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Features, mountain biking, News, Pinkbike Digest - August 28, 2019

Vista Outdoors, some dogs, robots, and frame tape: Pinkbike Digest

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What’s going on in the mountain bike world? The Pinkbike Digest showcases the top dirt articles from our mountain bike sister-site, Pinkbike.com. You’ll get coverage from racing, tech, and some fun storytelling along the way. Layoffs at Bell, Giro, Blackburn While Vista Announces It Will Hold Onto the Brands By: Richard Cunningham In a recent …

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What it’s like climbing to 4,300m (as a lowlander who hasn’t acclimatised)

It’s most of a decade since I first heard about John Summerson’s book, The Complete Guide to Climbing (By Bike). This catalogue of the USA’s greatest road climbs sang to me — I was already hooked on riding up any and every mountain I could, and learning that there were climbs much longer and higher …

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Features, Specialized, Tech, Tech news - August 28, 2019

Radical Specialized Mirror 3D-printed saddles ditch conventional foams

Specialized has been experimenting with a novel way to produce bicycle saddles called Mirror, which abandons conventional foam padding in favor of a 3D-printed polymer lattice structure that is attached to an otherwise conventional carbon composite base. According to Specialized, the printed structure incorporates “14,000 struts and 7,799 nodes,” and the entire pattern can be …

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Where are they now: A Tyler Hamilton Interview

Tyler Hamilton was a loyal lieutenant within cycling’s most notorious team, and Olympic champion who gave his medal back, and the author of a tell-all doping book. What's he doing now?

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Jakobsen pips Bennett to win the Vuelta’s fourth stage: Daily News Digest

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Welcome to your Daily News Digest. Here’s what’s happening today: Fabio Jakobsen tops Sam Bennett to win stage 4 of the Vuelta a España, Steven Kruijswijk abandons the race, EF signs Magnus Cort Nielsen. Those stories and more in today’s Daily News Digest. Story of the Day: Jakobsen pips Bennett to win stage 4 of …

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