CyclingTips Podcast: Dissecting the Giro and a road tubeless rant

The Giro d’Italia is about to kick off. Your hosts, Caley Fretz, Neal Rogers, and James Huang, run through the key stages, evaluate the major contenders, and discuss the unique opening weekend, the first ever grande partenza outside Europe. This week’s Nerd Alert sets off with a small rant from…

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The Giro d’Italia is about to kick off. Your hosts, Caley Fretz, Neal Rogers, and James Huang, run through the key stages, evaluate the major contenders, and discuss the unique opening weekend, the first ever grande partenza outside Europe.

This week’s Nerd Alert sets off with a small rant from James on the bike industry’s inability to set its own tubeless standards, then morphs into a discussion of e-bikes on trails, and is topped off with an analysis of Vista Outdoor’s announcement that it will see a number of its bicycle brands. Did the boycott work? 

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