Cycling
Economists seem to be mystified. Traditional economic indicators look good. The economy should be chugging along and growing quite nicely, but wages are stagnant household debts continue to grow and on average the sense of financial security seems to be waning. In the cycling industry, there’s a decent amount
Ooof. I’ve been skeptical of these lightweight, zip-tie looking locks but this is bad. No special tools or techniques needed. I saw a brand new S-Works Venge locked up with one of these a while back, guess I should have brought some scissors. But seriously, if that was you
I’ve been sitting at level 25 in Zwift for about a year now, slowly gaining experience with which nothing can be done. The wait has ended! Zwift just released an update which includes an expansion to level 50. Level 26-50 Unlocks & Level Requirements Unlocks for these new levels
Cycling
Paul Sherwen, former professional rider and cycling commentator, has died at 62. Sherwen raced seven editions of the Tour de France before moving to commentating where he covered 33 more. He cemented his place as one of just a few voices of pro cycling who fans all over the world,
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.
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
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
Exercise
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
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
Book
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.
Film
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
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.