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Carbon Addiction is on the move…
Just a quick note to let you know I’m in the process of migrating this page across to the all-new Carbon Addiction Substack. Super user friendly, and free, you’ll find all the same content, plus new cycling insights and musings that I’ll be posting on a weekly basis. If you love all things cycling, I…
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The race that wasn’t.
Adriatica Ionica Race cancelled just 3 hours before team presentation after dispute with Italian Cycling Federation. Stereotype or otherwise, Italians are often associated with chaos. Well, chaos is exactly what unfolded overnight in the picturesque ancient town of Corropoli, Abruzzo as the fifth edition of Adriatica Ionica Race was cancelled less than 20 hours before…
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Cycling through Uncertainty: TAIPEI CYCLE 2021
‘Taipei Cycle 2021’ International Media Launch A year is a long time in cycling. But when that year also involves a global pandemic, well, all bets are off. Twelve months ago, I was sitting in a conference room in the southern Taiwanese manufacturing hub of Taichung; now I’m watching on from 7,200km away via a…
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When winning isn’t the only way to win
The Tour de France is a peculiar animal. It’s one of the few major annual professional sporting events where a significant portion of participating teams have zero hope of achieving ultimate victory. They know it. Fans know it. Yet they eagerly line up in any case, year after year, seeking to ‘win’ in other ways.…
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Why forgiveness shouldn’t eliminate consequences
Ride on the road long enough and it’s almost inevitable you’ll be hit by a car, or know someone who has been. Sadly, like many reading this post, I know far too many whose lives have been forever changed due to the inattention, or more intentional misdeeds, of an errant motorist. Watching them, and their…
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Losing their %$#@ over Lycra
Who’d have thought a humble fabric could cause so much angst, heh? Well, it’s the fault of a guy by the name of Joseph Clois Shivers Jnr, a Virginia-based textile chemist working for DuPont back in 1958. He’s the man who invented the thermoplastic elastomer that became Spandex, or Lycra as we know it…
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