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[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/ben-oliver-tour-de-wallonie-2026.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated June 11, 2026 10:02AM Ben Oliver spent years stacking honey boxes around New Zealand, packing warehouse orders, and trying to keep a cycling career alive. Now he’s winning European stage races. Oliver won two stages and the overall title at the 2026 Tour de Wallonie, delivering the first European…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/TQ-023192_Credit_Cantons-de-l_Est_Copyright_GouvQc_Simon_Diotte-scaled-e1779371812445.jpg”] Corey Buhay Published June 10, 2026 11:24AM What makes a great bike touring getaway? Great scenery, great cycling culture, great lodging and camping, and great routes for every type of rider. Québec has all that, plus a totally unique blend of charming villages and wild terrain. Here’s what makes this vast Canadian…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2280896726.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated June 10, 2026 11:15AM Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek) got his hands in the air again after surviving a breakaway nail-biter to win stage four at the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alps. With the bunch just a few meters behind, Simmons sprinted ahead of Finn-Fisher Black (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe) in the former Critérium du Dauphiné…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2270474045.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated June 10, 2026 05:56AM Wout van Aert is counting the cost after he indulged his Paris-Roubaix victory a little too hard. The Belgian megastar is off the back and scrambling for form ahead of the Tour de France after he hit party-mode in celebration of beating Tadej Pogačar on the…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2280090830.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated June 10, 2026 02:08AM Stage 3 of the Critérium du Dauphiné smiled down on the UCI bank balance Tuesday. The governing body raked in 9,500 CHF ($11,900 USD) from sanctions in just one day at the race now known as the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Why? Tardiness at the start of…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SBT-Race-day-2023-16-scaled-e1781025137785.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Published June 9, 2026 11:15AM Steamboat Springs is built a little differently from the other Colorado mountain towns. Sure, it’s got the skiing, it’s got the mountain biking, it’s got the high-end restaurants in a quaint downtown. But don’t get over your skis in lumping Steamboat with Vail, Aspen, or…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Hero-Cover-UNCROPPED.jpg”] Lisa Charlebois Published June 9, 2026 10:20AM Table of Contents •Best overall women’s cycling shoes •Best budget women’s cycling shoes•Best value women’s cycling shoes•Best premium women’s cycling shoes•Best women’s cycling shoes for wide feet•Best women’s cycling shoes for narrow feet•Best budget women’s gravel cycling shoes•Best women’s gravel cycling shoes•Best women’s gravel race…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-2280457538.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated June 9, 2026 10:16AM U.S. ace Matteo Jorgenson blasted to the line fastest Tuesday to bring Visma-Lease a Bike the win and make his own GC gains in the stage 3 team time trial of the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Behind Jorgenson, Netcompany Ineos leadership tandem Kévin Vauquelin and Oscar Onley…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/GettyImages-1241307937.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated June 9, 2026 06:44AM Jan-Willem van Schip has found plenty of ways to get himself into trouble with UCI officials over the years. Yet Sunday’s dramatic removal from the Ronde de l’Oise, which ended with French police intervening after he refused to leave the race, went too far, according…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Tulsa-Tough-on-a-gravel-bike-cover.jpg”] Logan Jones-Wilkins Published June 8, 2026 06:31PM How do you follow up a 200-mile gravel race? Well, if you are Matthew Wilson, you head a few hundred miles south, swap wheels on your Scott Addict Gravel bike, and solo to victory at one of the biggest criterium races in the United States.…