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  • Monday, 19 October, 2020
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    ‘Faster, further, funner’: ebikes zoom ahead

    It took lockdown for these cycles to finally come of age. We put the best to the test

  • Monday, 21 September, 2020
    How To Spend It
    Road tested: the ultimate carbon-frame bikes

    The best buys for every kind of open-road enthusiast

  • Saturday, 19 September, 2020
    Retail sector
    Bike retailers saddled with lower margins in state cycle scheme

    Complaints by manufacturers lead to talks with Cycle to Work providers about size of commissions

  • Wednesday, 29 April, 2020
    Travel
    Going nowhere fast: the lockdown boom in virtual cycling

    The pixelated roads are getting busier — and even the professionals are joining in

  • Friday, 4 October, 2019
    Cycling’s next big thing: gravel

    The Spanish city of Girona has become a focus for the sport’s new trend

  • Friday, 13 September, 2019
    Simon Warren’s five favourite European climbs

    From the longest climb with spectacular views in Spain to the savage slopes and succulent bends of Italy

  • Friday, 13 September, 2019
    House & Home
    The cyclist’s guide to holiday home destinations

    Six places to find a wealth of terrain, facilities and adventure

  • Friday, 28 June, 2019
    Travel
    Australia’s epicurean cycle trail

    In Victoria’s High Country, a former railway has been turned into a cycle path that weaves between farms, vineyards and restaurants

  • Friday, 7 June, 2019
    Ride on time: cycling the Berlin Wall

    Thirty years after reunification, the former ‘death strip’ has become a trail for biking and hiking — a city playground full of poignant reminders

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  • Friday, 12 April, 2019
    Postcard from . . . Oman

    To Ad Dakhiliyah and Old Tanuf, the gruelling Haute Route event culminates at Jebel Akhdar, one of the Mideast’s toughest road biking tests

  • Thursday, 7 March, 2019
    Through Transylvania on a ‘slow cycling’ holiday

    Historic villages, long lunches, tots of fruit brandy — and a total lack of Lycra

  • Friday, 31 August, 2018
    Island-hopping by bike on Japan’s Shimanami Kaido

    The 46-mile cycling path links islands to cross the Seto Inland Sea — and offers a route to tourist-free Japan

  • Friday, 27 July, 2018
    Easy rider — a (very gentle) cycle tour up the river Rhine

    Usually one for more testing terrain, Tim Moore tries out a week of rather softer routes — disembarking from a luxury cruise

  • Friday, 18 May, 2018
    Travel
    A ‘hut-to-hut’ bike tour in the Dolomites

    Using ski lifts, hiking trails and climbers’ refuges, a new trip takes cyclists deep into the mountains

  • Friday, 27 April, 2018
    Postcard from . . . Jerusalem: the Giro d’Italia comes to Israel

    For the first time, one of cycling’s Grand Tours is leaving Europe. Robb Penn rides the course

  • Friday, 15 December, 2017
    Asia and Australia holidays
    Japan’s Noto Peninsula is the perfect setting for a cultural cycling tour

    An hour’s flight from Tokyo, Memoirs of a Geisha author Arthur Golden starts a celebratory bicycle trip to Kyoto

  • Friday, 24 November, 2017
    FT SeriesThe new adventurers
    Cyclist Mark Beaumont on tears, broken bones and making adventure pay

    Still recovering from his record-breaking ride around the world, the cyclist joins Simon Usborne for a spin

  • Friday, 1 September, 2017
    ‘Am I having fun?’: an update from Mark Beaumont’s round-the-world cycling challenge

    Now three-quarters of the way through, the adventurer discusses his gruelling bid to span the globe in 80 days

  • Friday, 18 August, 2017
    UK holidays
    Postcard from . . . Suffolk

    Four ancient foot ferries offer a short cut along a lovely stretch of coast

  • Thursday, 29 June, 2017
    Travel
    Uphill struggles: cycling adventures for Tour de France fans

    Cycling’s biggest competition gets underway this weekend and runs for three sweat-soaked weeks. For those inspired to follow in the tyre-tracks of the pros, here are six great rides, from the cobbles of Flanders to the Argentine altiplano

  • Thursday, 29 June, 2017
    Around the world in 80 days — by bike

    Cyclist Mark Beaumont’s attempt to circumnavigate the globe puts Jules Verne to shame

  • Friday, 14 April, 2017
    Postcard from . . . Surrey

    In the 1880s a small village just outside London found itself ‘the Mecca of all good cyclists’. Michael Hutchinson explains why

  • Tuesday, 7 February, 2017
    Europe holidays
    Thrills and spills: off-road biking in Norway

    A new retreat offers off-grid, backwoods luxury — and cycle routes for the brave

  • Friday, 14 October, 2016
    Travel
    Russian revolutions: cycling the Iron Curtain

    The newest and longest of the ‘EuroVelo’ bike routes traces the old Iron Curtain from Norway to the Black Sea. Tim Moore set out to be the first to complete it

  • Wednesday, 29 June, 2016
    Life & Arts
    Northern Ireland by bike

    Twenty years after he reported on the Troubles, Martin Fletcher returns to Northern Ireland to enjoy country lanes, cliffs and castles on a 200-mile cycle along the Antrim coast

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