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Nerd Alert podcast: Finding the best chain lube for your needs

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Nerd Alert podcast: Finding the best chain lube for your needs

This week we’ve got a deep dive episode on a topic that’s applicable to everyone that rides a bike. Chain lube. As we’ve covered plenty before, the difference between running a good chain lube suited to your riding conditions versus a poor lube can come at an enormous financial cost to parts replacements, and that’s if you can find the parts to begin with.

Unfortunately, there’s no doubt a load of BS floating around when it comes to chain lubes and what’s best. In August 2021 we had independent chain lube tester, Adam Kerin of Zero Friction Cycling, on the podcast to dive into the murky world of chain lube testing and why many claims just don’t stack up. This time Adam joins the pod again with a practical list of useful take-aways that your drivetrain will love and a few popular myth busters.

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CyclingTips Podcast: What are the chances Pogačar wins Milan-Sanremo?

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CyclingTips Podcast: What are the chances Pogačar wins Milan-Sanremo?

This week on the CyclingTips podcast…

We discuss Paris-Nice, especially the fantastic final stage, and Tirreno-Adriatico and look ahead to Milan-Sanremo on Saturday.

Plus, Lorena Wiebes seems unbeatable in a sprint after her performance at Ronde van Drenthe.

For this week’s Nerd Nugget, James is excited to test an $800 road bike.

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Freewheeling Podcast: A Ronde van Drenthe for the “sprinters”

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Freewheeling Podcast: A Ronde van Drenthe for the "sprinters"

This year a relatively calm (when it came to wind) Ronde van Drenthe favoured the sprinter types. The Giro Donne announced a massive prize purse for 2022, but is that a good thing? And the next Women’s WorldTour race is one of our favourites, Trofeo Alfredo Binda, next Sunday.

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Nerd Alert podcast: LeMond is back in the road business, but is it for real?

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Nerd Alert podcast: LeMond is back in the road business, but is it for real?

We’re back with another group show this week, and taking a hard look at the new LeMond 8 carbon aero road bike that was announced last week.

It sounds sweet, and includes a lot of intriguing features like structural foam filling, internal carbon truss reinforcements, size-specific chainstays, and — get this — carbon threads in the bottom bracket, bottle mounts, and derailleur hanger. There’s so much we want to love about the thing, but also a whole bunch of red flags.

We also discuss the pros and cons of Wahoo’s new Kickr Rollr smart trainer, imagine a world with wireless e-bike chargers, and then finish off with a whole bunch of reader questions in our Ask a Mechanic segment.

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Freewheeling Podcast: Building a community with Black Girls Do Bike

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Freewheeling Podcast: Building a community with Black Girls Do Bike

Abby chatted with Monica Garrison, the founder and executive director of Black Girls Do Bike, a collection of women who share a passion for cycling. Black Girls Do Bike is a safe space for all women, especially women and girls of color, who have any interest in cycling. From racing to cruising around on the bike path, BGDB encourages bike riding as a form of fitness, freedom, and fun for women.

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CyclingTips Podcast: We can’t get over this year’s Strade Bianche Donne

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CyclingTips Podcast: We can't get over this year's Strade Bianche Donne

This week on the CyclingTips podcast…

We discuss the very different tactics in play at the men’s and women’s Strade Bianche over the weekend. The first really important stage races are underway with Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico, and Paris-Nice, in particular, started with a bang for one team while others fell short.

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Freewheeling Podcast: Strade Bianche set the bar pretty high

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Freewheeling Podcast: Strade Bianche set the bar pretty high

The Freewheeling ladies get together to chat about all the action from Strade Bianche, Le Samyn, and the EasyToys Bloeizone Fryslân Tour.

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CyclingTips Podcast: “Still top ten” doesn’t quite cut it

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CyclingTips Podcast: "Still top ten" doesn't quite cut it

This week on the CyclingTips podcast…

We chat in depth about the men’s and women’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and the men’s Kuurne-Bruxelles-Kuurne.

In case you want to read Iain’s The dictator, the oligarch and the UCI president piece.

James checks in to discuss Cervelo’s new frames hiding in plain sight at the opening weekend.

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Freewheeling Podcast: Confusing tactics at the women’s “Opening Weekend”

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Freewheeling Podcast: Confusing tactics at the women's "Opening Weekend"

The ladies of Freewheeling try to figure out what exactly was going on at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Omloop van het Hageland and look ahead to the first women’s WorldTour race of the season Strade Bianche.

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Nerd Alert podcast: Custom options are great, but only if you’ve got the parts on hand

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Nerd Alert podcast: Custom options are great, but only if you’ve got the parts on hand

Lots of things have been hard to come by over the last year or two, and while it’s definitely been a big inconvenience for a lot of us, it’s potentially crippling if you’re trying to sell bikes — and maybe especially so if you’re a consumer-direct brand like Fezzari that has a full range of bike types and also prides itself on offering a huge list of custom options.

Ever wonder what the logistics look like for such an operation? It’s as complicated as you might think, but thankfully, it turns out some people actually enjoy figuring that stuff out.

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CyclingTips Podcast: The violence and silence behind the UCI’s PR moment

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CyclingTips Podcast: The violence and silence behind the UCI's PR moment

In this special episode of the CyclingTips podcast, our Senior Features Editor Iain Treloar digs into the evacuation efforts of Afghan cyclists in the wake of the Taliban’s return. 

Off the back of months of reporting, we reveal the bullying and blackmail behind a famous cyclist evacuation convoy backed by the UCI – and how the lists had been manipulated by the President of the Afghan Cycling Federation, Fazli Ahmad Fazli, to benefit family and friends instead of cyclists. With UCI backing, they received asylum, and Fazli received a major UCI award.  

Since CyclingTips broke the story, whistleblowers have been directly targeted, and a cyclist that Fazli believed to be a CyclingTips source was kidnapped and tortured for four days. Death threats have been issued, and now the Taliban is being sent after cyclists – apparently at Fazli’s orders. In a message to one cyclist, he said that the Taliban were his allies, and wrote that “until they have sent me pictures of their dead bodies, I will not rest.”

This is a raw and sometimes challenging listen, but it’s important.

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Freewheeling Podcast: Setmana Valenciana and the esports World Championships

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Freewheeling Podcast: Setmana Valenciana and the esports World Championships

This week we discuss Lizzie Deignan’s recent news and the changing mindset around maternity leave for women in professional cycling. The good news keeps coming with TCA’s new hotline and Tour of Flanders equal prize money.

Setmana Valenciana offered a taste of the season to come and we are all looking forward to Opening Weekend in Belgium.

Finally, Ashleigh Moolman Pasio jumps on the podcast to chat about the upcoming UCI Cycling esports World Championships.

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CyclingTips Podcast: The curious case of Evenepoel’s ITT strava file

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CyclingTips Podcast: The curious case of Evenepoel's ITT strava file

This week on the CyclingTips podcast…

Ronan breaks down all the racing that happened since the last episode, and all the drama that came along with it from Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl’s Cavendish vs. Jakobsen dilemma to Nairo Quintana’s fantastic start to the season to the pure power of Remco Evenepoel to Annemiek van Veluten’s impressive comeback.

For this week’s Nerd Nugget James has a lot to say about chamois.

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Nerd Alert podcast: OldgGrumpyH8ters gonna hate

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Nerd Alert podcast: OldgGrumpyH8ters gonna hate

Roval and Specialized appear to be returning to road tubeless after last year’s curious non-tubeless tubeless wheel launch, we question the merits of Ratio Technology’s latest 12-speed conversion kit, and — no surprise — Shimano made a heck of a lot of money last year.

But we also now have more concrete proof that the Covid-fueled bike boom might finally be cooling off a bit. And what’s Dave Rome’s favorite chain checker? What’s on the Nerds’ wish list for internal cable routing? How do you graphics off of DT Swiss hubs? And do Cushcore gravel inserts work with all rims?

We tackle all of that in this week’s Ask a Mechanic segment.

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Freewheeling Podcast: Swapping gears for skates with Mia Manganello Kilburg

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Freewheeling Podcast: Swapping gears for skates with Mia Manganello Kilburg

The ladies of Freewheeling talk through the UCI’s announcement that the first-ever women’s U23 jersey will be awarded in Wollongong, with the caveat that the race will be held within the elite women’s race and Israel-Premier Tech jumping into women’s cycling with Roland Cogeas Edelweiss Squad.

After a brief preview of Setmana Valenciana, where Amy raced her first and last UCI race, Abby caught up with Mia Manganello Kilburg who is currently in Beijing for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

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CyclingTips Podcast: How will the WorldTour Relegation system impact racing?

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CyclingTips Podcast: How will the WorldTour Relegation system impact racing?

This year on the CyclingTips podcast…

The team chats about the UCI’s new WorlTour relegation system and how that might impact the 2022 season.

Matt de Neef caught up with Cadel Evans.

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Nerd Alert podcast: Maybe slower is better when it comes to cycling clothing?

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Nerd Alert podcast: Maybe slower is better when it comes to cycling clothing?

Apparel — apparel in general, not just cycling-specific stuff — is predominantly manufactured in bulk, with orders placed through contract factories well before anything will actually be offered for sale. It’s done this way because it’s cheap, but it also carries a lot of downsides, like the uncertainty of forecasting, long lead times, and literal mountains of waste. Maybe there’s a better way?

US-based brand Kitsbow certainly thinks so, and while their sewn-on-demand business model has hurdles of its own, there certainly seems to be an awful lot of upsides.

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Freewheeling Podcast: A chat with SD Worx’s Anna Shackley

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Freewheeling Podcast: A chat with SD Worx's Anna Shackley

Amy Jones sits down with Anna Shackley to talk about the 20-year-old’s sharp rise to the WorldTour with SD Worx, learning from Anna van der Breggen, and going to the Olympic Games.

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CyclingTips Podcast: All eyes on the early season stage races

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CyclingTips Podcast: All eyes on the early season stage races

This week on the CyclingTips podcast…

We discuss Saudi Tour, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana, Vuelta CV Feminas, and Etoile de Bessège and how the early season has changed.

For Nerd Nugget, James discusses changes in production, specifically related to the cost of shipping now vs. pre-pandemic.

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Nerd Alert podcast: Will all bikes eventually be sold consumer-direct?

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Nerd Alert podcast: Will all bikes eventually be sold consumer-direct?

Specialized rocked the industry last week with the announcement of its Rider Direct program, which allows buyers in select markets to have complete bikes delivered right to their door — either by a participating dealer or in a cardboard box.

Dedicated consumer-direct brands like Canyon and YT bike brands already do this, of course, but Specialized is the first major traditional brand to go that route.

Without question, the world has gotten used to buying anything and everything online, so this is clearly where things are going. But is it a good thing or a bad thing for consumers and bike shops? And when might other brands follow suit? We discuss this — and more — in this week’s episode.

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