Will Strickson

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Website Editor at Cyclist

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The 21 best photos from the Giro d'Italia 2025

3 weeks ago | cyclist.co.uk | Will Strickson

Some Grand Tours are better than others and the 2025 Giro d’Italia was one of the very best. It had absolutely everything all the way up to its stunning climax on the Colle delle Finestre, and then it even had some more in Rome the next day. Cappello. To make it even better, photographer Zac Williams was on terra firma capturing the action in picture form and his work is art worthy of the location.
The best photos from La Vuelta Femenina 2025

1 month ago | cyclist.co.uk | Will Strickson

Bike racing is brilliant isn’t it? Just when you were feeling disappointed that the full-gas, all-or-nothing racing of the Classics was over, Grand Tour season kicks off to take its place, with racing (almost) every day. Things got underway last week with La Vuelta Femenina, the women’s Vuelta a España, which was a seven-day race across northern Spain.
In the Drops: Quoc pro shoes, MVDP's overshoes, Apidura stem bag, Feedback Sports handy bit driver and the newsletter

1 month ago | cyclist.co.uk | Will Strickson

Buckle up, it’s Grand Tour season. La Vuelta Femenina kicked into gear yesterday with a Demi Vollering W on the summit finish to Lagunas de Neila, and the Giro d’Italia starts today in Albania with a lumpy finale. For everything you need to know for this year’s Giro we’ve got our main guide with the stage-by-stage preview, how to watch the race, the key climbs on the 2025 route, the favourites to win the maglia rosaand, most importantly, the official Cyclist predictions.
In the Lion’s den: Flanders ride with Johan Museeuw

2 months ago | cyclist.co.uk | Will Strickson

Imagine being called ‘the Dragon of Wales’. Imagine a passionate nation dishing out a nickname reflective of the flag they’re so proud to represent. The lion has been the symbol of Flanders for almost a thousand years and the flag covers the roadside at bike races in the Belgian region. Johan Museeuw is the Lion of Flanders. It even says so on the entrance to his house. Museeuw was given the nickname by Belgian reporter Michel Wuyts in the early 1990s.
Classic climb: Passo Manghen, the beast hidden by northern Italy's beauties

2 months ago | cyclist.co.uk | Will Strickson

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Paris-Roubaix tech gallery 2025: 1x chainrings, Cervélo Soloist and Gravaa tyre pressure adjuster

2 months ago | cyclist.co.uk | Will Strickson

Historically Paris-Roubaix can be a tough day out for team sponsors. Modifications galore, broken bikes, crumpled wheels, punctures ending races. Things have gotten a bit more sensible in recent years though, with the peloton embracing wider and tubeless tyres, the details tend to be more intricate.
Pro bike: Mathieu van der Poel's Paris-Roubaix 2025 Canyon Aeroad

2 months ago | cyclist.co.uk | Will Strickson

Mathieu van der Poel has now won Paris-Roubaix three times in a row. He’s absolutely unmatched in the modern era and only one win short of tying the all-time wins record, which you’d probably bet on him doing next year. Watching Van der Poel on the cumbersome cobbles of northern France is like watching prime Torville and Dean on the ice. Does he even know the road isn’t smooth?
Paris-Roubaix tech gallery 2025: 1x chainrings, Cervélo Soloist and Gravaa tyre pressure adjuster

2 months ago | cyclist.co.uk | Will Strickson

Historically Paris-Roubaix can be a tough day out for team sponsors. Modifications galore, broken bikes, crumpled wheels, punctures ending races. Things have gotten a bit more sensible in recent years though, with the peloton embracing wider and tubeless tyres, the details tend to be more intricate.
Tour of Flanders 2025 tech gallery: Negative angle stems and 30mm tyres

2 months ago | cyclist.co.uk | Will Strickson

Road bike races are the best when the roads are the worst, that’s a fact. And that means badly surfaced races are always hiding interesting bike technology and tweaks, even if modern road bikes are already comfortable enough to bounce over a cobble without a fuss (or puncture). So we sent photographer Xavier Pereyron behind the scenes at the Ronde van Vlaanderen – between getting photos of the race itself – to see what treasure he could find.
Pro bike: Tadej Pogačar's Tour of Flanders Colnago V4Rs

2 months ago | cyclist.co.uk | Will Strickson

Yes, it’s confirmed: Tadej Pogačar is very good at riding his bike. He won his eighth Monument and second Tour of Flanders this weekend in style, and was riding this, the Colnago V4Rs.While Pogačar has been spotted in the wild on what looks to be the V5Rs, he’s still racing the V4Rs for now and is giving it a pretty solid send-off.