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We’re the passionate biking fan’s first port of name for racing, information, interviews, evaluation, and tech.
We offer complete protection of cycle racing – throughout highway, monitor, mountain bike, cyclocross and gravel – by means of outcomes, race stories, images and dwell race updates. Information is a cornerstone of the positioning and we’re dedicated to maintaining readers knowledgeable in regards to the sport and its protagonists.
On prime of that, our group of journalists, who journey the world to attend races, supply unrivalled perception by means of interviews, evaluation and different in-depth options.
Cyclingnews has additionally grown to grow to be a number one vacation spot for biking members of all talents, by means of our providing of product critiques, shopping for guides and health recommendation. Our tech group use their knowledgeable information that will help you get probably the most out of your using.
What you may anticipate from us
Complete race protection (outcomes, stories, dwell races)Breaking newsIn-depth options, interviews, analysisBlogs and diariesImmersive photographyPro techExpert reviewsBuying guidesFitness recommendation
Meet the group
Editor
Kirsten Frattini has been the Editor of Cyclingnews since December 2025, overseeing editorial operations and output throughout the model and delivering high quality, partaking content material.
She manages international budgets, racing & occasions, manufacturing scheduling, and contributor commissions, collaborating throughout content material sections and groups within the UK, Europe, North America, and Australia to make sure viewers and subscription development throughout the model.
Kirsten has a background in Kinesiology and Well being Science. She has been concerned in biking from the neighborhood and grassroots stage to skilled biking’s largest races, reporting on the WorldTour, Spring Classics, Excursions de France, World Championships and Olympic Video games.
She started her sports activities journalism profession with Cyclingnews as a North American Correspondent in 2006 earlier than transferring right into a Manufacturing Editor position in 2014, writing, producing and publishing worldwide racing content material. In 2018, Kirsten turned Girls’s Editor – overseeing the content material technique, race protection and development of girls’s skilled biking – earlier than turning into Deputy Editor in 2023.
Managing Editor
Laura Weislo has been with Cyclingnews since 2006 after making a swap from a profession in science. As Managing Editor, she coordinates protection for North American occasions and international information. As former elite-level highway racer who dabbled in cyclo-cross and monitor, Laura has a ardour for all three disciplines. When not working she likes to go tenting and discover lesser traveled roads, paths and gravel tracks.
Affiliate Editor (Tech)
Josh is Affiliate Editor of Cyclingnews – main our content material on one of the best bikes, package and the newest breaking tech tales from the professional peloton.
Josh has been with us for the reason that summer season of 2019 and all through that point he is lined the whole lot from purchaser’s guides and offers to the newest tech information and critiques. On the bike, Josh has been using and racing for over 15 years.
He began out racing cross nation in his teenagers again when 26-inch wheels and triple chainsets have been nonetheless mainstream, however he discovered favour in highway racing in his early 20s, racing at an area and nationwide stage for Somerset-based Staff Tor 2000.
Nowadays he rides indoors for comfort and health, and outdoor for enjoyable on highway, gravel, ‚cross and cross nation bikes, the latter normally along with his two canine in tow.
Australia Editor
Simone joined the group as Manufacturing Editor primarily based in Australia firstly of the 2021 season, having beforehand labored as Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg.
Engagement Editor
Pete joined Cyclingnews as Engagement Editor in 2024 having beforehand labored at GCN as a digital content material creator, chopping his tooth in biking journalism throughout their app, social media platforms, and web site. Whereas finding out Journalism at college, he labored as a freelancer for Biking Weekly reporting on races such because the Giro d’Italia and Milan-San Remo alongside protecting the Girls’s Tremendous League and non-league soccer for varied titles. Pete has an plain ardour for sport, with a eager curiosity in tennis, operating and soccer too.
Editor-at-large
Stephen is probably the most skilled member of the Cyclingnews group, having reported on skilled biking since 1994. Earlier than he was editor-at-large, he was Head of Information at Cyclingnews since 2022, earlier than which he held the place of European editor since 2012 and beforehand labored for Reuters, Shift Lively Media, and CyclingWeekly, amongst different publications.
Senior Information Author
Dani Ostanek is Senior Information Author at Cyclingnews, having joined in 2017 as a contract contributor, later being employed full-time. Earlier than becoming a member of the group, she had written for quite a few main publications within the biking world, together with Biking Weekly and Rouleur.
Dani has reported from the world’s prime races and has interviewed most of the sport’s largest stars, together with Mathieu van der Poel, Demi Vollering, and Maëva Squiban. Her favorite races embrace Strade Bianche, the Tour de France Femmes, Paris-Roubaix, and Tro-Bro Léon.
Assistant Options Editor
Matilda Value is an NCTJ-qualified journalist primarily based within the UK who joined Cyclingnews in March 2025.
Previous to that, she labored on the Racing Information Editor at GCN, and extensively as a freelancer contributing to Cyclingnews, Biking Weekly, Velo, Rouleur, Escape Collective, Crimson Bull and extra.
She has reported from most of the largest occasions on the calendar, together with the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France Femmes, Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix.
She has specific expertise and experience in ladies’s biking, and girls’s sport normally. She is a graduate of recent languages and sports activities journalism.
Manufacturing Editor
Jackie has been concerned in skilled sports activities for greater than 30 years in information reporting, sports activities advertising and public relations. She based Peloton Sports activities in 1998, a sports activities advertising and public relations company, which managed tasks for Tour de Georgia, Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah and USA Biking.
She additionally based Bike Alpharetta Inc, a Georgia non-profit to advertise protected biking for folks of all talents and ages and labored in skilled baseball for six years. She has climbed l’Alpe d’Huez thrice (not rapidly) and likes to journey a mountain bike in Georgia and Utah. Jackie joined Cyclingnews in 2020 with a deal with the North American race scene, from cyclo-cross to criteriums.
Senior Employees author
Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on biking since 1991. He has lined each Tour de France since 1992 in addition to quite a few different bike races of all sizes and styles, starting from the Olympic Video games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. In addition to working for Cyclingnews, he has additionally written for The Impartial, the Guardian, and Reuters.
Information author
James Moultrie is a gold-standard NCTJ journalist who joined Cyclingnews as a Information Author in 2023 after initially contributing as a freelancer for eight months, throughout which era he additionally wrote for Eurosport, Rouleur and Biking Weekly. Previous to becoming a member of the group he reported on races corresponding to Paris-Roubaix and the Giro d’Italia Donne for Eurosport and has interviewed a few of the sport’s prime riders in Chloé Dygert, Lizzie Deignan and Wout Van Aert. Outdoors of biking, he spends the vast majority of his time watching different sports activities – rugby, soccer, cricket and American Soccer to call a couple of.
Senior Tech author
Will joined the Cyclingnews group as a critiques author in early 2022, having beforehand written for Bicycle owner, BikeRadar and Advntr. There are only a few forms of biking he is not dabbled in, and he has a specific affection for older bikes and long-lasting elements.
Highway using was his past love, earlier than graduating to racing CX in Yorkshire. He is been touring on a classic tandem all over to mounted gear gravel using and MTB too. When he is not out using one in every of his many bikes he can normally be discovered within the storage tinkering with one other of them, or getting obsessive about tyres. Additionally, as he does not use Zwift, he is our go-to man for dangerous climate testing… bless him.
Tom Wieckowski
Tech author
Tom joined the Cyclingnews group in late 2022 as tech author. Tom has over 10 years of expertise as a professional mechanic with 5 or so of these being spent operating an impartial workshop. Tom has ridden and raced bikes from an early age as much as a nationwide stage on the highway and monitor and has ridden and competed in most disciplines, even the odd bit of motorcycle polo. Tom is as joyful tinkering away within the storage as he’s out on the highway bike exploring the Worcestershire lanes.
Rob Spedding
Content material Director
Rob serves as Content material Director at Future Publishing, a portfolio that spans Cyclingnews, Biking Weekly, Match&Nicely, Golf Month-to-month and MBR. His first correct highway bikes have been a Raleigh Dash within the early Nineteen Eighties after which a Trek 1000 in 1999. Rob spent 12 years as editor of Biking Plus journal after which he took on the position of Content material Director at Bikeradar.
Why belief us?
Since 1995, Cyclingnews has upheld a dedication to offering complete protection {of professional} biking and has constructed up a repute because the world centre of the game on-line.
Our reporters have a wealth of expertise and connections in skilled biking, and we pleasure ourselves on being current at extra races than some other media outlet all through the season. Our entry, perception, and knowledgeable evaluation helps readers keep knowledgeable but in addition brings them nearer to the game and its stars.
Our tech group are all passionate riders who know bikes and the bike business inside out. Whether or not it is high-end highway using, gravel and journey, or leisure and commuting, we’re dedicated to utilizing that experience that will help you get extra out of your using.
Cyclingnews upholds sturdy requirements of editorial independence. Our content material shouldn’t be topic to exterior affect from riders, groups, or manufacturers. It’s our coverage to not grant copy management to public relations representatives for these entities. Our critiques and shopping for guides are trustworthy and free from industrial concerns.
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Our critiques and ethics coverage
Relaxation assured that every one our critiques are impartial and free from industrial concerns. We by no means take cash for critiques. Nothing that has a star ranking has been paid for.
We typically take journeys and hospitality to attend reveals and see merchandise. We at all times point out this inside our protection. It doesn’t have an effect on how we take into consideration merchandise however does have an effect on whether or not we cowl sure merchandise (as in we could not have been capable of get to see a sure product had the corporate not taken us to see it).
Nearly all our overview merchandise are despatched to us by the businesses concerned and normally because of our request. We at all times return merchandise on request or on the finish of our agreed mortgage interval. For extra on our overview processes, please see our ‚how we check‘ web page.
We rating merchandise on a scale from 1 to five stars. Three stars is an efficient to excellent product, 4 stars is a wonderful product. 5 stars are by no means awarded frivolously and are a mark of outstanding high quality.
Affiliate & Promoting disclosure
We’re dedicated to serving to you discover one of the best services in your wants and connecting you with reliable retailers the place you should buy them at aggressive costs. Inside our editorial content material, we frequently present hyperlinks to services on retailer websites for which we are able to obtain compensation – known as an affiliate price – in the event you click on on these hyperlinks or make purchases by means of them. That affiliate price is paid to us by the retailer and doesn’t straight have an effect on the worth you pay for the services or products.
Our knowledgeable editorial groups are impartial. This implies the services they choose to look in our articles are chosen primarily based on their unbiased, knowledgeable judgement and relevance to the readers‘ wants and article content material. Whereas our editors could also be knowledgeable by industrial insights to know the market, our aim is at all times to offer impartial, goal, helpful and helpful recommendation to our readers.
Our curated product widgets that you just see in a few of our articles are supposed that will help you discover one of the best services, at aggressive costs, at trusted retailers. These widgets are powered by our personal software program, known as Hawk, which shows the newest product and worth data from 1000’s of shops. We are going to at all times do our greatest to make sure that we show probably the most up-to-date data potential. Every so often, a retailer could have up to date their costs, up or down, earlier than the adverts displayed by Hawk are up to date. Retailers may additionally add supply or different prices to the acquisition – please see the retailer’s website for extra data. The affiliate charges we obtain assist us to proceed growing Hawk in addition to serving to to pay our groups and different web site prices.
We additionally run promoting in varied types. Advertisements on our web sites are designed in a manner that makes them clearly identifiable as adverts and distinguishable from our editorial articles.
Every now and then, we additionally publish paid-for editorial content material on the positioning. This content material is labelled so you may see who has funded it and the way it was created. We’ve a full information to content material funding on Cyclingnews right here. You may also see the total phrases and situations that apply to your use of our websites proper right here.
Accreditations and memberships
Cyclingnews is a member of the IPSO (Impartial Press Requirements Organisation) which regulates the UK print and digital information business.
We abide by the Editors’ Code of Observe and are dedicated to upholding the very best requirements of journalism. When you assume that we’ve got not met these requirements and wish to make a criticism, please contact authorized@futurenet.com
If we’re unable to resolve your criticism, or if you need extra details about IPSO or the Editors’ Code, contact IPSO on 0300 123 2220 or go to www.ipso.co.uk
Privateness coverage
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