Racing

Vuelta Stage 2: Nairo Quintana wins, Nicolas Roche in race lead

Six-man group gets away late on in stage, Ineos leaders Poels and Geoghegan Hart dropped

Dramatic video as team car crashes into wall ahead of Vuelta team time trial

Squeal of brakes as driver overshoots corner – but luckily no-one hurt

Burst paddling pool caused Jumbo-Visma’s Vuelta team time trial crash, says sports director (+ videos)

Child had been playing in pool half a kilometre away with water flowing downhill

Lopez in Vuelta lead as Astana win opening team time trial and Jumbo-Visma crash

Roglic and Kruijswijk lose 40 seconds to Colombian overall rival

Alessandro Petacchi handed two-year ban for blood doping

Italian becomes highest profile rider sanctioned as a result of Operation Aderlass investigation

Marcel Kittel retires from racing at the age of 31

German sprinter says he has "lost all motivation to keep torturing myself on a bike"

Schwalbe launch new Pro One and Pro One TT ‘Tubeless Easy’ tyres, and revamp entire road range for 2020

Schwalbe promise much easier mounting and the full lower rolling resistance, better durability and lower weight shebang on their new Pro One Tubeless Easy

UCI consultation reveals big teams snapping up best riders a turn-off for most fans

World cycling's governing body got more than 22,300 responses after asking how sport could be improved

Wind turbine tubes used to rebuild collapsed bridge on World Championships road race route

Thirsk-based company supplies 2.25-metre diameter tubes to help replace bridge swept away in July floods

Neil Campbell hits 174mph to become fastest man on a bike

Briton has said he may go on to try and beat Denise Mueller-Korenek's motor-paced world record

Italian legend Felice Gimondi dies at the age of 76

One of only three riders to win all three Grand Tours and the World Championships

Neil Campbell aiming to become fastest man ever on a bicycle this weekend

Essex-based architect who already holds European record will undertake attempt in North Yorkshire

Five cool things coming soon from Lezyne, Muc-Off, Galibier, Primal and BTR

Some more of the best bikes and tech we're testing at the moment, with full reviews coming soon...

Fiona Kolbinger’s Transcontinental Race kit list

The medical student who won the seventh edition of the Transcontinental overall at the first time of asking subtly shared a photo of a kit list on Strava before she set off. Here's what she was carrying...

Domenico Pozzovivo sustains broken arm, leg and ribs in training crash involving car

Bahrain-Merida rider was involved in collision at crossroads in Calabria and will mis Vuelta

10 Top cycling stories you might have missed this week

Some of the highlights from another action-packed week on two wheels in our road.cc recap...

National titles for both Backstedt sisters at National Youth and Junior Track Championships

Daughters of Paris-Roubaix winner Magnus Backstedt both won Gent-Wevelgem age group races earlier this year

Egan Bernal says preparation helped him relax during the Tour – “What could I do then? Just enjoy it and ride as fast as I could”

“During the Tour, the media talk about pressure, pressure, pressure, but if I'd started to think about that, maybe I wouldn't have ridden the same”

Katie Archibald applauds women’s tour of Scotland for not mimicking male sporting events

It will be the first race in history to have a women's version before a men's

Lotto-Soudal team doctor reveals Bjorg Lambrecht’s fatal injuries

Cardiac arrest was brought on by laceration to the liver which caused internal haemorrhage

Updated: Lotto-Soudal’s Bjorg Lambrecht dies after Tour de Pologne crash

22-year-old had been taken to hospital after crash during today's opening stage

Christina Mackenzie heads towards Forth Bridge on Land’s End to John O’Groats record attempt

Stirling Bike Club member is aiming to break record set by Lynne Biddulph 17 years ago

Great Britain’s worst railway station for cycle theft named

St Alban's City takes unwanted accolade - but scale of problem is understated

Elia Viviani wins Prudential Ride London-Surrey Classic

Deceunick-Quick Step's Italian rider outsprints Sam Bennett of Bora-Hansgrohe on The Mall

Geraint Thomas aims for World Championship time trial glory

Tour de France runner-up sets late season goal after a brief break from the bike post-Paris

Video: Kirsten Wild loses Prudential RideLondon Classique ‘victory’ after huge crash

Dutch rider was adjudged to have deviated from line - win instead goes to Lorena Wiebes

Mark Cavendish looking to end long wait for a win at the Tour of Poland

“It’s a bit of an unknown” he says about entering second half of the season without a Grand Tour in his legs

Chris Froome sets sights on next year’s Tour de France

Team Ineos riders said he “could barely even breathe” after surgery following his crash