Our highlights for 2020
1. Allez Holland!
The successes of Marianne Vos make even the great Eddy Merckx look like a lightweight: for 15 years and across all disciplines, she’s won the biggest races and defeated all her competitors. Over recent years she fought back from her injuries and an overcrowded race schedule and again dominated the competition in 2019. Last year in Tokyo and at the World Championships, the most significant threats all came from her own team. Regardless of the surface and the discipline, the Dutch women outperform all others. At the Cyclocross World Championships, the entire podium was orange, and Annemiek van Vleuten's 100 km ride at last year's Road World Championships showed the world that as soon as there is climbing involved, they better watch out.
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2. Playing catch-up with infrastructure
3. MTB Evolution
4. Everyday e-bikes
In the early days, e-bikes were just bicycles with a built-in motor to help you get uphill or to travel a bit further. As revolutionary as this concept was, new developments in the e-bike world show we’re just scratching the surface of what is possible. Small e-bikes like the Orbea Katu-e can be easily stored in your home if you don't have a garage. E-cargobikes are replacing family cars and innovative models such as the Fixie Inc. backspin not only make your path through the urban jungle easier – they also look fantastic.
5. Your next road bike should be a gravel bike
6. The youth takes over
Last year the Tour of France was won by a 22-year-old, and there are so many prodigies in the big teams it looks like this season there’ll be even more classics won by the youngsters. The Belgian Wout van Aert is back in top form after his heavy crash last summer and has a lot to prove in the spring classics and time trial. His eternal rival Matthieu van der Poel is focusing on mountain bike racing in Tokyo this year, where he’s got a good chance of finally knocking the (ten years older) Nino Schurter from his throne. But that doesn’t seem to be enough to keep a talent like him busy, and so he’s already become cyclocross world champion and is also competing in a whole series of spring road classics. Will he be able to pull off a coup like last year's Amstel Gold Race?
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