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  • Specialized Bikes Is Leaving Team Quick-Step – Here’s Why It Matters

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Specialized-3.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated April 17, 2026 08:10AM Specialized and Quick-Step. It’s like beers and frites, peanut butter and jelly, cobbles and bergs. They go hand-in-hand. Only not much longer. One of cycling’s most iconic and long-running relationships is getting a divorce. As first reported by Daniel Benson on his Substack and separately…

  • A €22,000 Colnago and the Best Road Bikes of the Sea Otter Classic

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/DSC_4578.jpg”] Josh Ross Published April 16, 2026 07:59PM Welcome to Velo’s Sea Otter Classic coverage, where we share our favorite things we’ve found at the 2026 show. Bikes, components, accessories, and more: if we think it’s cool, you’ll see it. See the rest of our Sea Otter coverage. (Photo: Josh Ross/Velo) Sea Otter…

  • Partington Just Dropped a 50mm, Sub-1,200g Aero Wheelset With Hooks

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/DSC_4851.jpg”] Josh Ross Published April 16, 2026 07:12PM Welcome to Velo’s Sea Otter Classic coverage, where we share our favorite things we’ve found at the 2026 show. Bikes, components, accessories, and more: if we think it’s cool, you’ll see it. See the rest of our Sea Otter coverage. Partington is announcing a brand-new…

  • Sofia Gomez Villafañe Wins Sea Otter Classic Gravel Race

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/DSC02533.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Published April 16, 2026 06:32PM (MONTEREY, CA – Velo) Sofia Gomez Villafañe started her Life Time Grand Prix title defense with a huge final kick to win the Sea Otter Classic on Thursday. The women’s race was a cagey affair with a large group swelling and dwindling in cycles throughout…

  • Bradyn Lange Wins the Sea Otter Classic Men’s Elite Gravel Race

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/IMG_4862-1.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Updated April 16, 2026 06:03PM (MONTEREY, CA – Velo) It was a fast day of racing around the grounds of Laguna Seca Raceway as Bradyn Lange took the win at the Sea Otter Classic, the first race on the Life Time Grand Prix calendar. The race was decided in a…

  • Teen Cyclist Busted in Steroid Doping Case

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/GettyImages-173067411-1.jpg”] Andrew Hood Published April 16, 2026 03:19PM Teenager Bálint Makrai has been provisionally suspended in the latest doping case after testing positive for a metandienone metabolite, the International Testing Agency confirmed Thursday. The ITA said an out-of-competition sample collected on March 30, 2026, returned an adverse analytical finding for a synthetic anabolic steroid,…

  • No. 22 Just Brought Its 3D-Printed Titanium Aero Bike One Step Closer to Reality

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/DSC_4635.jpg”] Josh Ross Published April 16, 2026 01:58PM Welcome to Velo’s Sea Otter Classic coverage, where we share our favorite things we’ve found at the 2026 show. Bikes, components, accessories, and more: if we think it’s cool, you’ll see it. See the rest of our Sea Otter coverage. (Photo: Josh Ross/Velo) Today, No.…

  • Race with Pro Crit Racers for a Good Cause with the Twilight Global Challenge p/b Wahoo and TrainingPeaks

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/koble.speedweek.greenville-6597-1-1-scaled.jpg”] The VELO Team Published April 16, 2026 10:25AM Here’s your chance to ride bikes with pros and raise money for good causes while doing it. The Twilight Global Challenge is a new in-person event taking place before the Athens Orthopedic Clinic Twilight Criterium — streaming live this weekend on Velo — that…

  • Salsa Is An Early Bird Again With Its New 32-inch Drop Bar MTB

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Salsa-Fargo-Cover.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Updated April 16, 2026 10:03AM Welcome to Velo’s Sea Otter Classic coverage, where we share our favorite things we’ve found at the 2026 show. Bikes, components, accessories, and more: if we think it’s cool, you’ll see it. See the rest of our Sea Otter coverage. Salsa has released a new…

  • Why Paris-Roubaix Was Riddled with Punctures

    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/horiztonalmvpd.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated April 16, 2026 10:09AM Days after one of the most chaotic and compelling editions of Paris-Roubaix in recent memory, the same question keeps popping up: What was causing so many punctures? It’s tempting to say Sunday’s outbreak of punctures at the Hell of the North was anecdotal. Roubaix is,…