Wahoo is pushing deeper into software with a new three-tier subscription model for its app, as the cycling and indoor-training brand looks to compete more directly with Garmin and Strava.The new structure introduces free Base, 4.99-per-month Core and 14.99-per-month Pro tiers, with increasingly advanced training analysis and coaching features available at each level.It marks a shift for Wahoo, which has traditionally been best known for hardware such as its ELEMNT bike computers, KICKR smart trainers and heart-rate monitors.The company now wants its app to become a training platform in its own right, bringing together performance data, training insights and coaching across cycling and running.Wahoo's three subscription tiers Base Core Pro Monthly Free 4.99 14.99 Annual Free 49.99 149.99 Workout recording Device connectivity Route planning Live tracking/sharing Training insights & trends Performance analytics Training load & fitness tracking Indoor/outdoor workouts SYSTM Daily workout recommendations Structured training plans Video workouts Strength, yoga & mobility Edit Table The free Base tier provides the core Wahoo experience, including workout recording, device connectivity, app integration, route planning and live tracking.Core costs 4.99 per month or 49.99 annually and adds deeper training analysis, including performance metrics, training load and fitness tracking, alongside indoor and outdoor workouts and activity history. The service is supplied via an app. Wahoo Pro costs 14.99 per month or 149.99 annually, adding Wahoo's SYSTM training platform, daily workout recommendations, structured training plans, video workouts, and strength, yoga, mobility, recovery and mental-training content.The free tier means existing users of the Wahoo app shouldn't need to start paying simply to record rides, connect devices, plan routes or use live tracking.The more advanced analysis appears to be where Wahoo is looking to generate subscription revenue, iincluding its Four-Dimensional Power (4DP) athlete profiling for cyclists and newer Three-Dimensional Pace (3DP) system for runners.What about existing Wahoo subscribers? It's not known what this means for existing subscribers. Scott Windsor / Our Media This is one area Wahoo hasn't made clear in its announcement.The company currently charges 14.99 per month or 149.99 annually for its Wahoo subscription, which includes SYSTM and premium app features.The new Pro tier costs exactly the same in the UK, but Wahoo hasn't said whether existing subscribers will move automatically to Pro, or whether any features will change between tiers.Wahoo is following Garmin and Strava It appears the battle is no longer in the hardware. Scott Windsor / Our Media The move reflects a wider shift in the fitness industry, with hardware companies increasingly trying to monetise the software and analysis sitting behind their devices.Garmin has been moving in this direction with Garmin Connect+, its paid tier, adding features such as enhanced analysis, AI-powered insights and training guidance to the existing Connect ecosystem.More significantly, Garmin recently acquired TrainingPeaks and TrainHeroic, giving it ownership of established platforms covering endurance coaching and strength training.Strava has also continued to add features to its subscription offering, with more advanced training, route and performance analysis available to paying users.Wahoo is expanding into running Wahoo has recently partnered with Coros. Wahoo Wahoo is also using the new platform to expand beyond its traditional cycling audience.Its Three-Dimensional Pace (3DP) system profiles runners across threshold pace, maximal aerobic pace and anaerobic capacity.It takes a similar approach to Wahoo's 4DP cycling system, which looks beyond a single FTP figure to identify an athlete's strengths and weaknesses.Wahoo has also added Coros integration and says its software now provides a more connected training experience across cycling and running.That wider focus is important to Wahoo's ambitions. Rather than simply being an app for owners of its cycling hardware, it increasingly wants the Wahoo ecosystem to follow athletes across their entire training lives.With Garmin, Strava and now Wahoo all putting emphasis on subscriptions, analysis and coaching, the battle for endurance athletes' money is increasingly moving off the handlebar and into apps.

After a scorching Tour de France, a few damp days of 14 or 15C at the Arctic Race of Norway (ARN), from 13 to 16 August, may come as a relief to the pro peloton. But not even Norway can guarantee a post-Tour ice bath any more; temperatures at the 2024 race won by Magnus Cort, averaged 25C, the hottest on record for Arctic Norway. The 2025 edition, when Tom Pidcock finished second to Corbin Strong, took place after the countrys most severe heatwave on record, in what turned out to be its warmest recorded year, taking the country as a whole. This July, Rjukan, in Telemark county considered one of the best ice climbing areas in Northern Europe and Drammen, southwest of the capital Oslo, peaked at 33C. A few days later, fire tore through Drammen, destroying a hundred homes. Meanwhile, in the far north, the Svalbard archipelago, Norways northernmost territory midway between its northern coast and the North Pole, is heating faster than anywhere else on the planet.This week 18 teams, along with organisational staff and media, arrive at the Arctic Race for four days of racing at what is being heralded as a groundbreaking race. In 2021 the organisers achieved certification from Norway's Eco-Lighthouse organisation, which helps businesses improve their environmental impact and reduce waste, and it is one of the 80 founding signatories of the UCI Climate Action Charter in 2022. Central to both schemes is transport, and here, ARN has indeed been groundbreaking. In 2023 the ARN became the first cycling race to transition to a fully electric fleet, as cyclings world governing body, the UCI, recalls in a recent website report, The Green Breakaway: Arctic Race of Norway, electrifying the far north.However, viewed with a modicum of skepticism, ARNs 130-car Electric Vehicle (EV) fleet reflects Norways unique market conditions. Norway incentivised EV adoption in the 1990s and became the world leader in about 2013. By the end of 2025, 96 per cent of new cars purchased in Norway were fully electric, compared with just 23.4 per cent in the UK and 20% in France.Plus, current race transport sponsor Hyundai sells nothing but fully electric cars there. A glance at the races environmental audit shows that, as well as the 130 EVs, the 2025 Arctic Race still needed the services of 92 diesel vans and heavy vehicles, 690 national and international flights, and 18 speedboat trips. All of which highlight the difficulties the UCI is having in making any progress in enforcing the rule that all teams become carbon neutral by 2030. The portrayal of the Arctic Race of Norway as pioneers in green event management has to contend with a glaring paradox. As Marius Heide, Norwegian Green Party councillor for the north Norwegian town of Harstad the home of the races co-organiser Arctic Sport wrote in an article for local newspaper iHarstad after last years edition: The electric cars in the Arctic Race may save 10 or 15 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, but theyre promoting Equinor, which exports oil and gas that cause 280 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions in other countries every year.Equinor, known as Statoil until 2018, is the Norwegian state-owned oil and gas giant. As Statoil, it sponsored the first five ARNs. When Equinors current sponsorship deal with ARN expires in 2030, it will have completed 18 years of continuous partnership. Joined at the hip(Image credit: Getty Images)Equinor and the Arctic Race of Norway are inseparable, joined, if not at the hip, then in the town of Harstad, population 21,000. Harstad is the hometown of the event organiser Arctic Sport, which held a race around the island of Andrja, just east of Harstad, in the year 2000, grew in ambition, and took plans for the Arctic Race to Paris in April 2011, where ASO (Amaury Sports Organisation), the owners of the Tour de France, gave them a warm reception. Harstad is also where, in 1976, Statoil opened its first office outside its headquarters in Stavanger. As Equinor, it now operates four oilfields in the Norwegian and Barents Seas from the town. Yet the UCI website report extolling ARNs green credentials doesnt mention Equinor. The website of the 2026 Arctic Race of Norway describes its main sponsor without using the word oil, preferring to call it an international energy company committed to value creation in a low-carbon future, alongside a photograph of an offshore windfarm. Ninety-nine per cent of the energy Equinor produces comes from fossil fuels. The sports-washing reveals a great deal about the current predicament of professional cycling and its contradictory stance towards its role in the global climate crisis. The fossil fuel sector remains one of the most lucrative in the global economy and Middle Eastern money has flooded into the sport over the last ten years. Equinor, which sponsors ARN overall, as well as the general classification and best young rider competition, recently announced record profits of $11.5bn (8.6bn) for the three months to the end of June, compared with $6.54 billion for the same period in 2025. In a retreat that mirrors moves by BP and Shell, Equinor recently announced plans to actually cut its renewable energy activities while increasing oil and gas production.Exactly how it does the latter is of immediate interest to the north Norway communities that welcome the Arctic Race every year. Harstad stands 250 km north of the Arctic Circle and 1020 km from Oslo, at the north-eastern end of a spectacular 200 km archipelago jutting out into the Norwegian Sea famous for deep fjords, jagged peaks and quiet fishing villages: the Lofoten, Vesterlen, and Senja Islands, known collectively as LoVeSe. Undersea reserves off the LoVeSe Islands are estimated to hold 1.3 billion barrels of oil. Environmental groups campaign against Arctic oil drilling, partly because of climate change, but also because of the vulnerability of the area. The seas off the LoVeSe Islands are the spawning grounds for the worlds last large, robust cod stock, while the Rst Reef, the world's largest known deep-water coral reef, is just 100 km to the west. The extreme conditions, with 50 foot, ice-covered waves make it almost impossible to clear up Arctic spills. Environmentalist Lars Haltbrekken, the climate spokesperson for Norways Socialist Left Party and the former head of Friends of the Earth (Norway), told Cycling Weekly, Most of the islands inhabitants are against oil drilling there. Around the year 2007, all the municipalities voted against oil drilling in these areas. All the local mayors were against oil drilling. Nothing suggests there has been any change in these attitudes.The only political parties in favour of drilling in LoVeSe are the Conservatives and the far right Progress Party. In some polls, they have a majority. If they form a government after the 2029 general election, Halbrekken says, "I think theyll start planning for oil drilling in these areas.If it happens, the history of Equinors involvement in the Arctic Race of Norway and community involvement may lose some of its local support. Ingrained in the community (Image credit: Getty Images)As much as it is a bike race, the Arctic Race of Norway is a series of community parties; an institution in northern Norway. Harstad has seen national heroes Thor Hushovd and Alexander Kristoff win stages there. The race returned last year to see Corbin Strong take the uphill sprint on stage one, before going on to win the race overall. Not even controversial sponsors like Equinor or Strongs team, Israel-Premier Tech, could dampen the spectators spirits. Kimi Nie-Nilssen, a 19-year-old Norwegian Green Party youth politician brought up in Harstad, grew up attending community festivals sponsored by Statoil or Equinor, which are held all the time, all over Norway. Many people feel there is a shortage of family events and things to create a good atmosphere downtown, so, when something finally happens in Harsted, people dont want to think about genocide or rising sea levels, Nie-Nilssen told Cycling Weekly. As Nie-Nilssen says: When I was in ninth grade, the whole school went to the Equinor offices, and they talked about work opportunities and how they are solving global warming.A recent poll has shown that a majority of Norwegians under 24 years old favour leaving oil in the ground because of the climate crisis. Equinors sponsorship, not only of the general classification but also of the best young rider jersey, together with a competition for pupils at schools along the race route to design the trophies, looks like part of a longstanding effort to combat disaffection among the young.(Image credit: Getty Images)Cycling offers an opportunity for major oil companies, which have been forced to rethink their sponsorship strategies in recent years. For Equinor, 2024 was a particularly difficult year. Before a deluge of climate activism opposing high polluter advertising in sports and culture, Equinor terminated longstanding sponsorship agreements with Norways football federation (which dated back to 1993), its ski federation (2009) and its largest cultural festival the student festival UKA in Trondhjem (2007) as well as the interactive children's gallery, WonderLab, at the Science Museum in London (2016). Announcing the end of their agreement, the Science Museum specifically cited Equinors failure to lower its carbon emissions enough to align itself with the Paris Climate Agreement goal limiting global warming to 1.5C. Professional cycling has no such reticence, it seems, and clings to its current business plan of packaging up public goodwill and selling it to petrostates, oil and gas giants and high-polluting petrochemicals companies. But at least the peloton will be served by electric vehicles.

Some of the UK's biggest stars have been named in the line-up for next week's Tour of Britain Women (ToB). World and national champions and rising Grand Tour stars, as well as young up and comers from a variety of WorldTour teams, are all on the list.Among the biggest names are sisters Zoe and Elynor Bckstedt, riding for Canyon-SRAM and UAE L'Imad respectively. Zoe is the reigning national champion, both on the road and in the time trial, as well as the U23 time trial world champion, while her sister is a key team rider and herself finished on the National TT podium this year.Those joining the sisters include Giro d'Italia revelation Lauren Dickson (FDJ United-SUEZ), who finished 11th on GC after a strong race in support of team leader Demi Vollering. A late-June crash at the Tour de Suisse saw her break a collarbone, and the ToB will be her first race back.The line-up will also include another three national road champions in the form of former top-five finisher Pfeiffer Georgi (Picnic PostNL) and Millie Couzens (Fenix-Premier Tech), and Alice Towers, who will be riding for a Great Britain Cycling Team (GBCT). Couzens will be joined by team-mate Flora Perkins.Recent medallists at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games Jess Roberts and Anna Morris are also set to take the start line in Cockermouth next Wednesday. The pair were part of the Commonwealth bronze medal-winning squad in the team pursuit, behind old adversaries Australia last month, with New Zealand second. They will be riding for the Great Britain team with Towers.Backing up Roberts, Morris and Towers in the GBCT will be youngsters Amalie Cooper (21), Ruby Oakes (20) and first year senior Rebecca Gardiner.The WorldTour-ranked race begins in Cockermouth in Cumbria next Wednesday 19 August, and runs for five stages, heading south via finishes in Blackpool, Great Orme and Hay-on-Wye, before dog-legging across England for a final stage based on Leamington Spa.Among the top international competitors listed to start are double former stage winner and recent Tour de France Femmes green jersey winner Lorena Wiebes (SDWorx-Protime), Vuelta Femenina winner Paula Blasi (UAE L'Imad) and Tour de France Femmes GC star Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM).

Isaac del Toro will pin on a number again this Sunday, August 16th, at the Hamburg Cyclassics, after several weeks without racing since the end of the Tour de France. The German WorldTour classic is built for sprinters and does not naturally suit the Mexicans profile, but it looks a good chance t...

The Huascarn Circuit is a highlight of any pedal-powered adventure in South America. Not only does it make a fantastic loop in its own right, showcasing some of the highest peaks in Peru, but it's also an ideal shakedown ride before embarking on the Peru Great Divide. Find Casss diary from his second lap around the eye-popping 230-kilometer loop, along with a map, itinerary, and a suggested pack list for both it and the Divide here... The post Huascaran Revisited: Sunshine, Showers, and Switchbacks appeared first on BIKEPACKING.com.

Nicolas Prodhomme has responded to Tadej Pogacar labelling him 'Pantani' after the Decathlon CMA CGM rider repeatedly accelerated and pulled hard at the front of the peloton for short intervals during the final mountain stages of the 2026 Tour de France. Pogacar came out to media in the aftermath,...

A little over a year ago I cleared out my friends apartment after he died. He had a lifetime of bike stuff, all meticulously organized and stored carefully for the day when he might need to call it back into service or finally get around to selling it. Obviously that day never came.As I went through all this stuff I couldnt help thinking about my own. Unlike his, mine was completely disorganized, and if I were to depart this mortal plane nobody would be able to make the least bit of sense out of it. So recently I finallywell, I wouldnt say I organized my spare bike stuff, but I at least went through it, put it in bins, and threw out the things it was least likely I or anyone else would ever want or need. (And yes, Ive already gone looking for at least three of the things I threw out and then suddenly needed.) I also told myself Id make every effort to look to these bins before acquiring any new bike stuffbecause frankly, even if I realize my full life expectancy, Ive reached that point in every Freds life where he has more stuff than he could possibly wear out in the course of his remaining allotment.Unfortunately, while I may be able to account for my own behavior, I cant account for the behavior of other people. Consider these two mail pieces I received in the very same day:You may recall I wasnt going to reconfigure the Farbman because I didnt have a front derailleur cable pulley thingy and I wasnt going to acquire one, only allowing myself to embark on the project when it turned out I had a suitable top-pull derailleur as well as everything else Id need to complete it. Well, look what somebody just sent me:Thanks a lot, Johnny, now I have to assemble a whole new bike around it.And yes, Johnny first had to email me and ask for my mailing address in order to send it, so technically I did consent, but it was still wildly inconsiderate and selfish of him.Heres what was inside the other piece of mail, from regular commenter sbarner:Im sure you know that these are, right?Of course you do.Well, I dont. In fact I dont have the slightest idea. Is it something I mentioned once and have since forgotten about? I mean sure, I could email him and ask, but then he might answer, and once I know Ill have to put bikes togetehr around all of them, too.Then a day later I got a delivery from Bens Cycle, and the contents included but were not limited to the following:For the record, none of this stuff counts against my Not acquiring any new bike stuff commitment, and if youre wondering why, the answer is BECAUSE IT JUST DOESNT, OKAY!?! And if youre wondering what its for, the answer is its for a future project thats none of your business. Look, austerity may be healthy, but goddamn it A FRED NEEDS TO LIVE.By the way, lets just take a moment to contemplate this:I ask you: how can you hold this object in your hand and still want a disc brake? So light, so simple, and yet so effective. Sorry, but opting for disc brakes over this is the symptom of a diseased mindand you shouldnt take that the wrong way, all I mean is that if you want disc brakes instead of something like this theres something seriously wrong with you.Oh, and if your answer to the rhetorical disc brake question was More tire clearance Ill point out that theres such a thing as rim brakes with more clearance. Or, if your answer was More stopping power, well, some things in life are worth dying for, arent they?Sure they are.An unwillingness to put your life on the line for your ideals is exactly whats wrong with this new generation.[Intern: Drop that Old Man Yells At Cloud image in here.]Speaking of this new generation, once again I found myself looking at the cycling videos on YouTube and not being able to bring myself to watch a single one of them, because they aggressively rebuff any attempt on my behalf to be interested:Can we please reserve phrases like The Hard Truth Nobody Wants to Admit to situations that actually warrant it, like Sometimes I fantasize about murdering my cat, or Im strongly attracted to my second cousin? The meaningless difference between the frame materials of mass-produced bicycles is not something were repressing deep in our collective subconscious and unwilling to confront.Also, if youre going to make statements like this, please follow through with them:Good, dont! I dont want to hear about your gravel bike ever again. In fact I dont want to hear about any gravel bikes ever again. If I could return to any period in history, it would be 2012, which is the year before the gravel bike was invented. Then, on the eve of that invention, Id go to sleep and wake up back in 2012 again, just like the movie Groundhog Day, only Id be really happy about it.Though maybe Id go back even further to before mountain bikes stopped being bikes:Sorry, its not complicated. They both suck, just total garbage. Look, just skip the human-powered motocross bikes and get an e-bike already, you know you want one. You know, when this first started happening I was horrified:Now I just hope what they call mountain biking today goes fully and completely motorized so the divorce will become final already.But YouTube can still be helpful. For example, what better resource is there for the confused bicycle shopper?Good Lob, 38 minutes!?! Here are those five essential features you want in one second:WheelsSaddleHandlebarPedalsBrakesNow youre all set.

British rider Robyn Clay pushed her persistence to new limits last week, when she battled through illness in the searing heat to make it to the finish of her first Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. The 22-year-old, a first-year pro with Picnic PostNL, described her debut in the nine-day race as really, really hard. I just got emotional at the finish because I think Im just relieved that its finished, but also its such a crazy experience, she told Cycling Weekly after the closing stage in Nice on Sunday. It all just kind of hit me at the end. Clay placed 114th overall on her debut, second-last ahead of her team-mate Mia Griffin, and almost three hours behind the winner Demi Vollering (FDJ United-Suez). At one point, though, she doubted whether she would finish the race at all, after she fell victim to the 35C heatwave that stifled the opening weekend in Switzerland. The first couple of days I was throwing up every 20 minutes and getting dropped, Clay said. I was the only person getting dropped straight away, so that was really a tough pill to swallow. My boyfriend was wanting to book to come to Nice [for the final two stages], but I told him, Dont bother, just in case I dont make it there.But as it went on, I adapted a bit better to the heat, so it was OK. Clay (second left) with her Picnic PostNL team-mates at the start of the Tour in Lausanne. (Image credit: A.S.O/Gaetan Flamme)Thirty-two riders did not finish this years Tour de France Femmes, mostly due to illness or missing the time cut. Reflecting on her debut as a whole, Clay said she was taken aback by the scale of the race, which only its fifth year is already the calendar's marquee event. Everythings just bigger, the Briton said. Theres more people, more media, more staff, more everything. Its just like a normal race, but on a massive scale. Clay was named Cycling Weeklys domestic rider of the year for 2025, having won both the National Road and National Circuit Series titles with British Continental team DAS-Hutchinson. Since joining Picnic PostNL in January, she has started some of the biggest races in the world, including the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, the Giro dItalia Women, and now, the Tour de France Femmes. Asked for her favourite thing about her Tour debut, Clay said it was just being here and seeing all the crowds. Conversely, she hated scaling Mont Ventoux, the barren, 1,910m-tall mountain that made up the finish of stage seven.It was well windy, but I heard that Ventoux means windy mountain, so it makes sense, she said. Id like to come again.

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