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 Maynard Hershon — I believe that the good group training ride, perhaps especially the good club training ride, is where the heart of road cycling beats. It’s where riders are formed, where technique is learned, where friendships are made, where riders learn to look after one another.  It’s a world phenomenon, the group ride. […]

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Cycling West contributor and longtime cycling world commentator Maynard Hershon presents a new selection of stories, inspired by his years of riding both bicycles and motorcycles. The Dysfunctional Cycling Club and Other Stories is out with 50 of Maynard’s stories over 147 pages. Here are lessons from his passions, plus suggestions about your bike club. […]

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By Maynard Hershon — Your neighbors are moving further from their jobs. They commute further, one neighbor per vehicle, in larger and larger vehicles: trucks or SUVs. Once they drove VWs or Civics. Now they buy vehicles as if each time they drive they’re moving their homes, not merely their bodies. Because the freeways are […]

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By Steven Sheffield — Professional cycling’s spring season builds toward a series of one-day races that define careers and separate the merely great from the genuinely immortal. Among these, four stand apart — two rooted in the cobblestones and punishing climbs of Flanders, one in the rolling hills of the Dutch province of Limburg, and […]

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On Executive Order 260401, the return of the Tour de Trump, and what a sixty-metre hill in New Jersey tells us about the relationship between power, memory, and the indifference of mountains. By Claude Aurillac-Issoire Clermont-Ferrand, France (01 April 2026) Translated from the original French. My mother grew up in the shadow of the Puy […]

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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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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 Jennifer Blaine — When I still raced, my team went on a trip to Grand Junction, and a few teammates and I were out on a training ride near the Palisades. It was a two-lane road out near some orchards. It was a quiet Sunday afternoon, not much traffic and perfect weather for a […]

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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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By Dave Campbell Q1. American cyclist Matthew Riccitello finished the 2025 Vuelta Espana in fifth, but perhaps more importantly, won the white best young rider’s jersey. He is the first American to win this jersey at the Vuelta. He joins only three other Americans to win the “neophyte” jersey in a Grand Tour. Can you […]

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By Tom Jow — Lately I find myself around a lot of old bicycles. Really old. Not just ten or fifteen years, but twenty, thirty, and forty years old. Bicycles that I have seen, sold, repaired and owned. Seeing them brings up many memories. Places I went, how I rode, new technologies. Each bike was […]

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By Dave Campbell Test your knowledge this month on more trivial nuggets celebrating the greatest race in the world… Q1. For the past five years in the Tour de France, Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard have placed first or second, with Pogačar winning three in front of the Dane while Jonas took two ahead of […]

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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 Zak Podmore — In the early 1980s, southeastern Utah was targeted as a potential dump site for high-level nuclear waste, the kind that comes from nuclear reactors. The Department of Energy considered storing 8,000 tons of this highly radioactive material near Canyonlands National Park, boosting the idea as spurring “nuclear tourism.” Who wouldn’t want […]

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By Dave Campbell Q1. Mathieu van der Poel wore the yellow race leader’s jersey for four days this year. Earlier, this versatile rider had triumphed on the cobbles of “The Queen of the Classics,” Paris-Roubaix. When did a Roubaix winner last wear the Tour’s yellow leader’s jersey in the same season? It doesn’t happen that […]

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From the book of ROSSIN, 14:6: “He that regardeth the KOM, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the KOM, to the Lord he doth not regard it.” [Editor’s note: With many, many, many apologies to Henry van Dyke (1852-1933)] Are you willing to forget what you have done for other riders—like […]

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By Molly Marcello — I was high up on a cliff above Moab, Utah, as night was falling, and I couldn’t find my way back down. I became painfully aware that I didn’t have a headlamp, an extra layer as it got colder, and no cell service to call for help.  Hours earlier, I scrambled […]

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By Andrew Phillips, Esq. – The right hook happens when a motorist makes a right turn across the path of a cyclist who is riding in the same direction as the motor vehicle. In last month’s column, I discussed the Left Hook.  Another common and dangerous cycling vs car collision is the Right Hook.  By […]

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By Lee Waldman — Cyclocross season began here in Colorado on September 3. Normally I would be writing about what I’m looking forward to, what my goals are and what my plans are. I might even be dispensing some advice to the OGs who follow me. Advice focuses on what we can do as aging […]

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