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The BLACKOUT Collection

The story is not necessarily new, but worth retelling, as it is an origin story of sorts. But the rising of this tale begins not from ashes but from driving snow and freezing conditions; conditions epic enough that they caused the shortening of the 104th edition of Milan-San Remo in 2013. Conditions nasty enough where riders were bussed around the Passo del Turchino and Le Manie because the roads were unrideable with snow and ice.   But lest we get ahead of ourselves, we must go back even further to August of 2009, where a handful of riders from the Cervélo Test Team met after the Brexia Tour with the sole purpose of trying to figure out a better solution to the rain jackets available.   You’ve probably all seen photos, and if you were a cyclist at the time most likely still cringe at the thought of the ill-fitting, plastic, and completely waterproof jackets worn at the time. The biggest issue was that they were designed to be waterproof, so while they did a fantastic job of keeping water out, they were abysmal when it came to breathability.   Gabriel Rasch, one of the Cervélo riders present at the ...

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