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Take a look at the people wandering around Girona and you may notice that some of them stand out from the crowd. Among the locals and the tourists here to see the city’s famous fortified walls, Gothic

Take Alpe d’Huez, add three hairpins and two per cent to the gradient, and what you’ve got is the one of the toughest but least known climbs in Spain. Mont Caro, in the Terres de L’Ebre region of Cata

mil Johansson has enjoyed enormous success in slopestyle riding. For those out of the loop, that’s where riders perform ridiculously complex, video game-like tricks over a succession of different-shap

Times are changing at the world’s biggest bike race. For most of us watching at home, the more fans, the more razzmatazz, the more hullaballoo the better. The carefully distilled passion fills up our

“Today is the third greatest day of my life.” Hans-Joachim Stuck has tears welling in his eyes. “After the birth of my two sons, nothing I’ve done has matched this. Nothing.” This from a man who has s

Length: 21.3km Elevation gain: 1,142m Average gradient: 5% Maximum gradient: 12% The Colle del Nivolet in north-west Italy is the most beautiful mountain road in the world. Fact. But that’s not the on