Cycling News

22 December 2020 In her first race of the cyclocross season, Marianne Vos rode away from the lead group to take a commanding victory at Ethias Cross in Essen, Belgium. After having to cut her cyclocross season short in January due to injury, Marianne Vos made her return in Essen, Belgium on Tuesday. In muddy conditions, Vos patiently awaited her moment to attack from the lead group in the final lap. She crossed the line for the victory alone, taking her second consecutive win at the race. “I had to go deep, but it went well,” said Vos in a post-race interview....

21 DECEMBER 2020 With a near perfect 9/10 rating, the new TCR Advanced Pro Disc earned a place on Cycling Weekly’s 2020 Editor’s Choice Awards. Editors were impressed with its light weight, efficiency and road handling, calling it “a fantastic bike.” Cycling Weekly tester Vern Pitt reported on the evolution of the TCR range and all the innovations in the latest generation. “The TCR has a devout following among a group of people who value its total devotion to being fast, racy and light,” he wrote. “Upon seeing the first press shots of the new one I was hard pressed to tell the difference. Up...

17 DECEMBER 2020 VeloNews published its 2020 Gear Awards and one of the most hotly contested categories, Road Bike of the Year, went to the new Giant TCR Advanced SL Disc. VeloNews Technical editor Dan Cavallari reported on the updates to the flagship model in the TCR Advanced SL Disc series. “Giant got the revamp train rolling by making its TCR Advanced SL 0 lighter, more lithe, and frankly, more fun to ride,”  he wrote. “[It] still features aerodynamic tube shapes, though you wouldn’t know it at first glance. Aero aside, Giant placed its attention on light weight (my test bike weighed...

07 DECEMBER 2020 Michael van den Ham, the current Canadian National Cyclocross Champion from the Easton-Giant team, is about to start his 2020 Cyclocross race season a few months later than normal. With no racing to speak of in Canada, Michael is on his way to Belgium to compete at a limited number of UCI World Cups and Superprestige races. He'll do so aboard his newly custom painted TCX Advanced Pro race bike. The bike is inspired by the Avro Arrow, a prototype supersonic plane from the 1950s that was designed to intercept bombers carrying nuclear weapons. As Michael puts...

MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2020 Giant-sponsored triathlete Gustav Iden won the PTO 2020 Championship at Challenge Daytona in Florida, topping a stellar pro field with his Trinity Advanced Pro bike and CADEX WheelSystem to take the $100,000 pro men’s purse at the U.S event. The race featured the top 40 ranked male and female athletes in the Professional Triathletes Organisation (PTO), all competing for a pro purse of more than $1 million. The event was held at the Daytona International Speedway, on a course that consisted of a 2km swim in Lake Lloyd, an 80km bike (20 laps on a 4km...