Cyclist Magazine

New year, new kit

By this point of the year we’ve usually been treated to a few bushtucker sprints and a Richie Porte victory on Willunga Hill. But the Tour Down Under being reduced to a domestic race for a second straight year has left us with slim pickings for early-season racing on TV. What has aired at the time of writing – the Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana – looked to have been filmed on a phone half a kilometre ahead of the peloton.

A pile-up on the home straight was

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