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Seven Takeaways Before Flanders: Arguably the best race on the cycling calendar – The Tour of Flanders – is this Sunday. Spencer Martin gives us his ‘Seven Takeaways’ from Gent-Wevelgem, Dwars door Vlaanderen and the Volta a Catalunya. Bring on de Ronde!– This article is an excerpt from the Beyond the Peloton newsletter. Sign up here for full access. –Watch the most comprehensive live & ad-free coverage of the Tour of Flanders 2022 on GCN+. Go deeper and get interactive with live polls & quizzes, plus rider profiles, race updates, results & more plus stream original and exclusive cycling documentaries. Watch it all with GCN+ on any device.‘Vlaanderens Mooiste callsThe week between Gent-Wevelgem and the Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of…

Race Report: Eritrea is now in the cycling history books as Biniam Girmay won the Belgian Gent-Wevelgem classic after an action packed final. Girmay out-sprinted his breakaway companions: Christophe Laporte, Dries Van Gestel and Jasper Stuyven.Big win for Biniam GirmayGent-Wevelgem 2022 was won by Biniam Girmay. After 249 kilometres between Ypres and Wevelgem, the Eritrean of Intermarch-Wanty-Gobert was the first across the finish-line. He was the fastest of a leading group of four, ahead of Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma), Dries Van Gestel (TotalEnergies) and Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo).The sign-on in Ypres/IeperParcours:Gent-Wevelgem starts with a long flat section, this is followed by the hilly zone with the Kemmelberg three times, which should thin out the favourites. After the last Kemmel for last time,…

It’s Gent – Wevelgem 1974; you’ve made it over the savage Kemmel climb twice with the lead group and survived hanging on the back of an Eddy Merckx (Belgium and Molteni) and Roger De Vlaeminck (Belgium and Brooklyn) driven purge on the run-in; there are 17 guys left, so maybe you would settle for a top ten? Not if your name is Barry Hoban (Britain and GAN-Mercier) and you feel that the ‘over-drive’ is in your legs.Watch the most comprehensive live & ad-free coverage of Gent-Wevelgem 2022 on GCN+. Go deeper and get interactive with live polls & quizzes, plus rider profiles, race updates, results & more plus stream original and exclusive cycling documentaries. Watch it all with GCN+ on…

La Classicissima Race Report: The break of the day was caught at the bottom of the Poggio and the race was on. Tadej Pogaar put in multi-big attacks, but it was Matej Mohori who went for the solo win on the Poggio descent. The Bahrain rider held off the chasers for the ‘other’ Slovenian to be Victorious.Big win for Matej MohoriMatej Mohori won the 2022 Milan-San Remo. The Slovenian champion broke away on the descent of the Poggio to win his first monument. Anthony Turgis and Mathieu van der Poel joined him on the podium.The start from the Maspes-Vigorelli VelodromeRoute:Milano-Sanremo runs along the classic route that for more than 110 years has connected Milan with the western Riviera through Pavia,…

TOOLBOX: Over the last 15 years, Ive seen, and made, a lot of mistakes that have muted cycling performance. And after all of these mess-ups and learning (a lot!) here are the top 5 mistakes that keep us from having the stellar seasons we know we are capable of, and how to fix them.*** Warning: None of these are mind blowing, which is perhaps why they are so often overlooked, or ignored. ***Riding hardMistake #1 Riding too hard when youre due to ride easyWere doing an easy ride this weekend almost never winds up being easy. And yet, much of our riding we do on our own, is also not done at an easy enough pace (You know, times such…

Gear Break: Swiftwick Flite XT Trail socks, Verge: We stand with Ukraine, States Undefeated gets new alloy and pearl/tie-dye colorway, Lezyne: RAP II-Series of cycling multi-tools, UDOG: Introducing Cima shoes and the PIRELLI factory in Bollate, Italy, starts its production of cycling tyres.Swiftwick Flite XT Trail SocksThe Flite XT Trail offers the best of all worlds as a performance sock: a natural merino wool upper that wicks moisture and regulates temperature, along with grip fibers and ankle support to maximize stability. This sock was made to tackle all of your outdoor adventures, from runs to hikes and more.Stability Technology –Swiftwick’s proprietary GripDry Fiber, incorporated into the ball and heel of the sock, has micro treads that grip your sock to…

Dear Readers, PEZ-Fans, and citizens of the world –This morning I called Kevin at Ironfly Internet (solid company who built and host the PEZ site) – and asked him to block Russian access to the PEZCyclingNews main site.Russia ranked 39th on our list of readers by country for the past 12 months, and my Google stats counted almost 2,600 visit from Russian IP addresses.This is a tiny number, and insignificant to the viability of PEZ – both commercially and creatively. While I welcome readers from every country on earth, blocking this small amount of readers will have little to no impact on the daily functioning of PEZ.What I do hope to accomplish – is to inspire the rest of my…

Mid-Week Takeaways: Cobble Classics Scorecard: UAE Looks Unstoppable While Quick-Step Flounders: Spencer Martin breaks down takeaways from Omloop, Kuurne, Le Samyn, and Laigueglia, and why Jumbo-Visma & UAE are poised to overturn Quickstep’s Spring domination as we head into this weekend’s Strade Bianca.– This article is an excerpt from the Beyond the Peloton newsletter. Sign up here for full access. –Watch the most comprehensive live & ad-free coverage of the Strade Bianche 2022 on GCN+. Go deeper and get interactive with live polls & quizzes, plus rider profiles, race updates, results & more plus stream original and exclusive cycling documentaries. Watch it all with GCN+ on any device.First win for WoutThe first month of the pro cycling season might have…