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A rider with proven Grand Tour stage-winning quality could be on the move, with Belgian outlet HLN reporting that Ben Turner has reached an agreement to join Soudal - Quick-Step. Turner underlined his finishing ability on one of cyclings biggest stages with a victory at the 2025 Vuelta a Espana, a...

Okay, look, I know I shouldnt automatically reject things just because theyre new, but what are we even doing here?Im not like a bike designer or an engineer or whatever, but theres got to be a better solution than this, right?Right?Whatever, its not my problem. I stopped trying to keep up with bike tech years ago. As far as Im concerned, 32-inch wheels are just another thing to throw on the Let the next generation deal with it pile, like climate change or depopulation.So when did I become a cycling renunciate exactly? Well, its hard to say, since you dont just wake up one day hating everything; rather, its something that creeps up on you gradually, like the inability to sleep through the night without having to get up to urinate. Certainly I consummated my relationship with retrogrouchery in early 2020, when I took delivery of the first of many Rivendae:There are also frequent reminders that reaffirm my decision, such as when it took me two whole wrist-snapping days to mount a pair of tubeless tires on the Industry Standard Gravelling Appliance, during which I often found myself sobbing and wailing plaintively to the heavens: Why do people put themselves through this!?!Well, apparently Im not alone, because theres a new tool thats supposed to make the job much easier:Im old enough to remember when people wouldnt even admit to using tire levers with their clincher tires lest their fellow riders accuse them of manual weakness, but the tubeless tire appears to have won the literal thumb-wrestling match with masculinity once and for all, because people arent even pretending they can rawdog it anymore:I dont know about you guys, but it sure seems like tires are getting a little harder to install lately. Add some tire inserts, and it can become nearly impossible in some cases. Today,CushCorereleases a possible solution to that problem. Introducing the Rotary Tire Tool.And while $299 might seem like a lot, by about the ninth hour of my own ordeal, when mine own thumbs did ache and I did cry out, My Lob, My Lob, why hast thou Fred-saken me?, I would gladly have forked over twice that to Satan had he appeared bearing one of these tools in order to tempt me off the cross: Jesus may have had nails through his wrists, but thats nothing compared to the pain I experienced in my own.Unfortunately its now too latenot just for me because I no longer have the ISGA, but also for humanity because this tool only goes up to 29, which is now obsolete, because everyones moving on to 32-inch wheels. And even if they do make a 32-inch version youll still have to get a whole new 32-inch-specific garbage can:So much for that.Speaking of which, do you ever wake up in the middle of the night worried that youve been inflating your tires to a sub-optimal pressure? Me neither. Still, I read (or at least skimmed) this post on the Paper-Thin Tire Enthusiast Website with interest, or at least something adjacent to it:Remember how they said high pressure isnt faster?This year marks 20 years ofBicycle Quarterlysground-breaking real-road research into tire performance. Back in the spring of 2006, we started testing tires on real roads, with a rider on the bike. The results surprised everybodyus included: High pressure doesnt make supple high-performance tires roll faster. That went counter to what had been accepted wisdom for over a century. Thats why performance tires were narrowso they could run at high pressure. Back then, road bikes ran 20 or 23 mm tires, inflated to 110 psi (7.5 bar) or more.Well, another test says it is faster:Its taken a whilealmost 20 years Were excited that theEscape Collectivehas used the same techniques for asimilar study of real-road tire performance. What they found is surprising, at least at first sight. You may have seen the headline:Get ready to rethink accepted wisdom.Thats because the author and tester, Ronan McLaughlin, found that the highest pressure rolled fastestfor all tires he tested.This would appear to undermine everything the Paper-Thin Tire Mogul has been saying for the past 20 years, but actually it doesnt, because it only applies to your cheap, crappy tires, not the expensive lambskin wheel condoms he sells:In fact, I think that is what we are seeing here. It matches what we found in our first tire tests, way back in 2006: Second-tier tires do roll faster at higher pressures, at least on pavement, and up to a point. Above is roll-down data for the Rivendell Rolly-Poly 27 mm tire. Lower times means faster rolling. The Rolly-Poly rolls much faster at 85 psi than at 55 or 35 psijust like the Pirellis tested by theEscape Collective. At ultra-high pressure, the effect tails off: At 105 psi, the Rolly-Poly rolls no faster than at 85 psi. (Unlike the other differences, the 0.2 second faster roll-down time is not statistically significant.)However, if we look the results for other tires, we see that the Rolly-Poly was somewhat of an outlier. The Rolly-Poly was a relatively stiff tire, and it rolled fastest at the highest pressure we tested.To be fair I think what hes saying makes sense, but I find it pretty funny anyway.Speaking of irony, heres a gravel event that has broken with the standard naming convention (sorry, STNDRD NMG CNVNTN) and taken an entirely new approach:As I understand it, rolling coal is this:Im sure its just tongue-in-cheek, but if youre planning to go Id install one of these on your GRVL BK so you can strike preemptively:You cant be too careful.

Paris-Roubaix rarely offers gentle introductions, and for a first-year team like Modern Adventure Pro Cycling, there was never going to be an easy way into one of cyclings most demanding races. Yet despite a series of early setbacks and a race that quickly moved beyond their control, George Hincapi...

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The tractors have returned to the cobbled roads of northern France, with cyclings legendary one-day classic wrapping up for another year. It was a memorable edition of the men's ParisRoubaix, with Wout van Aert beating out the world champion, Tadej Pogaar, in a final sprint in the Roubaix velodrome. We were on the ground over the weekend, looking for the latest cobble-taming tech and to see which hacks the riders had chosen for the 258.3km race. There was plenty of drama, but if you missed it, weve condensed it into these key talking points. Read more: ParisRoubaix 2026 tech gallery: 1x drivetrains take over as teams move to MTB groupsets and 35mm tyres ParisRoubaix 2026 talking points New UCI tools were introduced at this year's race. Ash Quinlan / Our Media Wout van Aert finally took the win after seven attempts and two previous podiums, while setting the fastest ever time for Paris-Roubaix with an average speed of 48.91 kph. Serious mechanicals characterised the race more than anyone can recall in the modern era, with hopes dashed for many riders left punctured or with broken bikes. That was true of no one more than Mathieu van der Poel, who arguably lost the race due to tech mistakes after puncturing twice on the Troue dArenberg and then being unable to clip into his teammate's bike because he was using prototype Shimano pedals. Several riders crashed due to spectators, with Lucinda Brand coming down hard in the women's race after her handlebar was taken by a fan standing by the side of the road. 1x drivetrains proved popular, with Shimano-sponsored teams using mullet groupsets that combined Dura-Ace, GRX and XTR components. Wide tyres were the hot trend before the race, with the UCI even bringing a tyre checking tool to the start. The riders were all on at least 32mm tyres, with some riders, such as Tadej Pogaar, going as wide as 35mm.

Paris-Roubaix 2026 once again lived up to its reputation as one of cyclings most brutal and unpredictable races, but in the aftermath, the focus has shifted firmly onto what the result says about both Wout van Aert and Tadej Pogacar. In his post-race podcast analysis, Eurosport commentator Javier A...