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On the 1st of March the peloton takes on the Drome Classic. The French race is the second in a weekend that features two explosive one-day races in the Ardche region. We take a look at its startlist. The race is younger than its weekend sibling the Faun-Ardche Classic, however it has a similarly...

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Stage 5 of the UAE Tour provided another bunch sprint and although it proved to be more chaotic than the previous day, Jonathan Milan still came to the forward and confirmed his status as the man to beat on the sprint to Dubai. The start of the pan-flat stage wasn't as contained as usual, as we've...

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Jonathan Milan did not just win Stage 5 of the UAE Tour. He solved it. After doubling up in the desert with another dominant sprint, the Lidl Trek fast man revealed that this was a finish he had studied, remembered and corrected from last year. Last year here I finished second or third, and I thin...

Surly just updated another one of its classic models, the Disc Trucker, with a new build kit and some minor geometry tweaks. Find all the latest details on the new 2026 Surly Disc Trucker below...The post The 2026 Surly Disc Trucker Features an Updated Build Kit and Geometry Tweaks appeared first on BIKEPACKING.com.

Last weekend, Colombian pro downhiller Sebastin Holgun of MS Racing won Red Bulls Valparaso Cerro Abajourban DH race on his aluminum belt-drive, gearbox Zerode G3 Downhill bike. As weve heard Gates & Pinion rightfully prosthelytize for several years, the improved suspension performance benefits and kinematic design freedom of a gearbox gravity bike just makes a lot of sense. But weve yet to see one pop up to the top step of an elite DH podium just yet.Does Holguns Red Bull Valparaso win suggest that 2026 might just be the year that will change?Zerode G3 Downhill gearbox DH bike(Photo Nathan Huges/MS Racing)We already covered MS Racings Zerode G3 last season, when it became the 4th belt-drive, gearbox DH Bike vieing for the 100K Gates Belted Purse. And theres nothing inherently new here, so no need to explain again about the benefits of reduced unsprung mass. (Photo Gonzalo Robert/Red Bull)But it is worth noting that this years Red Bull Valparaso Cerro Abajo had a pretty stacked list of racers, including urban downhill legends, multiple past winners, local heroes, and some proper World Cup downhillers. And the track had plenty of technical challenges for both rider and bike, including the many requisite gaps and massive step-down jumps, a proper rocky dirt section, plus 280 sharp-edged stone & concrete steps.(Photo Gonzalo Robert/Red Bull)Yet Holgun set a course record time on his Zerode G3, with a commanding time gap over the 2nd & 3rd place finishers.Will the Gates 100K Belted Purse be won in 2026?(Photo Jean Louis de Heeckeren/Red Bull)Gates has been enticing pro downhillers with an extra 100,000 prize to the first elite racer to win a UCI Downhill event on a belt-driven bike since 2024. This will be the third season offering the prize, and we think 2026 will be the year they have to pay up.What do you think? Will a belt-drive, gearbox downhill bike make it to the podium of a World Cup DH race this season? Could the 21-year-old Colombian be the one to do it? Our 2026 predictions guessed that an Atherton A.200.G would be the bike to do it, but maybe MS Racing will prove us wrong?ZerodeBikes.comThe post A Belt-Drive, Gearbox Zerode G3 Won Red Bull Urban Downhill. Is it a 2026 WC DH Preview? appeared first on Bikerumor.

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) wants to define a clear framework and appropriate standards to enable the development and integration of airbags into cycling. This is part of an initiative by cyclings international governing body to develop protective equipment for riders in the mens and womens peloton, with the aim of improving safety in the event of a crash. It will also consider how to integrate airbags into cycling clothing and identify ways certain textiles can strengthen protection. Safety has been a persistent issue in professional road cycling over the last few years. In 2023, the UCI announced the creation of SafeR, a new independent entity dedicated to improving cycling safety that was a direct response to the trend of increasing incidents occurring in mens and womens professional road cycling. The UCI has investigated several ways to improve safety, such as the controversial plan to limit the maximum gear ratio riders can use in mass-start races and the introduction of GPS trackers. Airbags in cycling have become a hot topic. BikeRadar revealed in January that Team Picnic PostNL will use Aerobags wearable airbag in training and that the company was already in talks with the UCI concerning its use. Aerobags Quinton van Loggerenberg told BikeRadar the idea for an airbag for cyclists came after the death of the young Belgian rider Bjorg Lambrecht in 2019. [When] Bjorg Lambrecht crashed and died, we decided that there had to be a better way of sending riders down the road, van Loggerenberg said. You cant send them down the road in [just] Lycra at 70km/h. Now the UCI says it is already in contact with several players in the sector and it wants to broaden the initiative to the greatest number possible of manufacturers and institutes working on the development of airbags and technical apparel for cyclists. The governing body says it is essential to bring together the relevant parties to analyse the relevance of this equipment across disciplines, develop a regulatory framework and encourage coherent development of protective equipment that meets the needs of riders and teams, and is in line with the industrial realities faced by manufacturers. The UCI invites all relevant parties to express their interest by 15 March. A broad consultation, in the form of working groups for each of the topics, will then be organised during 2026 with the parties who respond to this call as well as independent experts, the UCI said. You may like UCI ordered to halt gearing restriction trial after BCA decision sides with SRAM Tom Pidcock on UCI rule changes: Limiting gears will only make everything more dangerous