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Strong Friendships Might Be Your Best Anti-Ageing Tool
Cyclists often judge ageing by familiar markers: slower climbs, a higher resting heart rate, a stubborn FTP. A new study suggests we should also pay attention to something less obvious but just as powerful for health: the strength of our relationships. The people you ride…
Indoor Cycling Personalities, Ranked by Chaos
Indoor cycling strips away the distractions of nature, conversation, and wind. What remains is pure, unfiltered chaos. Magnified by a fan that sounds like a jet engine and a towel that gave up two intervals ago.
Winter Riding: The Science of Being Slow in Winter
If you feel slow on the bike in winter, you are not alone, and you are not suddenly out of shape. The cold changes how your body, your bike and even the road behave. Let’s take a closer look at why winter riding feels so…
Why Is Everyone Suddenly Training Like a Pro?
It starts innocently. Someone mentions a training block. Another casually drops their HRV score like it’s small talk. Before you know it, your group chat is full of lactate thresholds, recovery metrics, and arguments about the correct zone for threshold work (Zone 3? Zone 4?…
Same Old, Same Old: Van der Poel, Brand Win Benidorm World Cup
Mathieu van der Poel wasn’t going to race at Benidorm on Sunday, but his friends talked him into it, and Lucinda Brand was coming off two straight defeats, so she had something to prove. But whatever the motive, the two dominant cyclocross riders of the…
Rüegg Outlasts UAE Team ADQ to Win Tour Down Under Again
The combination of defending champion Noemi Rüegg and reigning road race world champion Magdeleine Vallieres (both EF Education–Oatly) proved too much for their rivals on the deciding third, and final lap, of the Santos Women’s Tour Down Under, which was decided by the final climb…
Narváez, Vine Lead UAE at Santos Tour Down Under, While Rüegg Is Favoured to Repeat
The WorldTour season begins more or less officially on January 17, with the first stage of the Santos Women’s Tour Down Under, raced over a slightly lumpy course in and around the Australian town of Willunga. All 14 WorldTour teams are taking part for the…
The Best Heated Socks and Heated Insoles for Cycling
There’s a reason why the saying “getting cold feet” indicates last-minute fear of doubt, as one would be foolish to carry on in such an uncomfortable state. And as you’re likely already aware, cold feet have a special way of ruining an otherwise great ride.…
Why Can’t Indoor Trainers Compensate for Real-World Experience?
Indoor cycling is the next best thing to outdoor cycling. I mean, when it’s -15°C with a snow blizzard trying to bury your town, riding outside is, let’s say, not very wise. Indoor cycling offers an excuse-free alternative. Something that won’t allow you to whine,…
Did You Think Training Spends Your Heartbeats? New Research Says It Saves Them
There is a long-standing idea that exercise must be wearing out the heart by burning through our lifetime supply of heartbeats. It sounds logical. Push hard on a climb, and the heart surges into the red. Do that several times a week for years and,…
Visma–Lease Bike Targets Grand Tours and Classics to Get Back on Top
After Jumbo-Visma won all three Grand Tours in 2023, still the only team to have accomplished that feat, the two years after that were letdowns for its successor, Visma–Lease a Bike, primarily due to the injuries suffered by its two superstars, Jonas Vingegaard and Wout…
January Goals Ranked by How Fast You’ll Abandon Them
Ah, January. A time for fresh starts, bold plans, and lying to ourselves in our ride journals. If you haven’t set at least one cycling goal you’ll completely abandon by the 20th, are you even a cyclist?