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Culture, Features, History, The Netherlands, Thijs Zonneveld - May 15, 2020

A Dutchman and his (man-made) mountain

In 2011, a Dutch cycling journalist’s tongue-in-cheek proposal for an artificial mountain in his homeland sparked a flurry of proposals and feasibility studies, eventually growing to be the biggest innovation platform in the Netherlands.

This is the story of Die Berg Komt Er – of a project, a man and a (man-made) mountain.

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Bonkers bikes of Paris-Roubaix: A brief history

At Paris-Roubaix, more than any other race in cycling, technical innovation is given free rein in the pursuit of an advantage. The rider and the mechanic's foe is the same – the brutal cobbles of northern France – and the bikes ridden there are sometimes innovative, sometimes bizarre, and always fascinating.

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Milan-San Remo: Moments in history

1916. 1944. 1945. 2020. These are the only years Milan-San Remo hasn’t run since it was founded way back in 1907. The first cancellation was due to World War I. The next two were down to World War II. The fourth of those due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has killed thousands, that has much …

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Best of 2019, Features, History - December 31, 2019

Best of 2019: What happened to Speed X?

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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Gone but not forgotten: The Cannondale Slate was a bike before its time

Now that the Cannondale Slate has been discontinued, we assess the bike's legacy. It was wildly ambitious, innovative and flawed – but goddammit, it had something about it, didn't it?

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