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2020 Tour de France, Features, News - October 9, 2020

The Tour de France gap jump we completely missed

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It’s become an annual tradition at the Tour de France, but a ‘gap jump’ seemed to be missing from this year’s edition. We were on the look-out for it, but let’s chalk it up to a topsy-turvy season where nothing was normal. But it turns out a gap jump did happen. Just today we came …

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The Route Werks handlebar bag has clever solutions for common problems

We are living through the renaissance of the handlebar bag. For decades the domain of earnest German brands and touring cyclists, this maligned bit of kit has boomed in conjunction with the advent of ‘gravel cycling’. Now, touring has become bikepacking, the earnest Germans look like prophets, flannies and baggy shorts are the new lycra, …

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Litespeed refines its gravel game with the new Watia titanium frame

Litespeed is continuing to iteratively improve its titanium gravel offerings with a new frame called Watia. In a first for Litespeed, the Watia features a solid semi-yoke chainstay section that’s also welded lower down on the bottom bracket shell, providing a bit more drivetrain and tire clearance than before (and it also looks super trick). …

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Specialized S-Works Aethos shuns aero, embraces low weight and ride quality

Most of the performance drop-bar world has fully embraced the aero efficiency theme, with everything from racing bikes to gravel bikes regularly chasing free watts. With the new S-Works Aethos, however, Specialized casts all of that aside in favor of more traditional metrics like low weight, high stiffness, and good ride quality — just like …

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Démare wins stage 6 of the Giro d’Italia: Daily News Digest

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Arnaud Démare won stage 6 of the Giro d’Italia, nabbing his second victory so far in this year’s race in a sprint finale in Matera. The 29-year-old Frenchman was well-placed just a few riders off the front as the race rounded the final corner and he was the first of the marquee speedsters to launch …

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The Tour de France gap jump we completely missed

The Route Werks handlebar bag has clever solutions for common problems

Litespeed refines its gravel game with the new Watia titanium frame

Specialized S-Works Aethos shuns aero, embraces low weight and ride quality

Démare wins stage 6 of the Giro d’Italia: Daily News Digest

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