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The Best Race Of The Cycling Season Is Here
The Tour De France is, financially speaking, just about the only bike race in the world. Three weeks of traipsing around France accounts for 80% of the annual TV exposure for teams involved. When Thibaut Pinot won Stage 8 of the 2012 Tour, his ride alone brought in $10 million worth of exposure for ...
Cyclist Pancakes Into Car In Painful Crash
Irish rider Matt Brammeier was seriously injured when he collided with a car during yesterday’s Stage 6 of the Tour of Utah. I could tell you the timestamp when it happens in the video, but the anticipation is gnarly—and you’ll see it (and hear it) coming before it goes down. And keep watching for t...
Tour De France Enhanced By Yet Another Bare-Assed Frenchman
Il est une tradition à nulle autre pareille....
An Adult’s Guide To Learning To Ride A Bicycle
The Anna Karenina principle of biking is this: Everyone who learned how to ride a bicycle did so in roughly the same boring way; anyone who made it to adulthood without learning required a unique series of roadblocks, failures, negligence, and procrastination. If you fall into the latter group, cong...
It Ain't A Tour De France Unless Some Dude's Ass Is Hanging Out
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Man Tries To Consume As Many Calories As Tour De France Rider, Barfs
Clearly, the approximate 8,000 daily calories consumed by a Tour de France rider are spread out, not eaten in one sitting, but that’s not the point of Nicolay Ramm’s stunt. He’s just doing this until he pukes, and that’s totally fine....
Can Nairo Quintana End Europe's Stranglehold On The Tour De France?
This year’s Tour de France boasts the strongest group of contenders this decade. Chris Froome and Vincenzo Nibali split the last two Tours in dominant fashion. Alberto Contador, the greatest stage racer of his generation, hasn’t finished a Grand Tour lower than first in over a year. All three are hi...
Massive Tour De France Crash Takes Out 20
The third stage of the Tour de France was halted for about 15 minutes after a pile-up that brought down around 20 riders and caused four to withdraw....
Cyclist Fight!
This happened just beyond the finish line at this weekend’s Longsjo Classic. Based on the bib numbers, the guy throwing the punches is named Jerome Townsend, and the dude getting popped is named Dave Warner....
Cyclist Eats It
A gust of wind pushed Geraint Thomas off the course during this weekend's Gent-Wevelgem race in Belgium, and he crashed. Ouch....
Asshole Spectator Grabs Cyclist's Handlebars, Causes Broken Collarbone
Australian cyclist Loren Rowney was in full sprint, gunning for first place at the Molecaten Drentse 8—a race in the Netherlands—when some asshole reached his hand out (seemingly on purpose) and grabbed her handlebars, causing her to spill to the pavement. Instead of possibly winning the race, or ...
"How's Your Dick?": The Rise And Fall Of An Alleycat Race
"Stupor Bowl is dead," Gene Oberpriller pronounced after the 18th annual alleycat bike race. The fact that you—hopelessly mainstream as you are—are reading this is proof. As any nightclub owner will confirm, underground cachet is a fragile beast. It's only minutes, or entries in this case, between t...
Cops: Lance Armstrong Hit Two Parked Cars, Girlfriend Took Blame
According to Colorado police, Lance Armstrong literally hit two parked cars with his car in Aspen, and figuratively threw his girlfriend under the bus....
This Three-Woman Cycling Wreck Is Absolutely Horrifying
So, this crash, from yesterday's Elite Women's Team Time Trial, is one nasty-ass crash....
Cyclist Jens Voigt Breaks Record With Over 204 Laps In An Hour
German cyclist Jens Voigt rode 51.115 kilometers—or almost 32 miles—in an hour at the Velodrome Suisse in Switzerland tonight. It's tiring to just read those words. The 43-year-old became the first to break 50 kilometers since the Union Cycliste Internationale changed the requirements in May....
Two Cyclists Engage In Sad Slap Fight In Middle Of Vuelta A España
Man, if there was evidence that cyclists are not really 'bout that life, this incredibly weak slapfest between Ivan Rovny and Gianluca Brambilla during the 16th stage of the Vuelta a España is it. Are they swatting at flies or trying to hit each other?...
The Worst Road Users, Ranked
The streets are not safe. Lurking around every corner there is an asshole cyclist or a maniacal UPS driver ready to plow into anyone in sight. In our parks, children and the elderly are routinely yelled at by runners, cyclists, and stoners on longboards (watch out, breh). And in our cities, unifor...
Cyclist Crashes Through Team Car's Rear Window
Cyclist Ian Crane was freakishly injured during yesterday's final stage of the USA Pro Challenge in Colorado, when he came off his bike and went through the rear window of a team car that stopped short in front of him. He remains sedated in the hospital, and is listed in stable condition....
Sheep Smokes Cyclist In Head-To-Head Race
I have no idea why this sheep was just hanging out on this road, or why it decided to race this cyclist, but I am going to imagine that it simply stands in that spot all day every day, just waiting for some dummy on a bike who needs a lesson in what real speed looks like....