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Cornering under pressure: the racing lines nobody practises
A bad corner costs you twice: once in it, again on the exit. The physics of lean and grip, where to look, how to countersteer on purpose, and the race-day corners you can only learn by doing.
Riding the Étape or the Marmotte: what the profile doesn't show
Both profiles are accurate and both hide the things that end riders' days: altitude on the Galibier, three climates, a 47 km descent, cut-offs, tunnels and feed queues. Official figures throughout.
Cycling in Girona: the roads that made it the pros' home
Why the peloton lives here: the classic climbs with the tourist board's numbers, the greenways out of town, the AEMET climate month by month, and the weeks to avoid.
Tenerife: training on the volcano in winter
Sea level to 2,300 m on one road, three climates on one island, and a week that leaves you fitter rather than wrecked. Roads from the park authority, weather from AEMET.
The Dolomites by bike: passes, order and the weather window
Short climbs in clusters, so the order and the start time matter more than fitness. The Sellaronda, Giau, Tre Cime, the organiser's gradients and the afternoon-storm rule.
Flanders: riding the cobbles and bergs of the Tour of Flanders
The Kwaremont, Koppenberg and Muur with the tourist board's gradients, why cobbles are a technique problem, the signposted loops from Oudenaarde and the Belgian road rules.
Alpe d'Huez, Galibier, Ventoux: a first Alps trip in one week
One base in Bourg-d'Oisans, the Alpe on day one, the Galibier on day three, a rest day, then south to Bédoin. Official climb figures, pass opening dates and a day-by-day shape.
Istria and the Croatian coast: quiet roads and where to base yourself
The riding is inland: hill towns, the Parenzana and the Učka ridge to 1,401 m. Where to stay, what the bura does, and the months when the coast road is worth avoiding.
How to use a heatmap to find roads locals actually ride
A heatmap is a map of what riders avoid as much as where they go. How it is built, what GPS route-choice research says it means, five patterns to read and a 15-minute method.
The perfect 60 km: designing a mid-week loop you'll ride all year
The route you ride fifty times a year is a training tool. One climb in the right place, a 15-minute uninterrupted stretch, few junctions, the same direction, and built for winter.
How to use an indoor cycling app without a smart trainer — a speed sensor is enough
A £30 wheel speed sensor turns any dumb trainer into a real route in a 3D world, with the ride saved to your calendar. What you need, how to set it up, and the one thing about hills you should know before your first session.
Indoor cycling app with no power meter: what you get and what you don't
Both columns side by side. What a speed sensor gives you indoors — the route, distance, heart rate, cadence, a ride that counts — and what it cannot: watts, ERG, TSS, FTP. Including why we refuse to show you a virtual power number.
The one setting that decides if your speed is right inside the cycling app
A speed sensor counts wheel revolutions, not kilometres. Get the tyre circumference wrong and every number is wrong by the same percentage — up to 10% — while looking entirely plausible. The table, and the two-minute roll-out that beats it.
Does your speed in an indoor cycling app actually mean anything?
It is an honest measurement of exactly one thing: how fast your back wheel is spinning. What that is genuinely useful for, why it is not your road speed, and why the hill on screen does not slow you down when you ride on speed alone.
No ERG mode? How to use your gears as the resistance dial on a dumb trainer
How to run a structured indoor session with no power and no ERG — the way everyone did it until about 2015. Four sessions that work, how to steer by heart rate despite its lag and drift, and the one caveat about your training plan.
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