Spencer Martin

WorldTour representation continues to decrease while results and individual rider quality increase.

Breaking down where each major grand tour stage win contender stands as we approach the start of the 2025 season.

Breaking down where each major male one-day contender stands as we slowly approach the 2025 season.

Examining what Pidcock’s sudden exit means for Ineos Grenadiers’ transfer season.

Breaking down where each major grand tour contender stands as we slowly approach the 2025 season.

Looking at five-star riders who will be looking to reclaim their spots at the top of the sport in 2025.

Looking at four key metrics to rank the top riders during the 2024 season.

A detailed course breakdown and a few initial takeaways from the recently released 2025 Tour de France route.

Looking at four key metrics to see which UCI teams over, and under, performed during the 2024 season.

How Tadej Pogačar destroyed all comers to win his fourth consecutive Lombardia and finish off one of the best individual seasons in the history of the sport.

Breaking down a few highlights and finding the key takeaways from a busy weekend of racing at the Giro dell'Emilia and UCI Gravel World Championships.

Breaking down why Tadej Pogačar's dominant ride in Montréal signals that he is likely on the cusp of a coveted triple crown.

Breaking down the hardest stage of the race up to this point and taking stock of where things stand on the Vuelta's first rest day.

Breaking down how Remco Evenepoel doubled up on Olympic golds with yet another impressive solo effort in the men's road race.

Breaking down what a dominant performance tells us about Tadej Pogačar's historic greatness and the challenge of defeating him at future Grand Tours

Breaking down where the GC contenders have won/lost time so far during a scorching fast Tour de France, and what it means for the race's final week.

Even with Pogačar looking imperious, this is still one of the most competitive and high-level GC battles in the sport's recent history.

Breaking down all the need-to-know information as we head into the biggest race of the season.

Breaking down what we learned at the final weekend of the last pre-Tour de France tune-up event.

Breaking down what we've learned through the first six stages of the key Tour de France tune-up event.

Breaking down how two very different, but key, stages have given shape to the GC standings before the race heads into the high mountains.

Breaking down how a chaotic grand tour-ending final sprint was won with an impressive mix of experience and superior technical skills.

Breaking down how the hardest day of the 2024 Giro d'Italia was won.

Breaking down how a routine post-rest day mountain stage was won & how it signaled a major strategic change in the GC battle.

Breaking down how what should have been a routine sprint stage descended into chaos, and highlighted how we could be in for an incredibly fun three weeks of non-stop all-out racing.

Breaking down the key moments of the six-stage race and what it tells us about the status of some key Tour de France GC contenders.

Breaking down the key moments of Tadej Pogačar's steamrolling of the competition en route to a sixth career monument victory on Sunday at Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

Breaking down how a tactically tricky and physically difficult course finally foiled Mathieu van der Poel and his formerly unstoppable classics team.

Breaking down the key points of Sunday's Hell of the North and how Mathieu van der Poel's Alpecin team set up yet another unstoppable solo breakaway win.

The key points of Sunday's Tour of Flanders and what small decisions went into deciding how the hardest one-day race of the season was won.

Breaking down how the key Tour of Flanders tune-up race was won and what we learned from Lidl-Trek's aggressive tactics against Mathieu van der Poel.

Key points and takeaways from the first monument of the season, as well as what it all means for the major races looming in the weeks and months to come.

Breaking down what a major upset at Paris-Nice and the reemergence of Visma stage racing dominance means for the rest of the season.

Breaking down key highlights & takeaways from a stunningly impressive solo performance on the beautiful white roads of Tuscany.

Breaking down the major highlights & key takeaways from the spring classics opening weekend.

Breaking down a busy weekend of racing as the 2024 season hurtles towards major GC showdowns and a spring classics kickoff in a few short days.

Taking careful stock of Red Bull's blockbuster acquisition of Bora-Hansgrohe and its implications on cycling in the near future.

A macro-level 2024 pre-season prediction via the unveiling of the BTP NET Ratings.

Checking in on the state of American cycling at the sport's highest level at the start of the 2024 road racing season.

Breaking down where each major grand tour stage win contender stands as we kick off the 2024 season.

Analysis: How the trend of squads stacking their 2024 Tour rosters with top GC talent could alter the balance of power in July.

Also: The difficulties inherent in neutralizing races.

Another analysis of the Tour by The Outer Line.

Dig in to what we learned from one of the last stage races before the Tour.

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The Giro enters its final week with an extremely close GC race.

Things are just heating up in the Giro d'Italia.

What we learned from the opening weekend in Hungary.

Going through what we learned during the key moments of the weekend.

How the hardest one-day race of the year was won with positioning and timing perfection

How a criminally underrated rider won one of the hardest-ever editions of Paris-Roubaix

Breaking down another wild finish at Amstel Gold & Dani Martinez's surprising performance at Basque Country

Breaking down the key points from a king-making monument.

The cobbled classic served up a stunning upset win & held plenty of clues regarding who to watch at next weekend's Tour of Flanders

After the favorites are once again left with nothing to show for their efforts, we get yet another example that it is better to fly under the radar in modern cycling

Pogačar crushes all comers at Strade Bianche while Jumbo flexes its collective muscle at Paris-Nice

Plus what we learned from the finale of the UAE Tour & Primož Roglič's start to the season at Ardèche/La Drôme

Ten Takeaways from the action-packed racing weekend

Plus, Julian Alaphilippe showed us that while he might be one of the world's greatest single-day riders, he simply isn't a stage-race GC contender

Ineos can't stop winning at Tour de la Provence but keep slipping down the overall standings and Mark Cavendish looks great while his QuickStep team struggles at Oman

The big takeaways from recent stages at Volta Valencia, Etoile de Bessèges & Saudi Tour, plus, wondering what Tom Pidcock's ceiling is, if it even exists at all

Bernal's crash poses his Ineos team with a lot of tough questions about their strategy for the 2022 season. How should they respond?

U.S. women have out-performed their male counterparts at the top level over the last decade, but a lack of commercial investment threatens future success

The raw number of U.S. riders is decreasing in the sport's top flight, but those that remain are capable of winning the biggest races

Breaking down where Pogačar won (and lost) time during his dominant 2021 Tour campaign and what this tells us about the 2022 Tour de France

How the concept of rider 'value' will change the composition of the WorldTour in the near future

Some think the pure sprinter is a dying breed, but it might just be the answer to many team's problems

And how the Giro d'Italia could gain from Ineos' overwrought decision-making strategy

Diving into the claims that older riders are producing the best power of their careers while losing ground against the competition

The statistics suggest that Sagan is the most consistent Tour rider of all time, with the possible exception of the Cannibal, Eddy Merckx.

Cycling needs to supplement its traditional TV coverage with concise highlight content and more compelling race narratives.

Does the COVID-19 era offer a doper’s dream or an avenue for the enhancement of anti-doping techniques?

Either people are paying you to consume your content or you are effectively paying them to consume your content.

The Outer Line argues that the UCI's proposed 2020 calendar is simply too risky to be realistic.

There are a number of perplexing questions around how the remainder of the 2020 racing calendar could potentially play out – which races will still be held, how competing races will be scheduled.

Corporate acquisitions spell the end of Team Sky's salad days. The world's dominant cycling team may be forced to trim its budget in coming years.

McLaren's arrival in cycling might not be the surprise influx of new cash some are expecting.

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