Future Perfect
Ned Boulting on cycling's odd love affair with its own past — and why a sport steeped in nostalgia is also endlessly obsessed with the future.
Swi: A Fine Balance
Headquartered in Lugano and built in Padua, bike company Swi is chasing a fine balance between craft and performance. James Startt reports.
By James Startt
Photography by James Startt
1 DECEMBER 2023 | UPDATED 09.39 AM BST
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Timepiece: A Tour de France Grand Départ in Lille
As the Tour de France returns to Lille for the Grand Départ, we look back at the last time the city hosted the start of La Grande Boucle in 1994 and focus on one of the key stories from that year's race
Question Time with Anna Shackley
Question Time with Anna Shackley: the 22-year-old Scottish talent on her rise through the professional ranks.
Greg van Avermaet: Golden Years
Greg van Avermaet turned pro in 2006 and won Olympic gold along the way. James Startt reflects on the golden years of a Classics stalwart.
It’s About Time
With the 2023 Tour de France Femmes set to end in a time trial, Deena Blacking asks what matters more against the clock: the athlete or the machine.
'I have to do things a little differently to win' - The Flying Dutchman: Taco van der Hoorn
Intermarché rider Taco van der Hoorn has ploughed his own furrow in the professional ranks, using an innovative and intelligent, as well as idiosyncratic, approach to racing and training
The Future of Cycling Transfers
Rider recruitment sits at the heart of every team's success. James Witts on the algorithms and data reshaping the future of cycling transfers.
The TT Collector
Sebastian Fischer’s collection of rare 1990s time-trial bikes, from Boardman’s Lotus 108 to hand-built Pesenti prototypes. Words & photographs by James Startt.
Art Cycle: Feminism, Futurism, Cyclisme
How Russian avant-gardist Natalia Goncharova put a factory worker on two wheels in her 1913 Cubo-Futurist masterpiece, Cyclist. Words by James Startt.
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In printIssue 144
The Tour Issue
Le Tour de France: a race defined by colour, passion and history, whose drama and romance continue to shape the identity of cycling’s greatest stage.
In printIssue 144
The Tour Issue
Le Tour de France: a race defined by colour, passion and history, whose drama and romance continue to shape the identity of cycling’s greatest stage.
