Culture & Opinion
The old ‘contaminated meat’ excuse once again rears its head, in the most hilarious way possible. How do you win a sprint competition by yourself? Actually, here’s a better question. How do you lose it? Well, apparently by getting disqualified. Carl Grove, a 90-year-old cyclist from Indiana,
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When U.S.-based WorldTour team EF Education First announced a partnership with apparel company Rapha late last year, it was announced as going beyond just apparel. EF and Rapha detailed plans to blend gravel and mountain bike races into the team’s conventional pro road race schedule. Now there’
Bikes & Frames
I remember seeing a Speedvagen VX07 back in 2008 and thinking the olive drab paint and the way they routed the rear brake cable through the integrated seat post was supremely awesome. It was such an awesome minimalist bike with thoughtful design details that really set it apart. To commemorate
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It’s like a normal Santa Cruz Chameleon but with red paint and a Supreme logo on the downtube. So, clearly, it’s worth a ton of dough. If you’re a hypebeast and you need a new ride you can try and cop one of these limited edition collabs.
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Will the future of professional cycling take place on a stationary trainer? Maybe. Zwift revealed an eSports league with pro team support Zwift is taking on the eSports market with a professional team league. The KISS Super League is currently comprised of four teams – Team Wiggins, Canyon dhb p/b
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A couple fascinating, fairly quick, reads for you this Monday. First off, the sinking of the Titanic might not just be a story of a ship hitting an iceberg. Instead, it may just be another tragic incident where money and greed trumped public safety. Why? Turns out the Titanic was
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Lab-grown meat products are coming, in this episode of Moving Upstream, WSJ’s Jason Bellini visits entrepreneurs, scientists, and ranchers to understand how it’s made, and gets a first taste of steak grown from cultured cells. This is a pretty solid look at something I think is inevitable,
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Sad news today, the Colorado Classic men’s race is dead. In its place, organizers will now hold a Colorado Classic women’s stage race, August 22-25. The four-day race, announced this morning by race owner RPM Events Group at an event at the Colorado State Capitol building,
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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
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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,
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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
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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