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Head honcho of Silca, Josh Poertner gives his take on the punctures at Paris Roubaix. I mean he has skin in the game, but he was there on the day and works closely with a number of the teams including Visma so it's interesting hearing his diagnosis.

Completely agree on reliability of AI - this was Perplexity and testing it with say bike related questions where I know the answers does throw up some massive whoppers! But with China it's not all propaganda, It's well documented by now how far they are going with battery tech, solar energy and...

I get a perverse kick out of using energy hungry AI to discuss energy hungry AI data centres power demands: China is powering its rapidly expanding AI data centers primarily through a massive build-out of renewable energy sources like wind and solar, alongside innovative grid policies and...

I think the AI Ponzi scheme's need for power for these massive data centres is the real danger for overloading the grid. Like banks in 2008 they have to keep going bigger and bigger to keep the lie growing, not collapsing.

Ben Healy out of all three Ardennes classics with a sacral fracture. He crashed on a reconnaissance TT ride at the Basque race but didn't know and raced all the stages anyway despite the pain. Finally the fracture was discovered with an MRI and he needs time to recover. Jesus he even won the...

Sea Otter - Dave Arthur, long term bike reviewer, focuses on road and gravel, not ebikes much. Here he walks around the huge X Lab booth checking them out. The alloy 105 all road one caught my (skinflint) eye at $1400. I mean if you twisted my arm the 5kg Aethos looking one would also do the...

Yeah was going to suggest a stiff link in chain but you changed that. Can be crazy frustrating a noise like that.

The adds have increased for sure, particularly those you have to watch for a spell to see the page.

Big US push for sure.

FYI from Wikipedia: The Ardennes classics[1] are three cycling classics held in mid-April in the Belgian Ardennes and southern Limburg in the Netherlands: Liège–Bastogne–Liège,[2] La Flèche Wallonne[3] and Amstel Gold Race.[4] First held in 1892, 1936 and 1966 respectively, the races are...

DING DING round two...

It's the tyre sizes I find I'm most curious about, Pog with his 38mm front tyre and this vid talking about a lot of teams on 34mm. It goes up each year. And of course with internal rim width also going wider these tyres tend to go wider than advertised like Pog with 35 up to 37.9 or so.

Yes Pro Cycling Stats evolves as teams make decisions. Good guide to get a flavour and they don't usually retract an entry once it's on there, unless injury sickness of course.

Good starting line up forming for the Amstel Gold Race this weekend (19th), not a Monument but a famous old Classic in Holland now in its 60th year and signals a change from cobbles to better roads so attracts more Tour riders, the next Monument Liege Bastogne Liege continues this. Tom Pidcock...

Its like the big mountain days in a grand tour, on the flat days often it can be like watching paint dry until final kms, but a big mountain day is a joy to watch it all live as so much is happening on different parts of the road, see it all unfold.

Yep, watched the whole thing live. Once they hit the first pave section this race always goes crazy, highlights miss all the great stories, worth watching it all, as it develops on the road. Even then depending on which group the TV director is showing, you can miss stuff behind or in front. I...

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Just for comparison Jeremy, this is Hardline, an extreme form of Downhill Mountainbike racing. Taking place in deepest Wales and Tasmania each year with all the world's best UCI downhill mountainbike competitors taking part. This clip is from Bernard Kerr, a sort of elder statesman of Downhill...

Here's a US review of the SP5+ apparently launched a few days ago so my timing is spot on! And it confirms the $1,899 price. https://bikerumor.com/x-lab-sp5-ebike-review-a-mid-drive-light-weight-ebike-under-2k/#:~:text=They%20took%20very%20little%20time,R240%20700c%20x%2040mm%20tires.

This is the kind of ebike Spesh must be worried about. If you haven't heard of X Lab (or parent bike co. XDS) they are a huge high end Chinese bike brand having over 300 concept stores throughout China and Asia. They provide road bikes for the Astana team, currently riding high in the UCI World...