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2020 Tour de France, Features, Tech, Tour de France - August 31, 2020

Tubed clinchers just won their first Tour de France road stage

Julian Alaphilippe’s late attack and early yellow jersey may bring a bit of déjà vu, but something else about his win was entirely new. Alaphilippe crossed the line on a set of clincher tires, the first road stage victory for clinchers with tubes in the Tour’s century-long history. The vast majority (all but a small …

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Video: Bikes of the Tour de France

Despite the strict restrictions surrounding team bubbles, we’ve managed to take a distanced view of some of the bikes ridden in the 2020 Tour de France. We take a look at Mads Pedersen’s Trek Madone, Richie Porte’s Trek Emonda, Peter Sagan’s Specialized Tarmac SL7, Alejandro Valverde’s Canyon Ultimate CFR, and many more. Plus, we spotted …

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Features, Scicon, Sunglasses, Tech, Tech news - August 28, 2020

A first look at Scicon’s new Aerowing and Aeroshade eyewear

Scicon, the Italian company best known for its bike travel cases used by the majority of the WorldTour, has been steadily expanding into product categories well beyond luggage. In recent years the company has invested in saddles and cycling kit, while its relatively new eyewear has suddenly appeared on the faces of UAE Team Emirates, …

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Trek’s revamped Procaliber carbon hardtail is now a mid-priced racer

It wasn’t all that long ago that Trek released its SuperCaliber cross country bike, effectively a modern-day softtail that claimed to offer the efficiency of a hardtail and the control of a dual suspension. With 60 mm of rear-wheel travel and respectably low weight, it appeared that Trek was moving on from offering a true …

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This tilting indoor bike will have you ‘crushing your A-game’, apparently

Indoors is the new outdoors, as anyone who’s followed the giddy proliferation of smart trainer options will know. And as people have taken their rides indoors – enjoying the efficiencies of targeted training, reduced risk, and the social element of virtual platforms – the hardware has been racing to keep up. With the release of …

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