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“Finishing ninth doesn’t move the needle for me”: Ben Healy is itching to attack the Tour de France… and a beer in the sun would be nice, too

Ben Healy walks through the automatic doors of his team’s air-conditioned beachfront hotel in Castelldefels, an affluent seaside town just south of Barcelona (where a certain Lionel Messi owns a mansion), and steps out into the blistering Catalan heat and blinding sunshine.“I want a beer,” Healy sighs, to no one in particular.The 25-year-old has just … Read more

SunGod Forty2s

The Forty2s are a pair of sunglasses that SunGod says are designed primarily for runners, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be cycling friendly, and the brand says they’ll be good for hiking, golf, watersports and skiing too. Their narrow frame and small lens flies in the face of the fashion for cycling shades that … Read more

Bikes that talk, roads that listen: is this new tech the future of cycle safety? Plus a VERY expensive watch and new bikes (and more) from Specialized, Canyon, Bianchi, Campagnolo, Prologo, MAAP…

With loads of brands rushing to get new products out in time for the start of the Tour de France, this could be the busiest week of the year in the cycling world, and we’ve included a couple of TdF-focused products in our round-up, including a limited-edition Bianchi, but we’re starting with something completely different: … Read more

12 cycling trends NOT to copy from the Tour de France pros — do we really need slammed stems, ceramic bearings and integrated everything?

The Tour de France is the world’s biggest bike race, where the fastest road riders come to battle it out. Last year, the 3,302km (2,058 miles) route was completed at an incredible average speed of 42.8kph, or about 26.6mph. So, if you’re looking to go faster or further on your bike, you might think that … Read more

Inspired choice or insanity? The risks and rewards of Paul Seixas riding the Tour de France

In the lobby of a plush beachfront hotel outside Barcelona, frequented throughout the day by excitable French journalists, Paul Seixas, still heavily bandaged from his crash at the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, relaxes with his family, 24 hours out from his first date with destiny.Two statistics sum up the enormity of Seixas riding the Tour de France … Read more

What is the team time trial at the Tour de France, and how has the format changed? Everything you need to know about the TTT ahead of the opening Tour stage in Barcelona

The team time trial (TTT) returns to the Tour de France as the opening stage of the race for the first time since 1971, with the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (the Critérium du Dauphiné to you and me) acting as a key dress rehearsal ahead of the Grand Départ in Barcelona. The TTT format is a little … Read more

Ventoux heroics, disc brakes, crashes, saddle complaints… memorable moments from Chris Froome’s (former) career

Having spent months in a strange vacuum, Schrodinger’s cyclist, neither professional nor retired, Chris Froome finally, formally drew the curtain on his career.The prompt was a question at a Q&A as part of his new job as Skoda’s latest brand ambassador. One suspects that, had he not been asked the question, he would have never … Read more

Is this the most predictable Tour de France of the decade? road.cc’s ‘expert’ panel might prove you wrong

My name is Tadej Pogačar, king of kings: Look on my works, Ye mighty and despair.If a certain Slovenian doesn’t win this year’s Tour de France, it will be a bigger story than if he does. His are not yet vast and trunkless legs, eroded by history into a distant past. Instead, this is living … Read more

This is what happens when a mountain biker designs their own custom titanium gravel bike

When I got the opportunity to design a completely custom gravel frame, I jumped at the chance. But all of a sudden the possibilities were well and truly endless, so here is the design I settled on and we’ll get into the what, why and how that surrounds my TiRf gravel bike. The frame is … Read more

Wimbledon parking chaos, Ant McPartlin’s Lime bike rage, free Santander Sunday rides + more

Welcome to another week in e-bikes! This edition is loosely about being sensible, whether you’re riding a hire e-bike to Wimbledon, getting irrationally annoyed by Lime bikes outside your gated house, drinking and riding, or vetoing a nonsensical safe-cycling bill.”Hundreds” of poorly parked e-bikes accumulate near Wimbledon Councillor Stuart Neaverson (Image Credit: London Borough of … Read more