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Yves Lampaert races a horse-drawn sulky in an annual tradition of cyclist vs. horse racing. The two competitors are on parallel tracks, Lampaert on pavement and the horse on sand, and Lampaert, slightly ahead, is looking over at his four-legged competition as if to judge when to open his finishing sprint.

Tangents • Just a small-town Belgian horse vs. cyclist race, what of it?

by Iain Treloar • 05 Oct 2023

A man on a Tourtel publicity float hands a can of drink to a roadside fan.

Tangents • The Tour’s non-alcoholic beer sponsor is now the Olympics’ non-alcoholic beer sponsor

by Iain Treloar • 15 Sep 2023

Sepp Kuss smiles, tongue out, holding a birthday cake.

Tangents • Can we at least give the man a decent cake

by Iain Treloar • 14 Sep 2023

Tangents • The curious case of Chris Froome’s ‘yo mama’ joke

by Iain Treloar • 08 Sep 2023

Tangents • The inner workings

by Caley Fretz • 03 Sep 2023

Composite image. Left: woman with bicycle helmet extends lipstick. Right: lipstick being applied to dirty bicycle chain.

Tangents • These cycling hacks are deeply cursed

by Iain Treloar • 03 Sep 2023

Tangents • An ode to cycling blogs, dead and alive

by wade wallace • 25 Aug 2023

An AI-generated image of a shark in a swimming pool at night.

Tangents • I went to cover the Tour de France and got eaten by a shark

by Matt de Neef • 25 Aug 2023

Tangents • How did we get here?

by Caley Fretz • 24 Aug 2023

Donald Trump looks at a high-end bicycle that is being shown to him at an exhibition of US-made products.

Tangents • Legal woes worsen for major bike race founder

by Iain Treloar • 17 Aug 2023

Jeremy Barzic riding a bicycle sculpture of himself as a bicycle.

Tangents • The French artist who turned himself into a bicycle

by Iain Treloar • 16 Aug 2023

A cyclist climbing the Col du Tourmalet on a celeste-green Bianchi Infinito bike, dressed in black shorts and a light blue CyclingTips jersey with dark blue shoulders and a white helmet. The road tilts precipitously, and the peaks behind him are slightly obscured by mist.

Tangents • The Col du Tourmalet, 10 years later

by Matt de Neef • 04 Aug 2023