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2019 Tour de France, Culture, Eddy Merckx, Features, History, Pierre Matignon -

The Cannibal and the thief: Merckx’s legendary 1969 Tour de France, 50 years on

Cycling, famously, is a sport of stars and water-carriers. The stars win; the water-carriers never do. But the history of cycling is written in those rare, fleeting moments when an unknown name attempts to steal victory from an established hero. Those moments are unlikely and rarely fruitful, but they define the sport just as much …

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bike share, Bluegogo, China, Culture, Features, SpeedX, Tech, Tech features -

The birth and death of a bike company: What happened to SpeedX?

From a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign to 800,000 bikes dumped across China, this is the strange, sad story of SpeedX's monumental rise and fall.

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2019 Giro d'Italia, Culture, Features -

Falling in love with cycling again

Do you remember how you first caught the cycling bug? Was it by watching a race on TV? Did a family member or friend get you hooked? Or has it always been a part of your life? Ben Berend remembers how cycling first got its claws into him. It was something of an accident, years …

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