It is hard to argue against the fact that the Pinarello Dogma, which has been ridden to multiple Grand Tour wins by Team Sky, is one of the most successful road bikes of the modern era. The new Pinarello Dogma F12 and F12 disc has been two years in the...
Friction Differences Between 1x and 2x Drivetrains: Which is More Efficient? When choosing between a 1x (single chainring) and 2x (double chainring) drivetrain, one of the most debated factors is friction. Friction impacts shifting performance, pedaling efficiency, and overall drivetrain longevity. But which system has less friction? Which is more efficient for different riding styles?...
Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has pushed back on some of the scrutiny directed at Team Ineos, describing what he sees as ‘double standards’ because of the levels of criticism directed at the British team while other squads are given easier times. Froome was speaking at the unveiling...
Protesters have made their voices heard as Team Ineos sets off on their first race day after the official launch. The British team made their debut under the new name at the Tour de Yorkshire on Thursday (May 2), after the switch from Team Sky. But it wasn’t a day...
Egan Bernal will miss this year’s Giro d’Italia after sustaining a broken collarbone on Saturday while training. He will undergo surgery on Sunday. The Colombian was set to lead Team Ineos at the Italian Grand Tour after an impressive debut season at WorldTour level in 2018. This spring he took...
Team Ineos will face a backlash at the Tour de Yorkshire next week, with anti-fracking groups set to demonstrate in a bid to spread awareness of the petrochemical company’s controversial activities. The Tour de Yorkshire will be the first competitive outing for the new-look team on British shores but Ineos’...
Canyon has announced the launch of the world’s first professional eRacing team: Canyon ZCC The team consists of 10 riders, five men and five women, and the squad will race under the guidance of team manager Rhys Howell, who will provide support during races via radio communications. The team includes...
Dutch cyclist Robert de Greef has died three weeks after suffering a heart attack, his team have announced. The 27-year-old was on the first cobblestone sector of the Omloop van de Braakman when he suffered a cardiac arrest, being given CPR “for hours” before being taken to hospital in Antwerp...
Mark Cavendish has been confirmed to take the start line at the 2019 Tour de Yorkshire. The 33-year-old returned to racing in the Tour of Turkey, where he took on more of a domestique role, as he continued to work towards full fitness after abandoning Paris-Nice in March. The Manxman...
Garmin has announced new Edge 530 and Edge 830 cycling computers, with both devices having a number of new training, safety and navigation features. The Garmin Edge 530 is operated by buttons located around the unit, while the Edge 830 is a touch screen unit. Both devices feature a 2.3″/58.4mm...
Damion Drapac, amateur racer and son of team owner Michael Drapac, has died after being hit by a car. The 30-year-old’s Drapac-Cannondale Holistic Development Team announced this morning that Damion had passed away on Thursday April 25. The team’s statement read: “It is with immense sadness that we confirm the...
Four-time Liège-Bastogne-Liège winner Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) was his usual optimistic self at Saturday’s race presentation, but the reigning world champion recognised he was uncertain of his current condition. Valverde confirmed he had suffered an unusual setback during Flèche Wallonne, where the five times winner of the mid-week Ardennes Classic swallowed a...
For many of us, collecting football stickers as a child (or in the case of the author of this article ‘as an adult’) was a yearly obsession. Searching and swapping for that elusive shiny sticker, only to be regularly disappointed when former Bradford City striker Dean Windass popped his head...
Tao Geoghegan Hart (Team Sky) took his first professional victory on stage one of the 2019 Tour of the Alps, sprinting to the line first from a reduced bunch of climbers. The 24-year-old also takes the overall lead, with his team leader Chris Froome sitting in sixth place at 10...
Mathieu van der Poel has electrified the road racing scene unlike anyone in years. The Dutch dynamo ripped through the northern classics, winning four one-day races in an unimaginable WorldTour debut that’s transfixed the sport. But like a meteorite blazing across the night sky, just like that, van der Poel’s...
Mathieu van der Poel is not what you might call a Strava addict. In fact, before now the last ride he uploaded was his Dutch national championships win from June 2018. On Wednesday though, the 24-year-old uploaded his file from his stunning win at the Amstel Gold Race on Sunday....
There’s a tantalizing possibility brewing that Mathieu van der Poel might race the world road championships this fall. Despite van der Poel’s decision to put road racing on hold for the remainder of 2019, the Dutch national coach says he’s holding a place on the world championship roster for van...
After a couple of near-misses in recent weeks, Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe came correct on Wednesday in Flèche Wallonne, winning atop the Mur de Huy finish climb. Deceuninck-Quick-Step’s star rider, winner of Strade Bianche and Milano-Sanremo earlier this season, won the hilly Belgian race for the second year in a row...
Three-time world champion Peter Sagan’s highly anticipated debut at Liège-Bastogne-Liège has been canceled. The Slovak star confirmed the news Wednesday on his personal website. Instead, he plans to rest, recover, and prepare for the Amgen Tour of California, which begins May 12. The news comes on the heels of his...
Mathieu van der Poel (Corendon-Circus) continued his fine form in the spring Classics with a victory at De Brabantse Pijl, winning the sprint from a select group that went clear late on in the race. Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) attacked with 17km to go, taking Tim Wellens (Lotto-Soudal), Michael...
Fans crowded around Joseph Areruya as he walked through the courtyard of the Palais de Compiégne, the host venue for Paris-Roubaix’s grand depart. They snapped photos with Areruya and asked him to sign paper trading cards with his face printed on the front. WorldTour stars typically receive most of the...
Phillipe Gilbert (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) outsprinted Nils Politt (Katusha-Alpecin) to win his first Paris-Roubaix after a fast, windy race, Sunday. His experience and strength allowed him to maneuver Politt into leading around the velodrome, and kicked past the German with 200 meters to go and win by several lengths. Fellow Quick-Step man...
Nils Politt (Katusha-Alpecin) called his second place at Paris-Roubaix one of his best days on the bike. Politt finished runner up to Philippe Gilbert (Deceuninck-QuickStep) riding clear of an elite group with just under 15 kilometres to go. The German earned dark horse status for Paris-Roubaix after an extremely consistent...
He wears his heart on his sleeve, and that was clear for all to see, and hear, when Heinrich Haussler (Bahrain-Merida) crossed the line to finish 14th in Paris-Roubaix. The Australian spent the majority of the race on the defensive after two untimely punctures robbed him of a chance of...
Belgian pavé specialist Sep Vanmarcke (EF Education First) was inconsolable after crossing the finish line at the Roubaix velodrome in fourth place, 40 seconds behind Paris-Roubaix winner Philippe Gilbert (Deceuninck-QuickStep) on Sunday. It was Vanmarcke’s third fourth-place finish at the race, and his fifth top-10 result at ‘The Hell of...
The organisers of the Giro d’Italia announced the location of the Grande Partenza for the 2020 edition, naming Budapest, Hungary as the start location for next year. It will be the 14th start of the Italian Grand Tour outside of home soil in the race’s history, and will come two...
Bradley Wiggins believes his UCI Hour Record, which has stood for nearly four years, will be broken on Tuesday evening in Mexico by Victor Campenaerts. Wiggins set the current benchmark of 54.526km in London in June 2015, when he became the fifth rider to break the record since the UCI...
Lotto Soudal’s Victor Campenaerts set a new UCI Hour Record at the Aguascalientes Bicentenary Velodrome in Mexico on Tuesday, covering just over 55km over the course of the hour. The Hour Record set by Bradley Wiggins has stood since his 2015 ride at the Lee Valley Velo Park in London....
The Swiss government plans to stop its practice of storing emergency reserves of coffee, claiming coffee beans are ‘not essential to human life’. The country has been keeping an Armageddon ready supply since the period of time between the two World Wars, and reportedly has 16,865 tons tons of coffee...
USA Cycling’s junior women’s team needed a race, and the only one on the calendar was a men’s kermesse in Belgium. The results of the race may soon fade into obscurity, but the memories of the action will stay with USA Cycling’s junior women’s team forever. This past Saturday, the...
