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Specialized Helmets Make Riding Safer with ANGi
If you ride your bike a lot, you will crash. It’s inevitable. The best thing you can do to protect your brain in a crash is to wear a helmet. But a helmet, despite being packed with all sorts of new foam and padding, can only do so much. If you’re knocked out and laying…
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Cannondale’s Limited Edition F-Si Throwback Framesets are Pure Early XC Racing Nostalgia
Nostalgia is all the rage right now, but a lot of throwbacks fall flat on their face. Not so with these new Cannondale XC frames. Cannondale’s Limited Edition F-Si throwback framesets are simply perfect. The two new F-Si Hi-MOD framesets come with matching Lefty Ocho forks and are painted in the classic livery from the…
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Thieves Drill Through One-Meter-Thick Wall to Steal 3T Bikes
Bicycle brand 3T suffered a major break-in this morning at its Bergamo warehouse. Six to eight masked thieves drilled through a one-meter-thick wall and walked off with twenty high-end bicycles, including a one-of-a-kind frame handpainted by Dario Pegoretti. This morning, November 26th at 6.00am, around 6-8 masked people entered our factory building and stole all…
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Awesome Chart for Finding Bodyweight Exercises for Every Body Part
For 15 years I almost exclusively lifted weights for my strength training exercise, but recently I’ve been trying to move to a more holistic approach. I use bodyweight movements for warmup or cooldown and even swap out bodyweight movements for weighted movements altogether, it adds variety to my workouts which keeps me interested, reduces injury…
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Dimension Data Picks Development Team Rider with Zwift Academy
Martin Lavric will join the Dimension Data Continental development team in 2019 after winning this year’s Zwift Academy challenge. The 19-year-old was one of just three finalists invited to join the Dimension Data WorldTour squad at a team camp in Cape Town, South Africa. Lavric didn’t emerge from a vacuum, he rode with the Continental…
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Life is Better as a Non-Zero Sum Game
In game theory and economic theory, if the total gains of the participants are added up and the total losses are subtracted, they will sum to zero. In contrast, non-zero-sum describes a situation in which the interacting parties’ aggregate gains and losses can be less than or more than zero. Paras Chopra had an interesting…
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After This Video Utah’s Dixie National Forest Might be My Next Bucket List Ride
Dixie is the largest national forest in Utah. Though nearly 170 miles across and filled with red canyons, alpine lakes and large aspen stands the park doesn’t get a lot of name recognition . This short film is the newest from the Your Forests Your Future initiative, a program from the US Forest Service meant…
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“Our Planet” from David Attenborough & Netflix
I doubt Netflix had to do much data wrangling to determine that subscribers love the Planet Earth and Blue Planet nature series, so they’re making their own. Complete with David Attenborough. Out April 5, 2019.
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The Bkool Smart Air Pro Puts a New Twist on Direct Drive Smart Trainers
The sun only comes out during working hours and it’s cold out which means the joyous season of indoor training is upon us. In turn, that means it’s time for new robot bike simulators to hit the market. Today, a new direct drive smart trainer from Bkool. Not only does the Smart Air Pro look…
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Zwift Fondo Series Starts November 11
The Zwift Fondo Series is returning with 6 monthly rides planned beginning November 11th. On Zwift, you’ll have three options for route difficulty: Gran, Medio, and Bambino. November’s routes are: Gran Fondo (A Group): Watopia Mega Pretzel – 107 km (66.5 miles), 1,642 m (5,387 €²) elevation Medio Fondo (B Group): Watopia Pretzel –…
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Biketube Butane Black High Performance Road Tubes
Road tubes almost universally suck, but not all of us can afford to go tubeless quite yet. If you are willing to spend a little more for a better tube, Biketube has a new premium option. Biketube’s new Butane Black performance series tubes use a 0.73mm butyl rubber wall which is thinner and lighter than…
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Can candle wax loosen rusty nuts?
Project Farm wanted to test if candle wax could be used as a penetrating lubricant to loosen rusty nuts, so he put together a pretty comprehensive set of experiments. His findings – candle wax applied to a hot nut doesn’t do a thing to help loosen it. The wax doesn’t penetrate the fitting. His recommendation…
