Adam Becket

1 week ago | cyclingweekly.com | Adam Becket

We are a week away from the Giro d'Italia, and the first names on the start list are being announced. The opening team to be named is Ineos Grenadiers, who will be led by former winner Egan Bernal and Dutch climber Thymen Arensman, who has twice finished sixth on GC. The pair will be joined by Brandon Rivera, Lucas Hamilton, Josh Tarling, Jonathan Castroviejo, Ben Turner, and Kim Heiduk, with Tarling eyeing up the two individual time trials as opportunities for stage wins.

1 week ago | cyclingweekly.com | Adam Becket

La Vuelta FemeninaSunday 4 - Saturday 10 MaySpainWith the spring Classics complete, attention turns to stage racing, and Grand Tour racing more than anything else. It isn't the men's Giro d'Italia that kicks it off, but instead the women's Vuelta a España - La Vuelta Femenina. It started life as the Madrid Challenge by La Vuelta, but is now very much a stage race in its own right, in its third year proper.

2 weeks ago | cyclingweekly.com | Adam Becket

This article is part of a series called ‘A love letter to…’, where Cycling Weekly writers pour praise on their favourite aspects of cycling. The below content is unfiltered, authentic and has not been paid for. I am not built like a natural climber. I'm not light, for a start, and that's not going to change any time soon. My torso is longer than my body, and I don't have the grace of some of my friends, who seem to nip up ascents.

2 weeks ago | cyclingweekly.com | Adam Becket

There was a faint whiff of coconut as I cycled along the roads of the Highlands of Scotland at the weekend. It wasn’t an interesting scented shampoo, or an odd choice of drink while on the bike, but instead the endless gorse which carpets much of the land up there. It was one of many reminders that I might not have required my passport, but I was in a very different place to my usual riding around Bristol, in south-west England.

2 weeks ago | cyclingweekly.com | Adam Becket

A daily intermediate sprint at the Giro d'Italia for bonus seconds will be known the Red Bull KM this year, with the energy drink giant sponsoring the competition. The Giro's organisers, RCS, have sold this as a "groundbreaking" new feature, but it is in effect an intermediate sprint for bonus seconds on GC.