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 [...]

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 [...]

On 10 March 2013, Richie Porte raced up the 9.6km col d’Eze climb in 19 minutes and 16 seconds. He was 23 seconds faster than the next best rider in the final stage of the 71st edition of Paris-Nice. His time for the time trial was six seconds slower than what Bradley Wiggins did in [...]

The closing line of RIDE Cycling Review #59 (volume 01, 2013) marked the end of the first 15 years of the magazine. Now, onward to another stanza…   Note from the publisher A lot has happened in our sport since the first issue was released on 8 July 1998. In fact, that very day heralded [...]

It was 15 years ago that RIDE Cycling Review was born, we are delving into the archives and offering a series of flashbacks from RIDE #40 to give some insight into what the magazine is, how it came to be, and a few stories from each issue. You can read about the original inspiration and why Jan Ullrich [...]

Prompted by the realisation that it was 15 years ago that the whole concept of RIDE Cycling Review was born, we are delving into the archives and offering a series of flashbacks from RIDE #40. The finishing touches are being put on RIDE #59 now (due out end of February) and RIDE #60 will feature a [...]

  Flashback from RIDE #38 (published September 2007)   Michael Rasmussen missed a few doping controls in the lead-up to the Tour de France but insisted that it was an innocent mistake. In this era of suspicion his excuse was not good enough. Despite being in the lead of the race, his team made the [...]

01 February 2013. A new month. Another day. Another confession. The world of competitive cycling continues to gobble itself up with stupidity at a time when it could be moving forward and enjoying the interest generated by racing in a season of renewal. RIDE‘s publisher Rob Arnold vents about the antics of the administrators and [...]

Since the second edition of RIDE Cycling Review (published in September 1998), we have had a regular section called “Why Ride?” The theme of the piece is to profile people who have no real connection to the world of professional cycling but are enthusiastic about riding. It has included a vast range of personalities including [...]

In the 2012 Australian edition of the Official Tour de France Guide, published by RIDE Media, we featured bikes from all the teams contesting the race. It was a project that began at the start of the season. During the Tour Down Under we created a makeshift photo studio in a hotel room and, with a [...]