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The 2019 Giro d’Italia Route is All Italian, Very Mountainous and Bookended by TTs
While the 2019 edition of the Tour de France has done away with most of its individual time trialing, the 2019 Giro d’Italia route will be bookended by them. The 3,518.5-kilometer course, announced today, will also offer up seven summit finishes for the climbers. The main criticism of the 2019 TdF route has been that…
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Canyon Drops an Affordable Alloy Gravel Bike
Canyon’s successful all-road platform just got a little more affordable. Their Grail bike is now available in an aluminum model for men and women, with a few build kits to choose from, and without those goofy looking double-decker drop bars. The top-level Grail AL 7.0 SL retails for $1700 and is the only version to…
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Banning Power Meters at the Tour de France is the Exact Opposite of What’s Needed
When ASO announced its 2019 route for the Tour de France last week Tour de France Race Director Christian Prudhomme made an interesting statement in his closing remarks as well as to reporters (via CyclingNews.com): “Power meters are very useful in training but when riders use them in a race it means they know exactly…
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It’s Almost Time for VeloSwap
VeloSwap, Denver’s long-running and immensely popular consumer bicycle swap and expo, is next weekend (November 3rd) at the National Western Complex. Now in its 29th year, Colorado’s biggest consumer bike event will bring together more enthusiasts, retailers, and manufacturers than any other in North America. Attendance is expected to top 8,000. VeloSwap is an awesome…
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The 2019 Tour de France Route is “The Highest in History”
Tour de France organizers showed off the 2019 route today and it’s clear climbing specialists are going to be happy. “The highest Tour in history” features a record 30 categorized climbs and five summit finishes. The Tour will start with a nod to Belgian legend Eddy Merckx, as the 2019 edition kicks off in Brussels…
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Felt Unleashes Two Affordable and Capable Gravel Bikes
If you love riding gravel, but don’t want to spend boatloads of cash on a dedicated bike, Felt has a couple new bike that might fit the bill. Picking up where their single speed CX bikes left off, the Breed lineup from Felt is now designed for gravel roads. Both the Breed 20 and 30…
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The 2019 Pinarello Grevil+ Looks Like it Melted in the Sun
The Grevil is Pinarello’s first foray into the gravel bike market, mixing the high performance and aero features from its road line with the durability and compliance from CX & mountain bikes. The new Grevil is still meant to be a fast road bike, just no longer limited to smooth roads. The geometry of the…
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Factor Unveils The Vista All-Road Bike
Factor best known for its high-performance road bikes, including the One and O2, is coming to the all-road sector with the launch of its new Vista carbon road bike. Factor uses a lot of words and marketing language to describe their tuned ride concept (see below) what you really need to know is that the…
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Zwift Goes to New York
New York City is pretty much pancake flat. But anything is possible in the future, right? How about KOMs paved in glass? Zwift has a vision for the city in 2118 and you can ride through it. In an effort to further gamify your training and distract you from the banality of the indoor trainer,…
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Watch Alex Honnold Climb 3200 Feet with No Ropes in ‘Free Solo’ Documentary
El Capitan is a 3,200-foot-tall wall of sheer granite in Yosemite National Park. The first expedition to climb El Capitan did so in 47 days, the first solo attempt took 10. Professional climber Alex Honnold climbed the Freerider route in June of 2017 in 3 hours 56 minutes, solo, with no protection (ropes or other…
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Documentary on the Harrowing First Ascent of Janhukot
Nestled in the Indian Garhwal Himalayas sits Janhukot, a very remote and hard to reach peak that rises more than 22,000 feet above sea level. The mountain sits at the end of the Gangotri glacier which is the head of the Ganges. The first attempt to climb Janhukot was in the 1980s when an Indian…
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Recommended Reading: What we lose by reading 100,000 words every day
Great article by Jennifer Howard, a professional writer and editor, in the Washington Post last week on how the internet and modern devices have ruined reading. She found herself unable to re-read a Hermann Hesse novel she loved because the “grafted, spasmodic, online style” of modern reading has forced itself onto all of her reading.…
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Ride a Specialized S-Works Shiv Disc in Zwift, Win One IRL
Ever ridden your bike for 112 miles in one go? How about after a 2.4 mile swim and before a full marathon? While Zwift won’t be able to help you with the swim portion, it can give you a go at those 112 miles and run. Or, you can split the 112 miles up over…
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Cycling the Sandia Crest
It’s just October, but snow is already falling in Colorado. As I prepare to move my cycling indoors for the winter, it’s time to look back over a great summer of cycling and share some ride reports. I’ve got several to share (mostly some bucket list climbs) and I’ll be dropping them over the next…
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The Crazy New Specialized S-Works Shiv Disc Arrives in Kona
This upcoming Saturday (10/13) marks the 40th anniversary of the original Ironman event. As the world’s best triathletes start arriving on the big island of Hawaii for the world championship race, a lot of cool new triathlon equipment will be coming along with them. Today, Specialized unveiled the new S-Works Shiv Disc and it is…
