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When the world went grey, cycling brought the colour back
There’s a wedge of bush – a kind of green island in suburbia – running over a freeway tunnel near my house, crowded with dense scrub and cut by two creeks. At the southern verge, a rough trail drops from the paved bike path and takes a serpentine route through the gum trees, over a …
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The $200 cycling clothing challenge
Let’s face it: cycling kit can be stupidly expensive. Like really, really bloody expensive. The top-end kit is nice (most of the time), but if you’re planning on kitting yourself out each season with the latest and greatest clothing, you would need to be thinking about either selling kidneys or sending your kids out to …
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No Ladies Tour of Norway in 2020, Groupama extends four: Daily News Digest
(Want the Daily News Digest delivered directly to your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Hello again, CyclingTips readers. While Thursday’s cycling headlines feature their fair share of unfortunate news updates – like the cancellation of the popular Ladies Tour of Norway – they do at least include some good news for at least one organization: Groupama-FDJ. The …
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CyclingTips Podcast: FKTs, selling used bikes, and failing fixie kids
We open this week’s episode with the news, from both the cycling world and the rest of the world. We hear from Justin Williams again, this time with a short story we all need to hear. Then we discuss Lachlan Morton’s FKT on the Kokopelli trail and, finally, provide some tips on buying and selling …
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While other teams feel the pinch, Groupama-FDJ extends four core riders
While teams across the pro peloton are facing financial uncertainty right now, things seem to be going a bit better over at Groupama-FDJ. In one fell swoop, the French WorldTour squad has secured perhaps its four most recognizable riders, announcing on Thursday that Thibaut Pinot, Arnaud Démare, Stefan Küng, and David Gaudu had all signed …
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