🤧Stage 57: How are bicycles made?

A new hour record, and a video with an Olympic Champion

Hello and welcome to this week’s newsletter,

This week’s newsletter is coming at you from a small coffee shop in Girona, Oniria. It’s not the first time that this newsletter has been written from this cafe. It’s just across from The Service Course bike shop and sells the best coffee in town. I’ve currently got an Olive Latte on the go.

I’m heading to Greece tomorrow for my first race block of the season. We have a one-day race on Sunday and then a stage race next week. I’m excited, but nervous as well, you never know where you are going to be on your first race…

Have a good week pedalling,

Joe

Feel free to email me at joe@nplus1.cc if you have any questions, or feel I’ve missed something that is worth putting in the Newsletter.

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📖 Read

#racing

Paris-Nice, or the race to the sun, is known as one of the hardest weeks of racing all year. The stage race (unsurprisingly) starts in Paris and gradually weaves its way down to Nice. This year’s race was even more difficult than normal, with bad weather and a mystery illness going around the peloton. The story of Paris-Nice this year is a slightly different one to normal…

6-minute read

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#HourRecord

How far could you ride in an hour? This past week, 17-year-old Fred Meredith set the national, and unofficial World Record for juniors (riders aged under 19). Meredith covered 49.184 km in one hour, with the help of some very interesting equipment.

3-minute read

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#HowItsMade

How do you take a lump of iron ore or a tank of petrochemicals and turn it into a bike? When we’re out riding our bikes, it’s rare that we think about where they came from. There is a natural disconnect between the consumer and the production of the goods they consume. This article goes from mine to market, and how your favourite bike is made.

6-minute read

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#tech

LeMond Bikes have a legendary name on their downtube but haven’t released a new bike, until this past week. It unveiled its new eight performance road bike which claims, “a new bar for top-tier frame design and manufacture” thanks to the composites technology and expertise used. The US-made frame and fork are entirely carbon-fiber down to the threads for the bottle cages and brakes.

5-minute read

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#cyclocross

After sixteen years in the pits, the Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld team have decided to call it a day. The iconic American team have raced all over the world and produced some of the most iconic kits in the sport. It’s always a sad day when we see a cycling team reach the end of the line. Is Cannondale’s comment of “We’re looking forward to our next chapter”, something to keep an eye on?

3-minute read

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#training

Have you ever thought about how you produce power? Power = Torque x Acceleration, which in simple terms is how hard you pedal, multiplied by your cadence. Most cyclists concentrate on cadence, shifting to a faster pedalling style when more power is needed, although the other half of the equation, torque is often ignored.

This article with John Wakefield, performance co-ordinator of UAE Team Emirates, discusses torque, and how it’s helping the world’s best get even faster.

7-minute read

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📱Tweet of the week

GCN Racing @GcnRacing

Jonas Vingegaard's head was clearly in a spin after a solid second place 🥈 on today's tough #TirrenoAdriatico stage as the @JumboVismaRoad couldn't quite remember the colour of the leader's jersey and @GannaFilippo's name! 😂

March 10th 2022

34 Retweets589 Likes

How would you feel about being interviewed after a long, hard day on the bike? Jonas Vingegaard was clearly still a little tired when the cameras came on!

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🎧 Listen

George Hincapie is a legend of cycling. The American lit up the cycling peloton for almost two decades and joins Mitch Docker on the ‘Talking Luft’ podcast. From the Belgian classics to style on the bike and his favourite training loop from his Girona days, Hincapie reveals all.

50-minute listen

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👀 Watch

A decade after his Olympic time-trial win, Bradley Wiggins and Matt Stephens revisit the course and tell the story of that day. Wiggins’ story went from being an ordinary guy to the most famous man in the country for a few days. This video is full of fun.

36-minute watch

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👋🏻 Introducing

In this new part of the Newsletter, each week we’re going to introduce one of the brands that we work with at N+1.

Introducing… Once Upon

OnceUpon A Ride claim to make the finest, most comfortable cycling apparel around. Each piece is inspired by a story, and their aim is to make cycling more enjoyable for all.

Be sure to download our app and browse their collection!