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Chris Froome, Features, News - February 22, 2020

Chris Froome eager to seize ‘second chance’ after injury comeback

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Paris, Feb 21, 2020 (AFP) – Chris Froome says “it will be a huge relief just to be back in the peloton” next week in the UAE Tour, eight months after he suffered devastating injuries in a high-speed crash. The four-time Tour de France winner fractured a thigh, elbow, and vertebrae in the career-threatening accident …

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Shoddy: Not testing gravel bikes in Arizona

Another week has dashed by, and that inevitably means I’m going to have to thrust another Shoddy vid upon you. Here in Annecy, France, it’s been a superb week for getting out on the bike. The sun is out (well, everyday bar my birthday, which I took off for a ride). Temperatures are bizarrely warm, …

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Flywheel users the casualty of spin bike war with Peloton

Indoor-training behemoth Peloton has been the subject of a few controversies of late. Their clanger of an advertising campaign late last year became the subject of memes, a solid SNL roasting and the source of a stock-price plummet for the exercise start-up, who lost US$1.5b in value as a result of the ad. Now, the …

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Bikes of the Bunch: FiftyOne Invictus, an agent’s ride

This week’s Bikes of the Bunch is one we caught rolling around during the Tour Down Under. Freshly made, it’s a bike from the Irish custom carbon frame maker FiftyOne and belongs to the agent of many pedalling stars, Andrew McQuaid. McQuaid (yes, of that cycling family dynasty), once a talented U23 rider in his …

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Cannondale, eBike, Features, News - February 21, 2020

Despite denials, Harrison Ford definitely rides an e-bike

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Here’s a sentence I didn’t expect to write today: this week, Harrison Ford appeared on US chat show Ellen, where he angrily denied riding an e-bike despite all evidence to the contrary. Ford, who is the star of hit films including Morning Glory and The Expendables 3 and lent his considerable vocal talents to the …

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