Jim Cotton

1 week ago | velo.outsideonline.com | Jim Cotton

The UCI thought the prototype TymeWear breathing sensor packed so much performance potential that it considered banning them. Well now, this “transformational” tool has been refined and reformulated in collaboration with Visma-Lease a Bike and made available for pre-sale. So what earns the Tymewear VitalPro the scrutiny of cycling’s governing body and the explosive tagline? In short, it puts laboratory-level insight directly onto your handlebars.

1 week ago | velo.outsideonline.com | Jim Cotton

Cobbles? Who needs them when Tadej Pogačar, Demi Vollering, and the returning Remco Evenepoel and Elisa Longo Borghini will be lining out for the tarmacked steeps of Brabantse Pijl and Amstel Gold Race. In fact, these opening rounds of the hilly classics welcome possibly the deepest startlists of the season to their dizzyingly complex, vert-packed parcours.

1 week ago | velo.outsideonline.com | Jim Cotton

Organizers of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games confirmed a wildly iconic Venice Beach startline for its cycling road races. Known for its collision of hipster vibes and cultural expression, the Venice Beach neighborhood will host Olympic road race, triathlon, and marathon events. “As the host city for the 2028 Games, Los Angeles will become only the third city in the history of the world to host the summer Olympics three times.

1 week ago | velo.outsideonline.com | Jim Cotton

The UCI revealed Wednesday the detail of a disgustingly hard loop for the road race events of a 2027 combined “super worlds” in the French Haute-Savoie. The multi-discipline world championship event will be the UCI’s second running of a festival of cycling that brings together road, track, MTB, gravel, and more. Glasgow hosted a trial of the format in 2023 to wild success. The sprawling, ambitious concept is now expected to roll out every fourth year.

1 week ago | velo.outsideonline.com | Jim Cotton

It seems not even Pauline Ferrand-Prévot’s cobblestone trophy was enough to quell doubts about Gravaa and its groundbreaking tire pressure regulator. Reactions out of PFP’s sensational Gravaa-equipped stunner at Paris-Roubaix Femmes deflated some of the hype from the system’s blockbuster day on the bone-jarring pavé. Of course, the headline reaction from Ferrand-Prévot? Tire pressure regulators FTW.