📱Stage #12: Tyre pressure app and bike racing from West Africa
+ new Cervelo Aspero and a deep insight into the women's peloton
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#sports #culture
The Tour de Lunsar is a three-day road race in Sierra Leone. This behind-the-scenes photo gallery shows the magic of this grassroots race in West Africa and portrays just how magical riding a bike can be.
5 minute read
#gravel #tech
‘‘Faster, lighter and dare we say it, an even better looking Aspero.’’ That’s how Cervelo unveiled their new Aspero-5 gravel bike. The Canadian company are no strangers to development and their new Aspero reminds us why. It’s aero, light, comfortable and versatile. Everything you’d want from a gravel bike.
While you’re lusting over Cervelo’s new bike, check out this budget gravel bike guide. It’ll give you the thill of riding on gravel, without breaking the bank.
2 minute and 5 minute read
#gravel #adventure
The Catalonian city of Girona has long been known as the home for pro-road cyclists. But, it has a secret dark side… a never ending heaven of gravel roads. Pro-roadie and gravel enthusiast, Nathan Haas, gives an insight into why you should come and explore the Gironian Gravel.
6 minute read
#tech #innertubes
There is an app for everything these days. Tubolito have just released their revolutionary new PSENS inner tube. As well as all the usual marketing, lower weight, higher efficiency and greater puncture protection, it has an embedded microchip. Yes, a microchip. The clever system then reports a real-time pressure reading back to your smartphone within a claimed +/- 3psi accuracy.
4 minute read
#sports #competition
It seems there was a changing of the guard in the women’s pro-peloton at Liege-Bastogne-Liege. World champion Anna van der Breggen, who’s retiring at the end of this season, selflessly repaid her debt to teammate Demi Vollering by setting her up for the win in Liege.
In the men’s race, Tadej Pogacar proved that he is not just a Tour de France winner, but can sprint against the best too. The young Slovenian pipped Julian Alaphillippe on the line to take his first Monument win.
3 minute and 4 minute read
#health #training #covid
With COVID vaccine numbers on the rise throughout the world, it looks like we’re starting to return to some normality. As with any vaccine, some people have a mild reaction. Here are some training guidelines for endurance athletes to ensure that they don’t push too hard, too soon.
4 minute read
📱Tweet of the week
It happens to the best of us. Loic Vliegen, the early leader in the men’s Liege-Bastogne-Liege was struck by the dreaded cramp at the worst of moments. It’s a painful watch.
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Payson McElveen, a RedBull athlete and pro MTBer, sits down with three-time Canadian cyclocross champion, Maghalie Rochette. They discuss how and why the Canadian left an established team to race as a private athlete. Rochette explains how to negotiate contracts, the exhaustion of running your own programme and the difficulties of racing in Europe.
73 minute listen
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See inside the women’s peloton like never before. The first part of this new mini-documentary series gives an insight into what it’s like leading up to one of the biggest one-day races in the world.
20 minute watch