🇮🇹Stage #14: A race across Italy and bikepacking home from China
and a €5,000 bike that you can't ride, or touch.
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#sports #culture
The Giro d’Italia has kicked off. The first ‘Grand Tour’ of the year, pro-cyclists undertake a three-week tour of Italy. They race for twenty-one days, and touch every corner of the Mediterranean country. We don’t envy them, but it has got us thinking how much fun a bikepacking tour of Italy would be. Check out the latest from the Giro.
2 minute read
#bikepacking
How would you go about getting back from China? Surely catching a plane is the only logical solution? How about by bike? This article (and accompanying video) follows Josh Reid's bikepacking trip from China to his home in the UK. It’s inspiring, and invokes some nostalgia of the pre-COVID days.
5 minute read and 30 minute watch
#tech
Good, bad, or just plain ugly? We’ll let you decide. Oakley just released their ‘Kato’ sunglasses, which make you look a bit like a superhero thanks to the integrated lens and nose piece.
6 minute read
#tech
Buying bikes in 2021 isn’t easy. With the knock back of the pandemic, it’s becoming harder and harder to get hold of a new machine. Colnago (kind of) have an answer to your problem. They’ve released a unique bike and it’s limited to one. The catch? It’s an NFT, a ‘non fungible token’ which is a unique digital token, so you can’t even ride it. Oh, and it starts at €5,000.
4 minute read
#culture
From national champion to mortgage broker. The Olympian, Todd Wells tells the story of how he retired from pro-MTBing and took up a job in the ‘real’ world. It’s not always easy to make money as a full-time cyclist. Wells tells us what life is like after retiring from the top of the game.
5Â minute read
#training
Tom Pidcock is currently taking over the world of cycling. From road, to cyclo-cross to MTB, the young Brit can do it all. The Red Bull athlete recently gave an insight into his training, and how he balances racing so many different disciplines at such a high level.
8 minute read
📱Tweet of the week
When you’re the World Champion, racing the biggest race in your home country, it might be easy for pressure to get the better of you. For Filippo Ganna, it’s all about having fun too, as you can see in this video.
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Lachlan Morton epitomises the all-round cyclist. He’s a World Tour pro, but also has the coolest ‘Alternative Calendar’. He races MTB, gravel and road and is a world-beating endurance rider. He sits down with Matt Stephens to talk about re-discovering his love for the sport.
73 minute listen
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Mum, mom or mother. Whichever part of the world you’re from, whatever you call them, we can all agree that they’re superheroes. This video from Wahoo is for all the rad mums out there that are leading by example, challenging the status quo and raising the next generation of adventurers and rippers.
9 minute watch