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Quite a negative tone on the cyclingnews front page Between Cav's tantrum, silly journalist questions, Mohoric's victory salute comments and the hotel raid, there's this nonsense: https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/tadej-pogacar-says-there-is-nothing-illegal-about-his-bike-at-tour-de-france/

His little tanty is really being blown out of proportion https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/mark-cavendish-explains-his-angry-tour-de-france-outburst-directed-at-a-mechanic/ Even with click bait type of pics to lure you in

I wonder where rugby would be on that list Let's not forget about the track and field athletes Baseball had a few surprising results too...

Great article https://bikerumor.com/2021/07/15/insider-10-questions-for-a-tour-de-france-performance-coach/ Awesome to see our guys (including Dr Swart) front and centre on the world stage

Phillippa is not impressed... https://www.cyclingnews.com/features/philippa-york-carapaz-bluff-was-an-epic-fail/

Is there any substance to this drama ? This kind of headline was a regular a day or two before The Tour started through the 90's. https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/police-raid-bahrain-victorious-hotel-at-tour-de-france/

Sounds like my experience with the Giant tubeless range. Mine were various types from the Race and AC range. All terrible! That experience put me off tubeless and cost me friends (almost), a few Uber rides and a lot of money! I think these Fondo's are new and sound like they are performing much better. Conti GP 5000 TL 28mm are expensive, but performing well. On my 2nd set now.

Apparently he didn't even stay for lunch!

Journalists need to write about something. Except that this article doesn't actually say much https://road.cc/content/tech-news/chris-froome-switches-shimano-brakes-magura-284783 But I am amazed to see that they are still checking for motors in bikes! https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-12-july-2021-284775

Those blonde locks are unmistakable

That looks like Eugène Christophe's fork! The guy that stopped to repair his fork at a local village blacksmith so he could finish the 1913 Tour https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugène_Christophe

Except for that one dude trying to sell the 29'er chromo, QR, v-brake straight steerer fork ......... can someone just buy that damned thing already! It has a sibling! https://bikehub.co.za/classifieds/item/road-bike-forks/484791/vintage-cromoly-front-fork

Butchered Birkenstocks https://www.instagram.com/p/CRNrk_2loyE/

Surely this comes as no surprise: Spectators barred from Olympic events in Tokyo Tokyo Olympic Games: Spectators barred as state of emergency announced https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57760883 https://edition.cnn.com/asia/live-news/tokyo-summer-olympics-07-08-21/index.html

Spot on.! Although, he does a bit more detail. But its still mostly a repeat of McCrossan said. It means that I only listen to 50% of what's being said so that I don't get irritated. And don't get me started on 'Rocking and Rolling' Their 'Pogatcha has cracked' high pitched rant also wound me up yesterday. They said very little when they all rolled over the line together.

Hopefully he has time to sort his knee out before the Olympics Is he riding the XC (or DH) this year ? (Sort of serious, sort of joking)

Tactical Chunder ?

There are people riding that on gravel bikes

Apologies for being a bit late to the party https://cyclingmagazine.ca/sections/gear-reviews/bikesframes/dangerpubes/ Amazing attention to detail on this do-it-all machine

I hope they went back to 30.9 seatpost so that you can fit a reasonable dropper in there. The switch back to 27.2 was not a good move (IMHO)

Conti used to post some pretty questionable stuff on one of those threads that were closed as few years ago. Very glad they are both gone

We live in hope Fingers crossed Hope for the best, but expect the worst And all those cliched sayings...

No, but Stefan De Bod is there - he must have slipped past my radar (I am sure its discussed at length elsewhere)

Nice article on JP (the fact that he worked on my bikes before he made it big overseas makes me famous by association ????) https://bikenetwork.co.za/the-ever-expanding-toolbox-of-cannondale-factory-racings-head-mechanic-jp-jacobs/