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Gent Wevelgem: War without tears

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As you head out of Ypres towards Menen, stop and look at the inside of the gate. There are 54,896 names inscribed there, each a Commonwealth soldier whose body was never found or identified after World War One. There wasn’t enough room to fit all the names, so the remainder are elsewhere.

The sign on - grassroots road racing in the UK

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Nestled in a shallow valley in the countryside near Ipswich, Somersham is typical of many English villages. There are the coloured thatched cottages often found in this area, a pub, a cricket pitch and fairly new village hall built on the outskirts. The village still retains a sleepy feel, where a steadier pace of life clings on despite the rush all around.

Pat McQuaid interview Pt1: Olympic cycling

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Pat McQuaid, President of the UCI and the head of world cycle sport is a man of strong opinions and an often controversial figure, whether you agree with him or not he always has something to say, and what he has to say usually shapes UCI policy. We caught up with him in London this week for an in-depth interview about the Olympics, the state of professional cycle sport and much more.

Castelli 24: Racing through the night - Italian style

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The bell in the lift pings as the doors open onto the empty hotel reception. The only sound whilst I cross the hall is the tick of my bike’s freewheel and the clip of my cycling shoes on the tile floor. I look at the clock on my bike computer, 01:00. Again I ask myself what I am doing riding out into the dark Italian summer night, my body willing me back to the warmth of my bed.

Christmas Gifts for Cyclists 2011: Gifts for the discerning cyclist

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So far in our cycling Christmas gift guides we've brought you our choice of the best Christmas gifts for performance cyclists, and for women cyclists now in the third of this year's Christmas cycling gift lists we bring you Vecchiojo's Christmas gifts for the discerning cyclists the man, or woman who likes to have the right stuff for the ri

Lost in France – Two men and a satnav go behind the scenes at the Tour de France

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Tour tech 2011 road trip

Whatever anybody says, the Tour de France IS about the bikes too – and the wheels, tyres, bars, and gears – because the world's greatest bike race is also the test bed and launch pad for the very sharpest bits of cycling technolgy's cutting edge. Ironically though the best time to see all this stuff is before the race starts. Behind the scenes as the teams cluster together ahead of the the Grand Depart for some last minute fettling, tweaking and cleaning of the arsenal of kit they've assembled for the race ahead. So, that's where we went: me, Mat, and our trusty(ish) satnav, a road.cc road trip. Read on and we'll take you there too for a sniff rount the Tour's pits… as it were.

My first... game of bike polo

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Bike Polo with Bob Wilson and Grass Roots

That's the third time I've forgotten I'm riding a fixed with no toeclips. The consequences this time are more dire; As I'm extricating myself from Tring FC's advertising hoardings we're having another goal knocked off our lead. Opposing mallets are aloft, and the tide is turning, our early promise evaporating in a flurry of wheels. Welcome to my first bike polo adventure.

Good Vibrations on the Ronde de Vlaanderen… and the cobbles of Paris Roubaix

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Rob's Flanders Adventure

We are riding on mythical roads owned by gods and legends, but today I’m not worshipping. Instead, I’m being sacrificed on their cobbled altar, a dish of the day served battered and numb. This is what it feels like to ride the pave – welcome to Hell…

Christmas gifts for cyclists: Cycling books

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100 Greatest Cycling Climbs by Simon Warren

Like those Channel 4 “100 Greatest…” shows, it’s an impossible task to come up with a definitive list of the best cycling books –besides, Stuart Maconie, Terry Christian and Lisa Rogers weren’t available to do the filler pieces between entries.

My first alleycat: Bath Parklife

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This is it: the final test. Shakespeare Avenue rises steeply from the Bear Flat, too steeply for the gear I'm running. It's not long but the race has been, an hour in and the legs are beginning to really hurt: I'm digging deep but the entrance to Alexandra Park seems impossibly distant, even though in reality it's a couple of hundred yards. It's just Jez and me: If I can make it to the top then It's three laps of the park and a sprint, and I reckon I can find the legs for that. If I can make it to the top.

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