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2 weeks ago | 
escapecollective.com | Caley Fretz
The rugged mountains of Leogang, Austria played host to a dramatic fourth round of the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series, where torrential conditions transformed the elite cross-country Olympic (XCO) races into a mud-caked battleground.
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2 weeks ago | 
escapecollective.com | Caley Fretz
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3 weeks ago | 
escapecollective.com | Caley Fretz
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4 weeks ago | 
escapecollective.com | Caley Fretz
You can point at all sorts of tactical mistakes, starting with letting Wout van Aert into the breakaway without a UAE rider alongside him, but the true sin of the final mountain stage of the Giro d'Italia was simpler, and far more damning: UAE didn't fight for the win at all. It was strange. Embarrassing, even, after a month where 'fight' was the best word to describe Isaac Del Toro's efforts.
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4 weeks ago | 
escapecollective.com | Caley Fretz
This is it, the actual bike Keegan Swenson will ride at Unbound on Saturday. Probably. There have been two versions of a Swenson-ready Santa Cruz Stigmata floating around Emporia this week, one with a Rockshox Rudy suspension fork, which he raced on last year, and then this one, which we've been reliably informed will be the go-to on race day this year.
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1 month ago | 
escapecollective.com | Caley Fretz
Grand Tours are always a gamble. Back in the faraway times of a week ago, UAE Team Emirates-XRG offered up a shrug and a slogan: The road will decide who leads this race. Between the precocious Isaac Del Toro and the ever-poised Juan Ayuso, the team had two podium threats, maybe even two potential winners. Why not let the legs sort it out? For two weeks, they made the Giro look easy. Del Toro rode like a seasoned champion. Juan Ayuso hovered confidently nearby.
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1 month ago | 
escapecollective.com | Caley Fretz
Welcome to Daily News, your roundup of news items from across the world of cycling. We keep this post updated throughout the week so that you can stay informed on all things bike racing, tech, industry, culture, advocacy, and more. Here is what is making the headlines this week, and here's last week's edition ...
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1 month ago | 
escapecollective.com | Caley Fretz
Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) proved once again why he's the form rider of this Giro, muscling his way to a hard-fought sprint victory in Vicenza on stage 13. It was his fourth win of the race, and arguably the most difficult, coming at the end of a selective, attritional stage that saw multiple GC flashpoints and a chaotic final chase. Pedersen surged from behind in the uphill finale, narrowly holding off Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) in a drag race to the line.
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1 month ago | 
escapecollective.com | Caley Fretz
It's difficult to overstate how much the final stage of the Tour de France has meant to road cycling's collective mythology. It has served as both exclamation mark and champagne toast, a day where sprint legends launched, where yellow jerseys cruised toward destiny, and where, for once, the tension of a three-week battle gives way to ceremony. That will change in 2025. ASO is trading tradition for spectacle. How do we feel about that? And how hard will the course actually be? How hard is it?
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1 month ago | 
escapecollective.com | Caley Fretz
On a rain-slicked course into Pisa, the Giro d'Italia's general classification began to take shape. Stage 10 delivered time gaps, tension, and, perhaps most significantly, a clearer picture of who's really leading UAE Team Emirates-XRG. The time trial itself belonged to Lidl-Trek's Daan Hoole, who surprised himself and thanked the weather gods to take a well-earned stage victory.
