The first stage of the Giro d'Italia 2024 has already concluded with a spectacular finish, worthy of being the opening day of the first grand tour of the season. Jhonatan Narvez managed to take the victory in the final reduced sprint against Tadej Pogacar and Max Schachmann.The INEOS Grenadiers rid...

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Much to the delight of INEOS Grenadiers, Jhonatan Narvez took full advantage of the freedom he got on the opening day of the Giro d'Italia. The Ecuadorian rider was the only rider to match Tadej Pogacar on the final climb and then even managed to beat the Slovenian in the final sprint.This is my...

Tadej Pogacar was the man to beat on the opening day of the Giro d'Italia, and UAE Team Emirates took full responsibility. All the work did not end on a win, but the Slovenian did already take time on all his rivals for the overall classification."It was a short, fast first day of the Giro. We trie...

Max Schachmann showed his very best legs once again last month at the Itzulia Basque Country; and although he was nowhere to be seen in the Ardennes, he was once again at the front in the first day of the Giro d'Italia but has mixed reactions over a strong second place on the road.The final starte...

The opening day of the Giro d'Italia was a spectacular one. Jhonatan Narvez took a very impressive win in Torino and put on the pink jersey; but will have a very big challenge on stage 2 as the peloton ride into the Santuario di Oropa summit finish. We preview the stage ahead.Stage 2 is the first...

Jhonatan Narvez won stage 1 of the Giro d'Italia! It was a thrilling opening day of racing in Italy where several GC contenders lost time, there were plenty of attacks and chaos; an attack from Pogacar but ultimately the INEOS Grenadiers rider matched his attack and won in the final sprint.The fir...

From the 28th of April to the 5th of May the women's peloton faces it's first Grand Tour of the season. La Vuelta Femenina features eight stages including chances for all kinds of riders and will be one of the highlights of the season. We preview the stage ahead.The final and queen stage of the rac...

Tory party London mayoral candidate Susan Hall promised it all to a group of people who can be called the antis anit-Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ), anti-Low Traffic Neighborhoods (LTNs), and anti-cycle paths. Some of the media would have us all believe that these are sure-fire vote winners, but Labour Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has just won what is being described widely as a historic third term in City Hall.One of Halls main election promises was to scrap the ULEZ expansion on Day 1 if she was elected. She also said she would review cycle lanes, that some segregated cycle paths were virtue signalling, and that she wanted 20mph (32km/h) speed limits on main roads removed.Hall said she based her policies on listening to what Londoners said to her on the doorsteps when canvassing.Simon MacMichael, community editor at road.cc, wrote yesterday that: A vote for the Conservative candidate Susan Hall in tomorrows London Mayoral election would be a vote against active travel including cycling, threatening to undo more than two decades of efforts to make the capital safer and easier to navigate for those of us who choose to get around its streets by bike, as well as reversing progress made in improving road safety and tackling air pollution that benefit all who live and work in the city.When pro-cleaner air, pro-LTN, and pro-cycling candidates were previously re-elected in London, some (including Irish anties) claimed it was because they werent Tories and it really wasnt their main focus. But this time around, Susan Hall made her mayoral race a referendum against cleaner air and cycle lanes, and the media indulged in the idea that cleaner and safer streets were not popular.Some of the UK-based anties continue to go to great lengths to imply that some main roads in London are now choked due to cycle lanes and LTNs when the city has always been choked with traffic. This even happens when some of the anti-LTN campaigners have tweets still online complaining about chronic traffic on the same roads before the LTNs were installed.The Guardians election live blog highlights how Chris Skidmore, a Conservative MP and the former energy minister who signed net zero into law, said listing to the extreme fringe was a strategic disaster.Skidmore said: These elections have shown pro-environment parties and mayors who made net zero central to their campaigns made significant gains. Reform [a right-wing populist party] have won 2 council seats out of 2500.He added: Time to recognise the net zero row back and kowtowing to an extreme fringe was a strategic disaster.A recent Economist article described Reform as a party that does not exist. But it is all the more powerful as a result.As a result a party with few candidates, an absent leader and a voting base conjured up by incessant polling is still able to panic the Conservatives. Reform UK may not exist but it will still shape politics, said the article.This sounds all too familiar regarding how sustainable transport and safer streets are being treated by some in the media and some politicians in Ireland.

Throughout the Giro d'Italia, there will be many riders to withdraw from the race, for several different reasons. We make a list of all riders who leave the Corsa Rosa, as well as list out a few of the main crashes that take place during the race.Stage 1No riders have abandoned the race on it's fir...