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
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
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.
Culture & Opinion
Rapha’s latest EF Gone Racing video goes behind the scenes of the 2019 Tour de France with Rigoberto Urán.
Road
The almost entirely flat parcours of the 213.5-kilometer Tour de France Stage 4 today had the sprinters’ hopes up from the start. Bad news for the day’s three-rider breakaway, when the sprinters smell blood you’ll never get too much breathing room. Such was the story
Culture & Opinion
We got a sweet new mural here in Denver recently. Major Taylor was a cyclist of color who was an absolute machine on the bike, he won the sprint event at the 1899 world track championships and fought racism throughout his career. Guess I’ll be riding the Cherry Creek
Culture & Opinion
Team Dream drove their VW Squareback up to the Angeles Crest to launch their rad new Tie Dye collection with the ENDO CNCPT Team. The ENDO CNCPT kit is launching July 11th at Teamdreambicyclingteam.com.