No one wants to feel nervous or anxious on their bike! That’s why we’ve put together these 5 essential cycling skills to help you feel safer and more confident on the road. Practice these and you’ll feel great on every ride!
From CyclingNews.com
Van Rysel has hit the ground running this year. The Decathlon-owned brand now sponsors the Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale team, providing them with Van Rysel bikes and a range of the brand’s kit and equipment. The team has generated a positive buzz this year for creating a successful and more budget-friendly WorldTour level bike, and the brand’s clothing and helmets don’t break the bank either.
Alpe d’Huez is one of the most well-known climbs among cyclists, and we recently witnessed an astonishing finish at the Tour de Femmes. But how fast are these professionals, really? To find out, we’ll conduct a test where volunteers from the GCN Megabase will take on the Alpe d’Zwift challenge and aim for their best possible time. Will they measure up to the professionals?
From CyclingNews.com
The first road stage of the Vuelta offered up some striking tech snippets
The Vuelta a España often plays third fiddle in the Grand Tour hierarchy. When you take into account the Classics too, it may seem that there is very little new tech to be spotted here, but that doesn’t mean there is none. The route is often punishingly hilly, and when wandering the pits I found out that Ineos have a fleet of bikes that they send to a Formula 1 paint company in the UK for stripping and repainting to make them even lighter, just for use in the hilly stages.
The heat, too, is always an issue, though there were far fewer cooling hacks on show here than there were for the opening time trial where the mercury shot above 40 degrees. My stage one tech gallery is worth perusing too if you want a full immersion into tech nerdery.
Guide our Legislative Efforts with SAFE’s California Driving Laws Survey
SAFE is conducting a research project focusing on California drivers’ knowledge of driving laws, some of which have existed for a long time and some of which are newer laws.
The goal of this project is to have data on what laws drivers retain from when they initially took their driving test and what laws they are aware of that have been recently established.
Once the survey is completed with sufficient responses, it will be used to propose legislation about how CA DMV should provide continuing education for new and existing driving laws.
Bikepacking can be bare minimalist or super comfortable. It’s a balance; luxury at camp sometimes implies more work on the bike! In this video, we share some strategies for both minimalistic bikepacking and tips for bikepacking in 5-star comfort to help you choose between packing light or “glamping” on two wheels.
From CyclingWeekly.com
The newly updated URS can travel well beyond groomed gravel trails, encroaching into what’s often considered mtb territory
BMC has refreshed its versatile URS line of adventure gravel bikes, with the goal of making them more capable off-road. Headline updates follow current industry trends, namely wider tyre clearances and slacker geometry, but it’s worth remembering that the URS, in all its guises, was already a very able bike over rough terrain.
This latest iteration builds on that purposeful foundation – a quality that BMC likes to call ‘Unrestricted’. It’s a machine built for bike packing, exploration, time spent in nature, and having fun hooning about off-road. It’s not an all-road bike or a gravel race bike – BMC has the Roadmachine X and the Kaius for those scenarios.
Last year, the UCI World Championships took place between the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España, and this year, we had the Olympics. For the second year in a row, it feels like the final men’s Grand Tour has come around quick! The race starts this Saturday, and unlike the Giro and Tour before it, there’s no clear favourite for the Vuelta. In this video, Dan will break down all 21 stages in detail and discuss the top contenders for the title this year!
From CalBike.org
CalBike is a co-sponsor of the Complete Streets Bill of 2024, SB 960, authored by Senator Scott Wiener. The bill requires Caltrans to set objective goals and “to prioritize the implementation of comfortable, convenient, and connected facilities for pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit users on all projects in the [SHOPP funding] program, where applicable.”
Complete Streets are streets that are safe and comfortable for people biking, walking, and taking transit, as well as driving motor vehicles. Protected bikeways, a key element of many Complete Streets, have been shown to reduce fatalities and injuries for road users in all modes of transportation.
People who get around by biking, walking, or taking transit have the same right to safe passage on our streets as people driving cars. True Complete Streets provide that equitable use of our public space regardless of transit mode, economic status, or race.
From CyclingNews.com
New bike sheds one pound in weight over the previous Checkpoint SLR
Trek has announced the arrival of an all-new gravel race bike called the Checkmate SLR alongside an update to the existing Checkpoint SL.
The Checkmate SLR sports a lot of design cues from the brand’s aero road bike the Madone with the same Full System Foil approach as well as borrowing the Madone’s aero cockpit.
