Cycling Weekly

This year's Tour de France just keeps on getting more and more exciting, and springing more and more surprises. Last weekend's first individual time trial featured a huge number of shocks – not least that yellow jersey Michael Rasmussen stayed on the road and produced a performance that kept him the race lead. Can he keep hold of it to Paris, or will emerging star Alberto Contador finally break him in the hills? Follow the last week of the 2007

Meanwhile in this week's magazine, the Tech team get their hands on Rasmussen's bike, as well as green jersey-elect Tom Boonen's race machine. Fitness gurus explain how riders should keep themselves hydrated during long days in the saddle.

Cycling Weekly

In this week's mag

There's never a dull moment in this year's Tour de France. Every day there's a have-a-go hero, including our own Bradley Wiggins, Tour rookie Linus Gerdemann and supreme climber Michael Rasmussen in a triple whammy of great rides beginning last Friday. Read about the first week in detail in this week's 100-page Cycling Weekly.

The team look at the new prototype groupsets that the big three – Shimano, Campagnolo and SRAM – are airing at the Tour. We can't wait for that new carbon Dura-Ace crankset to hit the shelves.

Cycling Weekly

In this week's mag

This week's issue is a massive 164-page Tour special. It's got every aspect of the Tour de France covered, from the tense Brit showdown at the prologue in London this Saturday to the Champagne-swilling grand finale on the Champs-Elysees in three weeks' time. The teams, the riders, the route, the stage profiles, the timings, the TV schedule, our predictions for the jerseys – it's all here.

It's 40 years since Tom Simpson died on Mont Ventoux in the 1967 Tour and we talk to his team-mates, Barry Hoban and Vin Denson, who witnessed the tragic events. They tell Cycling Weekly what it was like to be there, and how they feel four decades on.

Fitness, Tech, Sportive, Rides, Killer Climb and How Do I… are all there, with Dr Hutch bringing up the rear. Don't miss it.