Stages Cycling, maker of popular power meters, has laid off its entire workforce

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For about a year, Jonny Long and I have been kicking around concepts for a new podcast. Exclusive for Escape Collective members, here's the pilot episode (also with video!):

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I’ve spotted this bike box in Dublin airport baggage reclaim several times over an extended period so today I checked the label.
Date is July 25th 🤯. That seems very lost!
Let’s try get it home. Retweet to find the owner. I have identifying details.

Much talk this week about teams using CORE temp sensors. It’s a topic we covered on the Escape Collective Performance Process podcast with Chris Bloomfield Brown a couple months ago.

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Packing for Belgian spring classics trip:
Thermobolick ✅
Ribbed tights and socks ✅
Durex jacket ✅
Crop top ✅
Nootropics ✅
… Gonna be one fast and wild week

Discuss

6 months ago I had a question - how much does it actually cost to produce a carbon bike

Today we publish the answer in a podcast and written post on the site.

Big thanks to Rob at Factor for being so open, Dave Rome for planning etc, and joelindsey for the mammoth edit

If it’s been raining this past week, it’s been pouring … sealant.

Ronan Mc Laughlin investigates the mounting questions arising for manufacturers as another hookless tyre dismounts another rim.

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Amidst all the talk and theories circulating road hookless this week, please remember 1 thing- the ISO, who’s other standards I’ve been repeatedly told by manufacturers are not high enough, now state-nothing smaller than a 29mm tyre on a 25mm internal rim

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So much hookless talk this week, understandably so… a few things:
1) ISO standards are being ignored.
2) 72.5psi (road) is a limit not a target
3) It’s not just 1 failure
4) Rim type+size should be the primary factor in tyre choice, then tyre width.

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Hookless probably won’t crash you most of the time. Ignoring standards probably will

If you ever Google “best X for X” then you need to read this

Spotted: Visma-Lease a Bike were on a new Cervelo P5 at Volta Algarve

Ronan Mc Laughlin reports:

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The recent Ekoi PW8 pedal exclusion highlights a sport-wide issue.
Ronan Mc Laughlin delves into how the UCI’s rules on prototype technology are thoughtful, well-intentioned, and failing.

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I spy a new bike 👀

Is this the new 2024 Trek Emonda?

Ronan Mc Laughlin thinks it could be – or maybe even an updated Madone

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It’s the Rás Tailteann , a special race needs an …. Insane bike!

“maybe some guys at jumbo look at a castle in Australia and go I would be a little bit quicker with that pass gas gun than I am with this laser”

Auto-transcribing app working wonders with this weeks Escape Collective Performance Process podcast guest Alex Dowsett