RIDE Cycling Review is a quarterly and the 60th edition has recently come off the press. Yep, that’s 15 years of making a magazine all about the best sport in the world. The focus hasn’t deviated from the early years: racing and product reviews. The first issue was released in July 1998 and was 108 [...]

This Friday Alex Morgan shares with us a behind-the-scenes look at the Jayco-AIS World Tour Academy Team’s experience racing in Azerbaidjan. The Tour d’Azerbaidjan is a UCI 2.2 road race that covers a gruelling course over 700km in five days. Below are a collection of shots that give some insight into what the team got [...]

With the 2013 Giro d’Italia about to begin, we thought we’d look back at last year’s race for the maglia rosa in this interview… Allan Peiper was one of the directeurs sportif with the Garmin-Barracuda team for the 2012 Giro d’Italia. The first Grand Tour of the season was meant to be a chance for [...]

On 23 May 2006, a Spaniard who was an owner of a cycling team was arrested in Madrid. On the same day, raids on a clinic by police discovered 211 bags of blood being stored. It was the beginning of another protracted doping scandal that has had massive ramifications for the world of sport… or [...]

Another week, another photo diary for Australia’s youngest elite world champion of 2013. Jayco-AIS World Tour Academy team member, Alex Morgan, shares his experiences in his first season of racing in the senior ranks. What does a world champion eat? As you can see below, quite a lot!   • Part 01 • Part 02 • Part 03 • Part 04 • [...]

  Interesting numbers: power reading…   – By Nick Squillari   Of the many unique privileges cycling fans have over other sports is access to a professional’s ride data. It is the ultimate insight into what goes on in a race. There’s an opportunity to break down the efforts of a rider into a set [...]

We continue our series with Australia’s youngest elite world champion of 2013, Alex Morgan. Since his victory in the team pursuit in Minsk this March, the 18-year-old has hung up the track bike for a while while he focuses on the road instead. He’s a member of the Jayco-AIS World Tour Academy team (which, through [...]

Since 2004, Sebastien Piquet has been a ‘speaker’ at cycling events. His role at events like the Tour de France and Paris-Roubaix is to call the information for Race Radio: every attack, every time check, every puncture, every crash… he’s the one who relays this information over the airwaves. Much of the action he sees [...]

Two days before he left Monaco, destination Belgium – for his first bout with the two major cobbled monuments of cycling, the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix – Jonathan Cantwell proposed a quick chat on Skype before a training session. With his rendezvous with his Tasmania riding companion for the day, Matt Goss, he flicked [...]

The ‘Why Ride’ column in the current issue of RIDE Cycling Review has the headline “…because I still can!” It’s the story of Ian Davis and his diagnosis with Motor Neuron Disease (MND). He knows his fate and it’s not pretty but there’s no hiding from it. In fact, he wants to share it with as [...]