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My most obscure hot take: The Hard Rock Mining Law of 1872 needs reform.

Were you aware that, unlike coal/oil/natural gas, hard rock mining companies pay ZERO royalties to the American taxpayer for taking our minerals out of the ground? It's the biggest giveaway of our resources in history.

Hopeful news for Campagnolo No, not the agreement with the labor unions that prevented the rumored deep layoffs. The hopeful news is that a bike manufacturer will introduce Campagnolo shifting at an entry-level price point. I…

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Hold up, Campagnolo is NOT shedding 40% of its workforce The latest from Campy indicates that the threats of deep layoffs have now been retracted. Or perhaps they are trying to claim rumors were greatly exaggerated. Bits at the Escape Collective and at C…

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February 2026: Gravel's Geographical Disconnect Contextualizing Gravel: Part 2

"Thus, the main issue with gravel, the biggest single issue with gravel bikes, and with the entire emergence of the Gravel Industrial Complex™, as I see it, is that the great majority of gravel bike riders in the world do not live in the American Midwest. "

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Surya Bonaly is owed an apology and a gold medal.

Shmostradamus four months ago.

Kuss abandons his first race of the season.
A Visma coach leaves, citing a lack of creativity and passion
Simon Philip Yates retires, citing a lack of motivation
Vingegaard to ride Giro to rediscover his enthusiasm
Wout has been phoning it in for two seasons.

what the heck is wrong at Visma?

Start with a rental day, perhaps?

Strava map

A dirt path forks.

Finding an excellent gravel route is inevitably balanced. Cannot remember the last time prior to today when I crashed into a cactus but…

#mtb #sandiego #gravelride

I found some from the usual but it took more searching than it should. And choice, in stock, with the right teeth, was limited.

In my retrogrouch opinion.

It really should not be so difficult to locate 110/74 BCD chainrings. This was the #MTB standard for decades!

You need a bike that has disc brake mounts on frame, fork and wheels. A new fork and front wheel would be possible as a partial disc upgrade but it’s probably not worth the money to do that.

RIP Bob Weir Somewhere back in the golden years of mountain biking, Bicycling Magazine ran a feature of pictures submitted by readers. I sent in one of myself, shot by my friend Dave during one of the Snow Summ…

RIP Bob Weir sundappledforest.wordpress.com/2026/01/16/r...

Chorus 10speed is the best road group I have ever been able to afford. Amazing stuff. Centaur too, although that bike had Chorus levers from the start which is 90% of the shift quality game imo

Ep. 167 Joy Franco: UCI Age Group Gravel World Championships Podcast Episode · Bike Talk with Dave: All things bike! Bikepacking, cyclocross, gravel, mountain bike, road & events · 10/28/2025 · 1h 23m

Downloading for my ride today. One of the science tweeple rides at a very high level. #mtb

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Campagnolo sheds 40% of its workforce Oh Campy. Is it really this hard to run a beloved brand business? Bike Radar is reporting Campagnolo will lay off 120 of 300 workers at their headquarters in Vicenza. Il Gazzetta broke the story. A…

Campagnolo perplexes. Yes, again.

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Cateye Padrone Digital number five goes to four In my continuing cyclocomputer sunk cost fallacy debacle I’m on my fifth Cateye Padrone Digital head unit. The first unit went bad after about ten months, possibly due to creek dunking. The second …

Cateye Padrone Digital number five goes to four #MTB
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Ok, so where does this leave Bini? He was, sadly, trying to move to this squad. Seems displeased with the Lotto / Intermarche shenanigans. FFS PLEASE can a team that will support his talents build a team around him???

#senditSunday
Desert fun in Arizona.
#mountainbiking #mtb

Local trails today with gorgeous fall weather!

#mtblife

Happy place
#MTB

Thank you for your readineservice.

Ok but the only reason you could execute moves was from doing all those pushups right?

was there a long-cage, triple version of the centaur derailleur? i thought 28 t was the limit across the board on their normal derailleurs. (of course you can always stretch a cog or two, depending on the bike)

centaur 10 derailleurs and cranks were indistinguishable from chorus 10 ime. really good price/service bargain. i got spec'd with chorus levers so i don't know about that comparison.

real money, fewer life commitments. that's the time to load up your bike garage.

The demand for these ended at 10 speed, as far as I can tell. 11sp was common spacing and hits a sweet spot for older bike rehab, ime. Pity, because campy 10 speed was the absolute pinnacle of evolution. if you ignore the gear limitations, anyway. although a drop link might help with that.

Hampsten track bike

Maybe I need to get back on the velodrome.