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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Giro-stage-14-preview.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated May 22, 2026 09:19AM No flat roads, no recovery, and endless vertical — Saturday’s Stage 14 is built to break the Giro d’Italia wide open. The peloton is already bracing for a brutal mountain stage as the Giro turns into the Italian Alps and the final week of suffering.…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Evade-4-cover.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Published May 21, 2026 06:01PM Welcome to Velo’s weekly tech roundup. We sift through the week’s industry news to bring you the standout gear, subtle component updates, and fresh accessories you actually need to know about. If it’s clever and it makes your ride better, you’ll find it here. Dive…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/USA-CRITS-2026-2-.png”] The VELO Team Published May 21, 2026 03:41PM The 2026 USA CRITS series concludes this weekend with a pair of races that will decide the overall winners of the closely fought eight-race contest. We have a double header in store from Winston-Salem, North Carolina: the Streets of Fire Criterium on Friday, May…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/DSC_5571-v2.jpg”] Josh Ross Updated May 21, 2026 02:06PM The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) suffered a definitive defeat in its ongoing legal battle against SRAM, losing its appeal to the Belgian Competition Authority (BCA). This news is the latest in an ongoing back and forth legal proceedings between SRAM and the UCI that largely…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GettyImages-2277494904.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated May 21, 2026 09:59AM Alec Segaert took the stage away from the sprinters with a blazing solo raid on stage 12 of the Giro d’Italia. The young Belgian on Bahrain-Victorious rolled the dice around 3km from the line with a 55kph attack and held off the bunch to take…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Hunt-4AM-Limitless-final-cover.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Published May 21, 2026 08:00AM Hunt Wheels has unveiled a new lightweight road option with its 4AM Limitless Ti_UD Carbon Spoke and 4AM Limitless Steel Spoke wheel systems. The wheels are billed as the brand’s best option for high-alpine racing, with a lightweight design that does not sacrifice aerodynamics. Hunt…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Paragon-Firsthand-Sale.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Published May 21, 2026 07:00AM Paragon Machine Works has been saved from the brink by Firsthand Framebuilding, which purchased the beleaguered machine shop that has played a massive hand in building the bespoke bike genre. The company is one of the largest machine shops in the cycling world, with its…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/lotto-giro-2026-problems.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated May 21, 2026 08:43AM Lotto-Intermarché‘s Giro d’Italia has been a disaster since day one, and it just keeps getting worse. Things spiraled deeper the wrong way Wednesday after Belgian stage-hunter Lennert Van Eetvelt abandoned with a broken middle finger, leaving the struggling squad with just four riders standing with…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/IMG_5278.jpg”] Michael Woods Published May 21, 2026 12:24AM My dad grew up on a farm outside of Fergus, Ontario. As a kid, we would make the long drive, multiple times per year, from Ottawa to the town settled by Scottish immigrants in the 1800s. Going to Gatehouse of Fleet this past week to…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Tech-of-the-Life-Time-grand-Prix-Cover.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Updated May 20, 2026 05:47PM Welcome to Velo’s Unbound gravel coverage, we are on the ground in in Emporia, Kansas, covering the biggest show on gravel roads. If we think you should know about it, you’ll see it here. The Life Time Grand Prix is the premier off-road racing series…