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Finding the right bike can be an expensive endeavour, but it doesn’t have to be. The key is choosing the one that suits the job. Buying a hybrid when you want to take part in fast racing is going to leave you frustrated; likewise buying a rapid road bike for a commute over rough road […]
Bjarne Riis has taken on a lot of guises as one of cycling's most divisive characters and in the wake of his comeback as a WorldTour team manager says he'll apologise again for his doping past if he has to. Riis in 2007 admitted to blood doping during his career as a rider, including his 1996 […]
Briton Simon Yates’ Tour Down Under could be over after he suffered a knee injury in a nasty crash on stage two of the race. The Mitchelton-Scott rider was involved in an incident 1.4 kilometres from the finish of the 135.8km Woodside-Stirling stage which claimed several victims, including the Israel Start-Up Nation team’s Ben Hermans, […]
Ruth Winder has thrown a major spanner in the works by claiming her maiden Tour Down Under stage win and snatching the ochre jersey from three-time defending champion Amanda Spratt in the process. The 26-year-old American road race champion scored a gritty stage-three victory on an uphill sprint finish into Stirling at the end of […]
Amanda Spratt believes she has become one of the best cyclists in the world and has backed herself for a gold-medal bid at the Olympics and world championships this year as women's cycling welcomes reforms aimed at improving the professionalism of the sport. The International Cycling Union (UCI) has imposed a €15,000 ($24,200) minimum wage […]
Mark Cavendish‘s ambitions of Olympic gold appear to be over after he missed out on selection for the final UCI Track World Cup event of the season later this month. British Cycling will take Ollie Wood and Ethan Hayter to compete in the men’s endurance events in Milton, Canada for Round Six of the World […]
Sarah Gigante has no chance of flying under the radar in Sunday's elite road race at the Australian national championships. Her rivals are all too aware of her capabilities after she shocked a peloton stacked with seasoned professionals to snare her first elite-level green and gold jersey in the same event last year. The teen […]
Rohan Dennis looks back at his huge move to quit and walk out on the Tour de France as the hardest and best decision of his cycling career. Dennis will return to racing on Wednesday at the national time trial championships in Ballarat, Victoria where he will be the hot gold medal favourite. Dennis won […]
Australian cyclist Matthew Glaetzer has grabbed an emotional bronze medal at the UCI Track World Cup in his first race since being diagnosed with cancer. Glaetzer finished third in the final of the men's keirin in Cambridge, New Zealand on Saturday, a result that was greeted with congratulations from team members and management given the […]
The best known – if not the most successful – drug fuelled cycling enterprise was Bicicletas Ositto. Bicicletas Ositto was a bike maker of sorts owned by Pablo Escobar’s older brother Roberto ‘Osito’ (‘little bear’). A cyclist himself in the 1960s, he had once arrived at the finish of a race in Medellin plastered in mud. […]