With Opening Weekend now within the bag, the Spring Classics are formally underway, and a bumper interval of highway racing awaits us over the following month and past.
The pre-season coaching camps are accomplished and dusted, and the early season stage races within the UAE, Spain, and Portugal have been ticked off. Now, the cobblestones are right here to spice issues up.
This March at Cyclingnews, we’ll be on the bottom in any respect the foremost races throughout the continent, making certain you do not miss a second of the motion or any storyline that may develop alongside the best way.
Alasdair Fotheringham and Tom Wieckowski have been flying the CN flag at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, assessing the type of the important thing one-day contenders and getting up shut and private with their bikes seeking any new tech tendencies.
From Matteo Jorgenson admitting that Visma-Lease a Bike “simply have not clicked but” as they got here up quick on Opening Weekend to Lidl-Trek utilizing gravel groupsets for Omloop and loads of groups displaying off new parts for the weekend that we lined in our in-depth tech gallery, they have been proper within the thick of the motion.
Looking forward, Cyclingnews’ Head of News Stephen Farrand will probably be on the bottom in Italy for Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico and Milan-San Remo, following Pogačar’s exploits on the one-day races, assessing how Tom Pidcock fares at his first WorldTour stage race with Q36.5, and experiencing a first-ever ladies’s Milan-San Remo.
Meanwhile, Matilda Price joins the crew this month as Assistant Features Editor. She brings years of expertise reporting on skilled biking, having written throughout the biking media panorama, for titles together with Cyclingnews, and most just lately held the function of Racing News Editor at GCN.
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A graduate of contemporary languages, she has additionally accomplished an MA in Sports Journalism, throughout which she wrote her dissertation on the lives of younger cyclists. Alongside her in-depth data of ladies’s biking, Matilda enjoys following cyclo-cross and downhill mountain biking.
She joins us at an thrilling level of the season and will probably be amongst our crew overlaying E3 Saxo Classic and Gent-Wevelgem in particular person this month, gauging how the important thing protagonists are getting ready for the primary Cobbled Monument of the season.
The Cyclingnews tech crew can even be in Flanders, casting an eagle eye over the tools selections utilized by the groups and any unreleased parts lurking within the pits.
Away from our on-the-ground race protection, we’ll additionally deliver you previews, stay experiences, in-depth experiences, and race evaluation from all the important thing Classics, in addition to each Tirreno and Paris-Nice this month.
What’s extra, we’ll have a complete host of premium options popping out this month.
From unique deep dives into the monetary panorama of professional biking and a lift-the-lid insider function on the place the bikes of prime manufacturers are made to opinion items from WorldTour execs and an additional look into the game’s method to efficiency with Matteo Jorgenson.
On prime of that, the tech crew will spend one other day within the wind tunnel and on the rolling resistance rig this month, looking for the perfect highway tyre setup that balances aerodynamics with rolling resistance to offer the quickest total method. They’ll additionally spend a while digging into smaller modifications you may make to your setup to enhance your driving efficiency.
We’ll additionally hear from Lotte Kopecky in regards to the inaugural ladies’s Milan-San Remo and what it means for ladies’s biking, in addition to an perception into the important thing components which have spurred on efficiency in relation to professional biking with two present sports activities administrators.
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