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2018 UCI Road World Championships, News - September 25, 2018

Photo Essay: Team Italia meet up in Torbole

Torbole is a lovely, quiet town at the north end of Lake Garda in Italy’s Trentino province. Davide Cassani’s Italian selection for the 2018 world championships set up camp there to fine-tune the riders’ preparation, build team spirit, and create the right atmosphere to move to Innsbruck on Thursday and try to take the rainbow jersey on Sunday. Team training camps are always a mix of training, gear testing and preparation, alongside some free time for the riders and staff to relax together. Tuesday was the first day at the lovely Aktivhotel Santa Lucia, where mechanics found a great environment to work on the bikes, as this is a bike hotel ready to welcome riders with all the necessary tools and a dream work area. After a generous breakfast, the riders were ready to head out on a four-hour group ride, which would include the Monte Velo climb. It’s a 10-kilometer climb with a steady 8-9 percent gradient. Alessandro Bertolini, a former pro rider living near Torbole, helped Cassani from the car, deciding the route and leading the group in the right direction. He knows Monte Velo like his own backyard and says it’s the perfect climb to test your ...

History: Road World Championships

The very first championships were held in 1921 in Copenhagen, Denmark. However, the only event that was contested that year was the men’s road race for amateurs. The first professional world championships took place in July 1927, hosted at the Nürburgring in Germany, where Alfredo Binda led an Italian one-two-three (Alfredo Binda, Costante Girardengo, Domenico Piemontesi) to win the first of his three world titles. Alfredo Binda won three world titles in his career (1927, 1930 and 1932). A record later equalled by Rik Van Steenbergen, Eddy Merckx, Óscar Freire and Peter Sagan). A massive breakthrough for women’s cycling came in 1958, when the women’s road world championships were introduced in Reims, France. The Luxembourg rider Elsy Jacobs got to pop the Champagne after becoming the first women’s world champion, ahead of Tamara Novikova and Mariya Lukshina of the Soviet Union. Elsy Jacobs waves to the crowd after winning the first women’s cycling World Road Race Championship in Reims, France, 1958. Over the years, further categories and races (men’s and women’s: Junior, Under 23 and Elite) were added to the program, which now spreads over an eight-day period in September, starting just one week after the final grand tour of the ...

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2018 UCI Road World Championships - September 22, 2018

[ITA] Innsbruck 2018: percorso, programma e possibili sorprese

Nel capolavoro di Aldous Huxley, Brave new World, il mondo si risveglia nel 2540 dopo una grande guerra con un nuovo assetto e equilibri completamente diversi da prima. E quasi senza sapere il perchè, il nuovo mondo diventa la normalità con cui convivere. Fortunatamente il ciclismo non avrà i tratti distopici e fantascientifici della World State di Londra, ma la battaglia di Innsbruck ci restituirà, a tutti i livelli, un nuovo assetto e Campioni del mondo profondamente diversi da quelli in carica. Il 1 ottobre guarderemo negli occhi un ciclismo probabilmente diverso. Chi sarà il nuovo padrone del gruppo? Per trovare un Mondiale impegnativo e da scalatori come quello di Innsbruck 2018 dobbiamo forse tornare a Duitama 1995. In quel caso tra i professionisti vittoria solitaria e con un tubolare bucato di Olano, con Indurain e Marco Pantani a completare il podio. Un mondiale da scalatori, proprio come quello di quest’anno. Ecco il percorso, il programma e i nostri favoriti per la gara in linea Elite. Il percorso Base per tutte le corse in linea sarà il circuito Olympia, 23,9 km con una salita di 7,9 km al 5,7% medio verso Igls nella parte centrale. Si va dai due giri ...

Welcome To The Future | Wind tunnel testing

Castelli’s single-minded mission is to make the most innovative clothing for the cyclist seeking maximum performance. Just as Team Sky, we leave nothing to chance and share the same drive for results-driven innovation in everything we do. Our speed suit project doesn’t stop here, and we believe that we’re going to continue to see significant gains over the coming years. Team Sky’s Body Paint Speed Suit is the result of CFD modelling followed by extensive pattern engineering and fabric research, then further testing in the wind tunnel and on the road. Discover more: Body Paint 3.3 Speed Suit

YOLOmites5000 – The Ultimate Cycling Adventure

Have you ever wondered if it would be possible to climb 5,000-plus meters on small country roads in less than 120 kilometers? Some call it fun. Some call it torture. Igor Tavella, Ashley Norris Gruber, and Jered Gruber jump at the chance to ride the #YOLOmites5000 every year in September. An all-day adventure along the flanks of the Dolomites with a mix of gravel, dirt and asphalt. Not a flat road in sight, and packed full of adventure. How did it all begin? We met up with Igor and Jered less than 10 hours before the start of the 2018 edition of the YOLOmites5000. “I wondered if it would be possible to do 5,000 meters of climbing on all the little roads in less than 100 kilometers. Igor laughed – of course! At that moment, an idea was born,” said Jered. “This is not for everyone. If you can’t stand the idea of walking your bike or maybe getting muddy or banging down a steep gravel descent, don’t even think of coming. It’s possible to ride everything, but I’m guessing 99 percent of participants will walk their bikes at some point. Even Igor has to ...