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The Ineos Grenadiers lead the Vuelta a España peloton.

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New Tour Down Under (2.WWT) Stage 1

1. HENGEVELD Daniek

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2. WOLLASTON Ally

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3. SCHWEINBERGER Kathrin

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Australia RR (CN)

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2. PLAPP Lucas

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17/01

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Threaded #31: Assembling a minimalist travel-sized tool kit

Tools and tips for taking your bike on a holiday.

by Dave Rome
19 hours ago

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Giant Trinity & Liv Avow: Fashionably late to the disc brake TT party

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Geek Warning: When AI simply isn’t AI and new bikes galore

Lots of new tech and bikes and the crew chats about what AI is doing or isn’t doing in cycling.

by Escape Collective
24 hours ago

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Threaded #31: Assembling a minimalist travel-sized tool kit

Tools and tips for taking your bike on a holiday.

by Dave Rome
19 hours ago

Tech news

Giant Trinity & Liv Avow: Fashionably late to the disc brake TT party

Podcasts

Geek Warning: When AI simply isn’t AI and new bikes galore

Race Results

Results → road

New Thailand ITT (CN)

1. CHAWCHIANGKWANG Peerapol

00:00:00

2. LADNGERN Peerapong

+0:00

3. CHAIYASOMBAT Thanakhan

+0:00

Full Results

New Tour Down Under (2.WWT) Stage 1

1. HENGEVELD Daniek

02:45:06

2. WOLLASTON Ally

+0:36

3. SCHWEINBERGER Kathrin

+0:36

Full Results

Australia RR (CN)

1. DURBRIDGE Luke

03:52:19

2. PLAPP Lucas

+0:05

3. WALSH Liam

+0:58

Full Results

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17/01

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The silly online cycling battle that became so much more

Lessons were learned on the backstreets of outer-eastern Melbourne.

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One Cycling is coming – and soon

The proponents of pro road racing's ambitious reform plan are optimistic that it’s finally going to happen in the coming weeks.

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José Been

This is cycling's most endearing power couple

This is my last feature for now. As you might know I started a new job as head of communications at Q36.5 Procycling this week. It’s going to be busy.

I do hope the Tour de France dailies return but no other stories for the foreseeable future.

Thanks to everyone for saying nice words about my words. It’s been a privilege writing them for “the old place” and now for Escape Collective. I will miss it.

Love,

José

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damnitryon

Trying to make sense of the bike industry's weird naming conventions

I was pretty surprised BMC wasn’t mentioned. With frame tier, and build kits called out by numbers differentiated by whether they are spelled out or numeric (01 FOUR, 01 ONE, 02 TWO) and every model being called a machine (except when they’re not, apparently) that is described by a quality one could argue is shared by every other one of their models in a given segment.

Seriously if you didn’t know anything about the brand already how the fuck would you intuit which of these is which?

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