By Steven Sheffield — The Giro d’Italia is the most Italian thing in sport — and that is saying something. Founded in 1909 by La Gazzetta dello Sport, a sports newspaper that was struggling to survive and gambled its future on staging a race around the entire country, the Corsa Rosa has grown across more […]

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By Steven Sheffield — The Monuments and classics represent the oldest and most prestigious one-day races in professional cycling—contests that predate the Tour de France and have crowned champions for well over a century. From the cobbled brutality of Paris-Roubaix to the Ardennes hills of Liège-Bastogne-Liège, from the sprinter’s lottery of Milano-Sanremo to the autumn […]

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[Editor’s Note: With Tadej Pogačar winning his first race of the season at this past weekend’s Strade Bianche, it seems appropriate to have a look back at his 2025.] By Dave Campbell — Most cycling historians have long held Eddy Merckx’s amazing 1972 season as the greatest single year of performance in Professional cycling. Slovenian […]

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By Steven Sheffield — The Strade Bianche is cycling’s most cinematically beautiful race — a modern classic born from ancient roads, set against the burnt-sienna hills of Tuscany. While the great Monuments carry centuries of history, this race has conjured legend in less than two decades, earning a place in the hearts of cyclists and […]

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By Steven Sheffield — Every February and March, as the cobbles of Flanders emerge from winter’s grip, the cycling world turns its attention to Belgium for the most demanding stretch of the professional calendar. From the season-opening Omloop Het Nieuwsblad through the brutal bergs and windswept polders to the sacred Sunday of the Ronde van […]

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The 2026 UCI Cyclocross World Championships arrive in Hulst this winter, bringing the sport’s pinnacle event to a fortified Dutch town in Zeeland where land and sea have contested boundaries for centuries. Located near the Belgian border, Hulst will draw massive crowds from both nations—fitting for a sport whose identity has been shaped by Low […]

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By Dave Campbell — From 1975 through 1988, the premier American cycling event was the Coors International Bicycle Classic. Initially, it was a weekend event held in and around Boulder, Colorado, known as the Red Zinger and sponsored by the Celestial Seasonings tea company. Both paralleling and stimulating explosive growth in American cycling, the event […]

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The LoToJa Bicycle Classic is a 200-plus mile, one-day amateur bicycle road race from Logan, Utah to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It is always scheduled in September, the first Saturday after Labor Day, and attracts national and international participants. LoToJa is one of the longest one-day road cycling races in the U.S, and is the longest […]

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By Dave Campbell — After Greg LeMond won the World Road Championship in 1983, cycling interest in America reached a level not seen since the heyday of Major Taylor and the Six Days at Madison Square Garden. 1984 was to be the year of his Tour de France debut. CBS Sports covered the 1984 Paris-Roubaix […]

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The 1975 Tour de France and the end of cycling’s most ruthless dynasty By Steven L. Sheffield — In the summer of 1975, somewhere on a melting ribbon of Alpine asphalt four kilometers from the ski station of Pra-Loup, the most dominant athlete of his generation began to die a very public death. Behind Eddy […]

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By Dave Campbell – The 112th edition of the Tour de France begins July 5 in Lille and concludes July 27 on the Champs-Élysées. The men’s finish this year will be unique and perhaps favor spring classics specialists over sprinters as it will visit Montmartre and ascend the highest point in Paris, Rue Lepic three […]

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By Dave Campbell — It was mid-June of 1988, and I had just taken the last final of my freshman year at the University of Oregon and was strolling through the Student Union. My mind was on the packing I still had to do back in my dorm room before heading back to Wyoming when […]

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Name of artist: TJ Eisenhart About the artist: Utah born artist now living in SC, grew up with a strong love for racing bikes. When he turned 16 he was racing in Europe with Team USA. He signed with the U23 BMC racing team and raced in Europe for 4 years before racing 3 years […]

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What is Paris-Roubaix? This April will mark the 122nd running of the professional bicycle race known as “the Hell of the North” that seeks out every cobbled Napoleonic era cow path in Northern France before finishing…on a velodrome. Beautiful and historic? Torturous and soul crushing? The rider’s first “race” of the day is to get […]

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By Tamsin Johnson, Nottingham Trent University — Cycling, in its most familiar form, dates back to at least the 19th century. One example of an early bicycle was known as the “hobby horse”, and it later became the “Dandy horse” and then the “accelerator”. Early cycling was reserved for the upper-classes and was seen as […]

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By Dave Campbell — When I discovered the sport of cycling in 1981, the first race I learned about was of course the Tour de France. But the second? That was the World Championships, due in part perhaps to the performances of American Greg Lemond. His silver medal in the 1982 title race in Goodwood, […]

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An American Gold Rush By Dave Campbell — I discovered the sport of cycling in 1981 and had long enjoyed the Olympics. American cyclists at that point, however, had not won an Olympic medal since 1912! (1) George Mount finished an enormously promising sixth in road race at the 1976 Games in Montreal, which many […]

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By Dave Marston — If you don’t know much about the Iron Horse bike race that begins in the town of Durango in southwestern Colorado, know that it is brutal, pitting cyclists against a narrow-gauge train that takes an easy route up a valley. Riders, though, must climb a curvy route of 47 miles over […]

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By Charles Pekow — In addition to providing transportation and recreation, the bicycle has impacted culture historically. The difference it made, in all its incarnations over time is chronicled in a new mini-paperback simply entitled bicycle (with a small “b), written by cyclist Jonathan Maskit. The book is part of a series on Object Lessons […]

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By Dave Campbell — In the summer of 1984, I was fifteen years old and in my second year of serious bike racing. I was desperate to learn everything I could about this new sport that was still decidedly foreign to me and most of America. I was especially interested to learn about “our” progress […]

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