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Giro Stage 5 Race Report: Stage 5 was billed as a sprinters day, but there was a climb that saw sprint favourites Mark Cavendish and Caleb Ewan dropped by the peloton. In Messina Arnaud Démare was the fastest in a chaotic sprint ahead of an angry Fernando Gaviria and Giacomo Nizzolo. Stage 5 final K

Rider Interview: A hair style and a moustache might be your trade mark, but there is much more to Mitch Docker as his 14 years in the pro peloton attest. Ed Hood caught up wit the now podcaster to hear about his career and life now back ‘Down Under’. A selection of Docker styles I

Giro Stage 4 Race Report: The volcanic slopes of Etna saw the 2022 Giro d’Italia turned up-side down. Lennard Kämna won the stage and Juan Pedro López took the pink jersey. Behind them the top GC favourites finished together, but Vincenzo Nibali and Tom Dumoulin were dropped and Miguel Ángel López abandoned. Stage 4 last

Much research has gone into studying both the physiological benefits from heat adaptation along with the practicalities of getting heat adapted. However, can a heat camp blunt your training adaptations? A sweaty day for this Astana rider Down Under In 2016, I co-authored a meta-analysis surveying >90 studies on the physiological changes and performance benefits

Giro Rest Day Rant: Three days in and the 2022 Giro d’Italia comes home to Italy and the climb of the Etna volcano. But first Ed Hood looks back at stage one to three in Hungary and the stories behind the story so far… Watch the most comprehensive live & ad-free coverage of the Giro

Giro Stage 3 Race Report: After a less than startling stage, Mark Cavendish took an impressive stage win ahead of Arnaud Démare and Fernando Gaviria. The ‘Manx Missile’ went early and none of the other fast-finishers could get past him. Mathieu van der Poel held the pink jersey going into the first rest day. Watch

Giro Stage 2 Race Report: Simon Yates rode the time trial of his life to take the Giro stage 2 win, but it was Mathieu van der Poel, with the pink jersey on his back, who came so close to a two-in-a-row stage win by 3 seconds. Van der Poel holds the overall lead –

Rider Obituary: Rest in Peace, Dutchman Harm Ottenbros who died recently at 78 years-of-age. The man was best known for his world professional road race championship title in 1969; but sadly his win has been added to the list of ‘unworthy’ world champions along with the likes of Benoni Beheyt, Luc Leblanc and Laurent Brochard.

Giro Stage 1 Race Report: The first stage of the 2022 Giro d’Italia came down to a battle between Mathieu van der Poel, Biniam Girmay and Caleb Ewan. Ewan crashed and Van der Poel bettered Girmay in the last metres. Van der Poel now has a pink jersey to add to his yellow from last

Gear Break: Bern Major: A commuter helmet that won’t jack up your style, Colnago presents TT1, its new time trial bike, Black Inc unveils its fastest ever disc wheel at the Giro d’Italia, CHAPTER2: TOA Caitlin Fielder artist edition – Only 50 units, GCN: New & exclusive book and Santini: The Tour de France launches

Pre-Giro d’Italia Takeaways: With less than 24 hours to go to the fist stage finish of the 2022 Giro d’Italia, Spencer Martin gives us ‘Choice of Contenders’ and how they might color the race action. Get into pink here… – This article is an excerpt from the Beyond the Peloton newsletter. Sign up here for

2022 Giro d’Italia Preview: The 105th Giro d’Italia starts in Budapest on Friday and finishes three weeks later in Verona. Ed Hood takes up over the 3,410 kilometres and through the history of the Italian Grand Tour and gives us his ‘protaganisti’ for the win. The Classics are behind us with ‘warm up,’ stage races,

If you fancy yourself as a grimpeur, a climber in cycling, this bicycle race has your name written all over it. The Tour of the Gila, or Gila for short, is named after the Gila wilderness of New Mexico, including a National Forest of the same name. The forest is large, almost 2.7 million acres. Several

Toolbox: A breakaway in a cycling race is a hotbed of intrigue, with ‘friends’ working together for the common good while also plotting their betrayal of the group as a whole. What are the factors that actually enhance the odds that the early breakaway takes it all the way to the line? Van Vleuten tore

Rider Interview: The 2022 Paris-Roubaix was dry and dusty and Britain’s Lewis Askey thundered over the northern French cobbles to finish in the famous Vélodrome André-Pétrieux, bloodied, but a ‘L’enfer du Nord’ finisher. Ed Hood caught up with Lewis to hear about Roubaix and how his season has been going so far. Roubaix action for

The Race Across America (RAAM) fascinates and repels at the same time. An epic event launched in 1982, the route currently runs from Oceanside, California to Annapolis, Maryland, a distance of roughly 4,800 kms (3,000 miles). The race is not divided into stages but rather it is up to individual racers or team members how

Renowned Italian component brand Campagnolo today announces its first all-gravel wheelset-Levante. Named after the Easterly wind of the Mediterranean, Levante brings a host of proven Campagnolo technologies to the gravel scene and is designed for off-road adventures and racing alike. More info at: https://www.campagnolo.com/WW/en/Wheels/levante Like PEZ? Why not subscribe to our weekly newsletter to receive

Readers Rig: Jeffrey Ogren has sent us this bike for Reader’s Rigs after we featured his Greg Lemond a couple of years back. This isn’t Jeffrey’s bike, it belonged to Roger Nelson, a customer at his bike shop, who gave the bike to the shop and it was passed on to a young racer. Rodger