EMPORIA, Kansas (May 30, 2026) — Mads Würtz Schmidt and Sofía Gómez Villafañe conquered mud, mechanicals and late-race pressure Saturday to win the Life Time UNBOUND Gravel 200 presented by Shimano. Gómez Villafañe won the women’s race from a five-rider sprint on Commercial Street and retained her lead in the Life Time Grand Prix Series. In […]

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The second week of the 2026 Giro d’Italia arrived with chaos, attrition, and the first true mountain battles of the race. Jhonatan Narváez continued his remarkable comeback with two stage victories for UAE Team Emirates XRG, while Jonas Vingegaard finally unleashed his climbing legs on the slopes of Blockhaus and Corno alle Scale. Yet despite […]

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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — Professional endurance cyclist Hannah Otto has built a career on pushing beyond the edge of what most riders consider possible. This October, the Salt Lake City-based cyclist plans to take on her biggest challenge yet: a single-day bicycle ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. If successful, Otto will become the first known […]

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LIÉGE, Belgium (April 26, 2026) – The 10th edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège Femmes saw Demi Vollering (FDJ United-Suez) become the first three-time winner of the race as she attacked on the Côte de La Redoute and rode solo for 34km to the finish line. After also winning La Flèche Wallonne Femmes midweek, Vollering was again far […]

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LIÉGE, Belgium (April 26, 2026) – Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) proved again his current domination of professional road cycling by winning the 112th Liège-Bastogne-Liège, becoming the first rider in this century to get three straight victories in La Doyenne, and completing an outstanding spring in which he has won all Monuments at stake but Paris-Roubaix […]

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City to increase education and safety awareness for people biking, scooting and rolling BOULDER, Colorado (Apr 14, 2026) — Boulder is launching a spring safety and education campaign to support building a community culture of courtesy as more people share spaces on our streets when walking and using micromobility — smaller-scale travel choices like scooters, […]

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REDLANDS, California — The Redlands Classic was held from April 8-12, 2026. We present a stage by stage recap of the pro men’s and women’s races by Rebecca Reza with photos from Brian Hodes, VeloImages. Stage 1: Brunner, Ehrlich Take Opening Wins at Lake Perris Time Trial Eric Brunner (Project Echelon) and Emily Ehrlich (Virginia’s […]

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Old Bikes, New Lives: Park City’s Annual Bicycle Drive Sends Gear Where It Matters Most On May 2, 2026 the biking mecca of Park City will once again turn its passion for cycling into something far bigger than recreation. The nonprofit Village Bicycle Project (VBP) is hosting its 6th annual Spring Bike Drive—an event that […]

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Cycling West and Cycling Utah Magazine’s Spring 2026 Issue is now available as a free download (10 MB download). Pick up a copy at your favorite Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, Montana, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Northern California bike shop or other location. Or join to get a copy of our […]

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SCOTT Sports’ latest film, Infinite Pursuit, documents Otto’s 5:43:50 effort on one of cycling’s most demanding climbs. SCOTT Sports athlete Hannah Otto has set a new Mauna Kea Fastest Known Time, completing the iconic sea-to-summit route in 5:43:50. Her effort is documented in the new film, Infinite Pursuit: Hannah Otto vs. Mauna Kea, which captures […]

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2026 Paris–Roubaix Femmes Hauts-de-France • Denain to Roubaix • 143.1 km • 20 cobbled sectors April 12, 2026 — There is a pattern to Paris–Roubaix Femmes that has refused to bend to any force applied to it since the race’s first edition in 2021. Six editions have been held. Six different riders have won them. Six […]

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2026 Paris–Roubaix Hauts-de-France • Compiègne to Roubaix • 258.3 km • 30 cobbled sectors April 12, 2026 — The race was always going to make history. The only question, on the morning of April 12th in Compiègne, was whose history it would make. If Tadej Pogačar crossed the line first in the Vélodrome André Pétrieux, […]

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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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LIVE COVERAGE  By Stefan Schoofveldt, with additional reporting by Chatham George Paulson-Thomas and Claude Aurillac-Issoire  At seventeen minutes past midnight Eastern Time, Donald J. Trump posted to Truth Social that the Tour de France was very overrated. Thirty-four minutes later, he announced he was bringing back the greatest bike race the world had ever seen. […]

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Jasper Philipsen survives the chaos Van der Poel and Van Aert create, waits out the peloton’s clinical pursuit, and outsprints them all in Wevelgem. In Flanders Fields 2026 had everything — except the ending everyone expected. WEVELGEM, Belgium (29 MARCH 2026) — There is a particular cruelty built into the design of In Flanders Fields. […]

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LANDER, Wyoming (March 27, 2026) — Author and Cycling West contributor Dave Campbell announces the release of his debut memoir, Saddling Up to Ride in Cowboy Country, a compelling story that captures both a personal coming-of-age journey and the explosive growth of cycling in the United States during the 1980s. In the 1980s, America discovered cycling — and so […]

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KAYSVILLE, Utah (March 26, 2026) — The Utah Cycling Association announces that Ronnie Boutte will conclude his leadership role on the Board of Directors effective April 8, 2026. The Utah Cycling Association is the local association governing road racing in the state of Utah, plus southeast Idaho and Western Wyoming. Since Ronnie assumed leadership in […]

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WILMINGTON, Del. (March 25, 2026) — The LYCRA Company, whose stretch fibers are foundational to modern cycling apparel, has entered a prepackaged Chapter 11 restructuring process designed to eliminate more than $1.2 billion in long-term debt while maintaining uninterrupted operations for brands and riders. The company reached a restructuring support agreement with the overwhelming majority […]

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He crashed in Imperia, lost his team, and arrived in Sanremo having done the impossible anyway. Tadej Pogačar’s victory in the 117th Milano–Sanremo was not the one anyone had written for him. It was something considerably more than that. They had been talking about it since the autumn. Not about whether Pogačar would win Milano–Sanremo—the […]

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