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Skye Davidson Opened The 2026 World Championships On A Borrowed Bike Exposing Cycling’s Unequal Playing Field

The World Championships officially started with her. Then everyone else showed up on frames worth more than her country's federation budget.

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Three New York Cyclists Were Killed In Three Days. All Hit-And-Runs. The Pattern In The Crash Reports Is The One Every US City Is Ignoring.

Paulina Tec Choch, Angelo Camara, Mamadou Diallo. Bike deaths in New York are up 70 percent this year.

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After 23 Years of Silence, Shimano Just Nuked Your SPD-SL Cleats and Bet the Farm on a 2.3 mm Move

The new SPD-SLR platform lowers stack height by 2.3 mm, cuts cleat weight by 22%, drops the engagement angle from 15.5 degrees to 10.5, and refuses to talk to a single one of the SPD-SL cleats sitting in your workshop drawer.

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Worlds 2026 Montreal Preview: The Five Climbs That Decide The Rainbow Jersey Now That Pogačar Is Out

A 273.2 km punishment course, twelve laps of Mount Royal, and 3,720 m of climbing. Here is what the race actually looks like and who inherits the biggest opportunity of the decade.

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3,720 Metres Of Climbing In 273 Kilometres: Why The Montreal Worlds Course Is Harder Than Any Grand Tour Stage This Year

Twelve laps of Mount Royal, five real climbs per lap, and a false-flat finish. The numbers say this is a Grand Tour queen stage disguised as a one-day race.

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Chinese Brand Pardus Just Launched a 6.7 kg UCI-Legal Race Bike in Europe for Half the Colnago Price

A Shimano Ultegra Di2 build weighing 6.7 kg with integrated cockpit and carbon-spoke wheels. The Colnago equivalent Tadej Pogacar races retails at €11,000. The value math has broken.

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Why Do Cyclists Wear Half-Finger Gloves?

A 2003 study followed 25 cyclists across a 600 km ride. Twenty-three finished with motor or sensory nerve symptoms in their hands. Half-finger gloves are the cheapest fix on the market, if you buy the right padding.

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Why Every Cyclist Over 6'4" Has Been Riding the Wrong Bike, According to Canyon's Lead Gravel Engineer

Canyon's LeBron James project exposed a truth the industry has been quiet about for years. When you scale a frame, the loads don't scale with it. And almost no production bike solves that.

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Canyon Just Built LeBron James a One-Off Gravel Bike. The Real Story Is What It Means for 32-Inch Wheels.

The 32-inch wheel debate has been simmering in gravel for two years. Canyon just committed carbon layup R&D to it and handed the first bike to a 6'9" NBA icon.

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Couple Completes Record-Breaking 18,000-Mile Ride Around the World

Amy and Kyle Hudson crossed the finish line in Derbyshire on September 2, having beaten the previous couples record for cycling around the world by 81 days. The story of how they did it, without killing each other, is stranger than the numbers.