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Book Excerpt: For the Love of the Cobbles

As promised, I have an excerpt available of my book for your perusal. I threw in a few whole chapters, as well as a smaller sample from Paris-Roubaix Day. Click on the link and it should open as a...

Book Excerpt: For the Love of the Cobbles

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As promised, I have an excerpt available of my book for your perusal. I threw in a few whole chapters, as well as a smaller sample from Paris-Roubaix Day. Click on the link and it should open as a...

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Holiday Hints: Podium Cafe Specials!

Shop for your Cafe-ster with us!

Holiday Hints: Podium Cafe Specials!

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Shop for your Cafe-ster with us!

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Offseason Capsule: A New Dimension

Despite high-profile names and victories, Dimension Data was ranked as the year's worst team. They are the focus of the first of our offseason capsules.

Offseason Capsule: A New Dimension

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Despite high-profile names and victories, Dimension Data was ranked as the year's worst team. They are the focus of the first of our offseason capsules.

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Pages of History: What News of the 1952 Tour Looked Like

I get old newspapers. And they aren’t like new ones. But the sport... kinda is.

Pages of History: What News of the 1952 Tour Looked Like

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I get old newspapers. And they aren’t like new ones. But the sport... kinda is.

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CX Weekend: Double Wipeout

Van der Poel wallops Van Aert in two countries

CX Weekend: Double Wipeout

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Van der Poel wallops Van Aert in two countries

Interview: Guy Andrews

Guy Andrews pops in to the Café to talk about Greg LeMond and photography.

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Holiday Hints: Showers Pass Refuge Pants

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Bomb-proof pants for soggy bike rides

Races Cut Team Sizes for Grand Tours, Classics

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n-1 is all you need to know

PdC HoF (Podium Cafe Hall of Fame)

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(Psst. This article is kinda long.) As the 2016 season wound down and Peter Sagan's FSA-DS point totals rose up, I found myself wondering how historic a season he was having and more- like is...

Holiday Hints: Coros LINX Smart Helmet

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Function, sound and safety come together

Distracted From Distraction By Distraction

The mindful cyclist's guide to colouring-in books.

Ronde van Vlaanderen Finish Staying Put; Dwars On the Move?

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Host city wants five day festival of awesomeness

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Kok'd Up: A Blustery Gallery by Patrick Verhoest

The North Sea and its associated low pressure systems win this round of the CX World Cup.

Adieu Criterium International

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An historic race yields to modern times

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Sunday, Sandy Sunday

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And the battle’s yet begun... to claim the victory Sven has won...

Notes: Angliru On the Way in ‘17 Vuelta

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Culled from various sources... “Monsterlijk” Angliru is Back! God I love Dutch. Anyway, Sporza tips us off that the fearsome Asturias climb of the Alto Angliru, with its 23% gradients, will return...

Your FSA Directeur Sportif Winners!

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Congrats to all who played, and especially to those who played it best; Also help us brainstorm for 2017

Triumphs and Turbulence, by Chris Boardman

The long awaited autobiography by Chris Boardman.

Devil Take The Hindmost, by Martin Cathcart Froden

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London-set noir telling the story of a 1920s track racer and the criminal underworld he falls in with.

Dimension Data to Remain WT; Calendar Grows

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The Dimension Data Cycling Team staved off possible execution Tuesday as the UCI, in agreement with Tour de France owner ASO, agreed to put off the reduction of the World Tour teams slate to 17....

Van der Haar Sidelined by Muscle Tear

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Dutch cyclocross star Lars van der Haar reports via Twitter that the MRI on his muscle tear from Sunday’s race is not good news. MRI result: Big tear in my upperleg muscle (rectus femoris) out of...

Vote! It's the 2016 Podium Cafe Men's Race Day of the Year

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Lots of nominations for this one, and I've got a blurb on them all, for your voting guide. Remember, "best race day" means whatever the hell you think it means -- most exciting, most surprising,...

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Superprestige Ruddervoorde...Thru Patrick's Lens

Our favourite photographer Patrick Verhoest was there to capture all the action!

Year End Awards: Nominate the best women’s race

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This year it is a category I’m going to need a little help with. Events have conspired so that I have seen fewer women’s races than normal. So we’re going to need some nominations here.

Just Racer

Looking at the time, I knew it was going to be close. It was July 23, 1989, and I was in a race against time. I had to get home to see Greg win. Or lose, I had no idea, but in my optimism I...

Greg LeMond -€” Yellow Jersey Racer, by Guy Andrews

Guy Andrews serves up an excellent portrait of Greg LeMond - the first American to win the Tour de France - and the era in which he raced.

Vote: 2016 Podium Cafe Women's Rider of the Year!

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Do your duty for democracy...