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From the MotoGP race track to your bike ride, HJC’s record-breaking cycling helmets are built to protect

Trusted to make helmets that need to be effective for MotoGP pros riding at 150mph, HJC know a thing or two about head protection. Here's how HJC's motorsport know-how informed their approach to cycling helmets

The most obscure sponsors of the pro cycling peloton April 2025

The most obscure sponsors of the pro cycling peloton — from crypto to state-backed funding, we dive deeper into some of cycling’s more peculiar patrons

From Tadej Pogačar's world champ's kit advertising a mysterious AI start-up with 14 Instagram followers, to Scandinavian service stations and breeding tubes for cows — the glamorous world of professional cycling will take money from just about anywhere

Cycling brands loved by the pros that you might not have heard of — carbon chainrings, custom parts, bespoke clothing + more as used by the world’s best

Sometimes pro cyclists can be quite pernickety, which means securing the services of more obscure brands and manufacturers beyond regular sponsors. Here's a selection used in the current pro peloton

“With Remco, we’ve probably blown 20 hours of wind on him” — Castelli’s Steve Smith on kitting out the pros and the evolution of cycling clothing

The concept of aero clothing in cycling has progressed rapidly in recent years, but it turns out the most cutting-edge kit it is still only reserved for the riders at the very top

Can the Van Rysel RCR Pro become one of the most successful bikes on cycling’s WorldTour? The story behind 2024’s most talked about road bike

We go behind the scenes at Van Rysel to see what went into developing arguably the most exciting road racing bike released this year

Jonas Vingegaard, 2022 Tour de France stage 20 ITT (Zac Williams/SWpix.com)

Becoming a father could negatively impact professional road cycling performance, finds research

The deteriorating performance could be as much as the difference between finishing seventh and eighth in the Tour de France general classification

Tour de France 2020 Pogacar Yellow Colnago 2

10 things you (mostly) only see on pro race bikes

A pro race bike might look the same as the one you can buy in the shops, but there are some subtle (and not so subtle) differences that mark them out

Dutch women’s cycling rocked by sexual abuse and harassment allegations

Dutch pro cyclist Marijn de Vries raised concerns in newspaper column

UCI announces World Ranking for men’s road cycling

New UCI World Ranking comes days after ASO announcement to remove its races, including the Tour de France, from UCI WorldTour series

Want to see more women’s cycling on TV? There’s a Kickstarter for that…

Can you pledge a few pounds to get a women's cycling TV show off the ground? Read on...