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2020 Tour de France, Features, News, Steven Kruijswijk - August 20, 2020

Steven Kruijswijk to miss the Tour de France with shoulder injury

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Last year’s third-place finisher at the Tour de France, Steven Kruijswijk (Jumbo-Visma), will miss this year’s edition due to a shoulder injury sustained at the Criterium du Dauphine. Kruijswijk was one of several riders to crash while descending off the Col de Plan Bois on stage 4 of the Tour’s biggest warm-up race last week. …

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Competitions, Coronavirus, Features, quiz - August 20, 2020

Quiz: Can you name the masked riders?

Professional road racing looks a little different in 2020. For starters, we missed a whole chunk of the season thanks to coronavirus, forcing a dramatic reshuffle of the calendar. And now that racing is back, well, things still look a little unusual. There are smaller crowds at the start and finish of stages, podium protocols …

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The Tour de France starts next week, but should it?

In two Saturdays’ time, two months late, the 2020 Tour de France will finally begin. On the wide boulevards of Nice, with the glinting blue of the Mediterranean at their backs, the riders and their entourage will head up into the hills surrounding the coastal city and set a course that will lead them to …

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Nerd Alert podcast: Are two-speed internal hubs the new front derailleur?

In our latest – and long – episode of the CyclingTips Nerd Alert podcast we look at the biggest stories in the world of tech and then take a deep dive into the world of rim and tyre standards. The episode kicks off with a chat about the newly released Ridley Kanzo gravel bike and …

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At 775 g, Mondraker’s new Podium is the world’s lightest production hardtail frame

Spanish bike company Mondraker has just lifted the curtain to reveal what’s arguably the lightest full-production 29er hardtail frame in the world. Claimed to weigh just 775 grams for a painted medium frame, the new Podium bests the previous record-holding Specialized Epic HT by a double-stuffed Oreo cookie (or 15 grams in the metric system). …

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