Ulrich Bartholmoes, 2023 Tour Divide winner
In 2023, just four years after competing in his first bikepacking race, Ulrich Bartholmoes won the biggest race of them all, the Tour Divide. The 2,745-mile route is always at the mercy of the element...
4 Maalis 20241h 19min
Danni Shrosbree on US vs European gravel and placing 4th at Unbound
Danni Shrosbree knows a thing or two about multitasking. Having spent years juggling a full-time job in the footwear industry alongside professional road cycling, the British cyclist added the Life Ti...
26 Helmi 20241h 10min
Christian Meier on leaving the WorldTour for ultrarunning
In 2016, Christian Meier made an unusual decision: at the age of 31, he walked away from a successful WorldTour career a year before his contract was due to end to focus on the coffee shop he and his ...
21 Helmi 20241h 16min
Lawson Craddock on 10 years in the pro peloton, the 2018 Tour, and Texas
Lawson Craddock grew up in the flatland of Houston but fought his way onto the WorldTour feeder team Trek-Livestrong when he was still a teenager. After turning pro three years later, he raced for Gia...
12 Helmi 20241h 10min
Heidi Franz on surviving the Zaaf debacle and returning to the pro peloton
In 2022, Heidi Franz was approached with an enticing offer: B&B Hotels-KTM, a revamped team with a sky-high budget and some of the biggest WorldTour riders set to sign on, wanted her on its roster. Bu...
4 Helmi 20241h 40min
Jack Thompson on resetting the boundaries of ultra cycling and recovering from addiction
Known to his fans as Jack Ultra Cyclist, Jack Thompson has been smashing world records left and right for close to a decade. Growing up in Perth, Australia, he struggled with depression and obsessive-...
28 Tammi 20241h 37min
Sam Gaze on his mountain bike world titles, depression, and joining Alpecin-Deceuninck
In 2014, Sam Gaze was a privateering teenager from a rural farming town in New Zealand when he took the men's title in the opening round of an eliminator World Cup in Cairns, Australia. With this brea...
21 Tammi 20241h 29min
Petr Vakoč, off-road racer and former WorldTour rider
Before migrating to off-road racing last year, Czech cyclist Petr Vakoč spent nearly 10 years racing in the WorldTour, most notably as a member of team Quick-Step. During his road career, he made the ...
15 Tammi 20241h 26min
