A beautiful and a bit funny photo of the Italian cyclists Claudio Chiappucci & Gianni Bugno, in the early 1990s. Cycling kits, especially the early helmets look very different back then.
The 2021 edition of the Tour de France was concluded on July 18, Sunday with Slovenian Tadej Pogačar defending his title. At the end of the last stage, Eurosport connected to the International Space Station (ISS) and it turned out astronauts aboard the orbiting laboratory were watching the Tour de France live.
Small, lightweight, and adaptive: Blubrake ABS G2, the second-generation of the e-bike-specific anti-lock braking system by Blubrake that prevents front wheel lock and rear-wheel lifting, comes as a further step forward in the development of technologies applied to electric bicycles, for a new braking experience that makes no shortcuts in terms of safety.
Once again this year, Selle Italia will be alongside Maratona dles Dolomites-Enel: the Treviso-based company is ready at the starting line of one of the most loved and popular marathons, to celebrate 32 years of collaboration.
Imagine you begin pedaling from the start of Stage 17 of this year’s Tour de France. First, you would bike approximately 70 miles (112 km) with a gradual increase in elevation of around 1,300 feet (400 m). But you’ve yet to hit the fun part: the Hautes-Pyrénées mountains. Over the next 40 miles (64 km) you would have to climb three mountain peaks with a net increase of a mile (1.6 km) in elevation. On the fittest day of my life, I might not even be able to finish Stage 17 – much less do it in anything remotely close to the five hours or so the winner will take to finish the ride. And Stage 17 is just one of 21 stages that must be completed in the 23 days of the tour.
Team Qhubeka NextHash announces that the team partners with the iconic luxury fashion brand Burberry for the Tour de France 2021. The team also unveiled its new kit for 2021 edition of the French grand tour.
Amid the standstill caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a surge of cycling activity continues to be recorded. Cyclists all around the world accumulated 8.1 billion miles and elevation gain of 400 billion feet, according to Strava’s Year in Sport, covering October 1, 2019, to September 30, 2020.
Robert Marchand, the French centenarian cyclist and the hour record holder for the 100+ and 105+ age groups, died on May 22, 2021, at the age of 109, at a care facility in Mitry-Mory, France.
Santini Cycling Wear and the UCI are launching a new partnership with Belgian men’s lifestyle brand, ANTWRP which has created a collection of fashion wear featuring the rainbow motif. ANTWRP will be displaying the UCI lifestyle collection in its high street and online stores and also selling the merchandise line created by Santini for the UCI. Equally, the ANTWRP collection will also be available through Santini’s online store.
On a global scale, the average time spent sitting down is 4.7 hours each day, according to the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. Sitting down for too long every day has been linked to health issues. If you’re a cyclist who has a sedentary job, it’s important that you find what else can benefit you. But you may be pleasantly surprised to learn that cycling is a good antidote to the negative health consequences of sitting. So just how can it improve the effects of your sedentary job?