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Daily News Digest, Features, News - May 8, 2020

Bardet plans for pavé, Pogacar extends: Daily News Digest

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(Want the Daily News Digest delivered directly to your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Hello again, CyclingTips readers. The weekend is nearly here, so we’ll do what we can to see you through to the Friday finish line with your daily dose of news from the cycling world. Thursday’s headlines brought some intriguing updates from a handful …

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From the Top: How Strava was built

Strava has become ubiquitous in the lives of over 50 million athletes, and is arguably the most relevant social network to anyone who loves to sweat. The co-founders of Strava, Michael Horvath and Mark Gainey, have been lifelong friends and have quite literally changed how we interact with our cycling in both real life and …

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The Rhombus is Specialized’s new gravel tyre for when things get rowdy

The launch of the third-generation Specialized Diverge has brought with it a number of surprises, with more models, new geometry and a flat-bar gravel bike amongst them. Not content to let the bike designers have all the fun, Specialized’s tyre division has come through with a new model released alongside the Diverge range. Featuring an …

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2021 Specialized Diverge gravel bike: first-ride review

Specialized has overhauled the Diverge for 2021. The third iteration of Specialized’s modern-day gravel bike arrives with a plentiful line-up to prove The Big S continues to be more than all-in on drop-bar bikes designed to go places. As De La Soul sang, “three is the magic number”, and so the question arises: has this …

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Shimano 12-speed reaches new Deore mountain bike groupset

Slow to return SRAM’s aggressive serve, Shimano entered the 12-speed mountain bike market in 2018 with XTR, and then followed up with XT and SLX shortly after that. Now, 11 months later, Shimano has announced the same 12-speed technology for its mass-market Deore groupset, a group that’ll surely find its way onto many well-priced mountain …

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Bardet plans for pavé, Pogacar extends: Daily News Digest

From the Top: How Strava was built

The Rhombus is Specialized’s new gravel tyre for when things get rowdy

2021 Specialized Diverge gravel bike: first-ride review

Shimano 12-speed reaches new Deore mountain bike groupset

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