My Review of Cell Mountain Bike Shorts

Originally submitted at CELL Bikes Revised…Reinforced…Better than Ever! Our MOST popular short is back! Cell Mountain Bike Shorts So uncomfortable By Mark from Canberra, on 2/10/2014   1out of 5 Waist: Feels true to size Length: Feels true to length Cons: Too Much Padding Describe Yourself: Competitive Cyclist Was this a gift?: No It is just such a shame, the shorts look great and everything...
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Want a Strava KOM, get yourself the Strava Android app

I have long suspected this and I’m sure others have to, but have you ever noticed the high proportion of Strava KOM and course records that are held by people who have recorded their ride using the Strava Android app. Furthermore it seems to be more prevalent when it comes to short downhill segment. Then the next question begs, why are the Android riders so...
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My tips for the Olympic Road Race

Well the sceptic in me would suggest the follow I believe the Adidas/British team are going to be hard to beat, as one of the primary sponsors to the games I’m pretty sure the win was written into the sponsorship agreement and the incredibly low prices at the Adidas store will surely give them the competitive edge. Of course you can’t discount the Westfield/Australian team, the...
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Jerseys of the Pro Tour

A collection of the Pro Tour team jerseys from 2006 onwards. 2012 Updates: Additions:Australia’s first Pro Tour team, Orica Greenedge;The return FDJ to the Pro Tour Deletions: The HTC team is no more; Major Changes: Leopard Trek folded into the Radioshack team to become the Radioshack –Nissan team; Garmin picked up a new sponsor in Sharp;Omega-Pharma Lotto parted ways creating two separate teams with Omega-Pharma...
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A visual look at the UCI World ProTour stats

Based on my hugely popular UCI Pro Tour Stats post I have now turned the data into an interactive set of graphs using some really cool software called Tableau. Once again this data was taken from the publically available UCI archives. The only thing I have done is to represent the raw point score as percentage of the yearly total to even out the differences...
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