Cyanide have released more details about their upcoming Tour de France game, which is still the only Tour de France you’re going to get in June and July. This time it’s how the FUT-style multiplayer mode works. The Tour de France games have always had online racing, and it’s always been moderately good, while also demonstrating that all the fun ideas we daydreamed about back in the mid-2000s are less workable in practice. Last year, bowing to pressure from 14 year olds on their forums and presumably their publisher too, Cyanide released a patch with the addition of a FUT-style…
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Osmo have sent us a tub of their Active Hydration for assessment. We say “assessment” rather than “review” because this is a pioneering scientific product and… and we used to skip science class to watch the Giro d’Italia. Osmo Active Hydration comes in a neat tub that looks great in your bike room. Osmo sent us the Orange flavor, but it also comes in Blackberry and Lemon Lime flavors. In terms of flavor, it’s not exactly Kia Ora, but there’s a subtle hint of orange that makes your bottle taste more interesting than plain water, and that presumably masks all…
Our friends over at The Gravel Ride have dropped their latest episode. This week, Craig speaks with ‘Queen of Pain’ Rebecca Rusch about The Be Good Foundation and her gravel event Rebecca’s Private Idaho. I was really surprised at how gravel roads are the combination of the cool things about mountain biking and cool things about road. They’re a melting pot in a way where you need technical skills to maneuver the chunky gravel and you need road skills to stay alive at the beginning and find a wheel. That was the impetus for me to launch Rebecca’s private Idaho.Rebecca Rusch Listen…
In 2008, we shared the leaked BNP member list. You can probably tell from our essays which part of the political compass we occupy, and to be perfectly honest, we wanted to help share it. Still, we did it as part of a joke about a certain former Cycling Weekly writer, who’d been arguing with us about Polish immigrants on VeloRiders. And while we had a fairly sizeable readership, we didn’t think our single paragraph would reach Britain’s gammon population. But it did. We first got a baffling bit of fan mail. Who would be reading such a bizarre mix…
Move over Zwift. Move further over Rouvy and RGT. There’s a new virtual cycling experience in town and it looks beautiful. User Makinolo on GTA5-Mods dropped a huge mod for the hit game Grand Theft Auto 5 that lets you control the in-game bicycles using an F-EC ANT+ smart trainer: GT Bike V. This might sound like it’s something basic but fun, like VirZoom, but it’s developed with cycling in mind. It adjusts to the in-game incline, terrain, and wind, and also features bespoke routes to ride. It even includes an on-screen Garmin – this is a cycling project, not…
The Tour of Denmark is canceled. Were you planning to watch it? Did you even know it existed? Apparently it’s Denmark’s largest recurring sporting event, coming in just ahead of the annual rebroadcast of that 1990s Peter Schmeichel advert for bacon. The UCI found a place for the race in their densely-packed revised calendar, but difficulties and uncertainties around managing the COVID-19 situation have meant that the organizers have decided to canceled this year’s edition of the race Here’s what the race organizers have to say. Or what Google Translate says the race organizers have to say. Despite the new…
OK, not literally. Well, maybe a bit. After a couple of years trying to add extra value that entices its free users to subscribe, such as training tools and safety features, they’ve finally taken the opposite approach to monetization: removing features that have been free for 11 years and putting them behind a paywall. “This means that, starting today, a few of our free features that are especially complex and expensive to maintain, like segment leaderboards, will become subscription features.” – Strava founders Mark Gainey and Michael Horvath Here’s what’s been taken away from the free plan: The full leaderboard: You’ll only see the…
Our friends over at The Gravel Ride have dropped their latest episode. This week, Craig speaks with coach and women’s cycling advocate Lorri Lee Lown. I think we’re in a heyday of great women to model the gravel lifestyle after, which is awesome. Many of the top, top female athletes have this sense of irreverence and humility in their public personas, where they show themselves falling down. They’re just showing what we all experience when we choose a challenge like riding off road.Lorri Lee Lown Listen on the player above, on The Gravel Ride’s website, or on Spotify/iTunes.