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Embarrassed Prudhomme suddenly realizes he forgot to schedule the other 20 stages of La Course

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This week, the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) announced the route of the 2020 Tour de France. Tucked away in a corner of the presentation was La Course, which will return to Paris and remain a one-day event. Confused by the disparity between the men’s and women’s events, the rogue reporter behind Cat3Memes jumped on the …

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This guy is giving away a bike shop

Ben Thomson is not, in any conventional sense, a normal guy. He operates at a different speed and a different intensity to most other people, with laser focus that shifts from one project to the next. He has fingers in many pies. Many of those pies are hot and messy. Case in point: in the …

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Breaking news: Embarrassingly outdated bike ‘works just fine’, ‘still shreds’

An embarrassingly outdated cyclocross bike from eight years ago “works just fine”, despite its lack of electronics and hydraulics, primitive braking, tubed tyres and paucity of gear options, CyclingTips can exclusively report.

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Book review: ‘The 2019 Bikepacking Bike Buyer’s Guide’ by Alee Denham

Bikepacking: whether you see it as touring-made-popular or as an exciting new sub-discipline of the sport, there can be little doubt it has exploded in recent years. Where multi-day cycling adventures were once the domain of a select few, using bikes and gear from smaller, niche brands, now more and more cyclists are embracing their …

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The big lie: What it’s like to ride illegally as a woman in Iran

The freedom to ride a bicycle is a simple pleasure most of us take for granted. For some women, though, it isn’t quite so simple. Iran may have fielded a national women’s cycling team for many years now, but take to the streets on two wheels and life can quickly get complicated. Especially since leader …

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