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A brief history of ADAC Cyclassics

The ADAC Cyclassics has become one of Germany's most important one-day races by doing something relatively unusual in European cycling: building a modern Classic...

Beginner’s guide to ADAC Cyclassics 2026

The ADAC Cyclassics returns on Sunday 16 August 2026 as Germany’s biggest men’s one-day race and one of the fastest events on the UCI...

Mapei team history – the team that turned the Classics into a private battlefield

Mapei did not merely win races. It changed the way the biggest one-day races looked, felt and were discussed. In the 1990s and early...

A brief history of the men’s Paris-Roubaix, from the early years to the modern day

Paris-Roubaix has always stood apart. Even in a sport built on hardship, it developed into something more severe, more elemental and more mythic than...

Arenberg Forest: the brutal heartbeat of Paris-Roubaix still missing from the women’s race

The Trouée d’Arenberg, or Arenberg Forest, is one of the most iconic and feared cobbled sectors in professional cycling. Stretching for 2.3km in a...

Arenberg Forest Cobbles – Paris Roubaix

The Arenberg Forest or Trouée d'Arenberg in French is a stretch of road in Northern France. It's famous for its brutal cobbles and for...

Greatest Spring Classics Races – Scheldeprijs

Despite its lower prestige, Scheldeprijs is in fact older than the Tour of Flanders. The first was in 1907, 6 years before De Ronde. The first editions would start and finish in Antwerp, with the finish being on the now demolished Zurenborg velodrome.

Greatest Spring Classics Races – Paris Roubaix

The 'Hell of the North' is one of cycling oldest still active race - the first edition taking place in 1896. The owners of Roubaix's new velodrome were looking for ways to increase business so began the race with Paris newspaper Le Vélo.

Greatest Spring Classics Riders – Johan Museeuw

Museeuw has a good claim to be the best classics rider of the 1990s. In his 2nd year as a pro, he was part of the ADR team where Lemond won the Tour de France.

Flashback to the Mapei 1996 Roubaix 1-2-3 podium finish

After the first Flashback piece of the season back at the Tour Down Under, this one looks at the all Mapei-GB podium of the...

Muur van Geraardsbergen (aka Kapelmuur) – Iconic Cycling Climbs

Kapelmuur (also known as the Muur van Geraardsbergen) was for many years, the most iconic climb in the Tour of Flanders. Positioned as the...