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View Cycling Kit & Accessories The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox! As the dust settles on another edition of Strade Bianche, the events and emotions of the day slowly become clearer. In just 20 years, the Tuscan race has transformed memories of heroic pre-war racing by Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali on dirt roads into a modern Classic, a monument of the sport in every way but name. This year's Strade Bianche felt bigger than ever, with 9,000 people also riding the Grand Fondo Strade Bianche sportif on Sunday morning on the same gravel roads as the pro riders. They and thousands of others lined out along every sector of gravel of the race and later packed every restaurant and aperitivo bar in the centre of Siena. The Colle Pinzuto-Le Tolfe circuit was packed like the hairpins of Alpe d'Huez at the Tour de France or the Paterberg at the Tour of Flanders. If the UCI is looking to reform professional cycling, they should use Strade Bianche as a case study.
Published: March 8, 2026 5:04 pm
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