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Why Great Cycling Does Not Require A Perfect Pedal Stroke

Cycling advice often treats the pedal stroke like a technical masterpiece waiting to be polished. The ideal rider supposedly pushes down, scrapes through the…

The Most Iconic Cycling Sunglasses And Their Cool Factor

Cycling sunglasses have always done more than keep flies, dust and stray gravel out of a rider’s eyes. They frame the face, shape the silhouette and quietly…

Winter indoor training playlists that actually keep you motivated

Winter turns the bicycle room into a small theatre of self-discipline. The bike is ready, the bottle is full, and the trainer is humming, but the session can…

How to Pick the Perfect Gearing for Your Local Hills

Picking gearing for hills is one of those decisions almost every rider revisits at some point. You buy a bike with what looks like plenty of gears, ride it up…

The Joy of Riding Alone: A Defence of Solo Training

Cycling culture has shifted dramatically over the past decade. Group rides once felt like the heartbeat of the sport, a chance to swap stories, suffer together…

A statistical model for predicting podium finishes in Monument races

Monument races sit at the very top of professional cycling, and picking who will stand on the podium at Milan-San Remo, the Tour of Flanders, Paris-Roubaix,…

Your group ride habits might be killing the buzz for your bunch

There's a particular kind of magic that only exists when a handful of lycra-clad humans line up shoulder to shoulder at 6am on a Saturday, breath misting in…

Domestiques Earn the Applause Cycling Refuses to Give

When the leader rolls across the line and grabs a podium trophy, the television director lingers on the kisses, the champagne, the anthem. The winner earns the…

What I learned from getting dropped on every climb last weekend

Last weekend began with the confidence that usually arrives after checking the weather forecast twice and choosing the lighter jersey. The ride looked…

Five reasons to love the Criterium du Dauphiné even if you don't

The Criterium du Dauphiné occupies a strange middle ground in the cycling calendar. Squeezed between the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France, it rarely gets…