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Everesting goes pro: Richie Porte and Cameron Wurf’s party of pain

What do you get when you add Richie Porte, Cameron Wurf, the Col de la Madone and the Everesting phenomenon together? A very epic ride, that's what.

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Vintage steel, African desert: Inside the weird and wonderful Tour of Ara

Named after the Southern Hemisphere constellation of Ara, the Tour of Ara was a race ridden on pre-1999 South African-built steel racing bicycles in the proud tradition of the early Italian multi-day stage races. Held between 2014 and 2018, the six-day Tour followed a tough dirt-road route through the beautiful but harsh semi-desert of South …

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Going long: The story of one man’s four-year-plus ride around the world

It’s September 2015. Jacky Chen has arrived in Vancouver, Canada, to continue his bike ride around the world. He has already ridden over 5,000km since he started in June, just three months earlier. The house he’s staying at isn’t big, so he decides to lock his bike out front. He wakes the next morning to …

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WorldTour pros, aero bars, empty podiums: What was the fuss at Dirty Kanza?

“This event put me to my limit. My eyes hurt, my toes were numb for three days, I was rationing water sips in the last hour. I view it as a survival race more than a bike race.” Those are the words of Trek-Segafredo’s Peter Stetina – a WorldTour pro who knows a thing or …

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2019 dirty kanza, Features, Rides, Sponsored, Viathon -

From couch to Kanza: Eight days notice, 200 miles, and a bike from Walmart

Dirty Kanza’s a big event, and plenty of riders structure their year’s riding around it. That wasn’t to be my path. Eight days was all I had. Eight days to get myself from couch to Kanza, on a bike from Walmart that I'd never ridden.

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