Cycling Weekly has apologised for an “idiotic” caption describing a picture of a female rider as a “token attractive woman” that made it into print.

A man who claims to be a member of the photographed woman’s cycling club was first to post an image of the caption on Twitter.

He said: “So my cycling club made it in to Cycling Weekly and this happened. I hope Cycling Weekly apologise. Still a lot of equality work to do it [sic].”