Culture & Opinion
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
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
Culture & Opinion
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
Culture & Opinion
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.
Culture & Opinion
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
Culture & Opinion
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.
Tech & Data
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
Tech & Data
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
Components
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
Gear Reviews
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’
Culture & Opinion
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
Bikes & Frames
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