The early season rarely offers a clearer statement of intent than this. Jonas Vingegaard, Remco Evenepoel and Isaac del Toro are all expected to line up at the UAE Tour in February, setting up a three-way headline battle before the European spring has even properly begun. With the mens race schedul...

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Jai Hindley begins a new season with his attention firmly back on the Giro dItalia, a race that sits at the heart of his career story. The Australian, who won the Italian Grand Tour in 2022, is set to return to the race within one of the strongest structures in the peloton, Red Bull - BORA - hansgr...

While I do my best to spare you, my valued readers, from all the administrative tedium, there is in fact a great deal of work that goes on behind the scenes here at Tan Tenovo Industries, Ltd. For example, in addition to producing half-assed cycling-themed commentary on a daily basis, the team here at TTI Ltd. also manages a $3.6 billion portfolio on behalf of a select clientele. Minimum investment is $500,000 and you can apply here if youre interested:However, today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and with the markets closed were using the day to conduct other essential internal processes. Typically on a federal holiday wed suspend publication and take what might appear to you to be a day off, but instead weve decided to offer you a rare glimpse into our corporate operationsthough before proceeding youll need to review and sign a non-disclosure agreement, which you can do here:With that out of the way, today were engaging in inventory control. As you know, a lot of bikes come and go here at TTI Ltd. Over the years these have included review bikes such as this one:And this one:[Its been like 17 years but I kind of want that bike back.]But eventually I grew disillusioned with cutting-edge bike tech (or, if you prefer the spin-free version, I became increasingly irrelevant over the years and nobody wanted to send me bikes anymore), so these days most of the in-an-out bike traffic around here is due to my capacity as the Classic Cycle Old Crap Test Pilot. These bikes have included the good:The bad:And the ugly:See how we used the same image for bad and for ugly? It may seem lazy, but this is exactly the sort of efficiency that allows us to generate the high returns our clients have come to expect.Of course, the Acquisitions Department here at TTI Ltd. does occasionally retain some of the bicycles Paul of Classic Cycle sends to me for testing. One such testcycle is the Cervino:In submitting my request to the department I stressed the organizations need for a prototypical, period-correct, classical road bike, though roughly two and a half years after first receipt it no longer fits that description:When it comes to vintage bicycles we can preserve them in formaldehyde or we can allow them to evolve organically, and in this case, for now at least, we are doing the latter.The occasional instance of corporate appropriation aside, in most cases we must return or otherwise re-home the testcycles in order to make way for whichever new old one Paul decides to reward and/or torture me with next. In fact, in an electronic mail correspondence last year he used the verb inflict instead of send and appended this image of the sort of thing that may be in store for me next:Yikes.All of this means the two (2) testcycles Im currently test-cycling must finally cycle out of inventoryand to refresh your memory thats this one:And of course this one:In the coming days (or more likely weeks) these two specimens will soon make their way down to the shipping department here at TTI Ltd., which is staffed by one (1) person, that being a certain Jrs Trli:[I asked the AI to generate an image for Jrs Trli, Tan Tenovo Industries, Ltd.s One-Man Bicycle Shipping Department, and as always the results are fascinating. In particular, the AI seems to have developed an inability to render left crank arms. Go figure.]As you can imagine, between half-assed bloggery and parental responsibilities and, most importantly, the actual riding of bicycles, it can take awhile before Jrs gets around to actually packing these things up. It is, after all, much more fun to ride bicycles than it is to put them in boxes, and so he almost always prioritizes the former. However, if youre in the market for a classic mountain bike this delay could work to your advantage, because the AMP Research B3 is officially for sale from Classic Cycle, and this is your chance to head it off at the pass:[The AIs take on the AMP Research B3 is officially for sale from Classic Cycle is a real dud.]Price?One Thousand and Five Hundred American Fun Tickets. (US$1,500.00)A mere bag of shells.This is your chance to own a piece of mountain bike history, and to own a bicycle that looks like it could have been a prop in a Terry Gilliam movie:See?And yes, its disc-compatible:Sure, youll have to find an AMP Research disc brake, but thats your problem:Its also completely unnecessary, because the brakes that are already on there are excellent.This is the bike you dreamed of owning in 1994 and can finally afford:**[Tan Tenovo Industries, Ltd. assumes no responsibility or liability for your financial position and makes no warranty that you can afford shit.]Is it as capable as a modern full suspension mountain bike, or a Jones for that matter? Not it is not. Is it a light and agile rolling museum piece that happens to be a lot of fun to ride? Emphatically yes. Also Im pretty sure by 2026 standards its a gravel bike, and its about six times cheaper than a Trek CheckOUT:I mean seriously, its only a dirt drop handlebar and a crooked rear rack away.And yes, the original cockpit is included, of course:So if youre interested, click here:Then send me an email and let me know because that button doesnt do anything.

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Mathieu van der Poel did not need Benidorm to start a rivalry with Jasper Philipsen. He needed a moment. And once the words were out, the story was no longer about who won a race. It was about who would dare the other into unfamiliar territory first. Not only I would lap him, but everyone else too....

Concluding our 2025 Editors Dozen series, bundle up and dig into fall/winter favorites, featuring several cold-weather gear standouts that include a Minnesota-made Polartec hat, stealthy winter boots, smart repair tricks, camera upgrades, and a do-all fat bike. Plus, find a little reminder to take care of yourself when the temps drop and to-do lists grow...The post Editors Dozen: Neils Favorite Gear and More of 2025 (Winter) appeared first on BIKEPACKING.com.

Engineers from the University of Trento in Italy are working on a system that captures the heat energy created by braking to charge the electronics on your bike. A paper on the technology outlines a method by which energy is captured from braking and sunlight to run electronic components, including electronic gears, dropper posts, power meters and data telemetry equipment. F1 cars and electric vehicles can use regenerative braking to capture kinetic energy as the vehicle slows down. Such a system could, theoretically, be possible for bicycles, too. Thermal and solar energy harnessed The thermal recovery system uses a 3D-printed mount that holds a thermal generator above the brake pads. Giuseppe Pasquini; Maria Doglioni; Arianna Saviane; Davide Brunelli The paper identifies that low-power, wireless actuators are becoming increasingly common on bike components such as dropper posts, derailleurs, and even suspension forks and shocks. This creates a need for batteries to power the tech. The paper investigates whether innovative energy harvesting and management solutions that do not compromise rider experience could reduce or eliminate reliance on batteries. It examines two sources of energy; thermal energy generated by the brakes and solar energy. PhD student Maria Doglioni, one of the papers authors, explains the focus was to generate enough electricity to run actuators on electrical components, not generate enough current to charge large batteries such as those used on electric bikes. This concept for energy harvesting is quite different from the regenerative braking systems used in electric cars. We use wasted heat from friction when we push the brakes, whereas [electric] cars use reverse-running motors as generators, says Doglioni. Thermal energy captures the heat generated as your brakes convert kinetic energy from slowing you and the bike into heat energy. Instead of that heat energy dissipating into the atmosphere, thermal capture could harness it and channel it into a modern bikes electronic system. The system described in the paper captures energy from sunlight alongside thermal energy. The solar energy is captured using photovoltaic panels, changing the sun's radiation into electrical current, which can then be combined with the energy from the braking system and fed into electrical components. How does it work? An aluminium plate transfers the thermal energy generated by the brakes from the pads to the thermal generator. Giuseppe Pasquini; Maria Doglioni; Arianna Saviane; Davide Brunelli The system uses an aluminium plate. This contacts the disc brake pads to transfer the heat energy to the thermal generator. The thermal generator is attached to a 3D-printed mount. This bolts onto the post-mount disc brake caliper bolts and sits above the brake pads. The thermal generator transforms the heat energy into electrical energy, which can then be passed through wires to be used elsewhere on the bike. It looks as though the system might be adaptable between different bicycle brakes without the need for spending big on bespoke calipers or unwieldy hardware. Because it relies on thermal energy, this technology is also friction-free. This offers an advantage over dynamo setups, which introduce drag to your bike. Elsewhere, the system utilises photovoltaic panels to capture solar energy. This is used in tandem with the thermal energy capture, to investigate whether, when combined, these two systems could create enough power to run electronic components, removing the need for batteries entirely. The paper also states a possible use for the energy generated could be for running telemetry used on mountain bikes when descending. An example would be Mondrakers MIND system, which collects suspension data that the rider can access via the myMondraker app. Giuseppe Pasquini, another of the papers authors, explains a different approach was taken compared to the MIND system, which powers its own GPS (Global Positioning System). Instead, Pasquini says the research team used a custom app that employs a smartphones GPS for real-time data collection, saving harvested energy for the onboard sensors. What does the future hold? Data acquisition systems such as Mondraker's MIND are among the myriad electrical components that could be powered by this technology. Mondraker To effectively power components like shifters and telemetry, we are advancing beyond standard technologies by implementing both lower power consumption and higher energy production, says Pasquini. Even in its prototype form, the product looks very minimal. It could bode well for a finished product if this pre-production version is already small and neatly packaged.