Date: Sunday July 17Start: RodezFinish: CarcassonneDistance: 200 km A sprint stage to bring the second week of racing to a close and some pleasant, relaxing Sunday viewing after the excitement of the Alps. The riders will set out for a hilly 200 km from Rodez to Carcassonne. There’s a couple of category-three climbs for the … Read more
Tadej Pogačar clearly isn’t content to wait until the Pyrenees to try and wrench back the yellow jersey from Jonas Vingegaard, attacking multiple times in the opening 50km of stage 14 from Saint-Etienne to Mende, taking the race to Jumbo-Visma. More interestingly, the Slovenian tried to enlist the help of the Ineos Grenadiers, asking if … Read more
Alberto Bettiol came agonisingly close to a Tour de France victory on stage 14 after briefly riding eventual winner Michael Matthews off his wheel on the Montée Jalabert a few kilometers from the finish line. “Sometimes you spend five hours on the bike and in a few seconds the victory goes from you,” Bettiol said … Read more
Eurobike has a bit of everything, but these wild prototype concept bike projects from Muzzi Cycles, HeFlow & Komo Bike caught our eyes. Muzzi is a one-piece molded plastic frame that can be recycled or even made from recycled material. HeFlow is an adaptable 4-wheeled cargo bike powered by a hydrogen engine. And Komo’s project … Read more
Tour Stage 14 Report: After a crazy start to stage 14, where Tadej Pogačar was in the early break, the actual ‘break of the day’ took a big lead over the GC peloton. Michael Matthews split the break and then launched an attack on the final climb. Alberto Bettiol managed to hold the Australian until … Read more
Michael Matthews (BikeExchange-Jayco) took victory on stage 14 of the Tour de France after attacking his breakaway companions over 50 km from the finish and showing magnificent fighting spirit to stay in the game on the final climb. Stage 14 got off to a chaotic start, even Tadej Pogačar getting amongst it in the most … Read more
This Tour de France has not, by any conventional measure, been a dazzling one for Astana-Qazaqstan. Two weeks into the Tour de France, their best-placed rider on GC is Alexey Lutsenko (11th overall, 10 and a half minutes back). Lutsenko also managed their best stage result – eighth into Col du Granon. Outside of that, … Read more
Filippo Ganna has postponed his hour record attempt that was pencilled in for August this year. It’s already postponed. It won’t be in August,” Ganna told La Gazzetta dello Sport on Friday. “I wanted to only focus on the Tour de France without anything else on my mind. Once the Tour ends, I’ll decide the … Read more
The infrastructure around the Tour de France is so vast that something’s bound to go wrong from time to time. Last year, a truck full of sausages got stuck on the route. Today, we received a notification from the Tour de France organisers that “as you read this”, a “specific intervention” was in progress on … Read more
On the final day of Eurobike, Chinese drivetrain parts manufacturer, WheelTop, showed us their prototype Wireless MTB Drivetrain; the WheelTop EDX OS Series is a $400 USD package comprising derailleur, two batteries, and wireless shifter. While the vast majority of WheelTop’s business is OE, their new wireless electronic drivetrain will also be available aftermarket in … Read more