Slovenias dominance of the 2024 Grand Tour season, withTadej Pogacar and Primoz Roglic combining to win all three tours, is atestament to the nation's current cycling prowess. Now, these two titans of thesport are teaming up for the UCI World Championships in Zurich, where aclimber-friendly cou...

An application for planning permission for a new temporary construction access route and a new western pedestrian and cycling access point to the Grangegorman campus has been made by the Grangegorman Development Agency.The walking and cycling access point will provide a link from Stoneybatter and Prussia Street to the Technological University Dublin (TU Dublin) and healthcare campus and beyond to Luas at Broadstone.The shared route will be temporary, along with a temporary construction access route to the campus from Prussia Street. A permanent walking and cycling route plan is to be applied for at a later date.The temporary route will be 3 metres wide and include public lighting and CCTV.The walking and cycling links through the campus form part of the National Transport Authoritys Greater Dublin Area Cycle Network.The current layout of the temporary active travel route does not directly link with St Josephs Road on the opposite side of Prussia Street. Lining up with the junction will make it easier to provide a cycling line from the campus westwards or even just enable the crossing of the road to cycle in and out of the access point. No details were given of the permanent layout of the route.An image (first image below) posted on Facebook by the Grangegorman Development Agency gives the impression that the route will more or less face St Josephs Road. But a more detailed drawing and an overlay of satellite imagery indicate that it will be more off-set from the junction (see second and third image below).The planning application states: A permanent pedestrian and bicycle link to replace the proposed temporary construction traffic haul route and temporary pedestrian and bicycle link will be provided through the site, subject to separate planning permission.The Grangegorman Development Agency said: This new access is what is intended to become the Prussia Street Gateway, a high-quality prominent access to Grangegorman on our western boundary.The planning reference is 4211/24, and a separate application for works relating to the campus wall inside the campus planning zone has the reference number GSDZ4210/24. Both can be accessed via the Dublin City Council planning search portal.IMAGE: The GDA provided this drawing on social media.IMAGE: Images from the planning file.IMAGE: The Greater Dublin Area Cycle Network Plan with the node in question circled.

The European road season is slowly coming to a wrap, but before that happens, there is still one month filled with action ahead. Starting just three days after the European Championships, the traditional Tour de Luxembourg will serve as a testing ground for many Worlds favourites, including Mathieu...

A letter from our EDThere is still time to join Bike Easy!With some important deadlines approaching, I figured I would send you a little nudge to get more involved and be an active part of the bike community in Greater New Orleans by:Joining our Board!Be part of the change you want to see and be an active part of a team of professionals who have dedicated their expertise to continue to grow our organization.Deadline to apply is this Friday, September 20th at 5:00 pm.Read all the details hereand also feel free to share! Please submit your resume and short intro letter toinfo@bikeeasy.orgSigning up as a Team for the Not-So-Easy Bike Easy Scavenger Hunt!This Saturday, September 21st, we will be hosting our inaugural Fundraiser Sponsored by Dirty Coast:The Not-So-Easy Bike Easy Scavenger Hunt! Check in at 3:00 pm at the Jazz Museum on 400 Esplanade Ave to receive your list of clues and to sign waivers (a requirement to validate your points).Here is a chance to partner with your friends and build a team of riders: Be given a list if challenges, quizzes and riddles to figure out on bike. You will have 2 hours to complete as many as you can & earn points. The team with the most points wins a $250.00 gift card to the local bike shop of their choice, and also a $250.00 gift card to Dirty Coast. We currently have 12 teams sign up!Register here to receive further instructions!Joining the Bike Easy TeamWant to get involved in Bike Easys education efforts and build a better world for biking?Were hiring a part-timeEducation Programs Assistant!This is a grant-based independent contractor position starting at $20/hour, 8-10 hours a week, with the potential to expand.Click herefor more info and to apply by September 27!Pre-Register for this years Bicycle Second Line Powered by Entergy!Join us for this years Bicycle Second Line taking place on Saturday, October 19th, 2024!This years celebration will be our biggest to date, and were including a big after party after the ride!Pre-Register HereTo Pre-Order this years commemorative t-shirtclick here Pre-Sale ends on Friday, October 4th. A limited number of t-shirts will be available at the event for 40.00And for a little lagniappe: if you want to hear more about what weve been up to, tune in to Out Spokin tonight (September 17) at 7:00 pm on102.3 WHIV FMIn Service Allene La Spina

A letter from our EDThere is still time to join Bike Easy!With some important deadlines approaching, I figured I would send you a little nudge to get more involved and be an active part of the bike community in Greater New Orleans by:Joining our Board!Be part of the change you want to see and be an active part of a team of professionals who have dedicated their expertise to continue to grow our organization.Deadline to apply is this Friday, September 20th at 5:00 pm.Read all the details hereand also feel free to share! Please submit your resume and short intro letter toinfo@bikeeasy.orgSigning up as a Team for the Not-So-Easy Bike Easy Scavenger Hunt!This Saturday, September 21st, we will be hosting our inaugural Fundraiser Sponsored by Dirty Coast:The Not-So-Easy Bike Easy Scavenger Hunt! Check in at 3:00 pm at the Jazz Museum on 400 Esplanade Ave to receive your list of clues and to sign waivers (a requirement to validate your points).Here is a chance to partner with your friends and build a team of riders: Be given a list if challenges, quizzes and riddles to figure out on bike. You will have 2 hours to complete as many as you can & earn points. The team with the most points wins a $250.00 gift card to the local bike shop of their choice, and also a $250.00 gift card to Dirty Coast. We currently have 12 teams sign up!Register here to receive further instructions!Joining the Bike Easy TeamWant to get involved in Bike Easys education efforts and build a better world for biking?Were hiring a part-timeEducation Programs Assistant!This is a grant-based independent contractor position starting at $20/hour, 8-10 hours a week, with the potential to expand.Click herefor more info and to apply by September 27!Pre-Registering for this years Bicycle Second Line Powered by Entergy!Join us for this years Bicycle Second Line taking place on Saturday, October 19th, 2024!This years celebration will be our biggest to date, and were including a big after party after the ride!Pre-Register HereTo Pre-Order this years commemorative t-shirtclick here Pre-Sale ends on Friday, October 4th. A limited number of t-shirts will be available at the event for 40.00And for a little lagniappe: if you want to hear more about what weve been up to, tune in to Out Spokin tonight (September 17) at 7:00 pm on102.3 WHIV FMIn Service Allene La Spina

CyclistRiding on Tadej Pogaars wheel was amazing, even though I was redlining: Q&A with Fahri Diner from PlumeStrongCyclist: Plume is your tech company, PlumeStrong is its CSR program, and Tadej Pogaar is PlumeStrongs ambassador. Youre both busy guys one a billion-dollar tech entrepreneur, the other one of the greatest cyclists of all time so how did it all begin?Fahri Diner: Honestly, we were lucky. We started the PlumeStrong initiative during Covid. At Plume [Diners tech company] we were trying to be healthy, active, eat well, because nobody knew anything about this virus, right? So a bunch of us started riding in this informal way. That somehow morphed into the first PlumeStrong Cycling Challenge in 2021, but heres the thing although were based in Silicon Valley our European headquarters are Ljubljana in Slovenia. We have a lot of Slovenians in the company, so we talked to Tadej [who is of course Slovenian] about supporting us, and here we are. He has his own initiatives helping people in and around where we work, and so he just resonated with our cause.This year that cause is Street Child, with whom youre working to raise money to build 15 secondary schools in rural Sierra Leone. By our reckoning youve raised 650,000 and counting this year, nearly 2 million cumulatively, and much of it through the PlumeStrong Cycling Challenge whats the deal with that ride?Every year I kind of crank it up a bit, so this year it was 824km over five stages, 2nd-6th September, from Zurich to Venice, with over 15,200m of climbing. Look at the course and it has a roughly 2% average gradient across the whole thing, so it looks a lot like what they do in the WorldTour. We do it slower, obviously. But the challenge is serious and people really train for it. This year we rode over the Stelvio, Pordoi and Zoncolan, and thats just the bigger ones.We did the first stage with Tadej, part of which was a recce for him for the Worlds. Riding on his wheel was amazing, even though I was redlining.What is the driver behind starting PlumeStrong? Its not like you dont have a lot on your plate as CEO and co-founder of PlumeListen, first, its zero profit. So Plume, our company, is there to make money for our investors, were a capitalistic endeavour, but whats unifying for our people inspiring isnt just to make money for our investors, its to do good. So weve jokingly said we want to be the goodest company around, which is where PlumeStrong comes from. Were in Silicon Valley, were kind of living in la la land, but there are people everywhere all over the world with needs, and we need to help.Last year we raised money to rebuild high schools in the earthquake-impacted area in Turkey, and those schools will be finished this year. In 2024 its Sierra Leone. You see a lot of people in Africa that, when they raise money, they spend it on young kids, elementary school. Thats great, but then what happens after elementary school? So our idea, with Street Child, is to build secondary education centres so these girls and boys can go on to further education. Related Posts Pro bike: Tadej Pogaars Colnago V4Rs for the Tour de France 2024 We expect a completely new level from Tadej Pogaar: Mauro Gianetti Q&A Every Tadej Pogaar Grand Tour performance ranked When do you manage to sleep in all this, or are you one of those four hours a night mad people?No I need a solid eight hours! But the secret is you have to integrate your work, your life, your being healthy. Were living and working in a 24/7 world. Every day I wake up to gazillion emails and you can easily get sucked in to answering them and before you know it, its been four hours and all youve done is respond to people theyre controlling you. You have done no work really. So its a choice, and I encourage everyone to make that choice, whether its running, swimming, cycling make time for it, because its thinking time.Thats a wonderful philosophy to share with our bosses when they ask why were out riding bikes on a Tuesday afternoonBut its true, youre way more valuable to yourself and everybody around you if youre healthy, getting oxygen to your brain and having clarity of thought.In the US we call it a Dr Phil moment, you know hes this American TV psychologist, and its that moment when you feel vindicated in your position, and I get my Dr Phil moment when I go for a ride. I can go out with that feeling of The world is my oyster or sometimes oh God everything is going wrong, its going to implode, and then through the highs and lows of a bike ride, it kind of clips those highs and lows in my brain. So when youre feeling really, really good you remember things are not really that good which is a good thing, it grounds you and when youre down you come back from a ride realising its not as bad as you think.Then there is another aspect thats connected exercise is one of those curious places where it can feel like you have perpetual energy. So my advice is to block out your calendar, for you or for others, and make cycling or any exercise a priority. And set a challenge, a goal that gets you out when you dont feel like it and its raining.You know, the PlumeStrong Cycling Challenge 2025 could be a fantastic one of thoseTo find out more about PlumeStrong and to find out about how you can donate or even sign up to next years cycling challenge yourself head to plumestrong.plume.com or search #PSCC24 on Instagram.To find out more about Plumes work with Street Child in Sierra Leone, head to street-child.org. 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Don't look for Arne Marit in the results of the remaining races this year. The Belgian sprinter broke his collarbone on Sunday in the GP d'Isbergues and is ending his season. This was announced by his team Intermarch - Wanty.Arne Marit has already successfully undergone surgery. For the 25-year-old...

Tim Merlier owes his European title just as much to his lightning-fast sprinter's legs as his guardian angel - the former national coach Carlo Bomans whose lightning-fast reaction and wheel change, allowed Merlier to stay in the mix for victory after a puncture at a critical point halfway through th...