Gear Break: Worlds Week Pez Fans, the whole cycling world is packing its bags for Worlds Week in Québec, and Gear Break is riding along in the team car. The UCI World Championships will be held in Montreal from September 20-27. First in the queue, Shimano just dropped its biggest road pedal update in years. […]

Pez friends, welcome to Thursday — aka Friday Eve. My favorite day of the week, for all it portends. This week we present a Thursday Three that includes two topics we’re all talking about — next-gen riders showing out, and Mas’ Vuelta showing an asterisk — and one we’re oddly not: Chris Froome nearly dying, and […]

OUTER LINE: With the World Road Championships set for Montréal next weekend, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and Montréal offered the clearest preview yet of who is ready to fight for the rainbow jersey. Remco Evenepoel struck first in Québec, beating Giulio Ciccone in a two-man sprint, before Isaac del Toro delivered an emphatic […]

TOOLBOX: Wearable biosensors for cycling can make today’s rider seem more like a Formula 1 car, generating an enormous stream of health, training and recovery data during and after every ride. But before trusting those numbers—or buying another sensor—it is important to understand what the device actually measures, how consistently it measures it and whether […]

So. Much. Racing this time of year. With the Vuelta commanding our attention (ish), the men’s and women’s pro pelotons are split between harvesting some late-season results and prepping for Worlds, either at altitude or in Canada. We run through several of those races in this Monday EuroTrash, and we dive deep into this week’s […]

RACE REPORT: Isaac Del Toro gave everyone heading to Montréal for the World Championships something to think about. The 22-year-old Mexican powered to victory in a wet and brutal Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, beating French sensation Paul Seixas after the pair escaped on the final lap. Defending champion Brandon McNulty completed the podium, while […]

RACE REPORT: Tobias Halland Johannessen finally got his Vuelta stage win—and he certainly didn’t take the easy way. The Norwegian outfoxed his fellow escapees after a frantic final lap through Granada to win a superb Stage 21, while Enric Mas safely completed his victory in the 2026 Vuelta a España. After three weeks of racing, […]

RACE Report: Mikel Landa proved there is plenty of life left in those 36-year-old legs, attacking clear on the brutal final climb to win the Vuelta a España 2026 Stage 20. Behind the Basque veteran, Enric Mas survived the last mountain battle and will ride into Madrid as the overall winner. Mikel Landa can still […]

Québec Race Report: Remco Evenepoel made a winning return to racing at the 2026 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, beating Giulio Ciccone in a two-man sprint after a fast and furious finale in the Canadian city. Anthon Charmig completed the podium after helping drive the decisive late move. Remco Evenepoel is back—and back on the […]

Vuelta Stage Report: Eddie Dunbar produced a perfectly timed comeback on the Alto de Peñas Blancas to win Stage 19 of the 2026 Vuelta a España. The Irishman clawed his way back to Santiago Buitrago inside the final kilometre before powering past the Colombian to take his third career Vuelta stage victory. Behind, race leader […]

Pez Fans, welcome to Gear Break: Fall’s Calling. And fall is not leaving a voicemail. The sun is dipping earlier every day now. The mornings have a bit of a chill to them. We are into that stretch of the calendar nobody names well – not summer, not winter, just the long in-between. The industry […]

RACE REPORT:  The Vuelta a España is anything but decided, with two seriously tough mountain stages still waiting in the wings. But after today’s 32.1-kilometre individual time trial from El Puerto de Santa María to Jerez de la Frontera, Enric Mas has to like the look of his chances. The big question coming into Stage […]

It’s the all-new-format Thursday EuroTrash, Pez-friends! You’ll still find a week’s worth of race, racer and racing news fresh on your digital doorstep on Monday mornings (here in North America, at least), but Thursdays are about tapping the collective cycling zeitgeist; we spend a week listening so you can spend a morning reading, considering — […]

VUELTA’26 STAGE 17: Matthew Brennan has done it again. The young British sprinter blasted past Magnus Cort and Jordi Meeus in Seville to claim his fifth stage victory of this Vuelta a España—and Visma | Lease a Bike’s seventh. Wout van Aert once again played the model teammate, collecting more points for his green jersey […]

Enric Mas leads a close Vuelta, but a tight general classification does not automatically produce exciting racing. As professional cycling considers another reform initiative, The Outer Line examines whether a salary or points cap could control the superteams—and what cycling should learn from the NBA’s Kawhi Leonard case and LIV Golf’s spectacular financial failure.   […]

VUELTA’26 STAGE 16: Matthew Brennan made it four wins at the 2026 Vuelta a España with another crushing sprint victory at La Rábida. Wout van Aert delivered another dream lead-out, and the 21-year-old Brit finished the job with daylight behind him. Bryan Coquard took second, Vito Braet was third, and Van Aert still managed sixth […]

Tour’26 Photo Gallery: Today we bring you photographer John Thomson’s final 2026 Tour de France photo gallery. As always John has made a great selection from Paris and the Thonon-les-Bains time trial with those pics we love. *** You can see John Thomson’s TDF’26 Gallery Part 1 HERE and John’s TDF’26 Gallery Part 2 HERE. […]

Friends, EuroTrash is a-changing — at least, the Thursday version will. Don’t worry: Every Monday morning you’ll still be able to catch up on all the cycling news, from Grand Tours to obscure races, to transfers, injuries, signings, social media gaffes…all the news we fanboys (and girls) like to keep up on. Then on Thursdays, […]

VUELTA’26 STAGE 15: Wout van Aert put his stamp on the 81st Vuelta a España once again, making the decisive move, controlling every late attack and then crushing the five-man sprint in Córdoba. Alessandro Romele finished second, with Thibau Nys third, as Van Aert collected his second stage victory in three days and put an […]

Mont Ventoux, “the Giant of Provence,” is an isolated mountain that has featured in the Tour de France 19 times since 1951.  Noted for its relentless slopes and often harsh weather, it attracts some 100,000 cyclists each year willing to test themselves on its iconic roads. A new YouTube short documentary, “Six Ways Home,” tells […]

VUELTA’26 STAGE 14: Marco Brenner delivered Tudor Pro Cycling its first-ever Grand Tour stage victory with a perfectly judged win atop the Sierra de la Pandera. The German was the only rider able to match Santiago Buitrago’s final attack before beating the Colombian over the last uphill metres. Behind them, red jersey Enric Mas and […]

VUELTA’26 STAGE 13: Wout van Aert claimed his first victory of this Vuelta a España with a perfectly timed late attack and a commanding two-up sprint against Valentin Paret-Peintre. Matthew Brennan did a mountain of work to set up his Visma | Lease a Bike leader, then still had enough left to win the chase-group […]

Gear Break is back, even though the GOAT’s out of la Vuelta. Tadej had to abandon, so we worked extra hard to bring you good news on the gear front. Out of the gate, Scott just released their next generation Addict Gravel bike, and right behind that comes the newest gravel wheels from Miche with […]

VUELTA’26 STAGE 12: Jakob Omrzel scored the biggest victory of his young career at the Calar Alto Observatory, surviving a massive breakaway before riding everyone off his wheel on the final climb. Behind the young Slovenian, race leader Enric Mas once again proved the strongest of the GC contenders, taking another chunk of time from […]

POVEC C1 REVIEW: Photochromic cycling glasses change tint automatically, but they can take time to react. The $249 POVEC C1 takes a different approach, letting the rider switch between lighter and darker tint in about one second with a swipe of a finger. After group rides, a 117-mile day and Bend singletrack, we found the […]