Tag: Rapha

  • Outskirts: Route 66

    Outskirts: Route 66

    If you’ve had the pleasure of watching any of the Thereabouts films, you’ll know the inspiration for what makes them tick; getting out on the bike with good friends, amplified by crazy massive distances, in places that seem less than ideal or even hospitable for cycling. Outskirts takes Gus Morton’s latest crew across America on…

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  • Riding Is The Answer

    Riding Is The Answer

    It doesn’t really matter what the question is, does it? Personally, there’ve been many queries that the bicycle, and the motion of the body it takes to move it, has provided the solution to. What are yours?

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  • All Roads Lead To Innsbruck

    All Roads Lead To Innsbruck

    Climbs steeper than the Muur and Koppenberg, repeated en masse, makes Innsbruck’s claim to be the toughest Worlds Road Race for years a legitimate one. Like a Spring Classic in the alps, it promises to be a proper war of attrition played out on scenic roads in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities. If Sagan…

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  • Rapha Rides Los Angeles

    Rapha Rides Los Angeles

    I guess it’s a good sign when you you watch a short film like this and then go away wanting more of it; Rapha does a stunning job of capturing a slice of LA in their uniquely visually pleasing way. LA is an amazing town and they do justice to it with what they shot,…

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  • The Road Painters

    The Road Painters

    Back in about 91 or 92, when I didn’t have a job to encumber my ability to follow a bicycle race around for a week, I loaded my car with crusty brushes and a tin of the heaviest-duty lead-based paint that I found at the back of the garage and headed into the night. My…

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  • Rapha Tirol

    Rapha Tirol

    This took about five minutes longer to watch than it should have, and resulted in a half dozen screenshots, so remarkable is the scenery in Rapha’s latest commercially artistic film foray into the Tirol region of Austria.

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  • Sophie Rides Amsterdam

    Sophie Rides Amsterdam

    A city can define a person, shaping one’s character and winding itself around one’s heart. World Cup cyclocrosser Sophie de Boer can go as fast as the best, but it’s on the smoky, cobbled streets of Amsterdam where she really feels at home.

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  • Roubaix Week: The Final Pump Up

    Roubaix Week: The Final Pump Up

    Come on, you’re not excited about Sunday yet? What are you, a mountain biker? Hell is about to heat up! There’s so much to love about tonight’s race, not the least that Tom Boonen is retiring and could become the outright record holder with a 5th win. That’s worth watching for alone. There’ll be crashes,…

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