What’s it like to make 700 rice cakes a day, chase down the 2014 Amgen Tour of California riders and hand them out as “neutral human support”? Skratch Labs knows and they’re join to show you a little of it right here.
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Want to see what it’s like battling with Mark Cavendish for a win in Stage 8 of the Amgen Tour of California? Shimano has provided just that with up close and personal footage from their Shimano Sport Cameras mounted under Koen de Kort’s saddle and on John Degenkolb’s bars. Nice to see that the pros dice around just as much as the Cat 3 racers at your local crit. They’re just better at it . . . and way, way faster.
[Link via BikeRadar]
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The Global Cycling Network has some insights into winning the Strava game. And yes, you should be ashamed of yourselves. . . all of you.
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Seems Canadian Will Routley has been riding off the front for the whole 2014 Amgen Tour of California. We saw him KOM the climb on Stage 1, he’s in the break every day, and today (May 14, 2014) he along with Kevin De Mesmaeker, Carter Jones, Matt Cooke, Greg Daniel and Jonathan Clarke make the break stick. Not only did Routley win the KOM points on the day, he masterfully waited just enough to take the sprint finish and a win in Stage 4 of the Amgen Tour of California. Mark Cavendish? Oh, he finished seventh with a field sprint win. Whoops.
[Link: Amgen Tour of California]
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We spent last weekend chasing the Amgen Tour of California around NorCal. Here’s one of our vantage points on the KOM climb on Stage 1 near Auburn, California.
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Interesting tweak on suspension from and Israeli wheelchair designer. It’s called SoftWheel and it puts the suspension between the rim and the hub. Not sure what keeps the front wheel from blasting up into the forks, but it seems like it could be a less bulky way to soften the ride without adding much weight.
[Link: Softwheel]
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Neil Shirley and Phil Tinstman turned the 2014 into a two-man race from the first dirt section.
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We’re still recovering from our ride in The Hell of The North County a.k.a. the 2014 Spy Belgian Waffle Ride on April 27, 2014. While we get our heads around just what happened yesterday here are a few photos we grabbed during what has become our favorite day on a bike all year.
Click the link to check out the gallery. If you want to see the photo larger, click on it. For complete results follow the jump. For complete results by start wave scroll way, way down to the bottom. [click to continue…]
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Want to know where people are riding these days? Well, not to shock you, but it’s California. And mostly Southern California. To find other spots of hot cycling action just check out Strava’s Global Heat Map. We apologize in advance for wasting your next 15 minutes.
[Link: Strava Heatmap]
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Like many metro areas around the world, cycling in traffic can be dicey. Recent legislation enacted in 22 states (Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin. Pennsylvania has a 4-foot passing law) require cars to stay at least three feet away from cyclists when passing.
To help drivers better understand what three feet is, Houston, Texas’ Dan Morgan has mounted a flag that protrudes out three feet from the back of his bicycle. He then points a camera at it and records while he rides. When people hit his flag, he turns them (and their license numbers) into the police. Yeah, he goes a bit over the line (“that’s the purpose of the flag, asshole”), but sometimes it takes people like Dan to really ride a point home.
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