BELGIUM: COBBLES, CLASSICS AND CLIMBS

The Muur

The penultimate Tour of Flanders climb – or it used to be… Memories of the Muur with Roger Hammond and George Hincapie

Lance: The History Man – part two

Messing up Armstrong’s round of golf, tracking down Hunter S. Thompson’s drug and alcohol itinerary, and visiting a young girl with cancer. Further adventures with the Danish Blues Brothers in Aspen

The Last Descent – Richard Depoorter

Olivier Nilsson-Julien and Balint Hamvas

Death at the Tour of Switzerland of a Belgian star of the 1940s. Murder or mishap? Olivier Nilsson-Julien investigates

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

Sopping wet, cold and cobbled: it could only be Belgium in March. The Danes chase Ian Stannard around the lanes of Flanders

Luca Paolini

One of the finest road captains of his generation, we talk to Katusha’s bearded maestro

MKWCX

Slip sliding away: World Cup ‘cross came to Milton Keynes. We loved every minute. A photo special from Benedict Campbell

How Not to Write a Cycling Novel

Paul Maunder prevaricates, then ponders, prevaricates some more… then makes the coffee. The great bike-racing novel remains unwritten

Plus regular columns from Robert Millar, Matt Seaton and illustrator Martin Procter