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Features, Manuela Fundación, News - July 23, 2020

The Manuela Fundación is in talks to invest in the CCC Team

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Despite the collapse of the organization’s plans to take over the Mitchelton-Scott team, the Manuela Fundación could soon have a presence at the WorldTour level anyway. The Spanish non-profit is in talks to invest in the CCC team, which has been on the hunt for a title sponsor since Polish footwear brand CCC decided that …

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Cervelo Caledonia 5 first-ride review: Where road bikes are headed

In what’s effectively the fruit of adultery from the S5 aero sprinter and the Aspero gravel racer, the new Cervelo Caledonia 5 sits in a surprisingly uncrowded market segment. It’s a bike for those who are forever trying to stuff the biggest tyre possible into their race machine or turn their gravel race bike into …

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The classics are coming: A Paris-Roubaix recon gallery

It’s been so long since we last saw the world’s best bike racers duke it out. Paris-Nice was the last race of note, way back in mid March. Since then it’s been months of waiting for lockdown restrictions to end and for racing to start back up again. Now, finally, racing is just around the …

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2021 Orbea Oiz short-travel MTB lightens up and brings flat-mount off-road

Need more evidence that the cross-country mountain bike market is heating up again? Cannondale showed off its new Scalpel not long ago, followed shortly thereafter by the new Specialized Epic, and now Orbea is the latest company to debut an update to its short-travel, full-suspension MTB, the Oiz. The Oiz was first introduced in 2019 …

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Features, Georg Preidler, News - July 23, 2020

Preidler fined and given suspended sentence after being found guilty of fraud

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Georg Preidler was fined and given a one-year suspended sentence after an Austrian court found him guilty of sporting fraud. The 30-year-old Austrian, who last raced for Groupama-FDJ, received a four-year ban from the UCI after admitting to his involvement in the blood doping ring at the center of the Operation Aderlass scandal. News of …

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