Jorgen Nordhagen is currently regarded as one of cycling's most promising climbing talents. But before he became a professional cyclist, Nordhagen could've chosen a completely different career path - as a cross-country skier. It's not hard to see why is Nordhagen so valued at Visma | Lease a Bike. N...

Ion Izagirre will be unable to contest the final races of his professional career after a training crash on roads near his home. The Cofidis rider, who had announced he would retire at the end of the 2026 season, had planned to say goodbye at Il Lombardia on October 10th, but a fracture in his left...

Bahrain-Victorious sprinterAlberto Bruttomesso has been provisionally suspended by theThe Italian Anti-Doping Tribunal for violating its anti-doping rules. The reason for the suspension cite articles 2.1 and 2.2, both relating to prohibited substances and their use. The confirmation of the suspens...

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Uno-X Mobility continues to shape its roster for the 2027 season with the renewal of two riders whose contracts were expiring. The Scandinavian team has confirmed the extensions of Markus Hoelgaard and William Blume Levy, two different profiles who will remain part of the Norwegian structure next se...

Johannes Mller is the man behind MUST Cycle and the designer of the super unique OTIVAO Adventure Bike. Unlike most mountain bikes, which are made to be ridden both up and down mountains, the OTIVAO Adventure Bike is purpose-built to be carried up mountains and ridden back down. That unique use case dictates its incredibly unique design.It was recently on display at Bespoked Dresden. View this post on Instagram The OTIVAO has a full-suspension folding titanium frame; it rolls on 20 wheels/tires, and it does not have pedals, just platforms. It folds into a compact package and comes with its own purpose-built backpack to carry it uphill. Its claimed to combine modern geometry with generous suspension, and it uses Mantious JUNIT 34 Pro fork originally intended to bring quality suspension to kids bikes.If youre thinking that sounds super weird, well, youre not alone. This is clearly a very niche product aimed squarely at those who want to walk/hike up a mountain and then enjoy a gravity-fueled ride back down. According to MUST Cycle, OTIVAO was created for mountain routes conventional bikes cannot reach: carried uphill on your back, unfolded at the top and ridden back down.Walk Up. Ride Down.OTIVAO Adventure Bike DetailsOn MUST Cycles About Us page, Johannes Mller says, The idea to build the OTIVAO came from a customer request. A lightweight small wheel that fits in a backpack and can be quickly set up in the mountains. After a few days of thinking, I created a sketch and built a hardtail prototype out of steel. Although it was unusual at first, the thing was just fun. This was the basis for the further development of the OTIVAO Adventure Bikes.Now, the production version of the OTIVAO has a handcrafted titanium frame paired with machined aluminum components. It features a unique folding design to reduce it to a compact size for carrying on its purpose-built backpack. It comes in just one size, which is claimed to work for riders between 165 cm and 195 cm. Keeping with the compact, portable design, it rolls on 20 wheels with meaty 2.4 Maxxis Minion DHF tires.The full-suspension frame reportedly has a modern trail geometry, and it gets 140mm of rear suspension, paired with a 140mm travel fork. As mentioned above, it uses the Manitou JUNIT 34 Pro fork that was originally intended for use on kids bikes, and it comes with Hayes brakes. Given the pedal-less design, it only has foot platforms to stand on during the descents. It does not have cranks or any other drivetrain components.The OTIVAO Adventure Bike is listed on the MUST Cycle website as a frame only for 1,400. It is also shown in two complete builds, the Vetta (3,150) and the Cresta (2,733.33), although it is not immediately clear what the differences are between them.Interestingly, most of MUST Cycles social media posts refer to the bike as the CAPRA Adventure Bike. In more recent posts and on the brands website, the bike is being called the OTIVAO. Both words mean goat, but perhaps there was some trademark infringement with YT Industries and its longstanding Capra model.Honestly, its kinda hard to tell whats going on there.Either way, the MUST Cycles OTIVAO Adventure Bike is like nothing weve seen before. You can learn more about it or book a guided test ride on the brands website: mustcycle.at

Cycling Weekly can today reveal that ultra-endurance cyclist Dr Sarah Ruggins is planning a new expedition and world record attempt, Project Atlas, during which she will attempt to pedal around the planet faster than anyone has previously done. The current Guinness World Record for circumnavigating the globe by bicycle is held by Mark Beaumont, who completed his epic journey in 2017, cycling 18,032 miles from Greenwich to Greenwich in a time of 78 days, 14 hours, and 40 minutes. The British adventurer remains the only person to have achieved the big loop in less than 80 days, after Alaskan ultra-cyclist Lael Wilcox abandoned her attempt to best Beaumonts time earlier this year, bailing after 14 days because she was suffering from heat exhaustion in the midst of a brutal heatwave that was scorching a large part of the planet. Wilcox does still hold the womens round-the-world record 108 days, 12 hours and 12 minutes which she set in 2024, but Ruggins has the outright record firmly in her sights, and believes she can shave three full days from Beaumonts benchmark, completing the 29,000km (18,000-mile) challenge in just 75 days. To achieve this, the Canadian-born adventurer who plans to set off from Peggys Cove in Nova Scotia, close to her familys home, on 4 May 2027 will need to ride an average of 400 km (250 miles) per day.(Image credit: James Busby)When you learn that Ruggins, who spent a decade recovering from a rare autoimmune condition in her teens, couldnt even ride a bike just three years ago, you could be forgiven for doubting her ability to achieve this. But she has form.The 38-year-old, who appears on the cover of the current edition of Cycling Weekly and features large in our article about Fastest Known Times (FKTs), already holds two outright records, one for riding LEJOGLE (Lands EndJohn OGroats-Lands End) in five days, 11 hours and 14 minutes in 2025, and another for cycling 6042km (3754 miles) south-to-north across the European Continent in 13 days, 20 hours and 27 minutes earlier this year.Both times are considerably quicker than anyone else, male or female, has ever achieved, before or since. I look for challenging routes, where the fastest known times are held by men, and I look for routes that whose records have been challenged multiple times, and people have failed, Ruggins told Cycling Weekly. The round-the -planet record, the ultimate FKT, certainly ticks all those boxes."We've been cooking this up for three years," she says. "When we did LEJOGLE we took a country, and when we did the European record, we took a continent, and so now we're taking the world.Our three-year trilogy was always country, continent, world. And the reason we did it that way is because I'm new to cycling. I got my first bike in 2023. And from there Ive built the team. I've built my riding competencies, and so as we learn to work together, and as our skills developed together, so too, did the complexities of challenges we want to take on.(Image credit: James Busby)Beaumont certainly doesnt doubt Ruggins' ability, nor the seriousness of her attempt to beat his decade-old time. Mark texted me back in June and said: You're going to be the one to break my world record, she reveals. He has been a mentor and a friend to me for several years. Mark opened many doors for me in this industry and he's one of the people who has actually given me the belief that this is possible.Perhaps unsurprisingly then, Ruggins is keen not to present her new expedition as an all-out assault on her mentors biggest achievement. I'm not saying I want to beat Mark Beaumont, she tells me. I just want to see if a person can go around the world in 75 days.Although its inevitable that people will portray her Project ATLAS ride as a race against the existing fastest time, in one important sense theyre not directly comparable, because Ruggins is taking a very different route to the one Beaumont followed."Mark had the benefit of going around the world in 2017, when there was far less geopolitical disruption than now," she says. "He crossed through Russia down into China, and obviously, we can't do that. So, my route will also be quite different from Mark's. We're starting from a blank sheet of paper. We're bound by the exact same rules that that he was, but obviously we can't go through Russia. We can't pass east across Europe through Ukraine or Iran to get to the Stans. And every flight I take means I will have to increase my mileage every day versus his pace. So we have to be quite clever, and therefore the route is still under construction, but we will announce it in a few months.Cycling Weekly will report on the route and other elements of the expedition as they evolve, so watch this space.

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