More Merckxian Antics from Tadej Pogačar, but Latest World Championship Victory Is Superior on Two Counts
Stunning long-range move echoes domination of 2024, reignites debate about whether Pogačar is best of all time.
Stunning long-range move echoes domination of 2024, reignites debate about whether Pogačar is best of all time.
Evenepoel vents frustration in spectacular fashion as he suffers costly slow bike change at Rwanda road worlds: 'l felt like I was in excellent shape.'
Only 20 percent of starters made the finishline while Pogačar dominated the brutal high-altitude course. Here's who survived and who didn't.
Evenepoel salvages silver medal after unravelling with mechanical issues as Pogačar delivers dominant road race title defense.
Check out Shane Stokes's author page.
Pre-race favorites for women’s elite world championship road race rue missed chances: ‘I honestly wasn’t the strongest’.
The Slovenian superstar is the five-star favorite to win a second world title, but could an outsider pull off the shocker? His own UAE teammates might be his most dangerous rivals.
Who is the best rider for the Kigali 2025 worlds course? Is it a climber, a puncheur, a classics rider, or something else entirely?
Here are the full standings as Canada's wildcard attacker Vallieres wins rainbows in the elite women's road race Saturday in Kigali.
Pre-race favorites miss the key moves before 24-year-old Vallieres attacks out of three-rider group to become Canada's first elite world champion.
'They'll definitely lend a hand': Evenepoel acknowledges Pogačar may see non-Slovenian support as UAE takes 11 riders to Sunday's race.
18-year-old Spaniard Ostiz comes good on status as favorite with commanding sprint win; steps up to Movistar WorldTour team in 2026.
The first wave of road races on the Kigali circuit has produced wild and unpredictable outcomes, and Saturday's double-header should be no different.
Isaac del Toro, the Mexican sensation and UAE teammate, is Slovenian superstar’s most unpredictable rival to Rwanda rainbow repeat.
More than 50 riders DNF race of attrition; 18-year-old Italian Finn blasts away at 6km to go for sensational victory in first year as a U23.
Pidcock sees opportunity in extra-tough course ahead of rainbow jersey brawl with Pogačar and Evenepoel: 'This amount of climbing suits me.'
SRAM and the UCI are fighting. Here's why, and how this might affect the future of road drivetrains.
Barta seeks new challenges after four seasons at Movistar: 'The importance Tudor gives to innovation makes me excited.'
Hudson, winner of the junior Liège-Bastogne-Liège, lit up the junior men's road race with a searing attack with three laps to go and Team GB put three riders into the top 5.
Pogačar, Vollering, PFP, Evenepoel flex verbal muscles ahead of rainbow jersey showdowns: 'I'm in a completely different mindset from last year'
‘You really pay for every effort you do’: Ultra-difficult course will guarantee a very worthy winner, but who will it be?
Team USA brings a loaded junior squad to chase the first world title since Quinn Simmons won in 2019, with U23s racing in double-header.
Trek Checkout launches with 60mm front suspension, 55mm rear suspension, a dropper, 2.2” tires, and drop bars. What is it?
France's Gery wins the first stand-alone U23 women's road race world title in spectacular fashion, pre-race favorite Holmgren misses podium with 6th.
The Rockshox Rudy XL blurs the line between gravel bikes and mountain bikes with tons of clearance and enough travel to replace an XC bike.
Here's the lowdown on all the latest good stuff in 'This Week in Bike Tech.'
UCI doubles down on minimum total width of 400mm but narrows brake hood measures after surge of stakeholder backlash.
Pogačar could write more pages of history if he wins Sunday, when a second rainbow jersey could topple records and cement his GOAT legacy: 'I feel ready.'
Lidl-Trek signs Ayuso through 2030 on long-term bet to win a grand tour: 'Change always brings new energy and ambitions.'
Will Pogačar, Del Toro, Ayuso go 1-2-3? Can Le Court shift the focus of Africa's first road worlds? The hot takes and key stories of the elite road races.
The first-ever U23 women’s stand-alone road race at the UCI road world championships sees Cat Ferguson lead a global field of rising stars.
A 360 camera is the best way to record rides and a deal on the older Insta360 X4 makes that a whole lot more accessible.
Merlier climbs to 15 wins in 2025, one shy of Pogačar, as the race for the most wins goes down to the wire: 'It would be a dream.'
From 18-hour drives in a mini-van to the top of the cycling world: teenage buddies Primožic and Pogačar reunited in Rwanda. 'Maybe he will try to beat his 100km Zurich attack and go early.'
Australian six beat France by just 5 seconds to defend mixed relay TTT title, USA opts not to start.
'I see myself in the rainbow jersey': With Valverde debuting as national team coach, a confident Ayuso heads to Rwanda as the ultimate worlds disruptor.
Premier Tech joins bike sponsor Factor in pushing team to switch identity; organizers of Euro champs adjust security for presence of Israeli athletes.
What happens when you test a bike that you have zero knowledge of? Not just the model, but the brand. Will Shoddy Dave like the unnamed bike better than the ones he knows inside out?
Mixed team time trial closes out racing against the clock before road racing takes over Thursday.
The new system uses radar technology to track vehicles, provide high-speed alerts, and make road riding safer
Team USA scores two in the top 5 in the junior men’s time trial to score first US medal in Rwanda.
18-year-old Megan Arens doubles Dutch junior TT title with rainbow stripes, USA's Liliana Edwards and Lidia Cusack 9th and 13th.
Wider global participation, headline-grabbing results and feel-good vibes seem to have the first-ever African-based road worlds off to a flying start.
'He was one of my three certainties': Team Belgium reeling after Evenepoel loses road captain Benoot, family issues keep Vos home.
Junior women and men race the individual time trial in Day 3 of competition at the 2025 UCI road world championships.
“There's just a certain level of controversy we just can't have surrounding the brand,” says Factor founder.
Söderqvist dominates ahead of incredibly close battle for positions 2 through 10 in hilly Kigali time trial.
Remember, kids – always double-check your drafts before you hit 'post.'
Julich captured a silver medal at the 2004 Olympics but his world campaigns were sometimes hammered by misfortune.
Analysis: UAE’s 86-win 2025 season to eclipse HTC’s 2009 record reveals how big changes in the modern peloton and unlimited budgets beat old-school sprint dominance.
Bäckstedt delivers on favorites status in emphatic fashion in first standalone women's U23 time trial world championships.
One 40km misfire does not change the odds for Sunday. If anything, it makes them even worse for everyone else.
Evenepoel crushed Pogačar's rainbow dream Sunday in the world championship TT, and he's already thinking about doing it again in the road race.
A Canada conundrum for Pogačar: How world championship buildup hampered his TT, but could yet win him the road race.
The women’s U23 time trial debuts Monday in the second day of competition at the road worlds alongside the men’s long-running race.
Jay Vine shocked the men’s TT at Rwanda worlds to take silver behind Remco Evenepoel after Tadej Pogačar missed medals by one second.
Remco Evenepoel supreme against the clock ahead of Jay Vine and Ilan Van Wilder, Tadej Pogačar experiences slump on his 27th birthday.
Eric Brunner overcomes Andrew Strohmeyer in tense finale, Manon Bakker finishes well clear of Rochette and McGill.
Brandon McNulty's GC triumph at the Tour de Luxembourg pushes UAE to 86 victories to surpass HTC-Columbia’s benchmark set in 2009.
Marlen Reusser aces tough Rwanda course to take first rainbow jersey ahead of Anna Van der Breggen and Demi Vollering.
Full results elite women's individual time trial UCI world championships: Dygert punches into top 10, Edwards 19th for Team USA.
Bradyn Lange and Lauren Stephens avoid traps to drive home solo victories to claim the 2025 USA Cycling Gravel National Championships.
All TT start times, from Rwanda's Nirere opening the champs early morning through Pogačar and Evenepoel drawing the day to a close in afternoon face-off.
Wout van Aert puts in determined performance in final race of road season, explains way back to top form in 2026.
US rider McNulty holds solid advantage over his rivals heading into Sunday’s concluder, but tough course looms.
UCI response to SRAM legal challenge claims inaccuracies and leans on maximum gear ratio only being a test aimed at greater safety.
Key contenders for Sunday’s time trial include American specialist Chloe Dygert, Marlen Reusser, Demi Vollering and others.
Here’s the complete, day-by-day worlds racing program: Rwanda opens Sunday with the elite women's and men's individual time trials.
As SRAM initiates legal proceedings against the UCI the case offers the potential for much larger fallout than a simple gearing test.
UAE left waiting: Skjelmose snatched stage 3 in Luxembourg to deny the win record as McNulty kicks to third.
Watch Pogačar, Dygert, Evenepoel, Ferrand-Prévot and more live on television or streaming via Flobikes, Eurosport, Discovery, YouTube, and more.
'Immediate identification of unusual situations': UCI responds to safety fears with system that transmits position to a control center and race convoy.
UAE delivered Pogačar’s fourth Tour title, but Giro and Vuelta slipped away under Visma’s steady pressure to keep 'Killer Bees' ahead in grand tour count.
Is the hilly Kigali time trial steep enough for Pogačar to derail the defending 'aero bullet'? 'When Tadej sets his mind on something, it's a sign he feels ready.'
Excellent pricing and all-road usability makes the Vision SC 48 I25 a highly versatile wheelset for whatever adventure awaits.
Some of America's top stars are bypassing Africa's first worlds as Team USA hunts first elite road rainbow jersey in decades: 'Not the best course for me.'
From Pogačar and Del Toro through Pidcock and Alaphilippe: Who's on form and who's flapping after racing in the Vuelta, Canada, Britain?
Tour de France Femmes obliterator carries fresh legs and a new mindset into her push for first road rainbow jersey since 2014.
Visma signs Davide Piganzoli on 3-year deal and taps the Italian climber as a future GC successor to Jonas Vingegaard: 'We want to grow with him to the next level.'
A do-all gravel bike with a road-centric focus, the Factor Aluto feels ready for riding long distances on road and gravel alike.