This weekās newsletter is looking pretty in pink. The Giro dāItalia kicked off last weekend and itās already heating up. We also feature one of the craziest challenges weāve seen and a soundtrack to your next New Bike Day. Enjoy!
Hello,
Howāre you doing?
Iām back in the UK, Grimsby to be specific for this weekās newsletter. I had a small gap in my calendar and havenāt seen family for over four months so I thought it was a good time to come home.
I spent last night at Silverstone Sport Engineering Hub in a wind tunnel to optimise my time trial position and setup. It really is fascinating seeing how little adaptations to my position can change. Simply changing where I hold my handlebars can save me 10-watts.
Happy pedalling,
Joe
Feel free to emailĀ meĀ at joe@nplus1.cc if you have any questions, or feel Iāve missed something that is worth putting in the Newsletter.
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Grand Tour Time
The Giro dāItalia has well and truly kicked off. The race started in style with who else but Mathieu van der Poel taking the pink jersey after Stage 1 and we got to see a custom Canyon colour wave thanks to him.
The race is hotting up, and with two and a half weeks still to go, itās anybodyās to win.
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An Everest in the Arctic
Jonas Orset is a professional gravel rider and adventurer. He also completed the northernmost Everest recorded. An Everest is where you do multiple reps of a single hill until you reach the accumulative height of Mount Everest.
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F1 Meets Cycling
Last week we covered the BMC x Red Bull superbike, and this week there is more F1 x Cycling news too. Tiffany Cromwell is an Australian pro-cyclist with the Canyon-SRAM team, and Valtteri Bottas is an F1 driver for Alfa Romeo.
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The most expensive kit ever?
Weāll all agree that cycling kit can be expensive, but itās normally in the hundreds, not thousands of pounds.
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Compostable bottles?
While cycling is largely a green sport, the professional side of the sport is certainly questionable. From the number of cars to single-use plastics, the traveling circus certainly isnāt good for the environment.
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Event pacing
A few of my friends completed the Traka 360 the other week, an epic 360 km gravel race around Catalonia. My first question to them: How the hell do you pace that?
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There are close calls, and there are close calls. The peloton mustāve been counting their lucky stars that they werenāt three seconds faster on this stretch of roadā¦
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Fixed gear racer to Gravel extraordinaire, Colin Strickland truly knows how to: A) ride his bicycle and B) always be in the cool discipline of the sport. After growing up on a Texan farm, Strickland came into cycling in his early 20s. From winning Red Hook crits to the biggest Gravel races on the planet, Strickland even turned down a World Tour road contract.
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Is there anything better than New Bike Day? Now, have you ever wondered what the soundtrack to new bike day would be? No, me neither. But, this video is a pop-punk music video trying to do exactly that.
Itās a little odd, but I enjoyed it a lot.
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N+1 New Brand šš»
In this new part of the Newsletter, each week weāre going to introduce one of the brands that we work with at N+1.
This week we are introducingā¦ CORE.
CORE Body Temperature sensor allows athletes to monitor their internal temperature. For sport and exercise, the importance of core body temperature is straight-forward; when you get hot, your power output drops. With CORE, youāre able to see this in advance and plan accordingly.
Be sure toĀ download our appĀ and browse their products!