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Can you imagine being a multiple world champion, Olympic champion, Grand Tour and Monument winner? You’re a multimillionaire who features on billboards and has starred in a Pizza Hut television commercial. You’re only 26 and coming into the prime of your athletic life, and still people are asking you to be better? As seems all too common a phenomenon now across the sporting globe, Remco Evenepoel would have been the greatest male racing cyclist in just about any other generation of riders. He’s tenacious, he’s strong, his position on the bike is second-to-none, but he’s continuously coming up against the two richest talents in one day and Grand Tour racing we’ve seen in living memory: Tadej Pogačar and Mathieu van der Poel. Cyclist wanted to get to know Remco better…
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Look closely at Colnago’s new Y1Rs aero bike and you’ll realise why it has the name it does. A bird’s eye view of the bars reveals a distinctive Y shape, while the seat tube cluster looks like two Ys connected by their tails. Although another option for how the Y1Rs came to get its name could be that while Colnago was working on the bike, it kept asking the question: ‘Why?’ ‘We were constantly asking ourselves why aero bikes are designed the way they are,’ says Davide Fumagalli, Colnago’s head of R&D. ‘We never simply accepted certain features as being correct.’ That’s more significant than it sounds, because the gestation period for this bike wasn’t your typical three-year product cycle. ‘We released an aero bike, the Concept, when the category…
Maap Pro Aero jersey $345, maap.cc If you’re 2025 Australian National Time-Trial Champion Luke Plapp, you want a jersey that’s going to make you faster and cooler. Which is exactly what Australian brand Maap – sponsor of Plapp’s Jayco-AlUla team – set out to do with its new Pro Aero jersey. Plapp served as wind-tunnel test subject in the research Maap did for the jersey, and the result is a material called Aartero Flyte, which is both aerodynamic and extremely light, being just 20 microns thick – about the thickness of clingfilm. ‘It offers hardly any insulation and actively repels moisture, which massively aids thermoregulation,’ says Craig Coetsee, Maap’s lead designer. ‘It also contains a high-modulus elastomer to help maintain shape and ensure consistent aerodynamic performance at speed. The woven…
Hard work can take you far in life, but when you step beyond your comfort zone with an acceptance of the unknown and a sprinkle of vulnerability, life will bring you to those zesty bits that make you feel really alive. On the bleak roads of Liège, Belgium, I had my most career affirming win. I became the first Australian woman to win one of cycling’s great monuments. It wasn’t just the significance of winning the toughest one-day classic on the professional calendar that made it so affirming, but the way I achieved it. I put myself on the line, asked for an opportunity and actively influenced the race to create the best possible scenario to win. That approach is reflected time and time again in my career and defines…
Be honest. If you had the opportunity to go on a ride with your eight-year-old self, would they be impressed by your slightly above average FTP or disappointed by the lack of skids, wheelies and denbuilding detours? Bikes are supposed to be fun, but some people seem to have forgotten that. Jonathan Thompson, thankfully, is not one of them. Ask a typical manufacturer why their bikes are special and they’ll talk about things such as stiffness, weight and aerodynamics. Thompson, on the other hand, is more likely to start chatting about how good his creations are for riding through puddles or the numerous conversations you’re likely to attract while out riding one. ‘I never wanted to make just one type of bike,’ he tells Cyclist. ‘I like the challenge of…
