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Raw material cost rises to prompt price increases from MIPS
In its interim report for the first half of 2021, Swedish protection label MIPS has discussed up coming price increases being an unavoidable consequence of rising raw material costs. The announcement was included in the firm’s financial update, with headlined with a 139% organic growth in Q2. “T...Read more -
Are E-Bikes for Kids a Bad Idea?
Advocates of pricy, battery-boosted models encourage parents to take any opportunity to get their kids outside. Detractors say children are too irresponsible to handle the risk. Here, we debate both sides. NO, IT’S A GOOD IDEA. ANY OPPORTUNITY TO GET KIDS EXERCISING IS WORTH IT Biking the flat s...Read more -
Rapha Classic – preserving performance and nature
Cycling is strangely obsessed with technological innovation and reinvention, yet we still ride on steel axles and spokes, and regard Merino wool with all the reverence that made it the first performance riding fabric. When tradition meets innovation, great things happen. Rapha proved this when...Read more -
When you have given everything, you can’t be disappointed
A man can run up a debt at the Tour de France, but sooner rather than later, the race demands that he settles his account. On Saturday, Guillaume Martin (Cofidis) showed enterprise to get in the day’s break and move up seven places to second place overall. Just 24 hours later, the Frenchman was ...Read more -
SOMETIMES THE RACE IS JUST A LITTLE TOO LONG
Brent Van Moer looked over his shoulder, saw the peloton round the bend, shook his head and pressed on. The 23-year-old Belgian had been off the front of the race for the entire day, having gone on the attack with Cofidis’s Pierre-Luc Périchon with 137.5 km remaining in a 150 km stage. After an...Read more -
I WANT YOU TO LOVE CRIT RACING LIKE I LOVE CRIT RACING
A single line from a conversation I had with L39ION’s Justin Williams a year ago still regularly runs through my head. “We failed the fixie kids,” he said. A decade ago, there were thousands, tens of thousands, of kids on fixed gears in cities across the world. Black and brown and white and gay...Read more -
Cargo bike based DJ is Pied Piper of new cycling movement
You’d be forgiven for not knowing who Dom Whiting is. Maybe you don’t frequent YouTube, don’t like Drum & Bass music, don’t like seeing lots of cyclists or are simply not ‘down with the kids’. Dom is (for the uninitiated) a DJ who started channelling his mixing skills onto a bike, a Christi...Read more -
E-BIKES NO LONGER DEFINED AS “MOTOR VEHICLES”
Great news for e-bikes! The Department of the Interior released final rules for electric bicycle use on public lands. This new regulation more clearly defines electric bicycles and no longer describes them as motor vehicles. This gives local land managers the authority to permit their use on non-...Read more -
Which is better outdoor and indoor?
In recent years, more and more people love sports, but many people are struggling with indoor sports or outdoor sports are more suitable for sports. Let’s discuss it today! Advantages and disadvantages of outdoor sports: Outdoor sports consume more calories It is understood that walking or ...Read more