The former EF Education-EasyPost rider has traded his Cannondale for a Porsche Macan, and his HGH for… counterfeit Euros? Just when you thought the career trajectory of Andrea Piccolo couldn’t get any sillier, the universe said, “Hold my counterfeit beer.” The former Italian wonderkid was once considered the future of Grand Tour racing and wore the leader’s jersey at the Vuelta a España as recently as 2023. Now he’s in a Naples jail cell. Piccolo was stopped by the Carabinieri while driving a Porsche Macan with San Marino plates. During the search, officers found €2,000 in fake banknotes hidden under…
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The longest-running team in the peloton has secured backing from a Chinese maritime tech giant. Because if anyone knows about navigating stormy waters, it’s Eusebio Unzué. The Movistar Team has been around since 1980. They have survived economic crashes, pandemics, and the mid-2000s Euromullet boom. How? By finding sponsors in places nobody else thinks to look. Today, the Spanish squad announced a new “green journey” partnership with ContiOcean Environment Tech Group Co., Ltd. (2613.HK). They included that combination of numbers and letters but we don’t know what they mean. Who are ContiOcean? If you are not an avid reader of…
Eight races, six weeks, and enough humidity to drown a fish. The premier American criterium series is returning to its spiritual home. If you enjoy watching domestic pros bang bars at 35mph while navigating 90-degree corners and a sea of screaming, slightly intoxicated college students, we have excellent news. USA CRITS announced its 2026 calendar today, and it is a love letter to the American South. Running from April 11 to May 23, the series features eight races concentrated entirely in the “Crit Belt” of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. It’s a condensed, high-intensity block that looks less…
It is official: The wild ride of Rad Power Bikes has come to an end, and the final price tag is a sobering reminder that the “post-pandemic bike boom” is truly, deeply over. Life Electric Vehicles Holdings Inc. (Life EV) has won the auction to acquire the assets of the bankrupt e-bike giant for $13.2 million. To put that number in perspective: Rad Power raised over $300 million in investment capital back in 2021. Selling the entire company for $13 million is roughly a 96% discount. In the cycling world, we call that “pro deal pricing.” Who is “Life EV”?…
Usually, when you sign up for a Belgian Waffle Ride, the only thing you are contributing to is your own future physical demise and perhaps the local economy of a small town’s brewery scene. But for 2026, the self-proclaimed “most irreverent unroad cycling series” is getting serious about a cause. BWR announced today a national partnership with Bike MS, the fundraising giant of the National MS Society. The collaboration will span the entire 2026 calendar—including the stops in Arizona, California, Utah, and Montana—effectively merging the “gravel privateer” crowd with the charity ride ecosystem. Waffles with a Side of Philanthropy The…
If you ride a bike on public roads in 2026, you likely already have a relationship with the little blinking light on your seatpost that beeps when a car is about to ruin your day. The Garmin Varia is the gold standard of “don’t die” technology. But a new startup called Luna Systems thinks a simple radar blip isn’t enough. They have announced the Luna Oculus, a new “AI-powered” safety system that doesn’t just sense cars—it sees them. The Pitch: A Supercomputer for Your Commute According to a new report from Digital Camera World, the Luna Oculus is a rear-facing…
We regret to inform the “Spirit of Gravel” that it has been outbid. Lauf Gravel Worlds announced this week that its 2026 edition will feature a staggering $150,000 prize purse. That is not a typo. The race that started 17 years ago as a pirate-themed grassroots ride in Lincoln, Nebraska, is now handing out checks that would make a WorldTour domestique weep with envy. The cash, sponsored by GOODLIFE Nutrition, marks the largest single-day prize purse in the history of the discipline. It will be split evenly between the men’s and women’s fields, paying 10 deep. If you’re a pro…
In the cycling industry dictionary, the suffix “ADV” usually evokes images of bearded men riding gravel bikes across Mongolia or at least a Subaru Forester with a roof tent. Aventon, however, has decided that “ADV” actually stands for “Avoiding Drivetrain Variance.” The brand announced this week the launch of the Soltera 3 ADV, the latest iteration of its lightweight urban commuter. And while it won’t be winning the Dakar Rally, it might just win the battle against your pants leg grease stains. The Belt Drive Diet The headline feature here is the Gates Carbon Belt Drive. Aventon has taken a…