Author: JPPartland

Time to mask up. Time to refute the anti-mask rant.

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Covid Pandemic Mask

I want to do a group ride again. Feel the speed, hear the whirring, enjoy the mental focus, the leg and lung power, the coordination, and the fun of pushing friends and fellow revelers along.  […]

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Time to mask up. They work. Tell the anti-maskers. Tell everybody.

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Coronavirus SARS CoV 2

I want to do a group ride again. Feel the speed, hear the whirring, enjoy the mental focus, the leg and lung power, the coordination, and the fun of pushing friends and fellow revelers along. […]

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Bring the Worlds back to the United States. As soon as possible.

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Cobblestone Hill Richmond World Championships

The final kilometers of the men’s and women’s 2020 UCI World Road Championships in Isola, Italy were thrilling. The helicopter shots of Alaphilippe and van der Breggen and the chasers racing full-throttle along the ridge […]

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Self-Driving Uber Killed a Pedestrian. Charges have finally been unveiled.

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It finally happened. While it has taken over two years for Maricopa County, Arizona to decide who, if anyone, is responsible for a self-driving car, owned and controlled by Uber, killing a pedestrian walking her […]

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We won’t get fooled again?

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Livestrong bracelets. the stuff dreams are made of.

2020 was an exciting vintage of the Tour de France. Possibly the most exciting in years. The defending champion and his team didn’t have the goods. The Green Jersey race was a battle through the […]

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Give Some Love to the Maillot Vert, the most complicated race in the Tour

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For seven of the past eight years, Bora-Hansgrohe’s Peter Sagan made winning the Tour de France Green Jersey look easy. (In 2016, he was set to make it look easy until he was wrongly disqualified […]

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Le Tour de Crash: A Theory on Increased Carnage

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The opening stage of the 2020 Tour de France was largely neutralized by the riders after a spate of crashes on the tiny, twisting, rain-slicked roads the route took around Nice. Looking at all the […]

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The Inscrutability of Pro Equipment Choices

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The Tour de France is the most important equipment rollout of the year. The importance is due to the stiffness of the competition, the importance of the stakes, and the worldwide attention focused on the […]

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As the Tour Turns, 2020: Ineos Drama in the lead-up

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Thomas leads Bernal 2019 tour

Two former Tour de France champions were taken off their team roster this week. Four-time champ Chris Froome was seen as not good enough to ride for his team. Same goes for 2018 winner Geraint […]

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Setting Up for a Hot Day’s Ride (video)

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Just in time for that late summer heat wave. Or just keeping the warm days cool. How to Ride in the  Heat–Prep Tips from a Roads Scholar.

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