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The inaugural UAE Tour sets off on February 24th and it looks like it will do so with a stellar line-up as Chris Froome, Vincenzo Nibali and Tom Dumoulin will all be along for the ride. The UAE Tour is a merger between the Abu Dhabi and Dubai tours into
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Three-time world champion, Peter Sagan, grabbed his first victory of 2019 on just his third day of racing. It’s a fresh season of racing for Peter Sagan, and everyone else, he’s got a new haircut, a few new tattoos and for the first time since 2015, he’s
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In Episode 7, the Riding Fixed Up Mountains with Pros team met up with Toms Skujins only one week after his 2018 cycling season, which saw a King of the Mountains Jersey in Tour of California and the Tour De France, a national TT championship (Latvia), and multiple stages won
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Big news for Colorado cyclists. Roll Massif will combine long-running cycling events like Copper Triangle and Elephant Rock, along with six others, into a new series of mass-participant events. The “New American Sportive series” begins May 11 with the Wild Horse Gravel held in De Beque, Colorado. The series also
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The route of the 2019 Paris-Nice race was unveiled today and the race taking place the 10th through 17th of March is less than 60 days away. The race has been a thriller the last few years, so what’s coming for 2019? Paris-Nice will make its usual southeasterly trek
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Mike Cotty takes us to the Maritime Alps to tackle the Col de Turini in the latest Col Collective. Rising 1,607 metres above the Mediterranean, the Col de Turini may not be the highest pass in the Alpes-Maritimes but at 24.3 kilometres in length, starting from Sospel, it’
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I’ve been coming up short on my promise to deliver ride reports from 2018, it’s a new year and time to get back in the groove. Last time I covered my bucket list ride up the Sandia Crest outside of Albuquerque, now I have another report from New
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The 2019 Vuelta route includes 59 categorized climbs, 5 of which are new to the race. The Vuelta a España is once again headed to unfamiliar territory as the 2019 route will include five summit finishes that are new to the race. What’s not so new, however, is that
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Sad news today, the Colorado Classic men’s race is dead. In its place, organizers will now hold a Colorado Classic women’s stage race, August 22-25. The four-day race, announced this morning by race owner RPM Events Group at an event at the Colorado State Capitol building, will include
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Road tubes almost universally suck, but not all of us can afford to go tubeless quite yet. If you are willing to spend a little more for a better tube, Biketube has a new premium option. Biketube’s new Butane Black performance series tubes use a 0.73mm butyl rubber
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While the 2019 edition of the Tour de France has done away with most of its individual time trialing, the 2019 Giro d’Italia route will be bookended by them. The 3,518.5-kilometer course, announced today, will also offer up seven summit finishes for the climbers. The main criticism
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When ASO announced its 2019 route for the Tour de France last week Tour de France Race Director Christian Prudhomme made an interesting statement in his closing remarks as well as to reporters (via CyclingNews.com): “Power meters are very useful in training but when riders use them in a