The Real Reason We Ride All-Night Ultra Events
Factor unveiled its new Sarana ultra‑distance bike at the Traka gravel race in Girona, showcasing a geometry tuned for speed, 2.2″ tire clearance, and carbon‑frame compliance. The bike’s integrated frame bags and vertical compliance aim to balance handling agility with all‑day comfort for endurance racers. Velo’s podcast also featured Lisa Charlebois’s 600 km, 20‑hour Mendocino Coast ride on a steel frame paired with ultra‑light carbon wheels, highlighting fuel strategy and power‑meter pacing. Listener questions about 32″ wheels and price points were addressed, rounding out the ultra‑distance discussion.
New Study Suggests Bonking Is (Mostly) All in Your Head
A 2026 review in *Endocrine Reviews* re‑examines more than 160 studies and argues that endurance fatigue, traditionally called "bonking," is driven primarily by exercise‑induced hypoglycemia rather than muscle glycogen depletion. The authors propose that the brain detects falling blood‑glucose levels...
This American Olympic Champion Is on a Mission to Fix the Future of Female Performance
Olympic gold‑medalist Kristen Faulkner has coded an AI‑driven performance dashboard, the “Kristen System,” that incorporates menstrual cycles, hormonal shifts, and other female‑specific physiology into training metrics. Using nine years of personal data, the platform guided her to a 20‑minute power...
Teen Talent Vows to Return From Brain Hemorrhage and Paralysis After Roubaix Crash
Teen cyclist Kamilla Aasebø, 19, survived a devastating Paris‑Roubaix Femmes crash that left her with a brain hemorrhage, and fractures to her elbow and jaw. After ten days of emergency care in Lille, she returned to Oslo for rehabilitation, focusing...
The Fastest Gravel Tire in the World Just Got Bigger (and Probably Faster)
Hutchinson unveiled an expanded gravel tire lineup, adding the 50 mm Caracal Race and two Touareg Race models (standard and GS). Independent tests have already shown the 40 mm and 45 mm Caracal versions as the fastest gravel tires, with the 45 mm topping...
Zwift Buys Rouvy, Expanding Its Digital Footprint and Potentially Sidestepping the UCI
Zwift announced the acquisition of Rouvy, the real‑world indoor cycling platform, expanding its product suite beyond animated routes. The deal keeps both services separate for now, preserving Rouvy’s subscription model and development roadmap while integrating hardware compatibility. By absorbing Rouvy’s...
Ineos Grenadiers Targets Tour De France Comeback with AI-Driven Sponsorship Deal
British WorldTour squad Ineos Grenadiers will rebrand as Netcompany Ineos Cycling Team after a five‑year co‑title partnership with European tech firm Netcompany. The deal introduces Netcompany’s AI platform PULSE, which will be embedded in the team’s training, race strategy and...
Why the Giro D’Italia Is Teaming up with a Video Game
The Giro d’Italia announced a partnership with Epic Games to embed a virtual Giro experience inside Fortnite, marking the sport's first foray into the popular battle‑royale platform. The collaboration, developed by the NOVO Esport gaming brand, will let players ride...
The 32-Inch Wheel Debate, $6,500 Wheels, and the Wildest Tech at Sea Otter
The Sea Otter Classic showcased a surge of wheel and frame innovations, highlighted by the contentious 32‑inch wheel debate and ultra‑light carbon wheelsets from Partington and Hunt. New 32‑inch lugged carbon bikes such as Faction’s Salsa Fargo and an upcoming...
Trek’s New CheckOUT Blurs the Line Between Gravel and MTB
Trek unveiled the CheckOUT, a full‑suspension bike that blends gravel‑bike geometry with mountain‑bike capability. It features 29‑inch wheels, 150 mm of rear travel and an integrated frame‑bag system that can haul up to 30 L of gear. The bike excels on aggressive...
Watch: Pray for Speed – The Dolomites
The newest installment of *Pray for Speed* showcases the Italian Dolomites, delivering a visually striking descent‑focused documentary by cyclist‑filmmaker Safa Brian. Eschewing traditional race coverage, the film adopts a ‘video‑part’ style that blends surf and skate culture aesthetics with pure...
Specialized Bikes Is Leaving Team Quick-Step – Here’s Why It Matters
Specialized and Soudal Quick‑Step will end their 17‑year partnership after the 2026 season, with the Belgian squad set to ride Merida bikes from 2027. The split follows the departure of star rider Remco Evenepoel and a leadership change at Quick‑Step,...
Stream the 2026 USA CRITS Series Live on Velo
Velo will broadcast all eight races of the 2026 USA CRITS series live, beginning with the Sunny King Criterium in Anniston, Alabama on April 11. The six‑week Southeast circuit runs through May 23, concluding at the Winston‑Salem Cycling Classic. Five women’s D1...
Van Rysel’s 500-Gram Wearable Airbag Wants to Make Season-Ending Crashes History
Van Rysel unveiled Project AIRBAG, a fully integrated air‑bag skinsuit aimed at WorldTour cyclists. The garment weighs 500 g for the airbag and 700 g total, inflates in under 60 ms, and relies on crash‑detection algorithms trained on more than 450 million kilometres of data....
New Bike Tech: Flaanimals, Bikepacking The Life Time Grand Prix, and More MAAP
PeopleForBikes secured a policy win as the Trump administration dropped bicycles, e‑bikes and frames from the 50% Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs, ending a year‑and‑a‑half of tariff uncertainty. The advocacy group rallied manufacturers, retailers and riders, generating 1,300 public comments...