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This is called "blocking". It's a dangerous tactic, but it can work for short periods. Most savvy riders can spot it a mile away and will yell out "they're blocking". This usually causes attacks from farther back, negating the effect. Another tactic is called "covering". If a marked rider...

At the amateur level, it's done out on the road between the riders themselves. You might agree to split primes (in-race prizes). You might agree to not lap the field, so that a fair sprint can happen between the break riders. These kinds of agreements are common, and enforced by the riders...

What Ras said. Most of the races I've won were won from the break or in a solo break. It happens more often in amateur racing because, no radios. There's also the concept of "marking". If you are a "marked rider", nobody is going to let you get up the road. The yellow jersey is a good example...

They could walk or ride an analog bike like we all grew up doing.

It's easy to tell. A good shop would not resell a fake.

My experience is with amateur racing, although pros were in the same field as me. In this situation, it's about tactics and the balance between risk and trust. If you spend energy chasing, will you make the catch? If you do, will you lose? If you sit back in the field and do nothing, do you...

Perfect. You are not training for racing with a coach that needs accuracy. As long as it's consistent.

Most of the NCX seatposts available online are counterfeit.

Hey, if you don't like American food, you don't like American food. But I 100.0% guarantee you, that what you ate in your three visits to America was not representative of American food. They were a sample given to you by others who were paying for it (minus the drinks). These places were their...

In my experience, drive unit power meters read low. I've also seen crank and pedal based power meters read high. The only way to be sure is to calibrate it with a known weight.

Your opinion of America was clearly shaped by your hosts. a) You ate at an all-you-can-eat buffet. That is the low bar for American restaurant food. It is often populated with Americanized ethnic food like "Italian", "Mexican", and "Chinese". You might as well had gas station sushi. b) Plenty...

UAE Stage 4: lumpy with a flat finish. A four man break of DeBod (Modern Adventure), Gamper (Jayco), Steinhauser (EF), and Milesi (Movistar) put 2:30 on the field. With 1km to go, they still had 10 seconds, so DeBod attacked, but was caught at 250m (I know that feeling). Milan wins, Riley...

The Garmin Varia RCT715 can be powered from an external source that will charge its internal battery. If your Tern has a USB-C port on the display that is designed to charge your phone, you can use that to charge the camera from your main battery. I have the older Garmin Varia without the...

Long press assist up is the defacto way to turn lights on/off. Can you try an older version of e-Tube?

You can also get organic brown eggs in the supermarket. There's no comparison in taste to the generic white eggs from the monster egg farms. This is what we have for breakfast.

Yes. Brown eggs are local eggs. We have plenty of small farms, and local people who have layers and sell them at the farmer's market or in a roadside shed. You can even get local duck and quail eggs. What a country!

No, it's all about cyclocross, gravel racing and riding, and recreational riding.

There was a good article this week in INRNG about team costs. "If you prefer data, the UCI collates all the team budgets and this leaked to La Gazzetta (€). The total for the 18 men’s World Tour teams went from €473 million in 2023 (average: €26m per team) to €663 million for 2026 but note this...

Tomorrow's stage is lumpy with a flat finish. I like Del Toro's chances in that one.

Amazing rides for both Tiberi and Del Toro. Two riders to keep an eye on this year. It was a multi-step climb with lots of attacks. A group got away at about 7km out, Remco bridged, making it look easy. When they were caught, another counterattack went, and they rode Remco off of the back...