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A Race for Madmen

A Race for Madmen gives context and color to the legendary stories that have made it into our collective cycling consciousness. It’s like a well-executed team time trial — graceful, fluid and a beautiful thing to experience.

Fausto Coppi and Jean Robic ride up Alpe d'Huez in the 1952 Tour de France

Pedalare! Pedalare!

Pedalare! Pedalare! is light on tales of racing, heavy on the analysis of Italian society, generous with introductions to notable Italian cyclists and absorbed with The Golden Age of Italian Cycling. It performs well, deserves respect and is worth a read.

It’s All About the Bike

A devotional to one of humankind’s greatest inventions, It’s All About the Bike celebrates the tradition, lore and beauty of bicycles. It delivers a mature winning performance that can be appreciated for its simplicity, elegance and manner.

Alpe d’Huez

Alpe d’Huez is a rewarding and animated feast of the defining and signature Tour de France moments and the stories behind them. It is a smart, imaginative, and engaging profile of “the cathedral of climbs.”

Geraint Thomas and Team Sky ride into Paris on the last stage of the 2018 Tour de France

The Tour According to G

For a GC contender there’s no hiding in the high mountains of the Tour de France, and The Tour According to G hides nothing from its readers. It’s forthcoming, direct, jovial and rousing. It delivers a strong winning performance from the Grand Départ to the Champs-Élysées.

The Tour is Won on the Alpe

Although The Tour is Won on the Alpe doesn’t fulfill its book-flap promise, it still puts in a strong performance, like a dedicated gregario or domestique riding in support of his team leader. It’s a performance worth a top 10 stage placement.

Greg Lemond in the final stage time trial of the 1989 Tour de France

Étape: 20 Great Stages From the Modern Tour de France

Étape is an engrossing celebration of the Tour de France. It reanimates memorable stages and moments, mostly from the late 1980s through 2012, and it’s a master work of cycling history and storytelling.

For a month-to-month list of Colorado cycling events and century rides, the Bicycle Colorado events calendar is a comprehensive resource. And for Colorado bike races, the USA Cycling and BikeReg event calendars are worth having in your saddle bag, if you race with a saddle bag.

The world’s first #bicycle ride took place 204 years ago today. It occurred on this thing. Not specifically this one, but this thing all the same.

Called many names — #draisine, #dandyhorse, #laufmaschine (#runningmachine) — the precursor to today’s bicycle first appeared in public in Mannheim, Germany under the steerage of Baron Karl von Drais.

On June 12, 1817, von Drais completed a 14km trip in under an hour and laid the framework for the sport and activity we love today.

Unchanged until the 1860s, the addition of rotary cranks and pedals to the draisine transformed the mechanical horse into a velocipede, which decades later, became the safety bicycle when J.K. Starley attached pedals to the velocipede’s rear wheel via a chain.

Starley’s new design allowed for a smaller front wheel, effectively reducing the high-wheeled penny farthing to a novelty.

Read more about the history of the draisine at The Irish Times via https://719ride.com/draisine.

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Come out to Chipeta Elementary School on Monday, June 21 at 7 a.m. for a lap of The Course That Cannot Be Defeated.

@elevationwheelcompany will be present capturing drone footage of the course as we ride.

Fun will be had by all.

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#supportlocalevents

Colombo Ottavio Severo, inspiration for the #719Ride #ColoradoSprings #cyclingevent, arrived in #COSprings in May 1898 with the idea of organizing a bicycle race to the top of Pikes Peak.

He died at 7:19 p.m. on 7/19/1923 at age 71 years 9 months — riding his bicycle on Zebulon’s mountain with his dream unfulfilled.

In between those dates, in a most fitting coincidence, he resided at what is now 719 Pikes Peak Ave.

Not officially part of the #PedalOurPast @cityofcos Old Colorado City Loop, the route does pay respect to this little remembered resident and bicycling pioneer.

Learn more about Pedal Our Past with @bike_cos and register for the 719 Ride at 719ride.com. The link is in our bio. #supportlocalevents

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Today, on #WorldBicycleDay, we declare for the tradition, lore and beauty of bicycles!

We celebrate the uniqueness, longevity and versatility of the #bicycle, and we recognize the influence this wonderful machine has had on the lives of billions of people over the last 200+ years.

“More than 50 percent of the world’s population knows how to ride a bike, and it’s estimated that there are more than two billion bikes in use around the world; a number expected to increase 150 percent in the next few decades.

“At this precise moment, all around the world, millions of people are riding bicycles. They’re riding in cities and riding in rural areas. They’re riding in good weather, and they’re riding in bad weather. They’re running errands, commuting, riding with friends, or simply enjoying being outside.

“All around the world, near and far, separated by oceans and continents, but joined together by two wheels, bike riders are experiencing the utility and freedom their machines offer.” — @compassion

Simply put, the bicycle is an uncomplicated, affordable, reliable, environmentally friendly and sustainable mode of transportation promoting health and wellness for all. It is also the sole mechanical source of mobility for hundreds of millions of people, and it’s a source of social, economic and environmental change.

Bicycles open up the world!

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Like a well-executed TTT, A Race for Madmen by @Chris_Sidwells is a graceful, fluid and a beautiful thing to experience. The book gives context and color to the legendary stories that have made it into our collective cycling consciousness. It’s wholly satisfying, engrossing, dramatic, informative and enlightening.

Sidwells leads A Race for Madmen into Paris with a record five consecutive stage wins, a well-deserved place on the podium but with some fatigue from the final week (chapters) that keep the book out of yellow.

Read the full 719ride.com book review at the Point One Blog. The link is in our bio.

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Gi-no, Gi-no, Gi-no...

July 18, 1914 — May 5, 2000

3x Giro champion. 2x Tour winner. 4x Milan-San Remo victor. 3x Giro di Lombardia top of the podium. Plus, two Tours de Suisse, five Giri di Toscana, 12 individual stage wins at the #TourdeFrance and 17 individual stage wins at the #GirodItalia.

Three of those Tour stage wins were consecutive mountain stages (13, 14 and 15) in the 1948 Tour. A feat that hasn’t been equaled since.

It was more than 50 years before anyone else won three consecutive stages in the Tour. That someone was sprinter Mario Cipollini who took four consecutive flat stages in the early part of the 1999 race.

Overall, #Bartali won seven stages in the 1948 Tour: the opening stage, then two in a row entering the Pyrenees (stages 7 and 8), the three consecutive Alpine stages, and finally stage 19 into Liège.

#GinoBartali won the 1948 Tour by over 26 minutes — 10 years after his first win and still the biggest gap in between victories.

Gi-no, Gi-no, Gi-no…

Siamo Bartaliano!

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Confucius, the Chinese philosopher and paragon of Chinese sages, is reputed to have said, “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential, and the 719 Ride . . . these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”

What is it about the 719 Ride that could possibly prompt the most significant thinker in East Asian history to say something like that?

Is it the intense pain and excellent fun the #cyclingevent delivers? Is it the test of physical and mental toughness administered by The Course That Cannot Be Defeated? What is it?

Come to #ColoradoSprings and find out for yourself. Unlock the door!

We ride Saturday, July 17, 2021. Registration is only $17.19.

Learn more at 719ride.com. The link is in our bio.

FULL DISCLOSURE. Confucious didn’t actually say the 719 Ride part. The rest of the quote is his though. And it’s true. Even the 719 Ride part. He also did NOT make handcrafted bamboo bicycles.

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Cycling is a sport of toil, endurance and suffering. That’s what provides the sense of theater. It’s also what “The Father of the #TourdeFrance” #HenriDesgrange loved about cycling.

Desgrange didn’t allow riders to receive any assistance in the early Tours, disliked and discouraged the emergence of teams, and kept derailleurs out of the race while he was the race director. He felt it was “better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur.”

If you, like Desgrange, enjoy the toil, endurance and suffering of cycling, then the 719 Ride #cyclingevent in #ColoradoSprings is made for you.

Come ride The Course That Cannot Be Defeated and let us know if it is like gelato for your soul. It is relentless and unwavering and will only stop when you stop. Plus, you ride it without aid stations on the route or at the start/finish. It is a true test of mental toughness, a fantastic sufferfest and excellent fun.

Learn more at 719ride.com. The link is in our bio.

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Promote the cycling identity of #ColoradoSprings and our homegrown, grassroots #cyclingevent with this new t-shirt design.

Colorado Springs contains all the necessary bicycling elements to quicken the pulse, invigorate the legs, multiply the corpuscles of the blood and exhilarate the mind.

* Year-round cycling weather with life giving sunshine and dry “thin” air.
* A history and commitment to bicycle recreation and competition.
* Unparalleled training grounds including challenging up-angled terrain, extensive singletrack and an expansive network of urban and soft-surface trails with 100 miles of on-street bicycle routes, nearly 120 miles of paved urban bike paths and more than 60 miles of mountain bike trails.

The result is ColoRide Springs, a city of spectacular natural beauty with an enthusiastic, active and vibrant bicycling community and a government supportive of bicycles.

ColoRide Springs is simply a great place to ride a bike. Let the world know it.

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What’s at the top of this #719Ride climb?

More climbing! Then, there’s more climbing after that.

9,190’ in 71.9 miles. You’ll notch more than 12,000’ if you’re game for a century. 😲

All that climbing can be yours for the super low price of $17.19, along with free photographs of your glory on The Course That Cannot Be Defeated and discounts from several local #ColoradoSprings businesses including:

@buffalolodgebicycleresort
@co14k
@kinshiplanding
@routes.outfitter
@switchbackroasters
@trinitybrewing
@twisted_spoke_apothecary

Learn more via any of the links in our bio.

Hope to see you July 17!

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A #GiosTorino brought to you by the passionate cyclists at @oldtownbikeshop in #downtowncoloradosprings

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Photo from @twisted_spoke_apothecary

#CBDinfused #tiresealant made by the passionate #cyclists at @goatheadbikeco and @twisted_spoke_apothecary. The hemp-based craze has finally made it into your tires.

CBD-infused tire sealant not only stops leaks, the anti-inflammatory properties of CBD help prevent premature wear to your tires. The relaxation also provides extra suppleness to the rubber, and supple rubber means more confidence in gnarly downhills.

THC-free formulation means the Goat Head CBD Tire Sealant by Twisted Spoke is approved for race use and legal in all 50 states!

Whether an avid racer or a weekend warrior, this sealant is for everyone!

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