as Cyclist takes on a Roaming Everest around the Pyrenees – think a normal Everest (if there is such a thing) only no climb can be repeated. It’s brutal, it’s beautiful, but is it actually possible?

Elsewhere inside this issue, we sit down with Belgian nice guy Victor Campenaerts, who gives us a frank account of life on the road and his hopes for next season’s Visma – Lease a Bike move. We chat with one of the world’s most successful bike racers, Hour record breaking, Olympic winning, 13-time world champion-championing Jeannie Longo; Felix Lowe looks back at the racing year with his own unique awards ceremony; and we hit the boards at the London 3 Day track meet.

We visit the ‘pro’s graveyard’, aka the Passo Fedaia in Italy’s Dolomite, head to Austria for some multi-day gravel and then cross the Pond to see Moots for our new series on dream bikes.

We put the new Pinarello Dogma F, Factor Ostro VAM, Shimano GRX Di2 groupset and Poc Cytal Carbon helmet through their paces, plus there’s new gear from Sidi, Wahoo, Campagnolo and Parcours, and an in-depth look at the 5.9kg Scott Addict RC. Yep, a 5.9kg aero disc bike. Insane.

All this and more in Cyclist issue 159.