4iiii has officially launched an updated version of its Viiiiva Heart Rate Monitor, and you’ll never have to worry about it dying mid-ride. Boasting an impressive 540+ hour battery life from a single standard CR2032 coin cell, the new Viiiiva is designed to be a “set it and forget it” piece of gear. Beyond the massive battery, 4iiii is leaning heavily into the Viiiiva’s role as the missing half of the performance equation for riders already using their PRECISION power meters. While your power meter tells you exactly how much wattage you are pushing into the pedals, the heart rate…
Author: Emily Taylor
If you were hoping for the first chapter of the 2026 Van Aert vs. Van der Poel saga this weekend, you are out of luck. Just days before the flag drops on Opening Weekend, a wave of illness has swept through the peloton, forcing frantic last-minute roster changes. The biggest casualty? Wout van Aert. The Visma star, who had been aggressively rehabbing an injury to be ready for the cobbles, has been sidelined by sickness. Soudal Quick-Step has also been forced into late substitutions, proving that February in Belgium is just as ruthless to immune systems as it is to…
For a few beautiful weeks, the rest of the peloton had hope. They looked at the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad start list, saw a Wout van Aert held together by medical tape and optimism, and thought, “Maybe, just maybe, I have a chance.” That hope died on Wednesday morning, when Mathieu van der Poel woke up and chose violence. Mathieu van der Poel has officially confirmed he will line up for Omloop Het Nieuwsblad this Saturday, effectively turning what was supposed to be an open, tactical opener into a terrifying survival horror game for everyone else. After weeks of “will he,…
The cobbles are calling, and Visma is answering with a partially healed Wout van Aert. Meanwhile, the women’s defending champion has been brutally snubbed by her own team. There is a specific kind of desperation that sets in right before Opening Weekend. It’s the feeling that if you miss Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, your entire spring campaign is already on the back foot. Apparently, that desperation is contagious over at the Visma team. Just weeks after fracturing his ankle, Wout van Aert has been greenlit to start on Saturday. Is it a medical miracle? Or is it a team in full-blown…
For years, Jonas Vingegaard has quietly built his Tour de France form on the sunny roads of Italy. Now, he is heading straight into the crosswinds of France to settle a score before July even begins. In the neatly ordered world of Grand Tour preparation, there are two distinct paths to the Tour de France. You either go to Italy for Tirreno-Adriatico, where the days are short, the coffee is excellent, and the vibe is relatively relaxed. Or, you go to France for Paris-Nice, where the crosswinds will try to throw you into a ditch, the weather is statistically miserable,…
They have won Grand Tours, conquered the cobblestones, and built the most sophisticated development program in cycling. But in the modern WorldTour arms race, tactical genius doesn’t pay the bills. Visma | Lease a Bike is officially going sponsor hunting. There is a brilliant, underlying irony in modern professional cycling: you can build the most meticulously operated team in the history of the sport, win nearly every race that matters, and still find yourself strapped for cash. Team Visma | Lease a Bike has spent the last few years dominating the peloton with a ruthless, data-driven precision that made rival…
After a debut season that fundamentally reshaped the Women’s WorldTour, the reigning Tour de France Femmes champion has signed an extension to keep her in yellow and black through 2028. No one really knew exactly what to expect when Pauline Ferrand-Prévot announced she was stepping away from the dirt to return to the road peloton. It is one thing to dominate cross-country mountain biking with an iron grip; it is an entirely different beast to conquer the modern WorldTour. But after a debut season with Team Visma-Lease a Bike that saw her casually ride away with both the Paris-Roubaix cobblestone…
There is something inherently awesome about a peloton of professional cyclists tearing across the George Washington Bridge at sunrise. New York City is a place of gridlock, potholes, and yellow cabs that treat stop signs as suggestions. It is not supposed to be a place for a UCI road race. But for the third year running, the Gran Premio New York City is proving that the best racing doesn’t always happen in the French countryside. Sometimes, it happens on Route 9W. Let’s be clear: this isn’t a four-corner crit in a parking lot. This is a proper, UCI 1.2 ranked…