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Five cool things coming soon from Giant, Giro, 100%, Wearwell and Ritchey

Another week, and another quintet of kit and gear that our reviewers are testing at the moment...

UCI suspends Astana sports director who almost hit Tour de Yorkshire marshal

50-day suspension and 5,000 Swiss Francs fine for Lars Michaelsen following dramatic incident caught on camera

Video: Sam Bennett wheelies up the Zoncolan at the Giro d’Italia

Bora-Hangrohe's Irish sprinter was the last rider up the mountain - but he put on a crowd-pleasing show

Giro d’Italia: Simon Yates makes it a hat-trick of stage wins and extends lead

Race leader has advantage of more than 2 minutes over Tom Dumoulin ahead if Tuesday's time trial

Ian To abandons Land’s End to John O’Groats record attempt

37-year-old was 25 hours into attempt and had covered more than half the 840 miles when he was forced to stop

Giro d’Italia Stage 14: Simon Yates narrowly fails to reel in Chris Froome after gruelling battle on the Zoncolan

Yates increases lead over Dumoulin, Froome rises to fifth

Giro d’Italia Stage 13: Elia Viviani ahead of Sam Bennett (+ video)

No change in the general classification

Neymar riding custom Scott Foil Disc in race to be fit for World Cup

The Brazil and Paris Saint-Germain ace is cycling himself back to full fitness, with a big helping hand from a top-of-the-range Scott Foil Disc in custom colours

Video: Lars Boom disqualified from Tour of Norway for punching another rider

Bish bash Boom

Giro d’Italia: Sam Bennett wins in the rain at Imola, Simon Yates maintains overall advantage

First Irish to win two Giro stages since Stephen Roche in 1987 ... and the points competition is hotting up

Giro d’Italia: Simon Yates doubles up to tighten grip on pink

Defending champion Tom Dumoulin finishes second in Osimo, Chris Froome dropped again

Giro d’Italia: Matej Mohoric wins Stage 10, Simon Yates extends lead

Longest stage of this year's race sees Esteban Chaves crack, Tom Dumoulin moves into second place

Video: Mike Cotty rides Mallorca’s ‘sunset’ mountains

Latest Col Collective film sees Cotty head up into the Serra de Tramuntana

First look: Road Grand Tours, a new virtual training simulator

Thought the only computer game-style virtual cycling simulator began with a Z? That's set to change, with Road Grand Tours promising a realistic experience that's currently free in its Beta phase of development...

Five cool things coming soon from Shimano, Miche, Cateye, Vel and Northwave

Some more gear we're testing out to the max at the moment before the road.cc verdicts are delivered...

Chris Froome says he’ll take the rest of the Giro d’Italia one day at a time

Team Sky star reflects on disappointing opening to race on today's second rest day

British cyclist smashes Pan American Highway record after learning of royal wedding invitation

Dean Stott changed plans to complete 14,000-mile ride in 110 days after learning of invitation to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s big day

Giro d’Italia Stage 9: Simon Yates wins to extend lead, Chris Froome fades

Mitchelton-Scott rider puts more time into rivals ahead of second rest day

Mark Beaumont targets Penny Farthing Hour Record at Herne Hill Velodrome

Scot will aim to beat 1886 record of 22 miles 150 yards as part of next month’s World Cycling Revival

Giro d’Italia Stage 8: Richard Carapaz takes Ecuador’s first Grand Tour stage victory as Froome avoids time losses following late fall (+ video)

Closing kilometres completed in torrential rain

Leigh Timmis to make across Europe world record attempt in September

Sean Conway set new unsupported world record yesterday

Simon Yates among those taken aback by “pitch black” tunnels in closing kilometres of stage seven of the Giro d’Italia

Racing through the dark

road.cc recap: ten of our favourite stories this week

Some highlights from across the site after another week on two wheels

Giovanni Visconti hit braking team car while riding at 60km/h

Italian escaped relatively unscathed and is continuing in the race

Giro d’Italia Stage 7: Simon Yates retains overall lead as Ireland’s Sam Bennett takes first Grand Tour stage win (+ video)

Elia Viviani second

Live blog: China are drowning in bikes, UK pothole epidemic “a national embarrassment”, Giro stats and more

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Giro d’Italia Stage 6: Simon Yates takes race lead as team-mate Esteban Chaves takes stage (+ video)

1-2 for Mitchelton-Scott

Nacer Bouhanni reportedly involved in another violent confrontation – this time with his own sporting director

Cofidis seemingly growing weary of star sprinter and his lack of success

Giro d’Italia: Enrico Battaglin wins Stage 5, Rohan Dennis keeps overall lead

LottoNL-Jumbo rider takes third career stage win in home Grand Tour

Ekoi release Perso Evo 9 shades, “the world’s first four in one sunglasses”

The ever-evolving French brand have launched shades that are fully customisable, with the upper and lower parts of the frames removable and lenses courtesy of Zeiss