Topic
cycling
- PogaÄŤar's Climb
You don't have to be an avid cycling fan to be impressed with Tadej Pogačar's incredible time trial on stage 20 of this year's Tour de France. He bested the 2nd and 3rd place riders by a full minute, 1:21 better than…
- Economics of the Tour de France
The Tour is on its second rest day, 15 stages into a brutal 3 weeks of hills, mountains, and even challenging "easy days." I've followed the sport pretty closely over the past 6 years, but not too far into the busines…
- The Best of The Blue Train: 2001 L'Alpe d'Huez
With this year's Tour de France delayed (as of now, til late August), the guys from The Move have been going over some of the best stages from the US Postal years. It's a cool format, sort of like a commentary track o…
- Tour de France to be Raced on Zwift in July
This year's UCI season was demolished due to COVID-19 like most other sports. All of the big monuments, classics, and at least 1 Grand Tour (Giro) were postponed. Milan—San Remo, Dauphiné, Paris—Roubaix, and a bunch o…
- Weekend Reading: Observable Edition
This week's links are all interactive notebooks on Observable. Their Explore section always highlights interesting things people are creating. A great learning tool for playing with data and code to see how it works.…
- Watts vs. Speed
After a long ride today, I was looking at the stats on Strava and wondering how wattage calculations work to determine power. Strava has a built in estimate it uses for your power rating if you don't have a power mete…
- Cairo to Cape Town on a Bike
Endurance cyclist Mark Beaumont is best known for his "around the world in 80 days" ride starting in Paris and crossing 3 continents in 78 days, putting him in the Guinness Book for the accomplishment. A few years bac…
- Cycling Commute
This week I tried out commuting on the bike, like I posted about earlier this week. It's a comfortable, nice ride with a dedicated bike lane the whole way from my house, a block away from the Island Loop through Shore…
- THEMOVE Podcast for the Tour
Lance Armstrong's been doing THEMOVE podcast on the Tour for 3 years now, the first being the 2017 Tour when I spent so much time watching both the Tour itself and the podcast (then known as STAGES). On the show they…
- Why Did We Wait So Long for the Bicycle?
Roots of Progress has an interesting deep dive on why it took so long for a (relatively) simple invention of the bicycle, even in a time when the principles of a bicycle's components were well understood for a long ti…
- Biking Again
Last weekend I got the bike back up and running again. It’s been out of commission in the garage since the move a few months ago. Just had to clean it up a bit and put some air in the tires and it’s good to go. I’ve g…
- Tour de France
The Tour de France is on right now, reaching the first rest day after a wild first 10 stages of racing. Julian Alaphilippe (a Frenchman) is in the yellow jersey, who's one of the great opportunists in the field, with…
- Places: Col du Galibier
The mountain stages of the Tour de France are some of my favorite events in sports. This edition of Places features a tribute to this year's 18th stage, and one of my favorite climbs of the Alps: the Col du Galibier,…
- Cycling: A Sport for Geographers
The UCI World Tour season kicks off this week with the Tour Down Under. I started following pro cycling closely about 5 years ago, but since it’s fairly hard to get access to on broadcasts, I only get to watch a handf…