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Aussie pro women3 Aug 2026Tour de France Femmes 2026: A Race Growing Into Its OwnWatching the opening days of this year’s Tour de France Femmes, you get the sense the race has finally carved out its own identity. The crowds are back in force, the atmosphere is electric, and the broadcast coverage is…
Iffy trackside8 Jul 2026From the roadside: Iffy on the heat, Pog’s statement, and a fighter’s farewellThe Detour’s John “Iffy” Trevorrow is embedded with Team Jayco AlUla at the 2026 Tour de France. On the morning of stage 5, before the sprinters get… Aussie pro men4 Jul 2026Eleven Aussies to watch at the 2026 Tour de FranceThere will be 11 Australians on the starting line for the team time trial in Barcelona on Saturday, and will have a deep and highly competitive… Aussie pro men30 Jun 2026Ten Aussies on the Barcelona Start LineI’m getting excited as I pack my bags in readiness for my flight to Europe tomorrow. My right hand man and good friend Vaz Juchima and I will be… Iffy trackside29 Jun 2026Tour de France 2026: Iffy Is Back On TourI can already feel the electricity in the air. This Tour has the ingredients for something unforgettable and I am heading straight into the centre of… Race analysis27 Jun 2026Two Leaders, One Yellow JerseyRed Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe are taking two captains to Barcelona. History says that’s brave, brilliant — or both. Features21 Jun 2026Merckx v Pogačar: the bikesCompare the bikes of Eddy Merckx and Tadej Pogacar a cross era comparison Features18 Jun 2026Merckx v Pogačar: the climbsCompare the same climbs of Eddy Merckx and Tadej Pogacar a cross era comparison Aussie junior talent16 Jun 2026A voyage of discovery: the rise of Luke TuckwellLuck Tuckwell Australia emerging cyclist talent Features9 Jun 2026Merckx v Pogačar: powerCompare power data of Eddy Merckx and Tadej Pogacar Features8 Jun 2026Merckx v Pogačar: the resultsCompare race results of Eddy Merckx and Tadej Pogacar Aussie pro men7 Jun 2026Bling is back: Michael Matthews’ incredible comebackMichael Matthews will return to professional cycling after a horrific crash with a fire truck Features6 Jun 2026WorldTour High School: semester one report cards (2026)By John “Iffy” Trevorrow - Head of Cycling, Behaviour & Brutal HonestyWelcome to parent–teacher night for the WorldTour.This isn’t just about who’s… Race analysis5 Jun 2026Pro Cycling Rumours: Key Transfers to Watch for 2026 World Tour SeasonPro cycling rider transfers to watch in 2026 Race analysis31 May 2026The Storm Before JulyThe Giro has a way of peeling back the layers of a team, a rider, a whole nation’s hopes, until all that’s left is the truth, and on the penultimate… Aussie pro men27 May 2026Jai Hindley and the Giro That Has Brought the Spark Back to Australian CyclingThe Giro has a way of stripping riders bare and showing you exactly who they are. As the race drifted into the high mountains and the snowbanks rose… Iffy trackside18 May 2026A Rest‑Day Chat With Whitey: Old Mates, New Chapters and the Giro That Never Lets GoI recorded a chat with a great friend of mine, Matt White, last night on the rest day of the Giro. It felt like slipping straight back into an old… Race analysis11 May 2026The Bulgaria Experiment: The Giro’s Boldest Gamble in Years And What It Really Taught UsFor all the talk about modern cycling becoming predictable, packaged, and algorithm safe, the Giro d’Italia reminded everyone this year that it still… Race analysis10 May 2026La Vuelta Femenina 2026: The Angliru Decided EverythingLa Vuelta Femenina arrived this year with a route that finally matched the ambition of the women who race it. Seven stages across Galicia, Castilla y… Iffy trackside10 May 2026The Giro Turned Into a Skating Rink and I Have Seen This Movie BeforeA Calm Start That Never Felt SafeI have watched a lot of bike races in my life and I have been in more dangerous bunches than I care to remember, but… Features7 May 2026Cycling’s Biggest Marginal Gain Is MindsetChampions do not just have big engines. They have regulated nervous systemsOne of the most fascinating things I have learned from years inside elite… Previews & punts6 May 2026Detour Giro d’Italia 2026 – Jersey Betting PreviewThe 2026 Giro route is a slow‑burn fuse that explodes in the final 10 days: a 40 km time trial, a savage stack of summit finishes (Blockhaus, Corno… Race analysis5 May 2026Everyone Is Talking About the Giro Start Issues. Here Is the Detour Deep Dive.The Giro always finds a way to create tension before the race even begins. This year it has done it again, but not in the way anyone expected. There… Race analysis4 May 2026Pog Ices His Season, Chaos in Spain and the Giro LoomsYour early week sugar hit before the Giro takes over your lifeIt is Monday, the legs are heavy, the inbox is ugly and somehow the cycling world has… Race analysis2 May 2026Women’s Cycling Isn’t Rising - It’s EruptingLet’s be honest: women’s cycling doesn’t need a report card. It doesn’t need a polite pat on the back or a tidy list of who impressed and who fell… Race analysis1 May 2026The Pog keeps adding new tricksPogačar has already put together the kind of start to a season that most riders would frame and hang on the wall, but last night he somehow managed… Features30 Apr 2026Inside the Fight for Paul SeixasThe Detour HQ Breakdown of Cycling’s Hottest Contract RacePaul Seixas has just delivered the kind of early‑career explosion that forces the entire… Race analysis29 Apr 2026Romandie Opens With Fireworks From Pogacar And A GC Teaser From PlappStage 1 of the 2026 Tour de Romandie was supposed to be a sorting day, a gentle nudge toward the GC picture. Instead, Tadej Pogačar turned it into a… Race analysis26 Apr 2026The Crown, the Comet, and the Greatest 4 Minutes Ever!Liège wrapped up this block of the classics with the kind of electricity that reminds you why this sport gets into your bloodstream and refuses to… Previews & punts26 Apr 2026Six Biggest Storylines for LiègeTonight is Liège–Bastogne–Liège, the oldest Monument in the sport and the one that strips away every illusion. It is long, it is cold, it is cruel,… Previews & punts24 Apr 2026Liège–Bastogne–Liège 2026 — The Detour Betting PreviewThe oldest Monument doesn’t do surprises — it just exposes who’s actually world‑class. No cobbles, no gimmicks, no hiding. Just six hours of truth… Where are they rolling now?24 Apr 2026The Rise, the Disappearance, and the Return of Freddy MaertensEver since Dan put out that Top Ten Comebacks story, people have been asking me whether I gave him a proper serve for leaving out Freddy Maertens. I… Race analysis23 Apr 2026Cycling Has Found Its Next Genuine Young GunI have covered a lot of bike races in my time and I have seen favourites win, favourites lose, favourites implode, and favourites ride like they were… Features22 Apr 2026Cycling’s Coldest Circles of HellOn the back of Stephen Williams’ freezing 2024 Flèche Wallonne and a lifetime of watching riders go to places they probably shouldn’tA couple of… Previews & punts21 Apr 2026Flèche Wallonne 2026: the Detour betting previewThe Mur waits for no oneFleche is the cruel one. Not the longest, not the wildest, not the most chaotic. It is simply the most honest. A race that… Where are they rolling now?20 Apr 2026The Detour top 10: cycling’s hardest, most motivational comebacksBefore we dive into the list it is worth pausing for a moment to acknowledge the story that sits at the centre of this community, the one that… Race analysis20 Apr 2026The peloton code is dead: welcome to the new wild west of cyclingThe old rules didn’t break. They were abandoned.There was a time, not that long ago, when the peloton behaved like a travelling parliament, a rolling… Race analysis19 Apr 2026Amstel carnage: Remco returns to god mode and Blasi steals the raceAmstel Gold 2026 did not behave like a polite anniversary edition. It behaved like a race that had been storing pressure for a year and finally… Aussie pro men19 Apr 2026Gerry Ryan Clears the Air After a Week of Noise, Headlines and Half TruthsIt has been one of those weeks in cycling where a single offhand comment becomes a runaway story, and before anyone has time to breathe the… Previews & punts18 Apr 2026Amstel Gold 2026: the Detour betting previewWhere the favourites sweat, the locals dream, and the Cauberg still decides who’s got legs and who’s got lies.The Shape of the RaceAmstel is the most… Race analysis17 Apr 2026The Money War: Why Roubaix’s Crowds Got Me Thinking About the Cash Behind CyclingThere seemed to be more fans than ever on the roadside at Roubaix this year. The Arenberg felt packed to the treetops, the velodrome was heaving, and… Race analysis15 Apr 2026Amstel Gold: where the Classics grow upThere is a moment every April when the cycling world exhales after the chaos of Flanders and Roubaix and then immediately tenses again. Amstel Gold… Race analysis14 Apr 2026The Finger to the Sky: Wout van Aert, Roubaix, and the Win He Carried for Eight YearsWhen Wout van Aert rolled into the Roubaix Velodrome, he didn’t celebrate like a man who had just beaten the world champion in a two‑up sprint. He… Race analysis13 Apr 2026Roubaix 2026: A Race That Shook the Cobblestones and a Watch Party That Shook The BleakhouseParis Roubaix has always been unpredictable, but this year felt like the race had been plugged into a power socket. From the moment the flag dropped… Previews & punts12 Apr 2026Paris–Roubaix 2026: The Ultimate Betting Preview for TonightParis–Roubaix 2026 will not be the clean, high‑speed drag race we expected earlier in the week. The latest forecast confirms a rain band passing… Where are they rolling now?11 Apr 2026Stuart O’Grady and Fabian Cancellara: The Roubaix Brotherhood That Changed CyclingStuart O’Grady and Fabian Cancellara sit in a very small, very exclusive corner of cycling history. They are riders who didn’t just win Paris‑Roubaix… Race analysis9 Apr 2026The Last Kingdom: Why Roubaix Is the Final Frontier for Tadej PogacarThere is a particular electricity around Paris Roubaix this year, and it all comes back to one idea. Roubaix is the last kingdom Tadej Pogacar has… Race analysis7 Apr 2026The Train, The Chaos, The King: Flanders Like You’ve Never Seen ItThe Tour of Flanders is the one race that never lets you down — and this year it didn’t just deliver, it detonated. Chaos, controversy, a train line… Aussie pro men2 Apr 2026Australia & the Ronde: Chasing the One That Got AwayThe Tour of Flanders — Ronde van Vlaanderen to anyone who’s ever stood on a Belgian roadside with a beer at 9am, is arguably the most prestigious of… Iffy trackside2 Apr 2026Glasgow, Comm Games & Bloody Madness: John’s TakeI don’t usually wade into political debates, but the decision to cancel the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Victoria was — to put it bluntly — bloody… Race analysis30 Mar 2026Time to Fire Up The Belgium Block Is HereThere is a point in every season when the sport seems to collectively exhale, look north, and accept its fate. The sunshine of Australia is gone, the… Features29 Mar 2026The Wildest Bike Heists in Pro CyclingCycling loves to present itself as a world of precision, marginal gains, wind‑tunnel science, ceramic bearings polished by monks. But peel back the… Iffy trackside28 Mar 2026Iffy’s hot take: Europe just melted down and I’m here for itPidcock vanishes into a ravine, Remco raises more Tour doubts, Van der Poel goes full alien again, and Jayco-AlUla take control in Italy. Strap… Race analysis26 Mar 2026NSN Are Building Real Momentum and the Peloton Can Feel ItEvery season reaches a point where a team stops being a curiosity and starts becoming a threat. For NSN Cycling Team, that shift feels like it has… Iffy trackside26 Mar 2026Catalunya Stage 3 — The Day Everyone Lost Their MindsWow. I have watched a lot of bike races in my life, but Stage 3 of Catalunya was one of those days where you sit back and think, yep, the sport has… Where are they rolling now?24 Mar 2026A Grand Tour, a Grand Mess and a Grand GoodbyeI never planned for 1981 to be my last year in the pro peloton. Then again, I was never much of a professional in the traditional sense. The year… Features24 Mar 2026The Attention Crash – How Cycling Media (and the World) Got RewiredThere was a time, and it really wasn’t that long ago, when you could make a 10–15 minute documentary about a bike race, upload it to YouTube, and… Aussie pro men23 Mar 2026The Aussies to watch as Classics season ignitesThe first Monument is in the books and Milan San Remo has already delivered its annual chaos. With Michael Matthews out after breaking both wrists in… Race analysis22 Mar 2026Pogačar Just Ended the GOAT Debate at Milan–San RemoThere are wins, and then there are the ones that shift the sport. Last night in San Remo, Tadej Pogačar didn’t just win a bike race — he rewrote the… Where are they rolling now?14 Mar 2026Tyler Hamilton: The Interview That Nearly Set Off the Smoke Alarm in the Detour StudioThere are guests who give you a nice chat. There are guests who give you a good yarn. And then there is Tyler Hamilton, who sits down, smiles… Race analysis12 Mar 2026Cycling’s New Arms Race: Why the Sport Is Faster, Younger and More Ruthless Than EverProfessional road cycling is not just getting quicker. It is transforming at a pace that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago. Speeds are… Where are they rolling now?4 Mar 2026The Day the Stars Aligned: Allan Peiper, Tadej Pogacar and the Ride That Changed EverythingThe 2020 Tour de France will always be remembered as the Tour that refused to follow the script. It was the pandemic edition, the one with masked… Where are they rolling now?4 Mar 2026Tina Arena’s Champs Élysées Serenade: The Anthem, The Aussie Win, and the Shot I Had to TakeCadel Evans had finally done it. After years of near misses, heartbreaks, crashes and sheer stubborn resilience, he became the first Australian to… Features12 Feb 2026The Quiet Crisis in Pro Cycling – Why Burnout Is Ending Careers EarlyThere’s a conversation happening quietly in the corners of the peloton, in hotel hallways, in team buses, and in the minds of riders who don’t want… Where are they rolling now?12 Feb 2026The Bus - How One Moment of Chaos Became Cycling FolkloreThe Tour de France is the biggest event in cycling, but it is much more than that. It is the biggest annual sporting event in the world, and just to… Where are they rolling now?12 Feb 2026The Bay Crits – How a Wild Idea Became an Australian Summer IconSome ideas arrive fully formed. Others take a bit of stubbornness, a bit of luck, and a bit of sheer bloody-mindedness. The Bay Cycling Classic — or… Iffy trackside12 Feb 2026How the Detour Was Born – A Very Accidental BeginningPeople often ask me how the Detour started. They expect a grand plan or some clever strategy. The truth is far more chaotic and far more fun.In 2004… Where are they rolling now?12 Feb 2026The Day Australian Cycling Changed ForeverI am standing with Gerry Ryan on the Champs Elysees at the final stage of the 2010 Tour de France. It is one of the most magnificent boulevards in… Race analysis12 Feb 2026Back in the Bubble – A weekend with NSN Cycling TeamSome race weekends are just race weekends. You turn up, get the shots, grab a coffee that tastes like burnt tyres, and head home. But every so often…

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Where are they rolling now?24 Apr 2026The Rise, the Disappearance, and the Return of Freddy MaertensEver since Dan put out that Top Ten Comebacks story, people have been asking me whether I gave him a proper serve for leaving out Freddy Maertens. I…Where are they rolling now?20 Apr 2026The Detour top 10: cycling’s hardest, most motivational comebacksBefore we dive into the list it is worth pausing for a moment to acknowledge the story that sits at the centre of this community, the one that…Where are they rolling now?11 Apr 2026Stuart O’Grady and Fabian Cancellara: The Roubaix Brotherhood That Changed CyclingStuart O’Grady and Fabian Cancellara sit in a very small, very exclusive corner of cycling history. They are riders who didn’t just win Paris‑Roubaix…Where are they rolling now?24 Mar 2026A Grand Tour, a Grand Mess and a Grand GoodbyeI never planned for 1981 to be my last year in the pro peloton. Then again, I was never much of a professional in the traditional sense. The year…Where are they rolling now?14 Mar 2026Tyler Hamilton: The Interview That Nearly Set Off the Smoke Alarm in the Detour StudioThere are guests who give you a nice chat. There are guests who give you a good yarn. And then there is Tyler Hamilton, who sits down, smiles…Where are they rolling now?4 Mar 2026The Day the Stars Aligned: Allan Peiper, Tadej Pogacar and the Ride That Changed EverythingThe 2020 Tour de France will always be remembered as the Tour that refused to follow the script. It was the pandemic edition, the one with masked…Where are they rolling now?4 Mar 2026Tina Arena’s Champs Élysées Serenade: The Anthem, The Aussie Win, and the Shot I Had to TakeCadel Evans had finally done it. After years of near misses, heartbreaks, crashes and sheer stubborn resilience, he became the first Australian to…Where are they rolling now?12 Feb 2026The Bus - How One Moment of Chaos Became Cycling FolkloreThe Tour de France is the biggest event in cycling, but it is much more than that. It is the biggest annual sporting event in the world, and just to…Where are they rolling now?12 Feb 2026The Bay Crits – How a Wild Idea Became an Australian Summer IconSome ideas arrive fully formed. Others take a bit of stubbornness, a bit of luck, and a bit of sheer bloody-mindedness. The Bay Cycling Classic — or…Where are they rolling now?12 Feb 2026The Day Australian Cycling Changed ForeverI am standing with Gerry Ryan on the Champs Elysees at the final stage of the 2010 Tour de France. It is one of the most magnificent boulevards in…

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