Sunday, July 26th, 21st stage: Thoiry  > Paris – Champs-Élysées– The final stage of the Tour de France 2026 delivered fireworks and crowned champions who already occupy a very special place in the history of the event. Clad in yellow as he rode towards a record-tying fifth overall triumph, Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates XRG) indulged himself […]

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STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — The Tour de Steamboat will return Saturday, August 22, 2026, for its 21st year, offering five road and gravel routes while raising money for nonprofit organizations throughout Colorado’s Yampa Valley. Riders can choose among 25-, 46- and 66-mile road routes or tackle gravel courses covering 50 or 112 miles. The event […]

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By Charles Pekow — If you commute to work, you’d save $13,600 a year if you do it by e-bike instead of car. At least if you live in Los Angeles, a study calculates. “LA commuters spend roughly $15,100 per year driving vs $1,500 commuting by e-bike,” says the study done by LA writer and […]

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By A.J. Turner — I’ve always wanted to make my own custom bike, and when I spotted a damaged carbon frame headed for the trash, I decided to save it and repurpose it into a balance bike for my daughter. This felt like my chance to build a custom bike somewhat from scratch, and I […]

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Saturday, July 25th, 20th stage: Le Bourg d’Oisans > Alpe d’Huez – The queen stage of the Tour de France 2026, with four major ascents en route to a historic second consecutive finish at Alpe d’Huez, crowned a special climber: Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost), the winner of stage 20 after an attacking festival in the mountains and […]

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Friday, July 24th, 19th stage: Gap > Alpe d’Huez – The attackers looked set to battle for another stage win on Friday, stage 19 of the Tour de France 2026, but, once again, there was no resisting Tadej Pogačar (UAE Emirates XRG) when the Maillot Jaune holder set off on the mythical slopes of Alpe d’Huez. […]

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Thursday, July 23rd, 18th stage: Voiron > Orcières-Merlette– The venue of Orcières-Merlette, forever associated with Luis Ocaña’s legendary assault, crowned another spectacular attacker on Friday: Richard Carapaz (EF Education-EasyPost), the winner of stage 18 of the Tour de France 2026. Already on the move in most of the previous mountain stages, the Ecuadorian climber made the […]

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Wednesday, July 22nd, 17th stage: Chambéry > Voiron– Frustrated in the bunch sprints, Jasper Philipsen(Alpecin-Premier Tech) reinvented himself to take an eleventh stage win on the roads of the Tour, his first this year. The Belgian sprinter matched the aggressive racing of Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) to make the front group and, with crucial support from Mathieu […]

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Tuesday, July 21st, 16th stage: Évian-les-Bains > Thonon-les-Bains– Remco Evenepoel was far from done with his historic victory at the Plateau de Solaison on Sunday. After he claimed Belgium’s 500th Tour de France stage win, the Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe star delivered a masterclass in the 26.1 km individual time trial between Évian-les-Bains and Thonon-les-Bains. This is the tenth […]

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Sunday, July 19th, 15th stage: Champagnole > Plateau de Solaison Brison – Stage 15 radically flipped the script laid out in the first GC battles of the Tour de France 2026. Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates XRG) remains head and shoulders above his rivals: the 4-time winner of the race set the pace himself on the final […]

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By Dave Campbell — Only four riders have officially won the Tour de France five times: Frenchmen Jacques Anquetil (1957, 1961–64) and Bernard Hinault (1978–79, 1981–82, 1985), Belgian Eddy Merckx (1969–72, 1974), and Spaniard Miguel Induráin (1991–95). Slovenian Tadej Pogačar enters this July’s Tour with four overall victories. If he wins, he would join one […]

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By Charles Pekow — Bicycle node networks haven’t caught on in the United States, but these countrywide or regional sign systems for guiding recreational riders have proven useful in promoting culture, tourism, and economies across Europe. They take a lot of work to construct, and a study of a Danish network finds that researchers have […]

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Saturday, July 18th, 14th stage: Mulhouse > Le Markstein Fellering – The second Tour de France stage finish at Le Markstein, three years after the previous one, crowned the same winner: Tadej Pogacar. This second success reads very differently from the previous: at the time, the Slovenian star bounced back to a consolation victory as […]

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By Charles Pekow — Bike fatalities are declining in urban areas—but rising in suburban communities. The Center for Pedestrian and Bicyclist Safety (CPBS) analyzed 20 years of traffic fatality data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and found that “both pedestrian and bicyclist (serious injury) crashes have trended toward areas with lower population density, […]

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Friday, July 17th, 13th stage: Dole > Belfort – The longest stage of the Tour de France 2026 – 205.8 km from Dole to Belfort – favoured the attackers’ plans, or at least the ambitions of two of them. Members of the 57-man breakaway that became established after more than 100 kilometres of battle at a […]

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The Volunteer Organizations That Keep Trails Alive By Sean Benesh — Most of the trail world runs on volunteers. Small nonprofit organizations. Volunteer boards. Weekend dig crews. People balancing jobs, families, and life while still finding time to show up with a shovel, a saw, or a spreadsheet. These are the groups that keep trails […]

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Thursday, July 16th, 12th stage: Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours > Chalon-sur-Saône – A day starting at the Nevers Magny-Cours motorsports circuit led to fast and furious racing, with a flurry of attacks and a final sprint that crowned the fastest man of the Tour de France 2026: Tim Merlier (Soudal Quick-Step), the winner in Chalon-sur-Saône. […]

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By Maynard Hershon — I’ve been riding to Golden from our home in Denver once or twice a week. I ride the Clear Creek bike trail, a narrow trail with many turnings, some of them quite tight. In the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed a change in my bike’s handling, in its steering — […]

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Wednesday, July 15th, 11th stage: Vichy > Nevers – Stage 11 of the Tour de France 2026 confirmed one should never say Nevers to baroudeurs… But it also showed one should never take a sprinter out of the equation, no matter his most recent setbacks. The day after a crash that left him finishing last en […]

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