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CyclingTips Podcast: A Tour de France for millennials

The 2020 Tour de France is low on sprint stages, low on time trials, low on long stages, and is full of climbs from end to end. It’s a Tour that looks more like a Vuelta – more dynamic, less formulaic. It’s a great match for today’s ever-shortening attention spans.  Is that a good thing?  …

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Calfee Design bottle cage review: High-tech feel, classic looks

There are dozens of different carbon fiber water bottle cages from which to choose these days, although almost without fail, you’re limited to modern-looking designs. Calfee’s new carbon cage, on the other hand, blends the ultra-low weight and secure feel many have come to expect from good composite cages, with the traditional shape of a …

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Bikes vs the world: Cyclists’ battle for legitimacy is nothing new

With his gleaming new bicycle and the very latest in cycling apparel, Dr G.A. Thorne decided to take a long ride in the country. On a narrow road near Bairnsdale, Victoria, he waited for an oncoming vehicle to pass. The driver pointed aggressively at his beloved new ride: “The Government should not allow those things …

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CyclingTips Weekly Quiz #32: Win a Wahoo Elemnt Roam

The final race of the season is underway, and the professional cyclists of the world are gearing up for a well-deserved break and some time off the bike. But that’s no excuse for complacency in the cut-throat world of the CyclingTips Weekly Quiz – and this week, there are some serious stakes at play, with …

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BikeBox offers a fresh take on flying with your bike

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Upstart South African company BikeBox wants you to fly with your bike. But it doesn’t think you need an expensive case to do so, and instead is proposing that you use a more basic vessel made of corrugated plastic. The concept of using a corrugated plastic box instead of a cardboard one for transporting your …

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