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Floor to the fore: Quick-Step launches first indoor-training-specific flooring
Indoors is the new outdoors, and that fact hasn’t gone unnoticed by cycling brands worldwide. In the rush to market for indoor-specific products, though, there’s been an entire market segment that’s been overlooked. With Belgian flooring brand Quick-Step’s release of the first indoor-training-specific flooring, that’s finally set to change. Quick-Step has been synonymous with cycling …
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Boom and doom: Bike shops are in an anxious state of flux right now
While tumbleweeds roll through many major cities in Australia, the nearby suburbs are seemingly a buzz of activity. COVID-19 is changing the world, but at least in certain parts of that world, and at least for the moment, cycling is having its day. In Australia, the majority of office workers are no longer travelling into …
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Indoor updates across the board, plus TrainerRoad’s new social feature
With the recent flurry of uptake in the indoor cycling space, you can bet that there have been a few sleepless nights for the developers at the various platforms. Some programs, such as RGT, have taken the approach of making its program free for use, while the likes of The Sufferfest have created month-long indoor-specific …
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2020 Trek Checkpoint AL4 review: Simple and effective
Trek’s Checkpoint was the most popular gravel bike of 2019, according to data Strava sent over last fall. Trek has sold a lot of them. This suggests that it’s a good bike, and indeed it is. But we found that it is good in a generic, pop-music, lowest-common-denominator, unoffensive-to-all kind of way. It takes few …
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What impact are lockdowns having on the indoor training market?
As the spread of coronavirus forces increasingly stringent restrictions on movement around the world, the door is slamming shut on outdoor cycling. At the time of writing, about half of the world’s population was in some degree of lockdown, including such cycling-mad countries as Italy, Spain and France. So when outdoors is out of bounds, …
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