A consultation to remove the controversial bike lane, the scene of several injuries to cyclists and pedestrians tripping over separators or dodging parked cars, begins this week, with one local mayor describing the infrastructure as hated and hideous

The 6th stage of the Volta a Portugal connected Bragana to Boticas, covering 169.1 km and 2809 meters of accumulated unevenness.The race got off to a lively start with the peloton moving at a good pace and at the first finish line of the day in Nogueira, the winner of the Guarda stage, Luis Angel M...

Robin Gemperle was the first to finish the 2024 Transcontinental Race yesterday, riding more than 4,000 kilometers in just 8 days, 23 hours, and 59 minutes. Find photos from his ride and a statement from Lost Dot, the organizers of the event, here...The post Robin Gemperle Wins 2024 Transcontinental Race No.10 appeared first on BIKEPACKING.com.

All the key questions answered ahead of this weekends showpiece road events in Paris

For twelve months, Team Visma | Lease a Bike prospect Thomas Gloag was a professional bike rider unable to ride his bike. Between his last outing of 2023 in San Sebastian and his return to racing at the 2024 Czech Tour, it's fair to day the Brit suffered a real nightmare."There's not really a timel...

UPDATED July 31, 2024BY The TDA TeamINNorth American Epic no comments Cycling The USA: The Heart Of The North American Epic?The United Staes Of America is more than just the land of the free and the home of the brave. It is also one of the best places in the world to go long distance cycling. The North American Epic Cycling Expedition begins in the Canadian Arctic and ends in the rainforests of Central America but the core of the trip takes place in the USA, taking riders through the great states of Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Arizona.The route takes the riders from the mountains and alpine forests of Glacier National Park, through vast ranch lands and past the headwaters of the historic Missouri River and famous Yellowstone Park. It then traverses both the Grand Teton Mountains and the remote High Chaparral before passing through the spectacular scenery in Monument Valley and the beautiful desolation of the Arizona desert.These three sections of the North American Epic Cycling Expedition will take you from north to south across the USA. Choose 1, 2 or all 3 and enjoy the best of Americas west from the seat of your bicycle.Road To The Sun (Banff Helena)Below was a stunning series of valleys and a spectacular road that carved along the very edge of the mountain. Our gang were joyous. The excitement was palpable. For the next hour, we swept down towards the valley below, gravity handling all the pedalling. At the small village below where we all stopped for coffee, there was a euphoric buzz circulating amongst our riders. Mother Nature had gifted us a thrill of a lifetime. Cycling The Road To The Sun On The 2022 North American EpicThe Great Divide (Helena Moab)Howdy stranger. Yonder is Jackson Hole. The last of the Old West, reads one of the welcome signs for the town of Jackson Hole in the state of Wyoming. It is here that the old west begins to be felt in the architecture, the streets, the photographs and paintings that adorn the buildings, as well as in the landscape where horse stables abound. On our way south its not hard to fantasize about gunslingers, stagecoaches, outlaws and legends, as there are several old vintage pieces displayed. Of National Parks, Cowboys & DinosaursCanyonlands (Moab Yuma)Almost all of the riders and staff on this tour remember the day we arrived in the Land of Canyons and Fire a Mars-like vision appearing before our eyes. Our jaws dropped and our pupils dilated. The mere sight of this rocky, red expanse burned into our eyes, appearing as though in a dreamwe rode through a desolate landscape, but soon encountered a drastic change of environment: rock towers piercing the blue sky along narrow gorges, and canyons amongst a fire-red desert of plateaus. CanyonlandsRELATEDTOURNorth American EpicCycling from the Arctic Ocean to Panama City will take you through 9 countries and countless variations in landscape, culture, language, cuisine and... Related Posts:Leave a Comment for "Cycling The USA: The Heart Of The North American Epic?" Cancel reply

Although widely renowned as a time trial specialist, StefanKng has proven in the past he is more than capable of competing in the biggest one day races, including a trio of top-5 finishes in the last three editions of Paris-Roubaix.Whilst the cobbles seen in Paris-Roubaix won't be on the cards in...

I feel like my world is crashing in all around me. Things used to be simple. For example, there was a time when I knew what gravel was:Okay, fine, I didnt know the third thing. Also, I didnt know people used to call sand gravel, though if you think about it that makes sense, since people used to be smaller so to them the sand was more gravel-like proportionally speaking. But yeah, life sure used to be easy: men were men, women were women, and gravel was a bunch of very small rocks that rich people put on their driveways.But not anymore!Now, people have no idea what gravel is:The above just appeared on a certain website, which I dont want to link to because they get annoyed at me when I point out some of their more egregious linguistic contortions. And yes, I realize Im being petty, and that in doing so I reduce myself to a meme. Yet I cant help myself, because its fascinating to contemplate what horrible wrongs the English language must have visited upon the curators of that certain website for them to constantly heap such vengeful abuse upon it.As for exactly when we as a society completely lost the ability to define or even recognize gravel, it was probably a gradual thing, though certainly by August 10th, 2021 the erasure was complete, as this was when SRAM officially declared that gravel was anything you wanted it to be:What is gravel anyways? A category? A style? A way of life? The short answer is yesgravels whatever you want it to be. Go where you want and unlock unlimited adventure right from your front door. Introducing the brand new XPLR collection: https://t.co/fSpW72LmGJ#GoAllWays pic.twitter.com/nMzwvlbOhp SRAM Road (@SRAMroad) August 10, 2021Yes, gravel is the morning dew. Its the film that forms over uneaten pudding. Its that feeling of ennui you get on Sundays at around 4:41pm, and its the cocktail you have at 5:00 that makes it go away. Its the alpha and the omega, the yin and the yang, and the chocolate that serendipitously winds up in your peanut butter like in those old Reeses commercial. It was created in the Big Bang, and one day all the gravel in the universe will come together again in a Big Crunch, creating an infinitely large piece of Mono Gravel. Some physicists believe this has already happened, and that this Mono Gravel is the universe. What is gravel? Do you even have to ask? Gravel is.They say gravel is inclusive, and the antidote to roadie elitism, yet I dont know whats so inclusive about needing a degree in philosophy from a small liberal arts college in order to read a bike review. If anything I find road cycling refreshingly lowbrow, and riding a bike that wont clear any tire much wider than 25mm insures that I wont find myself disappearing up my own ass as I contemplate the essence of gravel:Though if you think about it the roads just really tightly-packed gravel, so I guess there really is no escape.Speaking of LeMond, which is a highly specialized type of gravel bike made especially for processed gravel, further to yesterdays post I have changed the brake pads:In 2024 this information will be useful to virtually nobody, but if you want a pad for both ceramic and non-ceramic rims, you want these.Youre welcome.

CyclistThe Olympics needs to add these five cycling eventsParis 2024 is in full swing, with cycling being represented by a variety of BMX, mountain bike, road and track events. Not all cycling disciplines feature in the Olympics of course, there are a few hoops to jump through for a new sport to be added but there are some that simply must be added.The Super World Championships in Scotland in 2023 was a beautiful confluence of almost every branch of cycling and showcased exceptional sporting achievements not on show at the Olympics. These are the five cycling events that the Olympics needs.Artistic cyclingPaul Ellis/AFP via Getty ImagesArtistic cycling combines two wheels with feats of almost incomprehensible prowess. Its baffling, its mystifying, its perfect for the Olympics. It blends cycling and gymnastics, two sports both already in the Olympics and ones that could not look more different if they tried. In this sport, riders perform trick-filled routines on fixed-gear bikes and are scored on factors like difficulty and execution, much like in gymnastics. It can be undertaken solo, as a duo or part of a team. The riders contort themselves into moves such as the handlebar handstand or flick from saddle to handlebars with a daring Maute jump as the bike heads forwards or backwards, circling or spinning. Its incredible.If artistic swimming is in, then artistic cycling should be too. Related Posts Show of relentlessness wins Olympic gold for Tom Pidcock Should the Olympics feature a road cycling stage race? Paris 2024 Olympics Cycling: Events, schedule, TV guide and everything you need to know Pro Log: 5 things to remember from the 2023 UCI World Championships Cycle-BallUCI CyclingCycle-Ball is another merging of two sports, as cycling meets football. The team that scores the most goals wins, but its easier said than done.While constantly balancing on fixed-gear bikes, a team of two must try to shoot the ball with their wheel into the guarded 2m x 2m net. The game lasts seven minutes each way with two minutes for half-time. Balance is key: athletes cannot step foot on the ground and if they do, play must restart from their own goal line.In a previous interview with Cyclist, eight-time world Cycle-Ball champion Patrick Schnetzer said, shooting the ball or defending the goal are some of the hardest things to learn. But at some point, when youve invested a lot of time and been training so hard, you dont really think about the bike anymore.As with artistic cycling, Cycle-Ball was very popular at the Super World Championships in Glasgow. It wouldnt be the most diverse field, with the sport most popular in European countries such as Germany (where it began) and Austria. Its reach is slowly increasing however, and last year Japan hosted the first UCI World Cup round to be held outside of Europe since 2018, with Hong Kong and Malaysia also competing.Cyclocross Luc Claessen/Getty ImagesTheres growing speculation that cyclocross will finally be added to the Winter Olympics in 2030. Sporza commentator Karl Vannieuwkerke said on the Paris by Night show that he was 99.99% sure it was happening. It would be a brilliant inclusion.Cyclocross takes place in the autumn and winter months and consists of riders taking on multiple laps of a course filled with tricky obstacles that require power, endurance, technical skill and some running. It is dominated by soft, slow surfaces such as mud, sand and snow but its fast-paced and highly entertaining. It was held from being integrated with the Winter Olympics due to it not being a snow sport, but the regular World Cup rounds in the snow at Val di Sole in Italy have proved its worthy of a place. Hopefully once its in there will be freedom in designing Olympic courses and snow wont be a necessity.Downhill MTBPiotr Staron/Getty ImagesMountain biking takes many forms with the cross-country discipline having been in the Olympics since 1996. But downhill differs to XC as it starts at the top of a mountain with riders reaching hair-raising speeds down super technical trails to the finish at the bottom.Its one for the adrenaline hunters and showcases the skills side of cycling rather than the power and endurance of most other disciplines, and its an enormous discipline worldwide so why is it missing from the Olympics?Mountains might be hard to find in Olympic cities, but not every sport takes place in the city. For the Paris Olympics, the sailing events are taking place off the coast of Marseille and the surfing is taking place on the other side of the world in Teahupoo, Tahiti. Location is no obstacle.One unofficial website has sparked a recent rumour that it would feature in Brisbane 2032, but this is still unconfirmed.GravelGravels popularity has been soaring, though not everyone agrees with its growing professionalism and the involvement of the UCI. Would the Olympics be a step too far for some?Whatever the purists think, theres no doubting its popularity as a discipline, and the last Gravel World Championships have been popular with fans and riders alike, including riders from the traditional gravel racing circuits. Perhaps it could take after boxings amateurs-only policy, so retired road pros could take part.Do you disagree? Have other sports that should take priority? Let us know in the comments or on social media. Related Posts Show of relentlessness wins Olympic gold for Tom Pidcock Should the Olympics feature a road cycling stage race? Paris 2024 Olympics Cycling: Events, schedule, TV guide and everything you need to know Pro Log: 5 things to remember from the 2023 UCI World Championships The post The Olympics needs to add these five cycling events appeared first on Cyclist.

Lawson Craddock is hanging up his wheels at the end of the season. The 32-year-old Texan says his 11-year career has been a hell of a run but that hes excited to say that 2024 will be his last year in the professional peloton.