"Solo Bikepacking Japan" is a 40-minute video that follows creator Paul Fisson on a one-month, 3,000-kilometer ride across Japan, traversing the country's four main islands. It blends video clips, still photos, and GoPro shots to showcase elements of rural and urban Japan as seen from the saddle. Watch it and find an introduction from Paul hereThe post Solo Bikepacking Japan: A 3,000-Kilometer Adventure (Video) appeared first on BIKEPACKING.com.

With temperatures in their high 30's and hours spent on the heat-absorbing tarmac, it is not surprise that the Tour de France's rider have been suffering through the opening days of the race. In a sport where its athletes are fully exposed to the elements, Olympic Champion Tom Pidcock has opened up...

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Good morning and welcome to the liveblog of the Tour de France! Stage 3 marks the first day of this year's race to be contested entirely on French roads, and there is a new rider in the yellow jersey as the peloton rolls out: Tadej Pogacar. Today's stage promises to be another demanding test, with p...

100% of parents who responded to a survey supported improving walking and cycling links to school.Fianna Fil Senator Paul Daly has questioned whose common good it is to have the Safe Routes to School project in his hometown of Kilbegganand of greenways generally. According to documents on Westmeath County Councils website, before implementing the Safe Routes to School project for Scoil an Chlochai, KilbegganNational School, it was documented how some parents were driving and parking on footpaths during the school run.The project, which complemented the design of the road outside the newly built Mercy Secondary School on the same road, included widening footpaths to make them into shared paths to serve the two schools. Bollards, trees and greening were added to discourage parents from driving up onto footpaths. Both schools have their own car pickup arrangements the secondary school within the school grounds and the national school in the church car park behind it. Google Maps Street View imagery suggests that some parents continue to try to ignore these and park on the shared path at driveways, etc. A scoument for the Safe Routes to School outlines that a survey was sent to all families of Scoil an Chlochair before the plans were drawn up. There was a 52.6% response rate to the survey with 71.4% of parents surveyed agreed that road safety is a problem around the school, 97.4% saying they would support works at the front of school that improve student safety, putting pedestrians and cyclists first.Of the respondents, 75 students (60.9%) start their journey within a 1km radius of the school, and 95 students (77.2%) within a 2km radius. But in a recent debate on greenways at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food, Senator Paul Daly questioned the good of the project even after he admitted that it slowed down traffic outside the two schools.In his comments, the Senator addressed Barry Kehoe, chief executive of Westmeath County Council and chairman of the County and City Management Associations transport infrastructure networks committee, who was appearing at the committee as a witness mainly on the issue of greenways. Senator Daly said: We can split hairs on who considers what to be the common good and whose common good is it. While it is not a greenway, Mr Kehoe would be aware of a town and village renewal active travel project in my town of Kilbeggan. The footpath up to the school was widened, and junctions were changed. It slowed down the traffic, and its aim was to have kids walk to the school.When I canvassed for both the local and general elections, at every second door, I was getting complaints about how much longer it was taking to do the school run in the town. Regarding the common good, the people were not looking for that active travel project because they were still going to the school in their cars, he claimed.Despite the survey of parents showing strong support for the project, from the majority who responded, Senator Daly said: Who decides what the common good is? These people did not have an input into that. They did not see this as the common good because they were still driving.The issue of greenways and the common good will be covered in a separate article.

In the end, it looked quite easy for Mads Pedersen as he sprinted clear to victory on stage four of the 2026 Tour de France in Foix. However, it was anything but easy, on a day where temperatures headed towards 40C.The Lidl-Trek rider was multiple bike lengths clear at the end on Tuesday, but it came after a brutal day of racing in the south of France, with the win coming from a gigantic breakaway.Pedersen's team controlled the escape perfectly, with Quinn Simmons and Mathias Vacek putting their all in to deliver their Dane to victory. There was also delight for another Nordic rider in the break, as Torstein Tren (Uno-X Mobility) took enough time to step into the yellow jersey, as the peloton rolled in minutes behind.More to follow...

Stage 4 of the 2026 Tour de France finished in Foix, and the Tour's first 'baroudeur' stage was a breakaway fest. Lidl-Trek put in a stellar collective performance, featuring many of their strong figures at the head of the race and controlling it to launch Mads Pedersen into a brilliant stage victor...

Avinox and Gobao have just launched new E-CVT drive units, and they are going to completely revolutionise e-bike design. No more derailleurs to snag on rocks, no heavy cassettes impeding the suspension, and no need to back off the power when shifting gears under load. In fact, youre going to have to completely reimagine how you think about e-bike gears and motors going forward. But what exactly is an E-CVT? In a nutshell, its an Electronically-Controlled Continuously Variable Transmission. Which is an advanced automatic Continue reading

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The 2026 Tour de France classifications will shift across three weeks of racing, from the Grand Dpart in Barcelona on 4 July to the final stage in Paris on 26 July. Across time trials, sprint stages, breakaway opportunities and the high mountains, each day can alter the shape of the race for yellow...