British Continental team Ribble Weldtite have announced they are signing brothers Harry and Charlie Tanfield for the 2022 season. Harry, 26, moves to the team following three years at WorldTour level with Katusha, Ag2r La Mondiale, and Qhubeka-NextHash respectively. His current team is on the brink of folding, having told...
Tadej Pogačar has revealed that he switches between disc brakes and rim brakes for races, depending on the weight of his bike, rather than the weather conditions. This season the Slovenian has regularly alternated between the two technologies, opting for both at different times with a seamless transition. The 23-year-old preferred...
Former Czech road race champion Petr Vakoč has decided to retire from professional cycling at the age of 29 to “focus on new challenges”. The Alpecin-Fenix rider announced that he would be retiring after the Giro del Veneto on Wednesday, October 13 after 10 years in the professional ranks. Vakoč...
Nicholas Roche has announced his retirement from professional cycling at the age of 37 after a 17-year career with some of the best teams in the peloton. Roche competed in his final event at the Irish National Championships road race in Wicklow on Sunday, October 3, his 1270th pro race. ...
Decathlon will return to the professional peloton as the official partner of Cofidis cycling team from the beginning of 2022. The French sporting goods retailer’s cycling brand, Van Rysel, has penned a two-year deal to be the official apparel partner for Cofidis, supplying the Cofidis men, women and Paralympic cycling...
Eddy Merckx expressed his belief that Tadej Pogačar “can do better than me” as the Slovenian cycling sensation dominates the peloton. Pogačar, riding for UAE Team Emirates, has already been dubbed the new Merckx, joining other consistently successful riders like Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Remco Evenepoel (Deceuninck – Quick-Step)....
Annemiek van Vleuten says she is “happy the organisation took it seriously” when creating the Tour de France Femmes route for 2022. Van Vleuten, who is currently the UCI Women’s WorldTour leader, is likely going to be starting the race as one of the big favourites for the race’s first...
Mark Cavendish has suggested that sprinters won’t have many opportunities to win at the 2022 Tour de France, after the full route was revealed today. Cavendish, who earlier this year matched Eddy Merckx’s record of 34 Tour de France stage victories, could become the most successful Tour de France stage...
Dorel Industries has sold its Dorel Sports division to Pon Holdings in a deal worth $810m. The acquisition of Dorel Sports sees Pon Holdings become the largest bicycle and e-bike company in the world, exceeding Giant Bicycles. The merger will see Cannondale, GT, Caloi and Mongoose, among others, join brands...
Sonny Colbrelli has expressed his amazement after winning a legendary 2021 edition of Paris-Roubaix. The European and Italian champion formed a small chasing group after the Trouée d’Arenberg and eventually worked his way into the race’s winning move, beating Alpecin-Fenix’s pre-race favourite Mathieu van der Poel and little-known Florian Vermeersch...
The new Cervélo R5 has been dangled in front of us all year, steadily racking up a season of stunning wins under the likes of Primoz Roglic and Wout Van Aert while all we journalists could do was take photos and speculate. It’s not the way bike launches normally happen,...
Attack being the best form of defence is a tired phrase, but that’s exactly what Julian Alaphilippe did to keep the rainbow jersey on his shoulders for another year. In his winner’s press conference, he put that sentiment more eloquently than the “beautiful” race his French team rode, describing how...
Gino Mäder completed an astonishing display at the recent Vuelta a España, after he pledged to donate money to charity for each rider he beat at the race. The Swiss rider has confirmed he will be donating €4529 (£3889.69). Mäder (Bahrain Victorious) finished a surprising fifth overall as well as...
“I don’t think I’ve ever been that nervous, especially when we saw the intermediate times,” says Paris-Roubaix and Tour de France stage winner Magnus Bäckstedt on Eurosport commentary as he watched his 16-year-old daughter Zoe compete in the junior women’s ITT at the Flanders World Championships. Zoe was in the...
Jumbo-Visma have confirmed the signing of Rohan Dennis from Ineos Grenadiers for 2022, securing the Australian’s services on a two-year contract. Dennis, 31, joins Jumbo-Visma after two years with Ineos, having signed up with the British squad following an acrimonious split with his Bahrain-Merida team. The two-time world time trial...
Spanish rider Luis Ángel Maté has set off on a ride of 1000km from Santiago de Compostela to his home in Marbella after racing the Vuelta a España 2021. Maté, who rides for Spanish UCI ProTeam Euskaltel-Euskadi, completed his 10th Vuelta and his 16th Grand Tour in his long career,...
Team manager of the American-registered team Trek-Segafredo, Luca Guercilena, has announced that he will step down from his role after being diagnosed with cancer. The Italian, 48, revealed in a statement on the Trek-Segafredo website that he will be taking a break from the sport to focus on recovering from...
Esteban Chaves will be leaving the Australian squad Team BikeExchange after eight years to join the American team EF Education-Nippo in 2022 on a one-year contract. The Colombian has had a turbulent time of late having battled the Epstein-Barr virus between 2018 and 2019 and has since been slowly getting...
Mikel Landa revealed that he had no confidence in himself heading into stage three of the Vuelta a España 2021. Landa seemed like he was on top form when he sent his entire Bahrain Victorious team to the front of the peloton to pace up the Picón Blanco, with two-time Critérium...
Ever wondered if your Zwift performances would be enough to keep up with the pros? The Zwift Academy 2021 could be your chance to find out. The online mass participation training programme is back for its sixth year, with the Zwift talent ID program also offering up two professional contracts...
It goes without saying that the cycling world and coffee are almost inseparable, but have you ever wondered about the science behind the performance enhancing benefits of the ubiquitous bean-brewed beverage? In a new video, multi-discipline rider Juliet Elliott and the Institute for Scientific Information on Coffee have set out...
Adidas has unveiled its latest addition to the cycling catalogue, its first shoe designed specifically for gravel riding. Creatively dubbed The Gravel Shoe, Adidas has released its latest product for odd-road cyclists, with plenty of support against the elements and striking visuals. Last year the sporting brand unveiled its first...
Marc Soler and Pascal Ackermann are the latest high-profile signings made by UAE Team Emirates ahead of the 2022 season. Announced on Sunday morning 24 hours after Ackermann’s transfer was made official, Soler puts an end to seven years spent at Movistar as he joins João Almeida in a bolstering...
George Bennett will be leaving Jumbo-Visma to join rivals UAE Team Emirates for the 2022 season. Bennett, who is the national champion of New Zealand, has signed a two-year contract with the team from the United Arab Emirates, joining a long list of names to do so for the 2022...
British Cycling has announced plans to grow BMX freestyle following Team GB’s success at the Tokyo Olympics. Charlotte Worthington took a stunning gold in the women’s freestyle competition, while Declan Brooks added a bronze in the men’s event, Britain the only nation to medal in both. Now, British Cycling says...
Peter Sagan has confirmed that he will be riding the European Championship road race in Trento, Italy on September 12. The Bora-Hansgrohe rider hasn’t returned to racing since abandoning the Tour de France on stage 12, where he suffered a knee infection that had developed after a crash on the...
Fabio Aru has announced his retirement from the peloton at the close of the 2021 Vuelta a España. Aru, winner of the 2015 Vuelta and stage winner in all three Grand Tours, has continued to ride for general classification throughout his career but has struggled to find form in recent...
Mark Cavendish has been announced to be riding the 2021 edition of the Tour of Britain with his Deceuninck – Quick-Step team after a very successful season. The sprinting star made an incredible comeback from the Epstein-Barr virus, which was diagnosed in 2017, to winning four stages of the 2021...
Richard Carapaz says he knew he could do “something special” at the Tokyo Olympics after his podium finish at the recent Tour de France. The Ecuadorian used his usual cunning and attacking style to escape away up the final climb of the day alongside USA’s Brandon McNulty, building a reasonable...
The BMX racing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics got underway with Brits Kye Whyte and Bethany Shriever progressing through the quarter-finals on Thursday (July 29). Reigning Olympic champion from Rio 2016, Connor Fields from the USA, had some tight runs but was able to battle through to Friday’s semi-finals, while...
