Tour de France 2022: Stage Analysis
You ready for the Tour de France? Here's our expert stage breakdown to get your fired up.
You ready for the Tour de France? Here's our expert stage breakdown to get your fired up.
the inaugural Gravel Tour du Mont Blanc in France promises to capture the imagination of swarms of gravel riders looking for an ultimate experience.
A visit to the home and headquarters of De Rosa bikes.
An interview with Elisa Longo Borghini.
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Coffee and cycling are so symbiotically connected that it is tempting to think that the two cultures must have developed in unison.
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There are a million ways a grand tour can go — that's why we watch.
There are many ways to end a grand tour, but not all are created the same.
Einaudi grew up on a wine-producing farm in the hills south-east of Turin.
Richie Porte is ready to let cycling go, but not before one last lap around Italy.
A veteran cycling reporter finally makes his way to the Giro d’Italia after 30 years.
The Giro is as much a celebration of Italian culture as it is a bike race.
The Giro enters its final week with an extremely close GC race.
Demi Vollering has stamped her authority on stage race season.
The EF Education–EasyPost rider makes sure his team is on the best equipment possible.
The first grand tour of the season has a way of serving up unpredictable racing with an ever evolving bag of tricks.
New incentives in professional cycling mean more interesting racing, and a thus-far unpredictable Giro d'Italia.
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We caught up with Peloton contributor Bryan Yates to learn about his new ride, The Bovine Classic, in under-the-radar cycling destination Paso Robles, California.
Faster, stiffer, and with more than a little design input from the Tarmac.
The Lion of Flanders looks back on his illustrious career.
Meet the artist who designed Specialized's Paris-Roubaix Femmes bike
There was an uncommon energy in downtown Denain this past Saturday, as this normally quiet working class community was suddenly transformed by the arrival of the team buses before the start of the second edition of Paris-Roubaix Femmes.
Gone was the pre-race uncertainty of the inaugural edition which, although twice postponed due to Covid, was ultimately a resounding success. This year, as the ladies prepared their bikes and rolled to sign-in, there was a quiet sense of confidence, as everyone here understood that a new and long chapter in cycling was only beginning to be written.
And the cycling industry was ready to seize the moment as well, celebrating this legendary cobbled classic with new designs and innovation. Unsurprisingly, the Specialized sponsored SD Worx team attracted its fair share of attention with a distinctive new Roubaix frame known as the Grit and Grace that was both stunning and subtle.
Inspecting the new bikes as they came off the team cars was Kayla Clarot, the creative mind behind the bike. “This is actually my first Roubaix,” Clarot admitted. “But I have been dying to go and am so happy to finally be here!”
Kayla Clarot, the designer behind the Grit and Grace Roubaix frames. (Photo: James Startt)
But while she may not have seen the race in person before, Clarot was nothing short of ecstatic to take on the mission of creating a special Roubaix bike. She watched dozens of films, interviewed countless people and studied images of the race, searching for the colors and textures that would communicate the spirit of the race itself. “I really studied the event,” she said. “I watched ‘A Sunday in Hell’ (the iconic film of the 1977 race by Danish director Jørgen Leth) like four times over. It is like a work of art and it’s about cycling, and that is something I am trying to do, make something I do feel like is a work of art.”
“For me that color scheme also embodied the idea of the grit of women really fighting for space in cycling in a very patient and impressive way.”