Tag: endurance racing
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The Transcontinental Race Journey
Click or not: The Transcontinental Race JourneyRaces like the Transcontinental are fascinating to most cyclists, as in we marvel at the feats of endurance and fortitude and riding your bike through the night in the rain; it’s almost romanticised. While inspiring, the level of motivation needed to actually commit to something of this magnitude (craziness?) is something that is only possessed… …
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The Full Tuscan
Click or not: The Full TuscanWatch in awe as superlaidback French mileage monster Clement Stawicki aka Clem Shovel and his Norwegian compadré Joachim Rosenlund take on the Tuscany Trail bikepacking race, a 560km slog through some of the most spectacularly challenging terrain to pilot a bicycle, and live to tell the tale, barely. You can also read about their battles both… …
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Up The Muur And Across Contintents
Click or not: Up The Muur And Across ContintentsYou’ve got to respect the kinds of people who decide to ride a bicycle across Europe unsupported, like it’s a normal thing to do. I have a few friends who love this race, including the two-time winner Kristof Allegaert of Jaegher and Breadwinner’s Clem Shovel. The thing is, they seem kinda normal, until they finish… …
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Powering The Paralane
Click or not: Powering The ParalaneIn which the interminably cheerful Jeremy Powers gets sent to Iceland by Focus Bikes to assess the capabilities of the Paralane endurance/cross/discroadfastbike. To be perfectly honest, I’d be happy to watch J Pow do a grocery run by bike but if there’s one location to advertise an anywhere bicycle, the shingle and singletrack on display… …
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The Company Of The Long Distance Cyclist
Click or not: The Company Of The Long Distance CyclistThere’s enjoying riding bikes then there’s enjoying riding them enough to do so for over two weeks straight on so little sleep an insomniac would wince. The Transcontinental has been held since 2013 and surprisingly cyclists are still attracted to riding its roughly 4000km unsupported course in spite of the refined suffering that results from… …