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Alberto Contador parts ways with Trek, teases own brand with Ivan Basso

With the turn of the new year, Alberto Contador has taken to social media to tease the launch of his own bike brand. The news spells the end of Contador’s relationship with Trek Bikes and the Trek-Segafredo team. In October 2019, Spanish Triathlon website Triathlon Noticias reported that Contador will be leaving Trek to launch his …

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French federation releases Look T20 track bike for Tokyo

On the heels of the release of Hope’s wild Team GB track bike, French manufacturer Look has something special of its own: the T20 track machine that will be used by the French team at the Tokyo Olympic Games. The T20 doesn’t look as unusual as GB’s bike, but Look has an equally large pile …

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Hope and Chris King join a growing list to offer Shimano’s Micro Spline

Chris King Micro Spline driveshell

When Shimano first introduced its 12-speed XTR mountain bike drivetrain, it did so with the forced use of a new freehub body design – Micro Spline. The design made engineering sense: the smaller diameter accepted a 10T cog, it offered more spline surface area than Shimano’s HG design in order to reduce the risk of …

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Trek expands e-road lineup with new Domane+ LT all-road machine

Interested in a new Trek Domane all-road bike, but could use a little extra help? According to Trek, its new Domane+ LT e-bike offers the same ride and handling benefits of the regular Domane, but with the added oomph of an integrated mid-drive motor system courtesy of German company Fazua. And get this: it’s removable. …

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Industry leak: Movistar moving to SRAM for 2020

SRAM Red eTap AXS cassette

An email just hit our inboxes showing what appears to be Movistar’s 2020 Canyon team bikes, which look pretty much like last year … with one major exception: there are no Campagnolo components. Movistar and Campagnolo have raced together since the team’s inception, and from what we can remember, the relationship dates back even further …

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