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EscapeCollective Paywall Badge The people that Eddy Merckx has said are (or mostly aren’t) better than him

Garmin watch displaying HRV insights

EscapeCollective Paywall Badge Understanding heart rate variability (HRV) can improve your riding

EscapeCollective Paywall Badge One product’s journey from invention to obsolescence

Hunt Sustain phase one factory image, carbon fibre stretched across the image

EscapeCollective Paywall Badge How will cycling solve its carbon conundrum?

EscapeCollective Paywall Badge So you just found a bike on the side of the road

20 Years of Rapha

EscapeCollective Paywall Badge A revelation 40 years in the making

Alex Stieda has a wide, almost disbelieving grin as he raises an arm on the podium at the 1986 Tour de France after donning the yellow jersey of race leader. He's arm in arm with 7-Eleven manager Jim Ochowicz, who is grinning widely, his eyes hidden by wraparound shades above a bushy mustache.

EscapeCollective Paywall Badge Where are they now: Alex Stieda

EscapeCollective Paywall Badge Q&A: A chat with Ben O’Connor about his gritty Vuelta podium

EscapeCollective Paywall Badge ‘I had so much fun’: The story of Lael Wilcox’s new Around The World record

EscapeCollective Paywall Badge Suiting up: Inside the scramble to secure WorldTour kit deals

EscapeCollective Paywall Badge Parcours’ new tyre-testing results show what’s fastest – and why