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It's a cow festival. It's a carnival. It's a cyclocross race. It's the cow festival carnival cyclocross race, and also, it's at night. escapecollective.com/gallery-cycl...

Big week for reports about problematic team cultures, I guess.

I mean, it's harmless, but the hand wringing every transfer season of "OMG, X rider will be on Y bike brand, so wrong!" always cracks me up. Do we not know how this works?

If we all work together, I think we can make the fall classics A Thing. The vibes are there.

Some folks only know an era where only superstars win world championships, and it shows.

Alternatively, send yours to me, I will fix the seat clamp, then keep it.

The possibility of losing a 3-mile loop of road has stirred fears among the runners, cyclists, fishermen, birders and others who use it. Lawmakers are beginning to raise concerns about Ohio Drive in East Potomac Park, too.

Bummed I manufactured neither a plan nor the energy to do an incredible Road Worlds - MTB World Cup double with Montreal and Lake Placid on successive weekends.

That was an exceptional final.

I subscribe to a few substacks, mostly cycling, so when a notification popped up about "Forgotten Italian Classics", I got excited. Turns out it's just a recipe site I signed up for. Come for Milano-Torino, stay for the breaded anchovies, I guess.

You guys, it's just a bib shorts company.

I will accept this only if the host nation jersey designs are plays on entertaining-but-benign national stereotypes.

If you enjoyed this piece, boy does cycling have a story for you!

Yet again cyclocross practice has started and I am without tires. If only there were a way to know that the season was coming.

20 years on, I am once again begging American races to stop giving out jerseys for one-day events.

Seeing Puck Pieterse and Isabella Holmgren tearing up the TdFF warms an old cyclocrossist's heart.

Devin's writing has been a highlight of this Tour.

Tour de France roadside gallery: The fans contain multitudes escapecollective.com/tour-de-fran...

Weird to see an extended AFCC shout-out on the Peacock Tour coverage, complete with a prepped video package to show younger VDV and Roll.

Was in Evian/Thonon for the '22 Tour stages finishing in Lausanne and Châtel. Highly recommend.

Some of the best writing I've seen this Tour. (Disclosure: I work for EC.) escapecollective.com/lo/

The outrage over middle-of-the-night drug tests hints at how many folks don't remember the old days. In some ways that's good, but also, you know, "blah blah blah...condemned to repeat it."

I guess I could tell Peacock that their onscreen graphics show Egan Bernal as being from the Netherlands, but I don’t want to.

Depicting your omnipresent mascot belly-up is certainly a choice.

It's just one day, but watching both Kwiatkowski and Alaphilippe get dropped from the break today feels like the sunset of a very specific era.

Today’s start town, Dole, is the birthplace of Laughing Cow cheese, which is important to my baguette sandwich-making.

Cycling borrowing from the World Cup, where we get to watch players bicker and gesture uselessly with the refs before we all just get on with it?

It appears people have not stopped commenting without reading the article during my extended absence from cycling media.

That's news. escapecollective.com/kate-courtne...

So, did anyone else see the red-on-white Celine Dion banner ahead of the intermediate sprint? Or did I hallucinate that?

Considering how poorly things have been going for Lotto, Baptiste Veistroffer's hopeless solo ride on stage 5 of the Tour was a triumph worth celebrating. escapecollective.com/a-doomed-bre...

Pogacar literally taking the gloves off. Little too on the nose?

Steve Porino has the best job on the NBC broadcast team.

Wrote my first piece about bike racing since about 2017.

I don’t think the Jaegermeister ads running during the Tour should close with “serve it cold or don’t serve it at all,” because that seems like a pretty clear choice.

Big opportunity for Otter Pops to come on as a secondary sponsor in the next few years. A 40-year journey from the above-ground pool to the Tour de France.

I did not see Jägermeister coming as the ad I will watch 4,000 times this summer.

Hope the occasional broadcast of the teams' radio channels demonstrates to fans how ridiculously sketchy a method of communications it is. Better than nothing...probably.

Love that for him.