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Magner and Franz join Cynisca Cycling for 2025 season

Cynisca Cycling has confirmed the signings of Alexis Magner and Heidi Franz for its 2025 roster. The American riders bring a wealth of experience to the USA-based UCI Pro...

Pro Cyclist FTPs 2022

During Covid lockdown in 2020, I wondered what FTPs pro cyclists were putting out. With everyone stuck indoors, Zwift became super popular and a whole new way to check...

Women’s Scheldeprijs 2021 Preview – Tips, Contenders, Profile

This is the first-ever Women's Scheldeprijs! Flanders Classics who organise many of the top spring classics in Belgium at this time of year have added a women's race to...

Women’s Omloop het Nieuwsblad 2021 Race Preview – Tips, Contenders, Profile

Omloop het Nieuwsblad is here, the start of the proper 2021 season and the introduction to the spring classics too. The first preview of the season is the hardest...

Top 10 Women’s Domestique Riders in 2020

The domestiques are the often unheralded members of the women's peloton. It's rare they get the chance for personal glory and so simply looking at a list of rider's...

Greatest Spring Classics Races – Drentse Acht van Westerveld

The first Drentse Acht van Westerveld took place in 2007. For its first few years it was known as the Drentse 8 Van Dwingeloo. It slowly morphed into...

What does a pro cyclist FTP look like?

What is FTP cycling? FTP is the acronym for Functional Threshold Power. In theory this is the max power that you can sustain for an hour's riding. Once you know...

Women’s Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2020 Preview – Tips, Contenders, Profile

The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race (CEGORR) is back for its 5th edition in 2020. For the first time, it's now a Women's WorldTour race making it the...

Women’s Tour Down Under 2020 Preview – Tips, Contenders, Profile

With the Women's Tour Down Under, the start of the 2020 season is finally here! The race kicks off on 16th January and will have 4 stages in 2020....

Women’s Tour of California 2019 Preview – Tips, Contenders, Profile

California here we come, right back where we started from - or something. The Women's Tour of California is a 3 stage race with a couple of sprint stages...

Women’s Ronde van Drenthe 2019 Preview – Tips, Contenders, Profile

Compared to some of more recent races, this Sunday's Ronde van Drenthe (17th March) has more of a history in the women's racing calendar having been raced since 2007....

Women’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2019 Preview – Tips, Contenders, Profile

Check out the 2020 Preview! The Women's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad takes place on the same day as the men's race - 2nd March 2019. The route is a shortened version...