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PeloPics: Groupama-FDJ's Thibaut Pinot is the overall winner of the Tour of the Alps as Mark Padun (Bahrain-Merida) took the victory in the final stage in Innsbruck - Photo gallery, result and video.

Rider Interview: Young Australian, Nick Schultz, has been going 'full gas' with the Caja Rural-Seguros RGA team since the start of the 2017 season and so it was past time Ed Hood caught up with the man from Brisbane. With a Grand Tour and a load of WorldTour appearances under his belt, he has a big story to tell.

PeloPics: Alejandro Valverde was the man to beat in Wednesday's Flèche Wallonne. The man from Murcia was looking for his sixth win which would be his fifth Flèche in a row. The Quick-Step Floors had a different idea and put Julian Alaphilippe in the perfect position to take the win and upset the Movistar apple cart - Photo and Video gallery.

April 19, 2018 - No Flèche Wallonne win for Alejandro Valverde and Thibaut Pinot takes the lead in the Alps - Results and video. Patrick Lefevere unhappy with the race motos - Top Story. Other cycling news: Andy Rihs passing, team line-ups for Liège, Eschborn-Frankfurt 2018, Cavendish for Yorkshire, Wahoo for British races and the Sunweb Keep Challenging Center.

Race Report: Julian Alaphilippe took advantage of the excellent effort from his team to finally unseat Alejandro Valverde as the King of the Mur. The Young Frenchman threw down the gauntlet, but the 'mature' Spaniard fell short by the finish line.

PeloPics: This Sunday will see the pro peloton attack the tough climbs of the Ardennes in the Liège-Bastogne-Liège one-day Classic, the oldest Classic on the calendar. 1986 was a wet and cold edition of La Doyenne, but Italian, Moreno Argentin came out on top - Photo gallery from Liège '86.

PeloPics: Groupama-FDJ's Thibaut Pinot is the overall winner of the Tour of the Alps as Mark Padun (Bahrain-Merida) took the victory in the final stage in Innsbruck - Photo gallery, result and video.

PeloPics: Astana's Luis Leon Sanchez takes the stage 4 win in Tour of the Alps. Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FJD) stays in the overall lead - Photos, video and results.

Race Report: Julian Alaphilippe took advantage of the excellent effort from his team to finally unseat Alejandro Valverde as the King of the Mur. The Young Frenchman threw down the gauntlet, but the 'mature' Spaniard fell short by the finish line.

Race Preview: There have been many memorable moments in 'La Doyenne' over the years, well, the Liège-Bastogne-Liège one-day Classic has been running since 1892. Sunday sees the WorldTour peloton hit the stiff Walloon climbs and Ed Hood has all the information you need to know from the Ardennes. The 2018 Liège PEZ Preview.

Race News: Astana’s Michael Valgren won the Amstel Gold Race after 260 kilometers of gruelling action in the hills of Holland. The Dane benefited from his team’s numerical superiority in the finale and from the mutually paralyzing tactics of race favourites Peter Sagan, Alejandro Valverde and Julian Alaphilippe.

Amstel '17: The cobbles are behind us and the hills of the Ardennes are rearing up on the WorldTour horizon. Peter Easton has been guiding rides over the bergs of the Amstel Gold Race for years with VeloClassic Tours, here are his strongest memories from the not so low-country.

Roadside PEZ: The 2018 edition of Paris-Roubaix is only hours away but onlookers in the small northern town of Templeuve-en-Plévèle could be forgiven for thinking that they have stepped back in time to 1896. A curious cyclist who looks like he might have been roommates with Maurice Garin pedals down the street.

As we count down to Sunday and the Hell of the North, Ed Hood looks back at the 2007 Paris Roubaix and how the underdog, Stuart O'Grady, left the top riders in his dust. As a regular to the Queen Classic, Ed and his pals inspect the cobbles of Arenberg, the mechanics at work, the Roubaix velodrome and, of course, a local bar.

Big hilite for a die-hard fan like me was running into Team Elevate-KHS Belgian Waffle Ride winner Brian McCulloch at the Xpedo booth at Sea Otter Classic - where I learned something interesting about the Xpedo Thrust pedals Brian rode to win the race.

Toolbox: Watching the final crush of Milan Sanremo is to view the crescendo of many hours of impressive metabolism. 1000 kilojoule/hour are common place in the pro cycling peloton, and most surely the last hour of M-S-R is way above that value. Those guys are lean and mean - they've optimized their body mass to build anaerobic power.  What about you?

The sports nutrition and supplements industry is a multi-billion dollar business. To cut through the pseudoscience and marketing flim-flam masquerading as science, the International Olympic Committee just published an excellent scientific consensus on “Dietary Supplements and the High Performance Athlete.”

TOOLBOX: It’s that time of year for many cyclists: our base training period is ending and we’re moving into the “build phase".  But these five common mistakes can stop your progress, so here's what to watch out form and how to keep your training on track.

This Trek is a special bike for many reasons: it has suspension, it has ridden Paris-Roubaix, it's an ex-team bike and it holds great memories of a wonderful man who is no longer with us. Martin Clark put the bike together in memory of his friend and took it back to Roubaix.

Today's reader is Aaron from Australia who has recently added to his ever growing stable of Specialized bikes with a new Allez Sprint LTD in bright pink which certainly doesn't go unnoticed on the roads down under.

Today's rig is a Cervélo S3 that was bought as a frame only back in 2011 but has received some classy upgrades to put it easily on par with more modern machines. Built up with SRAM Red and some sweet carbon rims from Fairwheelbikes the bike weighs in at a very light 6.32 kg to make it a great climbing and flats bike for owner Twain from San Francisco.