Road
What a day in the Tour de France! Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) sprinted to his first career Tour de France stage victory today on Stage 10 and a handful of GC contenders lost serious time. Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo), Jakob Fuglsang (Astana), Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Rigoberto Urán (EF Education First)
Bikes & Frames
We saw a leaked image a while back, but now the rumors are confirmed. Today, the CAAD13 is official. Cannondale CAAD 13 Key Updates * Aerodynamics: The traditional round profile tubes of the CAAD line weren’t aero, CAAD 13 changes that. The new sleek, integrated design features a new family
Road
Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-Scott) won stage 9 of the Tour de France today, beating his breakaway partner Tiesj Benoot (Lotto-Soudal) in a duel to the finish. “It’s the seventh time I’m riding the Tour de France and have been in a number of breakaways. To finally nail it today,
Road
Thomas De Gendt (Lotto-Soudal) won stage 8 of the 2019 Tour de France as the last survivor of the day’s breakaway, having held off a late chase by Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) and Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick-Step). “I had a really good feeling all day so I believed in it all
Road
The Tour’s longest stage was held today and it was decided by a few hair widths. Dylan Groenewegen won today’s 230 kilometer (143 mile) stage 7 just ahead of Caleb Ewan after an uphill sprint in Chalon-sur-Saône. It’s Groenewegen’s first stage win at the 2019
Tech & Data
Watching the Tour de France on television and seeing the suffering on rider’s faces is one thing. Comparing their efforts to your own on Strava is something else entirely. What effort does it take to stick with the peloton for 120 miles? To launch a breakaway? To solo to
Road
Dylan Teuns took the victory atop La Planche des Belles Filles as the yellow jersey slipped away from Julian Alaphilippe in today’s Stage 6 of the 2019 Tour de France. The breakaway took the day as Teuns (Bahrain-Merida) and Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) outlasted their 12 compatriots to fight for
Culture & Opinion
Great ad with Peter Sagan for Specialized’s range of Turbo e-bikes, with the slogan “Specialized Turbo makes your world flat.” “We’ll do it live!” killed me.
Road
Peter Sagan was the best of the remaining opposition after the pure sprinters had been dropped on the climbs that littered Stage 5 of the 2019 Tour de France through the Vosges. Despite Team Sunweb controlling the peloton for most of the run into the finish, Michael Matthews was boxed
Culture & Opinion
When we think about getting more people on bikes and removing cars from the roadway (because the benefits are essentially endless) we must remember: In America Cars Are Mandatory, Dangerous and Heavily Subsidized Law professor Gregory Shill writing for The Atlantic dropped one of the best articles on cars in
Culture & Opinion
After last year’s brand boycott following the Parkland shooting, REI dropped Giro, Bell, and Blackburn products from their stores. Following an announcement today that VISTA Outdoors sold their controversial firearm companies, Savage Arms and Stevens firearms, REI announced they will be carrying the brands again, advocacy works: “Today, we
Bikes & Frames
Orbea’s Orce Aero is one of the better deals out there in the aero-road-racer market. The Orca Aero, has received a small make-over for 2020. The biggest change is a new more aerodynamic fork which features deeper blades thanks to the UCI’s relaxed dimensional ruling. There are some