Stage 3 of the Tour de Hongrie suited the sprinters once again, and with an opportunity he could not miss, Tim Merlier stamped his authority over the peloton once again with a second sprint victory within three days. The stage was marked by the breakaway of Erik Fetter, Michael Vanthourenhout, Vict...

This weeks Debrief features a beautiful Hoff touring bike, a worldwide bike theft map, a new Cyber Cycles fork, the world's lightest tubeless valves, a bunch of events to follow live, and much more. Find it all hereThe post Friday Debrief: Hoff Touring Bike, New Cyber Cycles Fork, Bike Theft Map, Worlds Lightest Valves, and More appeared first on BIKEPACKING.com.

Some contenders lose big chunks of time, but Felix Gall stays close

Stage 7 of the Giro d'Italia culminated in the climb to Blockhaus, and it delivered a lot of action. The main favourite on the day Jonas Vingegaard took the stage win, dropping the entire competition; whilst Afonso Eullio survived the day in the pink jersey. The stage had a surprise presence in th...

Survey will seek broader views on sharing the road with other road users and everyday cycling behaviours.Campaigners and professionals involved in cycling have been some of the strongest voices advocating for the release of road safety data for years, and the Road Safety Authority has obliged by releasing a new report revealing a significant number of serious cycling injuries towards the end of Bike Week, dedicated to promoting cycling.The RSA said that the report includes information from collision records transferred from An Garda Sochna to the RSA, ranging from 2021 to 2025, and data from the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry Database, covering 2020 to 2024.The summary report outlines: Over 2020-2024, 3,305 pedal cyclists were admitted to hospital following a road traffic collision. Over the same period, 1,327 cyclists were recorded as seriously injured by An Garda Sochna. There may be multiple factors explaining this discrepancy, such as AGS not being alerted of a crash, the definitions of injury used in each case, among others.The summary report said that if the people who were cycling who were hospitalised in the same years, 625 (19%) were termed sustained clinically serious injuries, which are those with a higher probability of having long-term consequences on the persons life.Looking across reports for different modes shows that, on average, people who sustained serious injuries while cycling and were admitted to hospital spent four days as in-patients this compares to 7 days for motorcyclists and 11 days for pedestrians. The RSA has so far only published a summary report, marked as a PowerPoint Presentation and saved as a PDF.Publishing PowerPoints as PDFs and marking them as reports has been the norm for RSA in recent years. At the end of the report published today, there is text which states To see the full reports on cyclist serious injuries, please follow this link, but there does not seem to be a related fuller report published on that page.The report and its press release were published in the RSAs usual fashion, with factoids with little or no context. For example, it states that more than half (52%) of all serious cyclist injuries occurred in Dublin, but fails to provide the context that 66% of people who mainly commute to work or school by bicycle do so in Dublin, according to the last Census. It also outlines that Men accounted for 78% of those injured, while women accounted for 22%, but provides no context, such as that women account for 28% of adult cycling commuters and 20% of members of the sporting body Cycling Ireland.New survey The RSA said that the report shows that 71% of hospitalised cyclists were injured in single-cyclist collisions, which is substantially higher than the 20% recorded in An Garda Sochna data.However, hospital data, as published, make no distinction between road collisions and sporting injuries on or off road.The RSA said: While the hospital data provides important insight into the scale and severity of cyclist injuries, it does not provide information about the circumstances surrounding collisions or how those injuries occurred. To address this gap, the RSA will next week begin a national survey of cyclists across Ireland to better understand the contributory factors and circumstances surrounding cycling collisions and injuries on Irish roads.The RSA said that the survey which will be open to people from age 17 and over will ask people who cycle about their experiences on the road, including whether they have been involved in a collision in the last five years and the circumstances surrounding those incidents.It said, that the initiative forms part of the RSAs ongoing work to improve cyclist safety and to build a more complete picture of the factors contributing to serious injuries among cyclists.Michael Rowland, director of research at the RSA, said: Cycling has enormous benefits for individuals, communities and the environment, and it is essential that people feel safe when using our roads. This survey will help us better understand the experiences of cyclists, the circumstances surrounding collisions and injuries, and the challenges cyclists face every day.By complementing the existing data we have on collisions and injuries, with the survey findings, we can develop a much fuller understanding of cyclist safety in Ireland and help inform future road safety measures, policy and education initiatives, he said.

Keith Marshall, the owner of Kumo Cycles in Australia, just shared details on a new prototype he's calling the Overlander. Packed with stunning details, the Overlander was designed for riding in Australia's wildest places. Find photos and details here...The post Kumo Overlander Prototype: Made for the Australian Wilderness appeared first on BIKEPACKING.com.

Soon launching on Kickstarter with its price tag set to be around the 1,500 mark, Wasted Watts is promising a revolution in how cyclists measure performance. Will it really be worth the lofty investment for you and I? It's time to run some tests

The 2026 Giro dItalia classifications will evolve day by day across three weeks of racing between 8 May and 31 May, from the Grande Partenza in Bulgaria all the way to the final stage in Rome. Every summit finish, sprint stage, breakaway, and time trial has the potential to reshape the fight for th...

Our Reader's Rig of the week comes from Raha from Canada, who shares the fully loaded Surly Bridge Club he's been pedaling for more than a year on an open-ended bikepacking getaway. Meet Raha, see photos of his well-worn bike in Baja, and read a little about his travel philosophy here...The post Readers Rig: Rahas Surly Bridge Club appeared first on BIKEPACKING.com.

Argon 18 launched its new Anti Matter gravel race bike last Friday, with the brand claiming it redefines gravel racing and has a 14.5W aero advantage over its Dark Matter. A rift appears to be forming between Rotor and its Chinese owner, Wheeltop, following the Madrid-based brand's announcement of financial difficulties in a press release. Wheeltop has since denied the claims, according to Bike Europe. Canyon followed up the launch of its Endurace CFR with two new models, the CF SLX and the CF. These aren't just less expensive iterations of the new Endurace CFR, but are two distinctly different frame designs from the CFR, and each other. Warren Rossiter spotted a 32in Merckx Gravel prototype on his visit to the Belgian Cycling Factory. He squeezed them for details, and even rode the bike. Fizik released its new Ergolace 2 shoes, with the off-road shoe now featuring lower weight, a grippier outsole and an updated shape. Corriere della Sera reported that two 19-year-old spectators at the Giro DItalia have been reported and charged after being filmed lunging at the peloton. Want more of the most important cycling tech news delivered straight to your inbox? Why not sign up to our newsletter? Twice weekly, our editors cut through the noise with the most important BikeRadar news, reviews and buying advice. Plus, The Breakaway delivers expert analysis and opinions from our testing team on Saturdays. The BikeRadar Podcast is also a great way to keep up to date with trends, news and our opinions.