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Today’s Spokespeople:

• Carlton Reid
• Josh Reid
• Gary Fisher (check this out for a brilliant Linkedin profile!)

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• Carlton Reid
• Tim Jackson
• Rich Kelly

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Today’s Spokespeople:

• David Bernstein
• Carlton Reid
• Tim Jackson
• Jim Moss
• Neil Browne
• Donna Tocci

Topics 

Pro Cycling / Racing / Doping News

• Dauphiné Report
• Tour de France Predictions
• Motor Testing
• ASO Events Will Stay in World Tour
• Broeckx in Vegetative State
• Rio Olympics
• Russian Track & Field Athletes and Weightlifters Banned from Rio Olympics
• Brazil’s Anti Doping Lab Suspended by WADA ahead of Olympics
• Carmen Small left off US Olympic team in favor of Kristin Armstrong
• Lance Armstrong Begins Weekly Podcast
• Floyd Landis Starts Marijuana Business in Colorado
• Discounts for cyclists!
• Floyd’s of Leadville Website
  

Industry News

• Carlton’s Press Camp Report
  

Advocacy

• With Driverless Cars, a Safety Dilemma Arises 

Other

• Your Strava Data Could Be Used to Ban Cyclists from Trails
• Alleged killer of Mountain Bike  Hall of Famer Mike Rust found!
• 9 News Bike Safety PSA

Tips / Hints / Best Practices

• David: Jens Voigt’s Book, Shut Up Legs!
• Donna: Get a Trail Bell! Timber! Trail Awareness MTB Bell
• Carlton: Cycling Cities book
• Tim: Send a Message to the UCI
• Jim: Use IFTTT to Track Rides
• Neil: Stretching and Core Work & “The Perfect Stretch”

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Today’s Spokespeople:

• Carlton Reid
• Tim Jackson
• Neil Browne
• Ayesha McGowan (Ayesha’s film profile by the BBC)

Racing 

• Crash, bang, wallop – Nibbles wins the Giro.
• Another moto crash, this time in Tour of Belgium
• Tour de Yorkshire becomes world’s most lucrative women’s cycling race.
• USPro road and TT nats. Phinney wins TT (M), Daniels wins RR (M), Gaurnier wins RR(W) and Small win TT(W).
  

Cyclist Safety and Advocacy

• Should charity rides ban e-bikes? London to Brighton has.
  

Industry News

• $2500 carbon road bikes – for kids. 
• Consumer direct German brand Canyon to launch in US
• Canyon has a CT scanning machine … carbon fiber testing.

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Today’s Spokespeople:

• David Bernstein
• Carlton Reid
• Tim Jackson
• Rich Kelly
• Jim Moss
• Rick Vosper

Racing 

• Carlton and Josh race Joberg2c
• Pyga Bikes
• Froome and Quintana Already Battling at Tour de Romandie
• Valverde Wins Flèche Wallone
• Giro d’Italia Preview (begins Friday in NL)
• DiLuca’s New Book
• Stalled Motorcycle Causes Huge Pileup at Redhook crit in Brooklyn 
• Cyclist’s on-camera video
• Red Bull Crashed Ice

Cyclist Safety and Advocacy

• Glendale Driver to be Arraigned
• Cyclist Killed in Park Slope area of NYC
  

Industry News

• Confessions of a Bike Reviewer
• Shimano revenue drops 20%; SRAM lays off 40 workers and what this means for cyclists (lower prices, fewer choices)
• Huge inventories + Weak sales = Bargains for US Riders (featuring the Great Inventory Hoax of 2009-2010)
• Velofix Direct Bike Build and Delivery Program
• Perfect Competition definition on Wikipedia

Other

• Can You Draw a Bicycle?
• Rick’s Facebook Profile Photo
• Can You Build a Bicycle?

Tips, Hints and Best Practices

• Rick: OldSchoolCyclist trivia
  Question from Last Time: You’re an #OldSchoolCyclist™ when you know the next term in this series: Edouard, Louis, Joseph, Baron…
• Answer: Merckx
• New Question (#502): You’re an #OldSchoolCyclist if you know what you had to drill out when the pin extractor failed and the hammer wouldn’t budge it. 
• Answer: next time!

• Jim: Bike-specific Insurance or Homeowner’s/Renter’s Insurance
• Rich: Using a bottle cage bolt as a cable anchor
• Tim: Doc’s Skin Care
• David: Cycliq Fly6 and Fly12, and Ram Mounts

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