Indoor Cycling

Indoor cycling is a fitness hack, not a soft option

Far from being just for winter, turbo training's efficiency unlock fitness gains all year round

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The £2 indoor cycling app that could transform your winter training

icTrainer offers real world routes, structured workouts and the ability to ride uploaded GPX files, all for £2 a month. You can even try it for free with our exclusive code

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What’s our top-rated budget smart trainer in 2025? A mini affordable turbo shootout

In this battle of the budget direct drive smart trainers, we pitch five of the best against each other to find out which is best for your indoor riding

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Rouvy raises subscription from £12.99 to £17.99 per month, making it the same price as Zwift

Users can, however, choose to lock in cheaper prices now with an annual subscription to avoid the hefty 38% price increase

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Ride BKOOL’s official Giro d’Italia Virtual 2024 with Froome and Contador next Monday, November 25 at 17.30GMT

Take part in one of the greatest virtual cycling events ever as Chris Froome and Alberto Contador go head-to-head on BKOOL’s official Giro d’Italia simulator

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What will a complete indoor riding novice make of the latest tech? We got road.cc’s co-founder Tony to try a virtual cycling app for the first time

Indoor cycling has been revolutionised in the last decade... but what if you never started in the first place? We set our highly sceptical colleague up on Rouvy to see if we could change his mind

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Best indoor cycling apps 2026 — push your fitness to new levels with immersive virtual cycling experiences

For maximum indoor (and therefore outdoor) cycling fitness gains, using an indoor training app can make your training much more interesting, structured and rewarding

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Wattbike releases two new sub-£2k indoor bikes, the Proton and Air, just in time for the off-season

The Proton and Air bikes are aimed at indoor cyclists as well as team sports athletes

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Is 2024 the year when indoor cycling isn’t just for winter? The case for hitting the turbo trainer year-round

Turbo training indoors has revolutionised winter training. Is it time we used it more in summer too?

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Mad bum-massaging saddles special: Is THIS the craziest bike seat ever? Plus the “lightest and fastest” tubeless-plugging tool, a new Zwift climb and tech news from DT Swiss, Xpedo, Zwift + more

If you thought we were done with weird saddles in 2024, we have not one, but two more eccentric seats to show you! We also take a look at some ENVE wheels, Xpedo's new SPD-SL-compatible pedals, a super compact tubeless tyre plugger and loads more

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