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Ryan Mallon
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Writes about cycling for road.cc
Last month we attended a wedding just south of Barcelona, along the route of the second stage of next year's Tour.

So that means the peloton will pass the spot where I fell flat on my face and cut myself to shreds trying to retrieve a flat football from a sheugh. The TV cameras better pick it out
October 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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GOLD FOR GILLESPIE 🏆

Lara Gillespie has secured the gold medal in the Elimination race at the Track World Championships ☘️
October 23, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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“I really enjoyed my years not riding, sitting in the car, drinking coffee and wine! Those years were good, but I realised more and more that I can still do this”
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“When I quit, I was done with all the pressure and suffering. But I like cycling again”: Anna van der Breggen on her comeback and “feeling stupid” in the peloton + Pink jersey Anna Henderson, Pfeiffer...
Forget the Tour de France Hommes, this week’s special edition of the road.cc Podcast is all about northern Italy and the Giro d’Italia Women… and casoncelli, cat selfies, and prima donna mascots
road.cc
July 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Giro vibes
July 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Highlights from last night's Giro team presentation included half of Movistar zooming about on the same Lime scooter, a man spending 20 minutes taking a selfie with his cat, and my interview with Anna van der Breggen being interrupted by security moving barriers... to make way for Wolfie the mascot
July 6, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Is there a bike race happening in France at the minute?

Because here in beautiful (and occasionally thundery) Bergamo, it's all about the Giro d'Italia Women
July 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM
I may be biased because Northern Ireland won, but that World Cup of Darts final surely has to be one of the sporting moments of 2025 so far?

World class skill, drama, tension, emotion. It had it all. And Josh Rock - what a player
#WCOD #PDC
June 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Anna Back Der Breggen...

I'll get my coat.
#LaVueltaFemenina
May 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Forget Pogačar, Kopecky, and Flanders.

Last night, Peter Sagan dug out the John Travolta get-up and danced the quickstep to 'You're The One That I Want'. That's proper cycling heritage
April 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
De Ronde...

And yes, I am once again horribly, horribly sunburnt
April 7, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Desperately sad to say that my friend Gianni Savio has passed away. There’s a lot to add - about his remarkable career, the riders he launched towards greatness, the laughs he & I shared over 20 years & hundreds of chats - but for now my thoughts are with his wife & daughters.
December 30, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Really enjoyed this chat with Matt Holmes on life after the WorldTour and the current state of British cycling. And, as an added bonus, the start of the episode also features the most preposterous pronunciation of the word ‘podcast’ ever committed to tape…
“You need a billionaire to say ‘I’ll save the sport’. But that won’t happen”: Matt Holmes on why British cycling needs a reset and his journey from WorldTour pro to the “world’s most reluctant YouTube...
After retiring at the end of 2022 disillusioned with cycling, Holmes made an unlikely return this year riding for himself. On the road.cc Podcast, he discusses the challenges of DIY racing and why he’...
road.cc
December 19, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Is it really the Dublin 'cross if you're not caked in mud and your teeth aren't chattering?

(PS. Please contact me via email with any photography enquiries - Yes, those are Fem van Empel's blurry arms)
December 1, 2024 at 10:20 PM
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“It’s crazy where people got this wrong and I find it all to be self-inflicted”

Factor chief Rob Gitelis looks back over 30 years of building bikes, the company’s “business as usual” approach to the 2020s, and how he made the Aussies go three seconds faster in Paris
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“A lot of it was caused by greed”: Factor’s CEO on navigating “self-inflicted” bike industry chaos, Chris Froome’s set-up complaints, trickle-down track tech, and why rim brakes are never coming back
In a bike industry podcast special, Factor chief Rob Gitelis looks back over his 30 years of building bikes, the company’s “business as usual” approach to the Covid pandemic and its aftermath, and how...
road.cc
November 28, 2024 at 5:45 PM