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Vintage steel, African desert: Inside the weird and wonderful Tour of Ara

Named after the Southern Hemisphere constellation of Ara, the Tour of Ara was a race ridden on pre-1999 South African-built steel racing bicycles in the proud tradition of the early Italian multi-day stage races. Held between 2014 and 2018, the six-day Tour followed a tough dirt-road route through the beautiful but harsh semi-desert of South …

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Lachlan Morton just keeps riding

Morton is less than 200km from the end of a 2,000km journey from Lands End to John O'Groats, leading the GBDURO endurance race

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Going long: The story of one man’s four-year-plus ride around the world

It’s September 2015. Jacky Chen has arrived in Vancouver, Canada, to continue his bike ride around the world. He has already ridden over 5,000km since he started in June, just three months earlier. The house he’s staying at isn’t big, so he decides to lock his bike out front. He wakes the next morning to …

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WorldTour pros, aero bars, empty podiums: What was the fuss at Dirty Kanza?

“This event put me to my limit. My eyes hurt, my toes were numb for three days, I was rationing water sips in the last hour. I view it as a survival race more than a bike race.” Those are the words of Trek-Segafredo’s Peter Stetina – a WorldTour pro who knows a thing or …

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‘Bikepacking paradise’: A week of riding in the mountains of Oman

Oman might have hosted a professional bike race since 2010 but it’s not a country that’s exactly synonymous with cycling. It’s certainly not seen as a cycling destination; not like France, Italy or Belgium are. But that didn’t stop Jonathan Kambskard-Bennett and his colleague Phillip from jetting off to the Arabian Peninsula recently to explore …

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