Cian Uijtdebroeks returns to the start line at Milano-Torino after a disrupted opening to his 2026 season, but the Belgian is not measuring his comeback in results. Instead, his focus is on timing, condition, and a deliberate decision not to rush the process after injury. Its been a few weeks of r...

Welcome to the Nokere Koerse Liveblog, one of Belgium's most popular semi-classics and a firm holder of a key position in the spring calendar.With a strong and high-quality field of riders, we can expect an exciting and aggressive race today. Join us and dont miss any moment of the action, live an...

The Specialized Turbo Levo has been the benchmark e-MTB since the first generation came out in 2017, but the Gen 4 version has not been as big a hit with riders as its predecessors. Danny Milner has covered 1,000 miles on the latest Turbo Levo, and after all those miles he reckons it's still a force to be reckoned with.The bike on test in MBRs latest video is the Specialized Turbo Levo 4 Pro, with a SRP of 10,299 Continue reading

Welcome to the Liveblog of MilanoTorino 2026. An unpredictable race, as it could be attacked from the very start, forcing the teams interested in the victory to work hard before facing the double ascent of Superga and trying their luck there. Who will have the best strategy? We will find out togeth...

Featuring a thoughtful design, a standout steel fork, and exceptional ride quality, the Sklar PBJ is a unique production ATB that offers a refreshingly simple yet highly capable platform for riding a wide range of terrain. After 350 miles of testing, learn why it left a lasting impression and renewed Neils appreciation for what a well-executed rigid bike can do. Find his full Sklar PBJ review hereThe post Sklar PBJ Review: What an ATB Should Be? appeared first on BIKEPACKING.com.

Further to yesterdays post, some guy from upstate called Some Guy From Upstate noted the following:The main problem with the bottle cage is it is not on the down tube, where bottle cages are supposed to go. Also, as another commenter mentioned, some wraps of electrical tape to protect the paint and a couple hose clamps is more effective. Zip ties can snap unexpectedly.A good point. However, I am willing to risk the relatively mild consequences of catastrophic zip tie failure (that being potential separation of water bottle from bicycle and eventual death by dehydration) for the considerable weight savings over hose clamps.Unless they come in titanium of course.Oh, wait:That changes everything.Sounds pretty trick, though Ill have to defer to the Hose Clamp Freds on that one.I mean we have a Resident Nail Fred:Thats actually a cut nail, made by a New England company named Tremont, I believe using equipment that dates back to when these were the standard. Also called square nails, they were popular from around the time of the Civil War to the early 20th century when they were rapidly displaced by wire nails. They have more holding power than wire nails and certain other characteristics that can make them a better choice in some applications, which along with historic preservation projects and plain yuppiness is what happily keeps Tremont in business. And, yes, Im a bit of a Nail Fred.So its reasonable to assume weve also got a Resident Hose Clamp Fred.Its not all that often a Nail Fred gets to flex his* stuff on a bike blog, but it happens:*[If you take issue with my assumption that all Nail Freds are men, Im afraid youll find me unrepentant, unless of course you can find me a Nail Frederica. Good luck with that.]I wonder if Best Made Co. has gotten hip to the whole nail scene, because I think the markets ready for a $75 nail you can admire whilst walking around pantsless in your quilted hanten jacket.Speaking of Some Guy From Upstate, he is of course a member of a rarefied group who have acquired a bicycle via this blog, that bicycle being the Marinoni:Well, nows your chance to join this select groupor, more accurately, nows your childs (or other small-of-stature person in your life) to join it. See, my own human children just keep getting bigger, and so we now find ourselves with bicycles for which we no longer have any use, including this Islabikes Luath 24 childrens cyclocrossing bike:I listed it on the Free Classified Hell Site the other day for what I thought was a pittance, but so far no takers, and it occurred to me that perhaps some reader of this blog might want it instead. What do I want for it? Well, if youre local and you could come pick it up I will happily trade you foroh, I dunno, a decent bottle of whiskey? (Scotch, or Irish, but not Bourbon.) If there are no local takers, I might consider shipping it to you, but youd have to pay for the shipping. How much is that? Well, last time I shipped a grown-up bike via Bikeflights it cost approximately a Financial Century. (Thats One Hundred American Fun Tickets.) So its gotta be less than that, but by how much I cannot say. Also, packing the bike is annoying, and you cant hand me a bottle of whiskey, so youd have to make it worth my while some other way, like throw a few bucks at Star Track or something. But Id rather have the whiskey than help the children, since Im already helping your child by giving them a bike. Anyway, if you want the bike and will put it to good use let me know. Id say Ill give it away on a first-come, first-serve basis, but thats not true, and I will give it away on a whats-most-convenient-for-me basis.Oh, I have a pair of full, never-mounted fenders, and possibly some slick tires to include. And yes, your child can ride this on gravel, though it doesnt have DICS BRAEKS, so they do so at their own risk.Speaking of your budding gravelista, he or she will be fortunate to grow up in a world where theres such a thing as a dedicated gravel pedal:My first thought was, This is pointless, because whats the downside of a two-sided pedal on a gravel bike, really? Sure, on the road you might theoretically need the cornering clearance if youre racing criteriums (do criteriums even still exist?), but is that really an issue on garvel?Then again, I suppose youre not constantly clipping in and out on garvel rides, and I suppose the competitive set is going to want to shave every gram possible, so sure, they might as well ditch half the pedal, why not?On the flip side, it is more difficult to clip in with only one-sided pedals, part of the draw of SPD pedals is quick re-entry that comes with two entry points, but for gravel the idea is you clip out less than on a mountain bike or in a cyclocross situation where there is more on/off required.As for the rest of us normal people, this would probably be a good pedal for a road bike, since the shoe would be walkable yet you wouldnt be troubled by the guilt and shame of using a mountain bike pedal on a road bike. And no, Im in no way suggesting you should feel guilt and shame for using a mountain bike pedal on a road bike. But lets not pretend we dont.Of course, like most new ideas in cycling, the one-sided SPD pedal is at least 30 years old:So basically a gravel bike in 2026 is a mountain bike from 1994 with 1994 road pedals on it.Sounds about right.Finally, I thought Viral was the worst brand name in cycling, but then I read about the Karma helmet:Is your karma good or bad? Guess theres only one way to find out

The Spanish rider was the victim of a hit-and-run while training in 2022

Lotte Kopecky sprinted to an emphatic victory at Danlith Nokere Koerse WE 2026, timing her effort perfectly on the uphill run to the line after a chaotic and tactical finale. The race had looked set for a reduced bunch sprint after a series of late attacks failed to produce a decisive split. Kopecky...

CyclistSchrdingers Seixas: The superposition of the supertalentThe explosion onto the WorldTour scene of Decathlon-CMA CGMs Paul Seixas may have begun in 2025, but his stratospheric trajectory into the spotlight is exceeding expectation and providing one of the driving narratives of the 2026 season just his second in pro cycling. Its a season in which he will convert hope and excitement into the first meaningful marks on his palmars, if all goes according to plan.The celestial body around which the future of mens cycling orbits, the gravitational pull of Paul Seixas on the media, the fans, teams is inexorable. Particularly in his homeland of France. They are the east and Seixas is the sun, and his light is breaking through yonder window with such dazzling brilliance, many of the seasons other storylines are cast into shadow. The hype is not unjustified. Following his promising first season, in which he finished on the podium at the European Championships Road Race following an impressive 13th at the World Championships in Kigali and followed by an even more impressive seventh at Il Lombardia, Seixas is laying the foundations for a potentially astonishing future one which, if it unfolds according to early portents, will provide the eagerly anticipated sequel to the history currently being written by Tadej Pogaar.Xavier PereyronThe primary question, at least until last weekend, concerned Seixass participation, or lack thereof, at the 2026 Tour de France. Despite hints from Lquipe last week suggesting that the 19-year-old will indeed make his debut at the race in Barcelona in July, theres been no official confirmation from his team thus far, and its unlikely to be announced for a while longer. In the meantime, we exist in a scenario that appears to be living rent-free in the heads of the cycling media and fandom at large. Like the famous Schrdingers cat hypothesis in which a cat resides in a closed box with a vial of poison and can be said to be both alive and dead, existing simultaneously in both states until the box is opened and the actuality is confirmed currently we exist in a world where Paul Seixas both will and wont ride the 2026 Tour de France.Of course, the same could be said of many riders, about many races. But this particular uncertainty rests on a fulcrum of great significance, as it concerns the potential first contact between a rider whose destiny is already intertwined with the biggest race on the planet. Unsurprisingly, its generating a wealth of speculation and whatever the team plans to do vis--vis an official announcement, reaching a decision sooner rather than later would at least remove the need to continually answer the same question from a raft of highly invested parties. It should be noted that Seixas now has a personal dedicated press officer, presumably to head off some of these queries at the pass.Perhaps they would be wise to enlist the services of whichever canny web developer put together the simple yet ingenious website is Milano-San Remo exciting yet? which returns a response of no until the exact moment at which no one in their right minds is heading to the website to see the yes response, as they are, of course, too busy enjoying the frenetic excitement of arguably the best 20 minutes of the season.The equivalent is Paul Seixas riding the 2026 Tour de France? could return a we dont know yet or yes response, but as rumours mount, and Seixas continues to attack the season with the reckless abandon of an athlete who knows they are on the fast-track to stellar success, the question becomes more one of why wouldnt he ride the Tour in 2026? While those with a more measured head on their shoulders may urge him to wait a bit longer, the vox populi is amplifying and the possible outcomes slide along the scale from maybe to probably to yes, obviously, even though they havent actually said so yet. Most young riders begin their Grand Tour career at La Vuelta, the most laconic and least spotlighted of the three. Yet something about the arrow-straight path that shoots out from Paul Seixas towards his almost irrevocable destiny seems to be dragging him closer to a 2026 debut. Why wouldnt he want to give it a shot at the earliest opportunity?Collapsing possibilitiesXavier PereyronWhy is the uncertainty over whether Seixas will pop his Tour cherry at the tender age of 19 causing such an intense frothing at the collective mouth? Perhaps its because were all desperate for a ray of hope that the battle for the yellow jersey might be competitive once again even if we do have to wait a couple of years. All evidence points to him being able to keep up with the top names in the sport during one-day races but three weeks is an unknown quantity. Would it be different if he werent French? Yes, probably. The yearning of the French for a successor to Bernard Hinault is keenly felt, rippling beyond the homeland every July as noble efforts over the years from the likes of Thomas Voeckler, Julian Alaphillippe and Thibaut Pinot continue to fall short.To return to the quantum mechanics metaphor, once Seixas, or his team, lift the lid on the metaphorical box, thereby collapsing the superposition into one definitive state, a new question will be posed: how far can he go this year? The hype will be great when the confirmation eventually comes, because Seixass whole career is building towards this point of inevitability: that he seems destined to win the Tour de France.Paradoxically, the more arguments that stack up around the ebullient prodigy, both for and against, the less important the final decision becomes. If he goes, his participation will be imbued with the deepest significance on both a romantic and a pragmatic level. The chance for him to take his first measurements over three weeks against the best the sport has ever seen; opening his account at a race that has come to define his nascent career, even before he has ridden a pedal stroke in anger on the metaphorical yellow brick roads that lead to Paris.Shaking off the nerves with zero pressure to actually achieve anything, as his team will protect him from expectation, and lean on sprinter Olav Kooij should he be fit by then to spearhead the teams Tour campaign in his hunt for the green jersey. If he doesnt go, then he probably will next year, with even greater expectations, and the cycle begins again. Related Posts Paul Seixas, the weight of French expectations and the fight for his signature Pro bike: Paul Seixas's Strade Bianche 2026 Van Rysel RCR-R Seixas to the Tour, Red Bull balanced, but leaders wain: What can we learn from 2026's early results? 40 years of hurt: Why can't French riders win the Tour de France? 'The harder it is, the better': Interview with Paul Seixas, the next great French hope The UAE EntanglementXavier PereyronWhen I first began writing this article, it was solely to debate the will-he-wont-he of the Tour de France question. With the increasing likelihood that Seixas will go to the Tour, the discourse has already moved onto transfer talk. The second element in the Seixas uncertainty principle, is the future of the rider in relation to his team. With his contract with Decathlon due to expire at the end of 2027, teams are now allowed to approach to indicate interest, and no doubt many have and will. Consequently, we now exist in a world in which Seixas will, and wont, ride for UAE Team Emirates at some point in his future. He will and wont become the first Frenchman in 40 years to win the Tour de France, riding for a French team.The distinction is significant, and strikes far closer to the heart of what is wrong with mens cycling in the present day. Consequently, the decision that is made will define the sport at its top level for the foreseeable future.To draw out the (admittedly flimsy) analogy, Seixass future cannot be considered independently from that of UAE, even if they are currently separated. The entanglement in question here is that of every elite GC rider being heavily linked with, if not actually riding for, the richest team in cycling. The team has limitless funds and the lions share of the worlds top GC riders have been clustered at the team for the past couple of seasons, with Joo Almeida a solid second-in-command behind Pogaar, Juan Ayuso improving to the point where he deemed himself surplus to requirements and moved on to Lidl-Trek, and Isaac Del Toros star rising so rapidly he almost won a Grand Tour in 2025.Despite this embarrassment of riches, plenty of logical arguments could be made for Seixas moving to UAE: they can offer him the support of the strongest army of domestiques ever assembled. He would be following the legacy of the greatest rider of the current generation, probably ever, learning from Pogaar and benefitting from all the wisdom gleaned from several years of the team competing at the absolute top level of the sport. Hed become one of the most well-paid riders in cycling. The question remains: could he exist on the team alongside Del Toro, who arguably represents his primary future rival, once Pogaar decides hes got enough Tour de France wins to be going on with? Could there be a superposition of two such powerful forces? Having them both on the same team feels absurd, but that is where cycling is heading, with such a dominant team in control.At this point, Seixas apparent entanglement with UAE is theoretical. Yet, to open the metaphorical box and see Seixas in a UAE jersey would arguably collapse the concept of romance in cycling, crushing it into a state of quantum non-existence, and forcing French fans to confront the reality of seeing one of their own achieve the holy grail of cycling prizes, riding for a non-domestic team, the one that was already dominating pre-Seixas. It would leave cycling fans devoid of hope that any other team could compete, despite the increase in funding for Decathlon themselves, as well as the likes of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, Lidl-Trek and Ineos.Choose your own adventureDario Belingheri/Getty ImagesIm painfully aware that this piece adds to the growing metanarrative constructed by the cycling media around the avoidance of putting pressure on young riders, while simultaneously spotlighting them at every given opportunity. Seixas has inadvertently ridden himself into a pressure cooker of external opinion by virtue of being young and French and brilliant, but whichever possible path you choose doesnt really matter. The hype around him is just noise. His legacy will still be written, in one way or another, his name forever tied to the Tour de France, and the prophecy that he will become the first Frenchman in over 40 years to win the Tour will persist for the duration of his career. It could branch off in multiple directionsPaul Seixas rides the Tour in 2026He challenges Tadej Pogaar and Jonas Vingegaard on some of the key GC stages but ultimately finishes in the top ten. Cause for modest approval. OR he loses a lot of time on purpose in week one then triumphs on Alpe dHuez. Pogaar wins the GC but Seixas has a decent run in the polka dot jersey and France is in raptures. OR he starts out with his usual youthful exuberance, then fades and DNFs in week 2. Cycling commentators call it a cautionary tale. He fades in the back end of the season and Decathlon are accused of putting too much pressure on too soon.Paul Seixas avoids the Tour in 2026He heads to La Vuelta instead, winning at least one stage and making the top five on GC. Comparisons with 2019-2020 Tadej Pogaar abound ahead of 2027 Tour de France, which he will be expected to win in dramatic fashion on stage 20. The route designer adds La Planche des Belles Filles to the course.OR he puts off his Grand Tour debut for another year and the hype and expectations in 2027 are a bigger story than the Tour itself.He signs for UAE Team Emirates in 2027Isaac Del Toro steps up another level and Seixas plateaus. Hes used as a deluxe superdomestique and reminds us yet again of the dangers of overhyping teenagers. He signs for Cofidis in 2031 and never wins a Grand Tour stage.OR he assists Pogaar to a record-breaking Tour win, Del Toro goes the way of Ayuso to compete and Seixas takes over Giro and Vuelta duties while domestiqueing at the Tour until either Pogaar retires, the UAE pulls their funding or a new super-sponsor emerges to buy him out.He extends with DecathlonHe wins the French National Championships in 2027, follows up with five straight yellow jerseys and ascends to the history books as the true Messiah of French cycling.He wins the World Championships in Montreal and wins the 2027 Tour in the rainbow stripesHe turns out not to be a three-week racer, and subverts expectation to become a one-day specialist; goes on to dominate all the hilly Monuments until 2033Jarno Widar, Lorenzo Finn or Jakob Omrzel fulfil their potential and condemn Seixas to become the Gen Alpha Raymond PoulidorSeixass catHowever the future unfolds, the cycling landscape is shifting around Seixas, his gravitational pull growing exponentially. With each passing performance, he proves himself capable of withstanding the many and varied pressures that hes already dealing with, and opens our eyes to the possibility that we will witness yet another generational talent breaking records and achieving greatness, as the sport continues to evolve.Ultimately, the uncertainty surrounding Seixas currently centres around his decisions, rather than his potential. He holds the power and can dictate his own destiny. To throw back one last time to the scientific conundrum: Seixas is not the cat, hes Schrdinger himself.The post Schrdingers Seixas: The superposition of the supertalent appeared first on Cyclist.

Lotte Kopeckys victory at Nokere Koerse was not about proving her level, but about removing a pressure that had quietly built through the opening weeks of her 2026 season. After a steady rather than spectacular start to the campaign, the Belgian finally turned progression into a result, delivering...