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[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…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/narvaez-giro-hat-trick.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated May 21, 2026 01:03AM Jhonatan Narváez picked off Enric Mas to deliver the hat-trick in a textbook breakaway victory in stage 11 at the Giro d’Italia on Wednesday as pre-race favorite Jonas Vingegaard shrugged off any troubles. The UAE Emirates-XRG all-rounder pulled clear with Movistar’s Mas on the day’s…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/bidon.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated May 20, 2026 11:12AM A suspect has been identified in a scandal that’s rocking the Giro d’Italia – unruly riders with bloated bladders peeing in their water bottles. According to an expert investigation by Belgian reporters, Victor Campenaerts was one of the first to make the “pee bottle” a…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/hampsten-Giro-1988-americans.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated May 20, 2026 04:53PM Twelve Americans have won stages at the Giro d’Italia. Three have worn the maglia rosa. Only one — Andy Hampsten — has won the race outright. And 38 years later, his 1988 victory still stands in a class of his own. The grand tour that…

[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/artem-shmidt-victory-ineos-2026.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated May 19, 2026 10:31AM American rider Artem Shmidt powered to the biggest victory of his young career Sunday to win the rain-soaked Classique Dunkerque in northern France. The 22-year-old, already the reigning U.S. national time trial champion, steamrolled the demanding 202.7km race with a daring long-range attack in brutal…