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Photo gallery: Highlights from the 2015 Ronde van Drenthe

March 16, 2015

Jolien d’Hoore (Wiggle Honda) outsprinted a field of fast finishers at Ronde van Drenthe to take the biggest win of her career. The Belgian national champion made the most of the perfectly executed lead-out by her Wiggle Honda teammates Chloe Hosking, Elisa Longo Broghini and Audrey Cordon to pull on the World Cup leader’s jersey […]

How Andrea Guardini is getting his mojo back

March 14, 2015

When he burst on the pro scene in 2011, clocking up 11 UCI victories in his debut year as a 21 year old, it appeared that cycling had found a new star sprinter. Earning comparisons with Mark Cavendish’s own debut year and having a similarly aero sprinting style, many predicated that Andrea Guardini was set […]

My Story: I crashed spectacularly at Drentse 8

March 14, 2015

The story at Molecaten Drentse 8 should have been Giorgia Bronzini’s win. The Wiggle Honda rider won an eight-up sprint from a late race breakaway group that formed over the finishing circuit in Dwingeloo. The two strongest teams of the spring season to date, Boels-Dolmans and Rabo Liv, missed out on the break but inexplicably […]

My First Race - Part 2

March 13, 2015

No matter where you are in the world, if there’s bike racing going on there are great stories to tell. For the girls and guys that race, or have raced at any stage of their lives, the memory of their very first bike race is likely to be a strong one. You personally may have […]

Inside the business of women’s cycling: Until it’s profitable, wages are lacking

March 13, 2015

Salaries amongst the professional cyclists have proven a popular topic on CyclingTips. We’ve talked about factors that determine a rider’s wage and the ways in which the UCI minimum wage is broken - yet both of these articles focused only on the men’s peloton. What about the women? We set out to explore the salary […]

Jack Haig’s Diary: an introduction

March 13, 2015

Throughout the 2015 season Orica-GreenEdge signee Jack Haig will be writing diary entries for CyclingTips about his experience as part of the Jayco-AIS World Tour Academy squad. As Jack writes in this intro, he’s just moved back to Italy ahead of the European season; his final season before joining the WorldTour ranks with Orica-GreenEdge later […]

The bikes of Langkawi

March 12, 2015

CyclingTips’ roving reporter Dave Everett is currently over at the Tour de Langkawi in Malaysia following the race for CT. He sent back the following gallery of images showing some of the interesting bikes and bike setups on show at the 2.HC race. Over the past few years we’ve published a few nice galleries (if […]

Why Trek used velodrome testing to prepare for the Paris-Nice uphill time trial

March 12, 2015

The 2015 edition of Paris-Nice is currently in progress with the race set to finish on Sunday with an individual time trial up the Col d’Eze just outside of Nice. That final stage will almost certainly decide the race overall so it makes sense that teams have been preparing specifically for it. But doing that […]

Scott Addict 20 and Team Issue review

March 11, 2015

After a short hiatus, the Addict returned to Scott’s road range in 2014. The frameset was re-designed to offer more compliance than the original Addict while continuing as a lightweight chassis. In this review, CTech editor Matt Wikstrom rides the 2015 Addict and compares the mid-priced Addict 20 with the high-end Team Issue bike.

Strade Bianche in photos

March 10, 2015

Three-time cyclocross world champion Zdenek Stybar (Etixx-Quick-Step) took the biggest classics win of his career after proving strongest from a three-man battle that emerged at the front of the race with 12 kilometers remaining over the white roads of Tuscany. Stybar powered away from Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) with a superb show of […]