(Harry) England, who took what was considered to be a traditional view of cycling and opposed the reintroduction of massed racing on the roads as proposed by the British League of Racing Cyclists, led to the appearance in the 1950s of a rival weekly called The Bicycle and of a monthly entitled first Coureur and then Sporting Cyclist.

The magazine was aware from the start of the danger it perceived cyclists to be in from the growing number of cars[4] and trams.

[8] The move accelerated the decline in sales until, under the insistence of a new editor, Alan Gayfer, mopeds were abandoned and the magazine widened its outlook to all forms of racing on the road, on the track, to cyclo-cross and to cycle-touring.

Among those taken on by Gayfer and who have remained in cycling journalism are the television commentator Phil Liggett and the author Les Woodland.

Gayfer was succeeded by Ken Evans, whose interest in short-distance time-trialling led to a parallel competition to the British Best All-Rounder: the Campagnolo Trophy for races over 25 miles (40 km).

Sutcliffe left to help form a company called Cabal Communications, run by other former IPC staff.

Significant members of staff have included Sid Saltmarsh – deputy editor under Alan Gayfer – who worked formerly for the News Chronicle and the BBC and who was reporting the Tour de France when the English rider Tom Simpson died during the race in 1967.

Patterson's length of service was eventually beaten by cartoonist Johnny Helms who had a simple, but unmistakable style.

In September 2017, Cycling Weekly were forced to apologize for a caption on an image in an edition of the magazine that read "token attractive woman" above an image of Hannah Noel, who is a female member of the Hinckley Cycling Race Club which is located in Leicester, England.

The caption was noticed by fellow Hinckley Cycling member Carlos Fandango who tweeted it in a photo along with a request for an apology.

Cycling Weekly editor Simon Richardson stated that the caption was an error and blamed a sub-editor for its inclusion.

Fandango's tweet and Cycling Weekly's apology prompted hundreds of angry responses, many that blamed a culture of sexism within the sport.