Publisher - What's Cool In Road Cycling

To celebrate international Negroni Week - I present four of my best negronis in recent memory. I travelled to Venice, Lake Garda, and Corvara Italy, to celebrate the cocktail that itself is a celebration of living one's best life.

Lake Placid, located in the New York State's Adirondack Mountains region, is one of only three places that have hosted the Winter Olympics twice, the others being Innsbruck and St. Moritz. Lake Placid offers road cyclists some outstanding opportunities for riding and one of these is the Ironman Loop.

Instead of shooting over the Channel to 'Race Chase' the Classics or the Tour de France, Ed Hood has been getting better acquainted with his local paths, thanks to his Ribble gravel e-Bike. Here is one of his favourite gravel rambles.

Tadej Pogačar and his fiancé, Urska Zigart joined forces with Plume® and completed its third annual #PlumeStrong Cycling Challenge. What makes this achievement truly remarkable is the staggering €550,000 they raised that will help build a school in one of the areas most affected by the devastating earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria.

The One Hour Record—is there anything simpler in cycling? Get on your track bike, ride around a velodrome for an hour really fast. Many of cycling's greatest stars have reached for the brass ring, as well as lesser known but motivated riders. One of these is the subject of a documentary from INEOS Grenadiers about Dan Bigham's 2022 attempt.

Ed Hood looks back at the final stage of the 2012 Vuelta in Madrid. ‘Ultimo kilometro!’ the 'speaker' bellows into his mic as up on the big screen, De Kort tries to make his legs forget about the Bola del Mundo. His ‘body weight over the pedals’ style is similar to his Capo, John Degenkolb who sits in his slipstream awaiting the mindful moment. . .