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2014 The Season in photos

We flounder with short attention spans through the buzz of viral content and modern culture, but with one instant captured in 1/1000th of a second you sometimes need to stop, drown in the image and absorb the moment. With so many of these moments in 2014 captured by our talented and dedicated photographers, we can look back at the pro cycling season and tumble […]

2014 What You Missed This Morning Photo Competition

The annual CyclingTips #WYMTM (What You Missed This Morning) photo competition is in its sixth year. What started out as an excuse to post some simple escapism photos has now become the most popular competition on the site (and beyond).

Road Bike Party 3

Trials and mountain-biking legend Martyn Ashton and GCN have delivered their new Road Bike Party 3. It is the first complete film in the series to be shot after Ashton’s 2013 accident, which left him paralysed from the waist down. Both of the previous Road Bike Party films were global phenomenons, going viral and racking […]

Avanti Racing Team: Middle-Earth and beyond…

The Avanti/Genesys/Praties team has been one of Australia’s most successful development squads and they’ve taken a new turn by registering the team in New Zealand. Aaron Lee speaks to Andrew Christie-Johnston about their strategy behind this decision as well as the new talent they’ve identified to help them achieve their goal of one day reaching […]

What factors determine pro cyclist salaries?

Three-week Grand Tours, week-long stage races, gruelling Classics and perhaps over 10,000 kilometres of racing per year. Professional cycling is undoubtedly one of the toughest sports around, if not the most difficult, but how much do riders earn for all that hardship? CyclingTips spoke to two rider agents about this topic, Paul de Geyter and […]

Why the Break was Made

Nearly every professional bike race features an hours-long, almost certainly doomed breakaway. The odds against this move are terrible, and yet riders always seem willing to make it. Why? Lots of reasons, it turns out. Cosmo Catalano explains. Copyrighted material has been used under Fair Use. If you are the copyright holder and believe your material has been […]

The Week in Bike #49 - The Doping Episode

It’s not really an entire episode about doping, kind of like how lots of doping stories aren’t really about drugs. But the topic does come up quite a bit. We hope you enjoy Cosmo Catalano’s latest episode of The Week in Bike.

Bikes of the Bunch: Colnago Super with Campagnolo 50th Anniversary groupset

In the final edition of Bikes of the Bunch for 2014 we feature a stunning Colnago Super that’s been built up with Campagnolo’s 50th Anniversary Groupset. It was put together as a Christmas present for a customer by FYXO and the company’s founder, Andy White, wrote the following piece about the project. Enjoy!

What makes the Austral Wheel Race so special?

This Saturday, the 20th of December, Melbourne will play host to 2014’s second running of the famous Austral Wheel Race – the first in 2014 was won by Japan’s Minori Shimmura on March 1st. Craig Fry’s piece for us back in March covered the history of the world’s oldest track race. In this follow up […]

Behind the scenes: live-streaming the Shimano SuperCrit with on-board cameras

Last Sunday, CyclingTips live-streamed the elite men’s race at the St. Kilda Cycling Club Shimano SuperCrit including live footage from on-board cameras. As far as we’re aware, it’s the first time on-board vision has been used for a live race broadcast anywhere in the world. It wasn’t perfect by any stretch, and we weren’t expecting […]