Tag: Climbing
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Duel
Click or not: Duel“True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one’s own fear, with one’s own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.” Yevgeny Yevtushenko Despite the somewhat overblown soundtrack and dickish move by the dude to outsprint his lady, this is a pretty cool video featuring some of… …
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The Col Collective Hits The Dirt
Click or not: The Col Collective Hits The DirtClimbing on a road bike is one of our favourite things; we could watch it all day. Do it on a gravel road and even better. Former US road Pros Timmy Duggan and Craig Lewis put together a killer loop in Boulder Colorado and put the hurt on host Cotty for the latest Col Collective. Starting… …
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Cicerone
Click or not: CiceroneTypically gritty, moody, stylish and inspiring, Rapha’s short films have a feel all their own. Some may view it as a contrived formula, and while they do tend to skirt those edges perilously, there’s a certain sense of the joy, suffering and accomplishment that seeps from the screen and projects you into the oft rain-soaked scenario of suffering… …
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Catalyst: Il Colle Delle Finestra And The Giro
Click or not: Catalyst: Il Colle Delle Finestra And The GiroGravel riding may well be the genre du jour of cycling right now, but it’s been around since the advent of the bicycle itself. Long before asphalt and 42mm file-tread tyres were invented, there was little option to do anything else than hit the dirt. Stick a label on it and you’ve got another bike… …
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In Velo Veritas Trailer
Click or not: In Velo Veritas TrailerI don’t know what it is about this trailer, but it just gives me the ride Jones and a strange desire to get tattooed and join a pack. A rad one. With Germans. In Italy. In short sentences. Like this. From Roma to Milano in 9 days. Through Tuscany. Over the Alps and Dolomites. 17 friends… …
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Give And Take On The Galibier
Click or not: Give And Take On The GalibierCycling provides pain, and concurrently relieves it. The folks from TIC (This Is Cambridge) understand this through personal experience. They shout it from on high at the ultimate altar of pain, the mighty Col du Galibier. They also make some pretty nice kit. …
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Curse Of The Turbine
Click or not: Curse Of The TurbineThe cranks rotated, the once steady turn of the pedals was now a thing of the past. “The easy miles are long behind you now mate”. The thought was expressed as the grunt through gritted teeth, a dry throat wouldn’t allow for speech. Words were an unnecessary luxury at this point, and there was no-one… …