In Depth
Transfer merry-go-round: Ganna, Niewiadoma-Phinney and the moves reshaping the 2027 peloton
Lidl-Trek has bought heavily for both its teams, Netcompany INEOS is rebuilding, two ProTeams have taken WorldTour leaders and Fem van Empel is back. These are the men's and women's moves that will matter most next season, and what each one changes.
‘Soft, it's got gears’ – hedge fund founder Ewan Kirk on data, cycling’s changing industry and his £1,000 gravel bike
The Cantab Capital founder on Strava data, office Lego, being chased out of a Romanian village at knifepoint, his grandfather's Saturday rides to Loch Lomond, and why loving a cycling product is no reason to invest in it.
‘There are just too many brands’ – Madison CEO on cycling’s slump and uneven recovery
Dominic Langan sees improving sales and more upbeat retailers. But buying stock ahead of demand remains a costly risk, and he argues that too many similar products keep the industry returning to clearance sales.
'The biggest challenge I have faced in my life' – Inside one cyclist’s fight to walk, ride and win again
Reynolds remembers nothing of her first nine days in hospital and came close to quitting cycling in August. In an exclusive interview, she describes the recovery and crash anxiety she worked through before winning in France.
Introducing Race Atlas, 20 seasons of Grand Tour racing on one interactive map
Find stages near you, revisit a favourite edition or trace a climb’s racing history. Race Atlas brings men’s and women’s Grand Tours together through more than 1,270 mapped routes.
Women’s cycling is faster and better funded than ever. So why is the Grand Tour speed gap growing?
Investment, salaries and coverage have transformed the women’s peloton. An analysis of Grand Tour stages and World Championship time trials finds clear progress in speed, but no evidence of convergence with the men.
Show every kilometre first before adding more stages - What next for the Tour de France Femmes?
The nine-stage race already delivers close, aggressive racing. Better live coverage and wider free access offer a clearer route to growth than immediately stretching the format.
Pogačar broke Pantani's Alpe d'Huez record, but our equipment-adjusted model puts Pantani 14 seconds ahead
The record may have fallen, but our calculations still make Pantani the faster rider. Modern equipment is worth an estimated 97 seconds on Alpe d'Huez, enough to reverse the recorded gap.
Where we go from here - the five questions for the rest of the cycling season
La Vuelta offers one final Grand Tour prize, but the Canadian races provide a cleaner path to the World Championships. The decision will affect contenders, returning riders and UAE's plans for Isaac del Toro.
Inside the rulebook: why Pogačar and Vingegaard has overnight anti-doping tests, and what the rules really allow
Overnight controls disrupted the Tour leaders' sleep before stage 15. The timing looked extraordinary. Read against the actual rulebook and the science that shaped it, it was the system working exactly as designed, and the two best riders in the race are precisely the profile it is built to test hardest.
'I never considered myself a journalist' - Benji Naesen on creator journalism, independence and his letter from the UCI
From anonymous gaming videos to a sponsor-backed personal channel, Naesen’s career shows how direct audiences create new freedoms and new pressures in cycling media.
Life after Le Col: How Yanto Barker vibe-coded his next business
After a bruising exit from the cycling brand he founded in 2011, Barker used LLMs to go from not knowing what a terminal was to shipping a working app prototype in under four months.
The 2026 Tour de France stage guide: 21 stages, two Alpe d'Huez finishes, and exactly when to watch
From the Barcelona team time trial to back-to-back finishes on Alpe d'Huez, our stage-by-stage guide identifies when each day's racing becomes essential viewing. Use the interactive tool below to convert every key window to your timezone.
From the peloton to the people: Iris Slappendel's mission to build cycling's most welcoming brand
The former Dutch national champion launched IRIS in 2017 to make women's cycling kit she actually wanted to wear. Nine years later, the clothing may be the least important thing she sells.
We CT scanned a $20,000 Bastion Archetype to see what a superbike looks like on the inside
We took a $20,000 Bastion Archetype to one of the UK's most advanced CT facilities and looked inside. Flawless titanium lattice work, a secretly D-shaped steerer, honest bond lines – and a hidden crack that settles an old debate about cosmetic chips.
The UK has lost the free Tour de France, and I don't think highlights will fill the hole
With ITV gone and WBD's promised free-to-air product still undefined, a proposal for live companion audio coverage offers the clearest picture yet of the gap left by the Tour's move behind a paywall.
Lorena Wiebes’ 20-gram disqualification shows the UCI's minimum weight rule should be abolished
The UCI's 6.8kg bike weight limit was introduced in 2000. Twenty-six years later, it still carries an automatic expulsion for a margin smaller than a handful of tyre sealant.
The 2026 Giro d'Italia women stage guide: Nine stages, one queen climb, and the race for the maglia rosa
Nine stages from Cesenatico to Saluzzo, but only a handful will reshape the general classification. Here are the five watch windows that matter most, and the riders who will define them.
Build first, host later: the case against another Grande Partenza
The 2026 Giro became the race's 16th foreign start and its second in a row. The reason comes down to money, branding and diplomacy, but Bulgaria showed where that model starts to strain.
The 2026 Giro d'Italia stage guide: 21 stages, 8 that matter, and exactly when to watch
Twenty-one stages, seven summit finishes, a 42km time trial and a Dolomite queen stage among the hardest of the modern era. Here's the case for the eight days of the 2026 Giro d'Italia that will decide the race, with a stage-by-stage interactive tool to tell you exactly when to tune in.