Latest articles by Michael Hutchinson
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The real reason TV interviews start with 'talk us through it', and not, 'what a result!'
Good results are all in the eye of the beholder
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Is Pogačar the greatest? The truth is it’s still a bit too soon to tell
The Triple Crown winner is yet to prove himself, according to Cycling Weekly's columnist
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Cycling has never really worked out what to do with the team time trial
Unloved it may be, CW's columnist is a fan of the mixed TTT
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I can’t even remember the price of my latest bike — the trauma is too deep
Dream bikes are best left locked up in fantasy land, argues CW's columnist
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TV coverage of a bike race can leave you with a strange impression of a country
TV footage is deceptive so choose your illusion wisely
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Strava activities are the only way I know some of my friends are still alive
Cycling Weekly's columnist uses the app to keep track of his friends - he always knows when one of them is doing their weekly shop
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Handing out advice to a stranger is the last word in power without responsibility
Cycling Weekly's columnist, The Doc, enjoys offering guidance to young riders
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Sport is a multi-billion pound industry designed to achieve a pile of things that don’t actually need doing
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Dr Hutch: 'You can only have so many painful body parts'
Racing for 24 hours is more torment than Zen-like trance
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This was the sort of puncture that demands you remove the tubeless tyre and put an inner tube in — the mess would have been visible from space
CW's columnist is a convert to fat tyres and tubeless set ups — less so his friend Bernard
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Dr Hutch: Carbohydrate intake and mid-race nutrition is a sport in itself
I once ate a gel that tasted of slugs compacted into a wrapper. The pro peloton has trained itself to eat like Homer Simpson
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The only thing Visma-Lease a Bike’s Control Room didn’t have was a 'Ban Me! Ban Me!' decal
Normally when a team concocts a new marginal gain, they are at least a tiny bit secretive about it
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Dr Hutch: How to prepare for disastrous underperformance at a bike race
It’s all rather easy when you know how...
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Dr Hutch: ‘Henri Desgrange came up with the perfect 21st-century bike race... in 1903’
Shorter stages be damned. What the Tour needs is more suffering
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Dr Hutch: ‘I once thought ketones were so good they’d rendered training obsolete’
The deeper your pockets, the better the placebo effect
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If the bike design department were making the same progress as the marketing guys, they’d be able to fly by now
Cycling Weekly's columnist can see through the choreography of the modern bike launch but it’s still got him dancing to its tune
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I wish I could forget my favourite ever bike ride, my cycling perfection
A great ride can quickly turn from cherished memory to nagging reminder of your subsequent inadequacy, bemoans Dr Hutch
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If family members demand to see your sportive medal you've got problems that finishing a ride won’t solve
If there’s no eventual glory, what’s the point in suffering on your bike? It’s complicated, says the Doc
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It’s been fun watching others deal with Pogačar's un-ignorable excellence
If Tadej Pogačar’s Giro d’Italia dominance has taught us anything, says the Doc, it’s how to lose with style and grace – or not...
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It's OK for pro cyclist to hate cycling - my affection for the sport has had ups and downs, too
Amateur cyclists' relationship with the sport is less than simple, so why should professionals be expected to love it all the time?
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'I’m too good a rider to tell one bike from another': Why our columnist will never write a good bike review
The Doc's useless at reviewing bikes but finds himself possessed by a pedantic, critical voice that's landing him in domestic hot water
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Riders who exceed the limits of a polite margin spoil everyone's day with their showboating victories
At what point does a brave show of strength become brazen showboating? The Doc ponders the etiquette of the long solo break
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Non-cyclists think there’s something wrong with us
Cyclists are still viewed as a strange breed, even by close friends, observes Dr Hutch, from a towel draped chair after a heroic 20-mile ride
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Bike riders never crash where you want or expect them to
In a sport as unpredictable as cycling, we have to learn to expect the unexpected, says the Doc, no matter how painful that might prove
