cycling
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Peloton’s Business Is as Busted as Its Bike Seats
The company behind everyone’s favourite pandemic purchase, the Peloton, is facing subscriber and financial backlash. Subscribers are cancelling and pausing their memberships with the cycling tech amidst a recall over bicycle seats. And now the company has to answer to Wall Street. CNBC reports that a May recall of 2.2 million Peloton bikes over their…
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The World’s Longest Bicycle Tunnel Opens in Norway Next Month
When most cities explore methods of making their streets friendlier for cyclists and pedestrians, government agencies usually propose installing protected bike lanes or maybe closing down a street to vehicle traffic. Almost no municipality is ever ambitious enough to create infrastructure specifically intended to be car-free. However, Bergen, Norway is preparing to open a vibrant…
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The RadTrike is a Three-Wheeled E-Bike That Wants to Replace Your Ute
Since 2007, American bicycle builder Rad Power Bikes has been creating affordable electric bikes with the aim of encouraging people to leave their car at home. Now, the Rad is launching a new electric trike that the company hopes can attract people out of their utes and SUVs and into the open air.
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A 3D-Printed Bike Broke Lotus and Chris Boardman’s Hour Record After 26 Years
Anyone who has followed professional baseball over the last few months knows that records can be contentious. Measures of achievement can be disputed, and marks as simple as an asterisk in the official record book can be debated for decades. Alongside the single-season home run record, the hour record in cycling is one of the…