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The recent wave of aero-designed road bikes with integrated cockpits and dropped seatstays has seen a flurry of suggestions that all bikes now look like a Specialized Tarmac. If that were true, the quiz you’re about to do would be downright impossible. Thankfully the latest bikes do offer nuances and differences in design and approach, …

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Yes, you read that correctly. The company with the decades-long pedigree in heirloom-quality tire pumps and the more recently-earned reputation for an unrelentingly obsessive approach to technical proficiency in a more diverse range of accessories has now turned its attention to titanium drinking straws. For US$30, you get a pair — one straight, one curved …

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What do you wear when you’re on a trainer sweating away while your little Zwift avatar spins circles on the animated road ahead? Do you wear your once-Sunday-best that’s now no longer suitable for public consumption? Or maybe, like me, you just wear some comfy bibs and then match it with a short pair of …

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Now that the Cannondale Slate has been discontinued, we assess the bike's legacy. It was wildly ambitious, innovative and flawed – but goddammit, it had something about it, didn't it?

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Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens… ok, I’m no Julie Andrews but actually I do love whiskers on kittens, and kittens in general… so without further ado, these are a few of my favorite things. As a new member of the CyclingTips gang, this is my first list of products I loved. I hope …

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