Author: Charlotte Adler

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Yakima's finest tech writer. Formerly wrote about and reviewed iPhones, now freed to ride a bike and talk cycling gear.

It wouldn’t be the eve of Paris-Roubaix without the UCI sticking their noses into something. Days before the Hell of the North, the governing body has officially banned Visma-Lease a Bike’s in-race tire pressure management system on a corporate technicality.

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For over a century, wheel building has been the domain of grumpy, highly caffeinated mechanics. Now, Berd’s $7,000 automated wheel-truing robot wants to put them out of a job. We take a cynical look at the new TRUDI update.

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There is a sacred, unspoken contract in professional cycling. You can suffer, you can crash, and you can absolutely bury yourself in the gutter, but you must always attempt to look good doing it. We have spent the last decade arguing over the aerodynamic legality of sock heights, hiding our brake cables inside our headsets, and spending small fortunes on jerseys engineered in military-grade wind tunnels. And then Jonas Vingegaard showed up to Stage 4 of Paris-Nice and took a massive, wattage-fueled dump all over the entire concept of aerodynamic efficiency. By now, you’ve seen the footage. After the crosswinds…

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