On the brutal stage 19 of the Tour de France, eventual winner Tadej Pogačar was two minutes and 23 seconds…
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If you’re not recycling while you’re cycling, are you really cycling at all? There’s a ‘Yo, dawg’ meme in there…
As we roll into 2024 with the enthusiasm of all the cyclists in Cape Town’s narrow streets, it’s probably a…
There are many, many, many reasons you might want to stay inside, to borrow a term from Commandant Eric Lassard.…
Some features shouldn’t ever exist behind a paywall. Beacon, a location sharing feature in fitness app Strava, is one such…
No matter how well designed, there are no running shoes that allow runners to keep up with cyclists. The bicycle was a key invention that doubled human-powered speed. But what if a new kind of shoe could allow people to run faster by mimicking cycling mechanics?
Aerodynamic resistance increases with the square of air speed, which means it increases very rapidly as the speed increases. Rolling resistance, meanwhile, increases linearly with speed, which means it increases much less rapidly as speed rises.
A decade ago, Chris Froome was watching Lance Armstrong competing in the Tour de France from his boarding school, St…