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Check out EF’s wild Palace kit for the Giro d’Italia

EF Pro Cycling’s normal kit is mostly pink. The leader’s jersey at the Giro d’Italia is also pink. Something had to be done. That something is a collaboration with legendary skate brand Palace. It is wild in a way cycling doesn’t often embrace. “For a truly fresh perspective on the sport, we’ve teamed up with …
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Niner’s new RLT e9 RDO e-bike further blurs the line between gravel and MTB

Niner easily could have just pegged its new RLT e9 RDO as a straight-up e-gravel bike, but the Colorado company is instead touting its versatility by calling it an “overland adventure vehicle” — and as much as it pains me to admit this, there seems to be some merit in the description. The new bike …
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New UCI tech rules leaked: Is bike design about to get a shake-up?

It came via email from a secret industry insider. A brief amendment to the UCI technical regulations, apparently approved by the sport’s governing body, and applicable from the start of 2021. In it is a bunch of interesting additions, changes and removals, all in red. The new rulings are applicable to road, track, time trial …
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Spotted: Ridley Fenix endurance road bike gains a sleek new look for 2021

Ridley hasn’t yet officially revealed its updated Fenix endurance road bike to the world, but one eagle-eyed CyclingTips reader in Austria noticed that the new bike has already popped up on the company’s Japanese-market web site, and it looks quite sharp. As expected, the new bike shifts to a disc-only format and adopts a number …
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Aurum Magma first-ride review: Meet Contador and Basso’s new bike company

We’ve known for some time that former Grand Tour winners Alberto Contador and Ivan Basso were cooking up a new bike company — it’s been kept about as quiet as a jackhammer played through a megaphone. We even knew that the first model would have disc brakes, a low weight and a carbon construction. Heck, …
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