summary THE THURSDAY THREE Montmartre or not Montmartre Jonathan Milan and Roadie Arrogance Pogačar in 2027 AND…WHAT’S ON MIKE’S MIND Wherefore EF? MIKE’S RIDE OF THE WEEK Zwifting on the Zwift Ride PEZ VIDEO OF THE WEEK Inside Cycling’s Most Famous Church Topic #1: Montmartre or not Montmartre? While the Tour de France route reveal […]

The Wahoo KICKR HEADWIND smart fan brings targeted airflow and automatic cooling to your indoor cycling setup. In our Wahoo KICKR HEADWIND review , PEZ’s Alastair Hamilton explains why its heart rate controlled airflow made it one of his most valued training accessories—and why he prefers that setting to speed-based cooling. The KICKR HEADWIND was […]

Every cyclist knows the sight: a pothole, rough road or stretch of gravel sends a bottle bouncing out of its cage. FIDLOCK TWIST approaches that problem with a cage-free bottle system combining magnetic guidance and mechanical locking. But the story behind it begins somewhere unexpected—with founder Joachim Fiedler and his cello. Is there a better […]

TOOLBOX: Even more than training, the field of nutrition is full of commercial interests and marketing masquerading as sound “science.” One of the latest fashionable trends is drinking coconut water for health and hydration, but is it all it’s cracked up to be? Coconut Water A few years back, I did some filming in my […]

Don’t get me wrong: the racing over the last week was fun, varied, and at times intense. But these are late-season scraps, and there’s not a Galactico in sight. What cycling did see a lot of this week was controversy: odd rule interpretations, political influences, a broken contract. Such is the case with the early off-season. Teams […]

In November 2015, outdoor adventurer Mark Beaumont set the Fastest Known Time (FKT) cycling with support on the North Coast 500 (NC500).  According to the NC500 tourism website, “The North Coast 500 (NC500) has been voted one of the world’s top coastal touring routes. Bringing together more than 500 miles (516 miles, to be exact!) […]

This video set my all time record with over 450,000 social views. That’s a bonus I never expected when I shot this clip of Puck’s unexpected connection with the crowd. Like most of us covering the 2026 World Road Cycling championships in Montreal, I was walking around with my trigger finger on my camera all […]

Pez Fans, summer just won’t quit. Fall is supposed to be here, but the warm days keep sneaking back in. The cool ones haven’t quite taken over. Don’t pack away the shorts yet, and keep the long-fingered gloves handy. This week’s Gear Break matches the mood swings. SunGod has lenses for flat gray days and […]

Scan the Substacks, the IG posts, the Reddit threads, and you’ll find that the cyclosphere is talking about the three topics you’ll find below: What we might have seen had a healthy Pogačar lined up an Il Lombardia; the unreasonable expectations we have for Brandon McNulty and just one (very) significant win; and where Primož […]

2026 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec Photo Gallery: The World Championships were in Canada this year and our man with a camera, John Thomson, was there. But first he made his yearly visit to the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, here is his first ‘Special Canadian Photo Gallery’. […]

Here is a booklet of the auction items for the Braveheart charity dinner. The silent auction will go live on Friday. The QR code will take you to GalaBid so they can register and bid from afar! The post Braveheart Cycling Fund 2026 Auction appeared first on PezCycling News.

Paul Seixas lit up Il Lombardia with a climbing performance that raises big questions for 2027. But beyond the Frenchman’s breakthrough, cycling faces familiar challenges: an overcrowded calendar, competing championships and riders with limited influence over the sport’s future. This week’s AIRmail from The Outer Line connects the racing headlines with the business and governance […]

Just because you’re an endurance athlete, doesn’t mean you’re healthy. You may ride fast, eat well, and look super fit and healthy to all around you, but regular health checkups are so important to make sure. Get your health checkup Perhaps it’s because we don’t like thinking about our mortality, or maybe it’s because we […]

Surely none of us is wishing for anything but a speedy recovery for Tadej Pogačar. But man…this Pogi-less stretch of racing sure is fun. We had McNulty’s out-of-nowhere Worlds win, Remco’s hair’s-breadth Euros victory over Ciccone, and now Paul Seixas’ true debut on the World(Tour) stage: an emphatic Monumental victory at Il Lombardia, a fitting […]

In his introduction to “Live to Ride,” author Peter Flax, former editor-in-chief of Bicycling magazine, writes: “I don’t think of my bike life as a hobby or a fitness routine or a leisure activity…..For me, riding is something that truly shapes my identity—how I look at the universe, how I center myself in a complicated […]

Race Report: Paul Seixas delivered a stunning performance at Il Lombardia, riding away from the favourites on the steep slopes of the Civiglio before soloing into Como to claim his first Monument. Just 20 years old, the Frenchman turned the season’s final big showdown into a demonstration of climbing class. Giulio Ciccone and Enric Mas […]

Pez Fans, Gear Break can’t ignore the turning leaves. The morning air has started to offer some bite, and there’s more darkness than daylight now. Gravel season is still in stride, but we are thinking about taking the trainer out of the corner. This week’s Gear Break covers both. Colnago and LOOK each dropped a […]

WASHINGTON, DC — October 8, 2026 — The Amazon Armed Forces Cycling Classic, the region’s premier cycling event and a cornerstone of the American racing calendar for more than 25 years, today announced that its Saturday Men’s Pro/1 race has been approved as a Union Cycliste Internationale  (UCI) Category 1.2 road race and will join […]

Lombardia Ride: Sometimes you gotta point the car at the cliff and give ‘er some stick. Okay, maybe heading out for an awesome solo ride may not be quite the same… but sometimes heading into the unknown is best approached with a ‘give ‘er’ attitude, and as I once again learned on this awesome ride […]

This week in the Cyclosphere: The Race of the Falling Leaves. The vital stats, the contenders — and the contender who’s not there, yet whose presence is nonetheless felt. We here at Pez love bike races wherever they happen, and of course are huge Tour aficionados, but there’s something about Italy, especially in the fall, […]

Lombardia History: Louison Bobet’s 1951 Giro di Lombardia victory delivered a dramatic finish on Milan’s Vigorelli velodrome—and a win the Frenchman counted among his most satisfying. This vintage feature by Félix Lévitan recalls Bobet’s battle with Fausto Coppi and his rivals on the Madonna del Ghisallo, his decisive finishing sprint, and his hopes of repeating […]

Cycling’s history is full of stories that sound almost too good to be true—and Giovanni Gerbi’s victory in the first Giro di Lombardia belongs right up there. The year was 1905. The roads were rough, the equipment basic, and a rider’s ability to outthink his rivals could matter as much as the strength in his […]

The European Championships are a national-jerseys little sibling to the World Championships, but for those of us who love racing without radios and with ambiguous alliances, it’s a bit of dessert after last weekend’s smorgasbord of attacks, rallies, closed gaps, counters — and one very unlikely winner. The predicted winners indeed took home the crowns […]

In 1974 Montreal was the scene of the UCI’s first non-European Road World Championships. Last week the city celebrated its second time hosting this event and fans enjoying some terrific racing. Travellers passing through the terminal at the Montreal-Trudeau International Airport could enjoy a special exhibition devoted to the history of cycling in Montreal, with […]

Rider Interview: Brandon McNulty launched himself into his WorldTour career with top performances in the Tour de San Juan and the Ruta del Sol, and then… Ed Hood caught up with Brandon back in the US during the winter of 2020. In January 2025 we lost our friend and colleague Ed Hood, two years after […]