At this point, in the tail-end of November, is it fair to say we’re in the run-up to Christmas? I found myself gently humming along to ‘Jingle Bells’ in the supermarket yesterday before clocking the festive earworm that had entered my subconscious, catching me off-guard.
Whether you are brimming with festive-fever or not, the Cycling Weekly instagram feed has been coloured by a cold-snap induced snowscape, as Demi Vollering and Michał Kwiatkowski ride out into the snow. But it's turned up some golden nuggets too - could 2026 be the year we see Mathieu van der Poel pick up another cycling discipline? And what role did bikes play in the fight for women's freedom?
