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  • Bugatti and Factor Just Released a Hyper-Expensive Super-Bike

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-New-Bugatti-Factor-One-1.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Updated March 18, 2026 04:04PM In the latest bike brand, car brand collaboration, Factor and Bugatti have teamed up to produce a limited run of flashy Bugatti branded Factor One aero road bikes. There are a few tweaks over the standard bike that make the Bugatti Factor One a unique…

  • Pidcock Crushes Elite Climbers at Milan-Torino with Mega-Watt Attack

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Copy-of-Passport.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated March 18, 2026 10:02AM Tom Pidcock looks pretty ready for Milan-San Remo. In fact, that might be an understatement given his mega-watt winning attack Wednesday at Milan-Torino. The Brit launched away from a bunch of elite climbers on the Superga summit finish with 600 meters of steeps still to…

  • Forget the Pros, Two Tandem Bikes Had the Best Sprint Finish at Mid South Gravel

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/The-tandem-sprint-at-Mid-South.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Published March 18, 2026 08:00AM Energy begets energy. At its heart, that is the inertia that is guiding Mid South Gravel as thousands of people from around the country and around the world have made the March trip to Stillwater, Oklahoma, a yearly cycling tradition. Splitting up the days, canceling…

  • Alejandro Valverde Road Rage Case Advances Toward Trial in Alleged Attempted Homicide

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/valvhoriz.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated March 18, 2026 05:27AM Alejandro Valverde is at the center of a road rage incident that now appears headed for a full trial on alleged attempted homicide charges dating back to 2022 after a motorist struck and injured the ex-pro during a training ride in Spain. A court hearing…

  • Aspiring Cyclocross Racer? EuroCrossAcademy Wants to Help You

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Eurocross-Academy-VT-Camp-2025-WK2-0213-scaled-e1773831375158.jpg”] The VELO Team Published March 18, 2026 04:56AM Are you an aspiring cyclocross racer? EuroCrossAcademy‘s (ECA) summer camp application window is now open through April 3 and will once again feature three separate week-long summer cyclocross training camps: July 20-25 in Montana, and two camps in Vermont on July 28-August 2 and…

  • Understanding the Biological Passport: The Most Powerful Anti-Doping Tool of Professional Sport

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Passport-2.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated March 18, 2026 02:10AM “We are seeing a major change at the top level of the sport. We’re all aware that cycling has a doping problem and for 40 years has been dealing with a doping problem.” That’s what former UCI president Pat McQuaid said in 2008 when the…

  • Gravel’s New Identity Crisis: Should Pedals Only Have One Side?

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/DSC_3687-Edit-1.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Updated March 17, 2026 09:10AM Look Cycle has revamped its gravel pedal line-up with three new pedals that introduce another one-sided off-road pedal to the gravel market. The new one-sided pedal, called the X-One-G, is the second gravel-specific pedal that has hit the market over the past year that uses…

  • This One Tactic Is the Only Hope for Tadej Pogačar to Finally Win Milan-San Remo

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/pog2msr.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated March 17, 2026 06:56AM Tadej Pogačar might be getting predictable, but he’s never boring. And Saturday’s Milan-San Remo will, predictably, see the Slovenian superstar try to blow up the race and finally win the lone monument hard-wired against his explosive style of racing. King Pog will line up in…

  • The Mid South Thrills with a New Pro Gravel Race Format — But Not Without Some Controversy

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Mid-South-Title.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Published March 16, 2026 02:44PM In downtown Stillwater, Oklahoma, scores of people lined a set of barriers running along a street that cut next to the small town’s newest park. The park is an expansive grass field with two battling concrete amphitheaters on either side of the square. Small, fresh…

  • First Look: XFUSION G.E.T. 30 Fork

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/xfusion_featured_h.jpg”] Brian Higgins Published March 16, 2026 07:36AM Gravel biking is a lot of things, from community fun to exploratory epics. But most of all, it’s about finding freedom, and XFUSION wants to help you unlock even more routes—and more freedom—with the G.E.T. 30 fork. Built with the modern gravel bike in mind,…