Cycle Magazine - February / March 2008

In this issue: Low-season highs – French Alps; Sun, sea & singletrack; The Leveller ride; Shoestring Touring – round the world on a budget ; New Year's Revolutions; Gone in 42 seconds; Just the ticket – Cycle-Rail Awards; Fat and happy?; Dawes Super Galaxy review.

Contents Summary:

1 Cover & Contents
6 News
12 Events
14 Letters
20 Low-season highs – French Alps – Rob Angell
24 Sun, sea & singletrack – Cyprus mountain-biking – Ian Warby
30 Down Your Way – The Leveller ride – S Yorks & N Derbyshire
34 Shoestring Touring – round the world on a budget – Al Humphreys
39 New Year's Revolutions – things to do with CTC – Matt Mallinder
42 Gone in 42 seconds – cycle theft, locks broken – Carlton Reid
48 Just the ticket – Cycle-Rail Awards – Cherry Allan
50 Q&A: spoking and torque, pedal reflectors, gastric bypass, undersized rims, trousers for cycling, when is cycling not cycling, cycle-to-work scheme
54 Fat and happy? – diet advice – Joe Beer
56 Gear up reviews: Bicygnals, Safe-Turn Indicator, Frogglegs cantilever brakes, Sugoi Firewall jacket, BBB Aquashield gloves, CarbOne pump, Ground Effect Baked Beanie, Axiom Journey disc-compatible rack, Corrinne Dennis shorts, MSR Packtowl, Pulsafe eyeshields, Travels with Lucy by Chris Buerki
62 Dawes Super Galaxy review – Chris Juden
68 What's On – events list
78 Member Benefits – Cyclecover Travel insurance
80 Contacts – National & Local
82 Travellers' Tales: Battle of Normandy ride – Cecil Newton, The Antrim Coast – Alex & Christine Wilson