On Friday afternoon, amid the deafening roar of 600,000 fans packed on a sinuous mountain road, Tadej Pogačar broke one of professional cycling’s most renowned, notorious records: Marco Pantani’s Alpe d’Huez climbing time.And not only did the Slovenian eclipse Pantani’s Alpe record – set in 1995, at the height of the EPO era, and by … Read more
Greg LeMond’s 1986 Tour de France-winning Look KG86 ended an unbroken line of winning steel-framed bikes that stretched back to the first edition in 1903. It was also a first for carbon fibre too, featuring carbon fibre tubes and aluminium lugs, joined together using aerospace glues. It was also the first bike that Look had … Read more
If you’re looking for a single bike for road riding, light touring and tackling rougher surfaces and light gravel then the Cube Nuroad Pro FE could well be worth casting your critical gaze over. The ‘FE’ part of the names indicates that it comes fully equipped – and it’s also very well set up. Its … Read more
Words and images James Startt:As I approach my 40th Tour de France, I really can’t tell you how many times I have climbed Alpe d’Huez, but a select few stand out.There was the first time, as a cyclist before a Tour stage in the early 1990s, when I was suddenly greeted by a tuba band … Read more
As anyone over the age of 50 will tell you, the UK manufacturing industry is not what it once was. While it’s true that a substantial portion of the bike industry’s carbon frames and components, computers and fabrics are imported, there’s plenty of road bike tech being developed right here in the UK. This feature … Read more
“Hey, hey, take my picture, please!” a man in orange, surrounded by other men dressed in orange, shouts in the direction of our group, which contains two photographers, as we disembark from the cable car that’s brought us halfway down cycling’s most iconic theatre, Alpe d’Huez.As we turn towards him, the man – a few … Read more
The final stage of the 2026 Tour de France has been shortened and will take place entirely in Paris due to the redeployment of policing forces to the south of the country where raging wildfires have led to the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people.The French government said today that 197,000 people have been … Read more
The Tour de France is just about to finish in Paris, but road.cc‘s Tech of the Week is where the action’s really at. We have loads of new products from brands like Shimano and Garmin, and the strangest aero components from the Transcontinental Race, but we’re kicking off with a new bike lock that’s proving … Read more
A spectator was treated by the Tour de France’s medical staff after being involved in an apparent collision with the driver of an EF Education-EasyPost team car in chaotic scenes on Alpe d’Huez.As hundreds of thousands of fans flocked to the iconic 13.8km ascent to see Tadej Pogačar solo to victory, smashing Marco Pantani’s 30-year-old … Read more
British Para-Cycling World Champion Daphne Schrager has been handed a two-year ban from competition following a lengthy anti-doping investigation that concluded she inadvertently ingested a banned substance and did not gain a performance advantage from it.In a lengthy Instagram post published earlier today, Schrager wrote that she tested positive for Ligandrol, an anabolic agent, in … Read more
