Category: INSIDER RIDES
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Insider Rides: Peter Sagan’s Specialized Roubaix
Click or not: Insider Rides: Peter Sagan’s Specialized RoubaixIt says something about the status of a rider who can be in the mix at the biggest races of the Spring Classics and still be regarded as not on form. Peter Sagan has been there or thereabouts in the Monuments so far but many are not prepared to consider him a chance at Paris-Roubaix.… …
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Insider Rides: Jack Bauer’s Scott Foil
Click or not: Insider Rides: Jack Bauer’s Scott FoilYesterday Russell caught up with Craig Geater, the mechanic of the Mitchelton-Scott team, meeting them before the team recce of the Paris Roubaix. There Craig talked him through the tweaks they do for Jack Bauer’s bike and some of the prep for Sunday. “In the past years we used to do a lot of different… …
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Insider Rides: Marta Bastianelli’s Storck Platinum F3
Click or not: Insider Rides: Marta Bastianelli’s Storck Platinum F3It may seem unusual for the biggest Flemish race of the year to be one suited to Italian riders. Looking back through the results over the 103 years of the Ronde Van Vlaanderen though reveals that the Italian job is more common than most other countries bar the home side. After all, the original Lion… …
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Insider Rides: Mathieu Van der Poel’s Canyon Aeroad
Click or not: Insider Rides: Mathieu Van der Poel’s Canyon AeroadThe kassien is calling. Around Flanders, frites are frying in questionable fat sources under makeshift gazebos, truckloads of cheap generic beer makes its way into muddy fields to be dispensed in the worst kind of plastic cups that render the beer even more tasteless, ending up trampled into the slop alongside broken yellow flags and… …
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Insider Rides: Backy’s Ritchey Outback
Click or not: Insider Rides: Backy’s Ritchey OutbackLast week we shared some photos of a bright yellow Ritchey Outback on Instagram and our newsletter and I’ve had a lot of questions and comments on the bike so I thought I’d go into more detail about it. The bike belongs to Brent Backhouse, a graphic designer who does work for RocketEspresso and Eleven, and also… …
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Insider Rides: Brett’s Jaegher Interceptor Speedmaster
Click or not: Insider Rides: Brett’s Jaegher Interceptor SpeedmasterI’m an impatient type of guy, mostly. I’ll lie in bed thinking about something that I need to do tomorrow, but jump up and do it right now. If it can be done inside, of course, I mean I’m not heading out to change the oil in the car or anything. So waiting for a new… …
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In Pursuit Of Going Slow
Click or not: In Pursuit Of Going SlowI pieced together a bicycle recently with nostalgia and parts-bin pragmatism. The top-of-the-line frame from 25 years ago has patina-ed well, bearing marks of use and care and enjoyment. Everything else has been scrounged, traded for beer, borrowed, or was just hanging around as these things do. I think about buying a front rack and… …
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Insider Rides: Buck’s Hinault Custom
Click or not: Insider Rides: Buck’s Hinault CustomIt’s always strange meeting people that you’ve previously only known by the wonders of the internet. I’d talked to American ex-pat Buck Rogers on a popular forum many times over the years, and his enthusiasm for all things steel, Euro, and unique leapt off the page in a cacophony of “fuck yeah!”s and “right on”s. When… …