Matteo Jorgenson admitted he had hoped for more from the opening stage of Tirreno-Adriatico 2026 after the Team Visma | Lease a Bike rider conceded time to several of his main rivals in the traditional time trial in Lido di Camaiore. The American finished outside the very top times in the fast 11.5-...

Over the weekend, Tadej Pogaar asserted his dominance yet again and soloed to a record-setting fourth victory at Strade Bianche. The reigning World Champion showed that hes up to speed with another decisive victory on Tuscanys infamous pale gravel roads. And, he along with the rest of the UAE team did it in Scicon Sports latest cycling sunglasses, the Aeroshade 2.0 Titanium.Scicons new Aeroshade 2.0 Titanium sunglasses launched just a couple of days ago, and it certainly didnt take long for them to land on the podium with Tadej in 1st and UAE teammate Isaac Del Toro in 3rd. To be fair, Tadej Pogaar probably could have raced in some gas station sunglasses and still won, but high-quality performance eyewear was likely a huge benefit in his record-breaking effort last Saturday.Tadej Pogaar (left) and teammate Isaac Del Toro (right) wearing the new Aeroshade 2.0 Titanium at Strade Bianche.Aeroshade 2.0 Titanium DetailsThe new Aeroshade 2.0 Titanium is an updated and refined version of the brands longstanding Aeroshade sunglasses, which have been a staple in the pro peloton since they came out in 2020. The 2.0 Titanium builds on that foundation and evolves with advanced materials, a revised frame design, integrated micro-ventilation ports, and Scicons signature bold aesthetics.As the name suggests, one of the primary updates to the Aeroshade 2.0 Titanium is the move to titanium temples. Renowned for its durability, the temples on these new glasses are crafted from a solid titanium rod thats undergone more than 20 precision manufacturing steps. According to Scicon, every detail is engineered to deliver controlled flexibility, lasting comfort, and uncompromising race-level performance.Anatomy of the Aeroshade 2.0 Titanium.Additionally, Scicon states that the front frame has been redesigned with a more modern, streamlined shape to express a bold, contemporary look. This new shape also integrates micro ventilation ports to improve airflow and reduce fogging during intense efforts. On top of that, new Flexifit 2.0 nosepads are reportedly both soft and highly adaptable, conforming to varying face shapes, while the Horizon Adapt height adjustment system allows the rider to optimize the field of view.The Aeroshade 2.0 Titanium sunglasses come with Scicons Hi-Contrast mirrored or photochromic cylindrical lenses. Theyre offered in a wide range of base tints and reflective coatings, with varying filter categories and VLT percentages to suit different needs, preferences, and light conditions. According to Scicon, the Hi-Contrast technology enhances details in low-visibility conditions, improves terrain definition, amplifies contrast while maintaining a neutral color profile, and reduces eye fatigue during long rides. The lenses are also coated with a Nanotech hydrophobic and oleophobic coating to shed water and oils and maintain clear vision.The Aeroshade 2.0 Titanium is compatible with Scicons AC028 optical insert. The glasses come with a spare lens, a microfiber bag, and a protective hard case, which apparently converts into a saddle bag.A protective case that converts into a saddle bag is an interesting idea.Tech DetailsMedical-grade titanium templesPanorama Arch frame designHigh-impact resistantHorizon Adapt height-adjustable nose padInterchangeable single-shield lensFlexiFit 2.0 adjustable nose padTactigrip temple tips, flexible, adjustableLaser lens etchingCompatible AC028 Optical InsertWide range of lens colors and replacement optionsLens and Frame SpecsLens width: 138 mmLens height: 58 mmLens shape: Cylindrical, 6-base curveFrame width: 144 mmTemple length: 130 mmWeight: 40 gramsPricing and AvailabilityThe new Aeroshade 2.0 Titanium sunglasses retail for $265 with Hi-Contrast lenses, or $295 with the tint-adjusting photochomic lens. They are available now through the Scicon Sports website. And if you place one of the first 200 orders, youll receive a softcover copy of the Tadej Pogaar Triple Crown Photobook, valued at $99.sciconsports.comThe post Tadej Pogaar Debuts New Scicon Sports Aeroshade 2.0 Titanium Cycling Sunglasses with Strade Bianche Victory appeared first on Bikerumor.

Cyclist6 talking points from Strade BiancheCyclings most picturesque race, Strade Bianche, took over Tuscany this weekend, with the men and women providing two completely different dynamics as they battled over the white gravel roads around Siena.From a wrong turn derailing the chances of the favourites to the inevitability of a certain world champion, we round up six of the biggest talking points from Saturdays racing as the Classics season kicks into life. Related Posts The best photos from men's Strade Bianche 2026 Spring Classics 2026: Our form guide How should teams aim to beat Tadej Pogaar in 2026? Its a great history were making: Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney profile Cycling Spring Classics 2026: Race dates, Monuments, cobbles and live TV guide Two FDJ United-Suez riders podium, but neither were VolleringFDJ United-SUEZFDJ United-Suez came away the happiest team after Strade Bianche. A monumental victory for Elise Chabbey only her sixth professional win was shortly followed by new signing Franzi Koch coming home in third to turn what couldve been a nightmare day into a dream after team leader Demi Vollering was caught in a group that was led off the route, ruling her out of contention.It was an incredible finish to the race, with an unusually large leading group coming to the final challenge of the Via Santa Caterina. Monica Trinca Colonel, Marianne Vos and Puck Pieterse lost contact early on the steep climb, leaving three national champions in Germanys Koch, Polands Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney and Italys Elisa Longo Borghini alongside Chabbey to fight it out.Niewiadoma-Phinney and Longo Borghini led over the top of the climb, but, on the twisting run to the Piazza del Campo, the pair along with Koch all took the same wide line, allowing Chabbey to swoop inside with just 300m to go and she never looked back.It will be tough to take for Niewiadoma-Phinney, who finished second for an agonising fourth time, but her strong form is an exciting prospect heading into Flanders and the Ardennes.Led astrayWrong way! A chasing group including Demi Vollering and Pauline Ferrand-Prvot went the wrong way as they were making gains on the leader! pic.twitter.com/PwFbI9h5V5 Cycling on TNT Sports (@cyclingontnt) March 7, 2026 In the last 33km of the race, many of the pre-race favourites were left wondering what couldve been after a motorbike led the group including Vollering, Pauline Ferrand-Prvot and Lotte Kopecky straight down the wrong gravel road.It took a few hundred metres for the group to realise their mistake. They had been around a minute in arrears to the leaders, but the move had obliterated any form of comeback by stretching that deficit to almost three minutes.Well never know how much influence that had on the final result, but its a shame for the chase to have ended that way.The elusive Classic for Kasia Niewiadoma-PhinneyCanyon-SRAM ZondacryptoIn her most recent interview with Cyclist, Niewiadoma-Phinney labelled Strade Bianche as a race she would like to win the most, saying, Its haunting me now, to be honest. The more I want it, the harder it is to get.This would prove true again in 2026 as she crossed the line in 2026 for her fourth second place at the race. She clearly goes well over this kind of terrain, and has proven that in wins like the Gravel World Championships in 2023 and La Flche Wallonne in 2024. If she had to replay the race again, you would imagine that corner in Siena would be taken differently.Tadej Pogaar is inevitableXavier PereyronIts something to experience, sure, but when you can predict the outcome of a race before its even started then it kind of takes away the excitement. Tadej Pogaar is so strong that other teams basically know theyre racing for second from kilometre zero, but its about time more risks are taken to take the race to the World Champion, especially given he can publicly state where hell attack and it still makes no difference.After lighting up the race early for Pogaar to attack with 80km to go, UAE Team Emirates XRG managed to end the day with three riders in the top six, with Isaac del Toro finishing in third and Jan Christen in sixth. Talk about depth. Fortunately next on the agenda is Milan-San Remo, one of the few races Pogaar is yet to win.Paul Seixas is on fire, should UAE be terrified?Xavier PereyronSaturday was not only Paul Seixass Strade Bianche debut, it was his first ever Spring Classic altogether, with the only Classic in his legs so far last years Il Lombardia. Seixas had a highly impressive debut pro season in 2025 with strong performances at the Tour of the Alps, Critrium du Dauphin, Il Lombardia and the European Championships, however he has taken an enormous leap in year two.The 19-year-old started the season strong with second overall and a stage win at the Volta ao Algarve before a Pogaar-like solo win at Faun-Ardche Classic. In Strade Bianche, he was briefly the only rider to be able to follow Pogaar on Monte Sante Marie before falling back, but still powered his way to second, dropping his passenger Del Toro on Via Santa Caterina.Will Seixas win a Classic this year?Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Emotional Tom Pidcock rues mechanicalXavier PereyronWhilst Pogaar was riding away on Monte Sante Marie, Pinarello-Q36.5s Tom Pidcock was falling behind. A chain slip for the 2023 winner and Pogaars closest contender last year followed by another shortly after put paid to any of his chances of repeating his challenge of 2025.He looked visibly emotional when speaking to TNT Sports after the finish, saying, I think you can feel a bit of sombreness here With UAE like that, theres not much you can do. My chain fell off twice on Sante Marie, that really killed my momentum, but I wouldnt have beaten Tadej anyway.Rider to watch: Franziska KochFDJ United-SUEZAside from the winners, FDJ United-Suezs Franziska Koch was our rider of the day. The German National Champion has been very strong so far this season, with a fifth place at Omloop Nieuwsblad and third at Strade Bianche making this her best Classics campaign so far and its only two races in. Having made the switch from Picnic-PostNL over the winter, Koch is proving quite the signing in an already-stacked FDJ United-Suez squad. And the team tactics have been spot on so far, with Demi Vollering doing what she does best at Omloop, but Koch and Chabbey proving at Strade Bianche that they have a whole deck of cards to play if dont go to plan.For more on the Classics, visit our hub page.The post 6 talking points from Strade Bianche appeared first on Cyclist.

This Monday we had on the road the second stage of Paris-Nice and the opening stage of Tirreno-Adriatico 2026. In France, the peloton faced a road stage that finished as expected, with the outcome decided in a bunch sprint, while in Italy we had an individual time trial to determine the first leader...

Stage 3 of Paris-Nice 2026 brings the first major shake-up of the general classification as the peloton tackles the races decisive team time trial on Tuesday, 10 March. The 23.5 km test between Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire and Pouilly-sur-Loire is expected to create the first meaningful time gaps among th...

Crashes, illness and withdrawals are an unavoidable part of any stage race, and Tirreno-Adriatico is likely to be no exception. From high-speed sprints to decisive time trials and mountain stages, the "Race of the Two Seas" often places riders under physical stress. This rolling medical report tra...

Just like stage 1, the second day of Paris-Nice was quite calm for most GC contenders, including Visma | Lease a Bike's star Jonas Vingegaard. What was different about Monday's stage for the Dutch team was their approach to protecting Vingegaard. Rather than competing with sprint trains to stay towa...

Some councillors tonight tried to maintain that users of the planned Cabinteely Greenway would be better off pushed out onto the N11 at a massive 7-lane junction with slip turns, but Dn LaoghaireRathdown County Council officials confirmed that there was no planning reason to shorten the planned greenway.But councillors agreed with just three votes in the difference to shorten the route.Sections A and B betweenCornelscourt Village ot Glen Lawn Drive and from there to Cabinteely Park have now been removed from the project.After a heated debate, councillors eventually voted against restoring different sections of the greenway, with the vote split 17/18 in favour to 21 against. When the three different motions were defeated, the shortened project as proposed by officials was supported by 36 councillors, with just 2 voting against the overall project.Section C, including a route through Cabinteely Park and a connection to the N11 via Clonkeen Road, and Section D fromBrennanstown Road to the Cherrywood Green Routes Network, have been given planning permission by councillors. A number of councillors had tried to sway their fellow councillors to reintroduce the full route to ensure a safe route between Cornelscourt and Cherrywood, but this ultimately failed with most Fianna Fil and Fine Gael councillors voting against a more continuous route. Cllr Eva Dowling (Green Party) said: Now we are being asked to abandon vital infrastructure based on heavily skewed data. Of the objections received, 460 were templated postcards, 450 of those were delivered in bulk by a single residence association in a single delivery that one orchestrated campaign accounts for 69% of the no responses.The statutory public consultation, as we all know, is a mechanism to gather qualitative feedback to refine designs, she said. She added: Colleagues, lets not build a fragmented greenway and try to call it a success. I am asking you to vote with me tonight. Lets stand by the compromises already made. Lets prioritise the safety of the families and children we all see navigating these roads, and work together and reinstate sections A and B.Cllr John Hurley (Social Democrats) said that the project had originally included removing car parking on Glen Lawn Drive, but that even after compromises were made, which included retaining the parking, opposition was still strong.He said that those residents did not see this as a greenway for them, and because of this, his motion to restore this section included provision for ducting for future fibre-optic cable to the houses, which he said have poor internet connectivity. Cllr John Kennedy (Fine Gael) said that the provision of broadband should not be dependent on part of an active travel route going ahead. Cllr Lorraine Hall (Fine Gael) said: This is a really positive scheme. Unlike nearly every other active travel scheme, it doesnt affect parking, roads or bus lanes. And the councils own material says that the purpose is to increase road safety, not reduce it. Weve lots of cycling routes running through parks that dont raise safety concerns.Removing sections A and B is not a minor tweak; its a major change that cuts off the opening section of the route, and it weakens the overall scheme, she said. If we want connected routes, this is the wrong direction.Cllr Hall added: My comments arent a criticism of the postcard campaign. Consultation matters, engagement should be encouraged, but the results of these campaigns shouldnt be treated as a veto on the scheme; we have to consider the wider needs of the community.VIDEO: The section before the roundabout, at around 1:42 in the video, has been omitted from the plans as approved. Cllr Martha Fanning (Labour) said: This looks like a safe, accessible, inclusive scheme, and whats so disappointing is that the chief executives report is that it decides to halve it. I looked at the NTA data last week, and theres one bit that is still devastating twice as many men as women cycle. So we havent addressed that. This scheme would, if we could deliver it all, help to address the gender imbalance.Cllr Tom Kivlehan (Green Party) said that people will come to the new western end of the route and reach Glenville Drive, which he said is a rat run where motorists often do 60-70km/h, leaving the route unsafe. Cllr Hurley said that some councillors have argued that the N11 is a parallel route, but an urban greenway is a very different type of environment where, for example, you can take children to learn how to cycle, which he said cannot be done along the N11.He added: Really, any yardage or additional length of this scheme that can continue westwards is of benefit because its getting closer to where the route can bring you to another school quiet, safe infrastructure.Cllr Justin Moylan (Fianna Fil) said: Theres a lot of talk here this evening about a public consultation being compared to a plebiscite. A public consultation was carried out. You [councillors] are capable of reading the managers report. You are capable of reading the results of that.He said that Friends of the Earth put out a template email for the DL Living Streets project that generated thousands of responses, adding: Whats sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. Cllr Barry Saul (Fine Gael) said: First of all, Im happy to support the independent, professional advice of our active travel team these two motions in reverse are effectively ignoring the independent advice of our active travel team.And also I think it has been said that this is a safer route because it does connect to the N11, making it safer for everyone, he claimed. So Im happy to go with the chief executives report,He added: I also think, as many councillors have said before, it is absolutely utterly disgraceful for all the people involved in these motions to suggest that theres something underhanded in the way the public consultation has been carried out, or the way a postcard campaign has been carried out. I think its absolutely disgraceful. Cllr Hurley and Cllr Dowling both criticised this interruption of the criticism of the postcard campaign, or how it was interrupted by council officials. Cllr Dowling said she believed that the comments from Cllr Saul are contradictory to the councils code of conduct. Cllr Jim Gildea (FG), chairperson of the meeting, claimed that Cllr Dowling had made the point that the postcard campaign was underhanded; she denied this and said the claim was disgraceful. Cllr Lauren Tuite (Green) said her aunt passed away on Friday at the incredible age of 101. While she never admitted it herself, she was a true green: She never wasted anything, she made amended clothes and curtains, she got to be out in the garden, and she never learnt to drive. Because long before we had safe routes to school, we had safe routes to church and her community, like many around this country, were designed as laneways and shortcuts for people to walk to mass. I believe that the ability to walk in her neighbourhood was the secret to her longevity, said Cllr Tuite.Cllr Tuite continued: She retained her mobility, her independence, her sharp wit for the best part of a century. In the final months of her life, she was still able to watch the world go by We often talk about the importance of infrastructure like this in terms of the benefits for children, but that is to overlook the opportunity here for older residents. The average person will live for a decade after they have last hang up their car keys that should not be the end of us, living full and productive lives.Cllr Peter OBrien (Labour) accused the government parties in the chamber of going against their own national policies on sustainable mobility. He added: Ive still yet to hear a good planning reason why these [sections of the route] have been removed. I havent heard it, and its been a nice number of times. I dont know why this is being removed.He added: Theres a question of funding. Weve been told previously, Im not sure the NTA would fund this.Cllr Oisn OConnor (Green) said that people walking and cycling from Cherrywood or along the route would benefit businesses at the now former western end of the route at Cornelscourt Hill Road. Cllr Carrie Smyth (Labour) said councillors are abandoning people using the route if they remove the sections which have now been removed from the project. People are saying that they can cycle along the N11 I do know if you have been on a bicycle and cycled through a park or a greenway compared to cycling on the N11, it is a huge difference, especially if its young children or women, she said.She added: Its unbelievable the differences cycling in a green area rather than on the N11. On the N11, youve got double-decker buses going by you, and actually, the air can be so strong they can actually blow you to one side. Thats how different it is.Chairman Cllr Gildea asked Cllr Smyth to leave the room after she tried to wrap up her contribution, after he told her to stop.For his own part, Cllr Jim Gildea said: Ive heard a couple of a couple of times here that the revised route no longer connects two places, that is absolutely is not true. With the change at Glen Lawn Drive, now connects the route throught the park to the N11.He claimed that sections A and B of the route brought people to Cornelscourt Village, where cyclists had to compete with motorists. He said that this was abandoning people. He said the route also fails to link to a local school, which one of the proposers later said could be addressed. Cllr Kivlehan interrupted Cllr Gildea and said Time is up, a reference to how the chairperson enforced a time restriction on others, which he was now bending for himself.Cllr Gildea said: Excuse me, Ill ask you to leave the room as well if you dont behave. An official confirmed that there is no planning rationale for shortening the greenway, as recommended in the chief executives Part 8 planning report.

In 2023, Primoz Roglic dominated the Tirreno-Adriatico with three stage wins and the overall victory. This year, the 36-year-old Slovenian returns to the Italian stage race for the first time since that win. Before the start of the race, the Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe team leader spoke to the pres...

Two stages into his ParisNice debut, Juan Ayusos bid for the overall remains firmly on track. The Spanish rider avoided one of the many crashes that marked the start of the race and also banked bonus seconds on stage 2, a result that keeps him well placed on GC. The LidlTrek leader explained afte...