After a spring season filled with near misses, Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) finally got his big Classics win. The second-place man at Strade Bianche and La Flèche Wallonne soloed away near the top of the Roche-aux-Faucons climb and wasn’t seen again. Fuglsang took first with a 27-second advantage over
Canyon has announced the launch of the world’s first professional eRacing team: Canyon ZCC. The team is made up of 10 rides, five men and five women and everyone will ride under the direction of team manager Rhys Howell. The team includes three Zwift national champions: Kristin Falck (Norway)
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Sad news in the peloton today, Robbert de Greef has died at the age of 27, three weeks after suffering a heart attack Dutch cyclist Robbert de Greef has died three weeks after suffering a heart attack. The 27-year-old cyclist was riding the first cobble sector at Omloop van de
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Sit down and get yourself ready for some top grade bikeporn. The 2019 Speedvagen Guidebook is out and it’s almost too much to take in in just one sitting. Awesome stuff! NEW BEGINNINGS, NEW MATERIAL, NEW APPROACH 2018 was a year of change for us at the shop. We
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The Spring Classics come to a close for 2019 this Sunday with Liege-Bastogne-Liege. Here’s what you need to know. Liège-Bastogne-Liège closes out the Spring Classics. It also comes as the last race in a micro-season known as the Ardennes Classics, which consists of three race: Flèche
Julian Alaphilippe and Jakob Fuglsang, whose lack of accurate time gap information may have cost Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race, continued their 2019 WorldTour rivalry in today’s La Flèche Wallonne. The Frenchman won a second successive La Flèche Wallonne with a well-timed jump on the Dane to
If you want some new flat roads for your Zwift workouts, there’s a new expansion ready for you. Called Fuego Flats, the new Zwift expansion is very flat with only moderate changes in gradient. It is being introduced almost exactly a year after the Alpe d’Huez inspired Ape
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In the most shocking northern classic finish in a very long time, Mathieu van der Poel crossed the gap from nearly a minute behind race leaders Jakob Fuglsang and Julian Alaphilippe at three kilometers remaining to go to win the 2019 Amstel Gold Race with a powerful sprint finish. It
It’s the 54th edition of the men’s Amstel Gold Race. A race named after beer. And it falls on Easter. Who will rise to the challenge? The cobbled classics are sadly done for the year, now we move to the Ardennes Classics, starting with the Amstel Gold Race
The Poseidon X is an intriguing bike. It’s an aluminum cyclocross/gravel bike with a carbon fork, 4 bottle cage bosses and room for 700×40 and 650bx1.9″ tires. Built with a Shimano 2x drivetrain, the bike demands just $599. That Shimano Claris drivetrain and Tektro mechanical disc
Mathieu van der Poel (Corendon-Circus) grabbed another impressive single-day road victory today, winning a four-man sprint in Overijse to win Brabantse Pijl. How he did it Van der Poel joined Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick-Step), Tim Wellens (Lotto-Soudal), and Michael Matthews (Sunweb) to form a four-man breakaway group late in the race.
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Paris-Roubaix. The Hell of the North. The most exciting one-day race of the year is this Sunday. Cobbles, crashes, the Roubaix velodrome finish. Here’s what you need to know before Sunday’s 117th edition. The Course The Paris-Roubaix, contrary to its name, starts in Compiegne which is about 80km