Wout van Aert has had an extremely unlucky start to the year but now, with a month left to the Tour of Flanders, it might be time for the Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider to finally get back on track. He is now confirmed to be racing Le Samyn this Tuesday, where he will return to racing. This Monday...

The start to the spring campaign brought with it an unwanted aspect of pro cycling: crashes. This year's Omloop het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne were tremendously dangerous and have led to the withdrawal of many riders after suffering injuries in many of these falls, including team lea...

A Tadej Pogaar-like lone win from a young phenom to a win by one of the best bunch sprinters, and more

The family believe that the loose surface of the cycle lane caused the teenager to fall off her scooter, in an incident described as every mothers nightmare

Dylan van Baarle is starting out his life at Soudal - Quick-Step and so far the signs are good. After an impressive performance on the final day of the Volta ao Algarve, the Dutchman has headed into the Opening Weekend where he showed good form and was on the attack as well hunting a triumph at Kuur...

From the makers of JACK the Rack, the new WholeGrain Cycles CLIFF is a handlebar-mounted cradle that secures with just two straps and fits virtually any bike. We've been testing a CLIFF and the matching CARRIE harness ahead of today's launch to see how well they work together. Find our review of the CLIFF and CARRIE here...The post WholeGrain Cycles CLIFF and CARRIE Review: All in the Family appeared first on BIKEPACKING.com.

In these turbulent times the headlines may be frightening, but sometimes regime change is exactly what the world needs:With the old mayo finally toppled and a new recipe recipe taking its place I look forward to a new era of peace and prosperity in the Kingdom of Burgers.Meanwhile, ice still sits atop the surface of the Hudson:Yet it feels like winters back could finally be broken, as the oily mesomorph that is spring descends upon it repeatedly from the top rope:Oh, theres still plenty of snow on the ground, and no doubt winter will roll out of the way at least a few more times. But like professional wrestling matches, rest assured that the seasons are fixed, and ultimately the outcome is never in doubt. So between this and the new mayo I begin the week brimming with optimism.Saturday in particular brought very pleasant weather, and so for the first time in many weeks I headed over the George Washington Bridge and onto the Fred circuit:I badly needed the change of scenery, even if its scenery Ive seen thousands of times before, and as groups of roadies in their matching team kit passed me I realized that the start of the local racing season is very nearly upon is. There was once a time when I would have been among them, training with teammates in anticipation of the big day. Insanely, the racing season in New York City begins in early-to-mid March, when its still like 20 American Freedom Degrees at the crack of dawn, which is when the races start. What the hell am I doing?, you ask yourself when your alarm rousts you at 4am, and you still dont have an answer as you clip in and ride shivering and under-dressed to the park, where you soon find yourself among a hundred or so other mental cases, and you come face to face with the fact that this isnt even remotely about fitness or health, and that really youre no different from all the other bizarre subcultures that give expression to their bizarre urges during this most depraved portion of the very early morning, when its still dark, the normal revelers have finally stumbled off to bed, and the decent people of the city have yet to awaken. This is the Hour of the Wolf, a Bergman-esque fever dream and a time reserved for the twisted, the unfortunate, and the insane, whom youll now find in places such as hospital emergency rooms, police stations, bars with the metal gates down, or else writhing and grinding in underground sex clubs, or perhaps gathered in the park clad in stretchy clothes and preparing for a bike race under the soulless glow of an energy efficient LED streetlight (in my day they were still a sickly and inefficient yellow), indulging in an activity that has more in common with any frenzied horse tranquilizer-fueled EDM bacchanal than most of the participants are willing to admit.Yet its not surprise that road racing continues to thrive here, generation after generation, for it combines the sleeplessness of having a baby with the powerlessness and self-destruction of having a drug habit, only without the joy of parenthood or the cool factor of debauchery, respectively. This makes it an ideal pastime for the type-A masochists who choose to live here. Still, Im glad I put my time in, because thanks to years of racing I dont really mind getting up early to ride my bike, nor am I particularly averse to doing so in the cold.Of course, fenders do help:Hell hath no smugness like a rider fendered, and as I rode I contemplated the packs of riders who passed me, the backs of their matching jerseys splattered with road grit like the aftermath of some mud porn money shot:Hey, I get it. In my racing days I too would have been putting in my early season miles on a fenderless road bike. However, it seems to me the one thing the plastic dick-breaked blobs everyone rides now has going for them is that they could potentially be very easily fendered. Back in my day a race bike wouldnt accept fenders at allor if it would there was no way youd go through the trouble of installing and removing them on a weekly basis. (What, race with fenders? Think of the weight penalty!!!) Couldnt some bike company design a frame with teeny little brackets that accepts flexible crabon fenders that you just slip in and out of there there like the filter of a window unit air conditioner? Theyd barely add any weight, and better yet theyd be proprietary to the frame and exactly the sort of thing people would have to keep buying over and over again when they get lost or break, like those downtube storage compartment doors. Maybe someone does offer such a frame and I just dont know about it. Anyway, it seems to me like it would be attractive to people, but what do I know?Fortunately Im old and slow and I dont have to worry about any of it anymore:At least I have my memories, and to a far lesser extent, my dignity.

The Opening Weekend was the first opportunity for Arnaud de Lie to put in the specific work towards the cobbled classic monuments later this spring. The signs were mixed, as the Lotto-Intermarch rider struggled through them, but also showed improvement after the injury that hampered him this winter...

On the 7th of March, the men's peloton takes on one of its most unique and prestigious classics: Strade Bianche. On the gravel roads of Tuscany, the riders find every year a brutal route that goes through steep hills, extensive off-road sectors, and scenic landscapes, which quickly turned the race i...

The new Tout Terrain Outback Xplore GT II features an electronic Pinion Smart.Shift drivetrain, steel frame, and clearance for up to 29 x 2.6" tires. Dig into the details on the German brand's latest release here...The post The Tout Terrain Outback Xplore GT II is a Pinion Drop-Bar MTB appeared first on BIKEPACKING.com.