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SEMIPRO CYCLING — 148 episodes

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[TECH] The TrainingPeaks Purchase Garmin Won't Explain

2

[BRIEF] Van Aert's Vanishing Act — Is the Co-Leader Era Over?

3

[TECH] The Shimano Crankset Payout Most Riders Will Miss

4

[GT] Tour Stage 21 — Five of a Kind, Youngest King

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[GT] Tour Stage 20 — The Day Pogačar Became A Domestique

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[SUNDAY] Endurance at the top of Zone 2 is a waste of effort

7

[GT] Tour Stage 19 — The Record. Now Do It Again.

8

[TECH] The CIRQA Paywall Garmin Didn't Expect to Cave

9

[GT] Tour Stage 18 — The Accountant Cashes In

10

[BRIEF] RCS Sport's Quiet Calendar Power Play

11

[GT] Tour Stage 17 — Short-Handed Into The Alps

12

[BRIEF] The Weight Limit Trick Nobody's Talking About

13

[GT] Tour Stage 16 — The Clock Closes, The Mountains Loom

14

[BRIEF] Your FTP Is Probably Wrong — Here's the Fix

15

[TECH] The Screen Garmin's CIRQA Band Will Never Have

16

[BRIEF] The Gravel Feature You Already Own But Never Use

17

[GT] Tour Stage 15 — The Mountain Remco Built

18

[GT] Tour Stage 14 — Visma Burned Themselves for Nothing

19

[SUNDAY] Tilt the bed, get faster?

20

[GT] Tour Stage 13 — The Footnote Becomes The Story

21

[GT] Tour Stage 12 — The Hat-Trick and the Train Wreck

22

[BRIEF] The UCI's Gravel Power Grab Won't Work

23

[GT] Tour Stage 11 — Dead Last to Fastest Ever

24

[TECH] The Suunto Update That Unlocks 200 Routes (With a Catch)

25

[GT] Tour Stage 10 — The Hunt For Third Begins

26

[TECH] The One Sport E-Bike Charger That Could Burn Your Home

27

[BRIEF] The Career Killer Cycling Refuses to Screen For

28

[TECH] The Cube Agree C:62 Fork That Can Split in Half

29

[GT] Tour Stage 9 — The Number That Won't Move

30

[GT] Tour Stage 8 — Merlier Forces The Door

31

[SUNDAY] Limited weight in your home gym? Read this

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[GT] Tour Stage 7 — The Train That Fell Apart

33

[TECH] The Trail Color Code Karoo Just Unlocked

34

[GT] Tour Stage 6 — The Pyrenees Break Everything

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[TECH] The KICKR v6 Firmware That Kills Your Zwift Ride

36

[GT] Tour Stage 5 — Crash Before The Storm

37

[BRIEF] Silca's $36 Trojan Horse Strategy

38

[TECH] Shimano XTR M9200 Di2: Verdict Moves to 'Wait' as

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[GT] Tour Stage 4 — Pogačar Hands Over The Keys

40

[BRIEF] The Tour de Beer Economy Nobody's Capturing

41

[TECH] The Shimano Crankset Payout Nobody's Filing For

42

[GT] Tour Stage 3 — Del Toro's Weapon Decides It

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[GT] Tour Stage 2 — The Kid Who Chased Back And Won

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[BRIEF] Cycling's Cryptic Post Problem

45

[GT] Tour Stage 1 — Pogačar Goes Rogue On Day One

46

[TECH] The Shimano Crank Crack Shimano Didn't Report

47

[BRIEF] UCI's Consistency Problem Is Bigger Than Any Case

48

[SUNDAY] New study: carbs do not just stop the bonk

49

[GT] Tour 2026 — Who Wins? The Bus Briefing

50

[TECH] The XTR Di2 Wait Is Over. Was It Worth It?

51

[BRIEF] Why Peak Power Is Cycling's Most Overrated Number

52

[TECH] The Garmin Beta That Finally Stops Random Resets

53

[BRIEF] Lotto's Tour Implosion Started Before the Start Line

54

[TECH] The TrainingPeaks Dashboard Hiding Your Fitness Numbers

55

[BRIEF] Zipp's 404 S Is a Market Bomb, Not Just a Wheel

56

[TECH] The Zwift Crash Windows Won't Let You Fix

57

[BRIEF] Shimano's CUES Problem: Wrong Groupset, Wrong Bike

58

[BRIEF] Moots' Secret Menu and the Sneakerification of Bikes

59

[TECH] The Wilier Zwift Never Had (Until Now)

60

[BRIEF] Nationals Weekend: The Absences That Matter Most

61

[SUNDAY] What a new durability study just proved

62

[DEBRIEF] Tour Injury Chaos, Pogačar's Suisse Statement, Seixas Bidding War

63

[TECH] The Ridstar Front Wheel That Leaves Without Warning

64

[BRIEF] Power Data as Anti-Doping Tool: Promise or Pandora's Box?

65

[BRIEF] Gravel's 55mm Problem: When a Tyre Kills a Category

66

[TECH] The Wahoo Biometric Sensors Nobody Can Afford Yet

67

[BRIEF] Doping's Real Problem Isn't the Cheats It Catches

68

[TECH] The Eovolt Fold That Could Crack Under You

69

[BRIEF] Cycling's Talent Pipeline Has a Blind Spot

70

[TECH] The Eovolt Weld That Splits Your Frame in Half

71

[BRIEF] The Whereabouts Trap: Who Anti-Doping Really Catches

72

[SUNDAY] You are probably riding your easy rides too hard

73

[DEBRIEF] Narváez's Comeback, Vos's Gift, and UAE's Tour Rehearsal

74

[TECH] The Strava-Claude Deal Your Coach Can't Match

75

[BRIEF] Your Brain Beats Your Watch at Fatigue Tracking

76

[TECH] The Wahoo Firmware Update Breaking Your Zwift Rides

77

[BRIEF] The VO2 Max Lie Your Watch Keeps Telling You

78

[BRIEF] The Development Crisis Cycling Can't Ignore

79

[BRIEF] Movistar's Sponsor Crisis Is a Warning Shot

80

[BRIEF] The Cannondale Factory Isn't a Cannondale Story

81

[SUNDAY] What the pros do with carbs, and why you might not need to

82

[DEBRIEF] Del Toro's Statement, Van Aert's Alarm, and Blikra's Broken Bones

83

[BRIEF] The Topstone Question the Bike Industry Hates

84

[BRIEF] The Hookless Rim Pressure Problem Nobody Explains

85

[BRIEF] Wilcox's World Record Bid and Van Aert's Valley

86

[BRIEF] The Hybrid Pedal Lie Shimano Won't Fix

87

[SUNDAY] The plan is not the training

88

[DEBRIEF] Van der Breggen's Giro and the Not-Dauphiné Preview

89

[BRIEF] The Chris King Hub Problem Nobody Will Say Out Loud

90

[BRIEF] Your First Metric Century Is a Logistics Problem

91

[BRIEF] Wolf Tooth Is Quietly Winning the Chainring War

92

[BRIEF] The $200 Training App Problem

93

[GT] Giro Stage 21 — Cycling History Complete

94

[BRIEF] The Tubeless Lie the Bike Industry Won't Admit

95

[GT] Giro Stage 20 — Exhibition Mode Complete

96

[SUNDAY] What Your Morning HR Is Really Telling You

97

[GT] Giro Stage 19 — Kuss Completes The Collection

98

[GT] Giro Stage 18 — Magnier's Masterclass, GC Sleepwalking

99

[BRIEF] The $1,300 Walmart Gravel Build Problem

100

[GT] Giro Stage 17 — Twenty-Eight Rider Breakaway Chaos

101

[BRIEF] The Carbon Gravel Wheel Has Already Won

102

[GT] Giro Stage 16 — The Race Is Over

103

[BRIEF] Enve's Gravel Trojan Horse

104

[BRIEF] The Great Compression — Why €2500 Wheels Are Now "Mid-Range"

105

[GT] Giro Stage 15 — Sprint Chaos, GC Coronation

106

[GT] Giro Stage 5 — Portuguese Revolution in Pink

107

[BRIEF] Giro's Phoney War — Why Nobody's Racing Yet

108

[GT] Giro Stage 5 — The First Real Punch

109

[BRIEF] Your Aerobic Ceiling Is More Trainable Than You Think

110

[GT] Giro Stage 4 — The Real Race Begins

111

[BRIEF] AI Aero Coaching Could Erase Cycling's Biggest Edge

112

[GT] Giro Stage 3 — Magnier Solves the Sprint Equation

113

[BRIEF] Cycling's Middle-Class Problem

114

[GT] Giro Stage 2 — UAE's GC Campaign Destroyed

115

[SUNDAY] 120 Grams Per Hour — What It Actually Means

116

[GT] Giro Stage 1 — Crash and Grab in Burgas

117

[BRIEF] Torque Training Is Wasting Your Time

118

[GT] Giro 2026 — Who Wins? The Bus Briefing

119

[BRIEF] Evenepoel's Radical Tour Gamble Won't Work

120

[BRIEF] The Two Cycling Economies Nobody's Talking About

121

[BRIEF] Seixas at the Tour: Right Call, Wrong Reasons

122

[BRIEF] 120 Grams Per Hour Is Changing Who Wins

123

[SUNDAY] The riders who trained easier got faster

124

[DEBRIEF] Pogačar's "Relaxation" Race and the Giro GC Problem

125

[BRIEF] Vingegaard's Giro Problem: Winning Too Easily

126

[BRIEF] Pogačar's Criterium Tells Us More Than You Think

127

[BRIEF] Bernal's Decline and INEOS's Identity Crisis

128

[BRIEF] Durability Is Broken: Cycling's Most Misused Metric

129

[BRIEF] Groves' Giro Gamble: Why This Comeback Won't Work

130

[SUNDAY] The Session That's Killing Your Fitness Happens in Bed

131

[RACE RECON] Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2026

132

[DEBRIEF] Pellizzari Announces Himself: Tour of the Alps & Giro Stakes

133

[BRIEF] Tour de Suisse Shrinks: What Five Days Really Means

134

[BRIEF] Crypto Chaos Hits Canyon-SRAM: Cycling's Sponsor Problem

135

[BRIEF] Pogačar's Liège Paradox: Why Fewer Teammates Helps

136

[BRIEF] Eurobike's Identity Crisis: Germany Splits the Bike Show

137

[BRIEF] Brembo's MTB Brake Launch Signals a Cycling Tipping Point

138

[SUNDAY] Your Five-Minute Intervals Might Be a Waste of Time

139

[RACE RECON] Amstel Gold Race 2026

140

[DEBRIEF] Foldager's Brabantse Pijl Surprise & Yates Climbs Into Form

141

[BRIEF] Canyon's Endurace Just Killed the Aero Bike Category

142

[BRIEF] Colnago C72: The Race Bike That Stopped Racing

143

[BRIEF] Why BOA Helmets Are About to Be Everywhere

144

[BRIEF] Wall Street Is Coming for Cycling

145

[BRIEF] Cycling's Longevity Blind Spot: The Tests That Matter

146

[SUNDAY] One Word Change Made These Cyclists 2% Faster

147

[RACE RECON] Paris-Roubaix 2026

148

[DEBRIEF] The Cycling Debrief: Evenepoel Rewrites Flanders