Author: Henri Giroud

Team DSM’s Women’s program crowned off a brilliant season with a sensational display of riding at Ronde van Drenthe today, with Lorena Wiebes finishing off an incredible team performance to take the win.Keeping tabs on proceedings earlier in the afternoon, the team put their plan into action as the peloton headed into the second half of the day; riding aggressively as a unit and lighting up the race. An incredible show of strength saw the team place four riders in the front group of seven after the last ascent of the VAM-berg. With finisher Wiebes in the move, the team set…

Ashton Lambie (Lincoln, Neb.; HUUB Wattbike) was the highlight of the third day of the 2021 Tissot UCI Track World Championships, winning the Men’s Individual Pursuit World Championship title. Jennifer Valente (San Diego; TWENTY24 Pro Cycling) raced four events today, all part of the Omnium, and Gavin Hoover (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) competed in the Points Race. Men’s Individual Pursuit The IP qualifiers went down in the morning, and Lambie destroyed it! Lambie, the current World Record Holder for 4,000 meters, laid down a time of 4:03.237 in qualifying. With this time, Lambie was 2.548 seconds faster than second-place rider Jonathan Milan (ITA). The two would match up in the Gold Medal round…

Ever needed to ship your e-bike within the contiguous United States? No, you haven’t. Stop it, you haven’t. But if you had needed to do that thing that you haven’t done, you’d discover that the battery makes it difficult. Trust us, we know all about IATA dangerous goods labels and how lithium batteries tend to explode when a baggage handler intentionally launches your bike down a 20ft drop. Well now BikeFlights.com has the answer. It’s a five-step process, and one of the steps is buying something from them. We’ve included their video, but we haven’t watched it, so apologies if…

Bob Stapleton is stepping down as chairman of the board for the organization, a position he has held since 2014. Vice chairman Brendan Quirk was elected by board members to replace Stapleton, effective immediately. Quirk was co-founder of Competitive Cyclist, which was acquired by Backcountry.com in 2011. He later served as president of Rapha USA, CEO pro tem of Allied Cycle Works, and since 2018 has been a director at the Runway Group, a foundation started by Steuart and Tom Walton that has been instrumental in turning northwest Arkansas into a global cycling destination. “It’s impossible to quantify the impact…

The route of the 109th Tour de France, scheduled for the 1st to the 24th July 2022, has been unveiled in its traditional venue in Paris. The Palais des Congrès again opened its doors to thousands, including the reigning champion, Tadej Pogačar, the joint record holder for most stage wins, Mark Cavendish, and two-time world champion Julian Alaphilippe.   The big hitters of the next Tour discovered a route filled with opportunities to go on the attack on every terrain following the Grand Départ in Copenhagen. The mountains will then set the stage for a series of showdowns to decide who gets to…

Team DSM and Volvo Car Netherlands are delighted to reconfirm their partnership, with the globally recognised brand providing the team with premium cars.Team DSM will drive the stylish and safe Volvo V60 Cross Country model. The combination of its higher ground clearance and all-wheel drive, makes it the perfect fit for both action and comfort during bike races. The cars come equipped with mild-hybrid technology. This means electric power supports the engine, reducing the impact on the environment, which is a key objective of the team. The cars will support all three programs that the team operate: Men, Women and…

The Movistar Team confirmed Wednesday it has reached an agreement for the next two seasons (2022-23) with Iván Sosa (Pasca, Cundinamarca, COL; 1997), a current member of the INEOS Grenadiers squad. Iván thus becomes the sixth addition to Eusebio Unzué’s men’s outfit for next year, after the previous announcements of Óscar Rodríguez, Max Kanter, Alex Aranburu, Oier Lazkano and Gorka Izagirre. Sosa, a really talented climb, has got, despite being just 23 years of age, a good five years of pro experience on his shoulders. His palmarès features more than a dozen UCI victories, including two overall titles in the Vuelta a Burgos (2018-19), with three consecutive victories…

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is pleased to announce that Alex Dowsett (GBR) will attempt to break the UCI Hour Record timed by Tissot on 3 November at the Velodromo Bicentenario in Aguascalientes (Mexico). The previous attempt by the 32-year-old rider should have taken place on 12 December 2020 in Manchester (Great Britain) but had to be postponed when he contracted Covid-19 the month before. Alex Dowsett had held the UCI Hour Record timed by Tissot after covering the distance of 52.937km on 2 May 2015 in Manchester, before another British rider, Bradley Wiggins, set a new mark of 54.526km…