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The next time you are on a challenging bike ride, consider a band of twenty men crossing almost 2,000 miles of the American west on bicycles in 1897. They were not in a race and thus not riding the lightest bikes possible. Instead, they were laden with military gear and personal rations, riding heavy, steel-reinforced bikes. They were the Iron Riders—the U.S. Armys’ All-Black Bicycling Corp.

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Both Fem van Empel and Mathieu van der Poel defended their Cyclocross World Championship title this past Sunday. We probably won’t see MvdP again until Milan-San Remo. Meanwhile, Cavendish is starting his path to 35 Tour stage wins at the Tour of Colombia this week. Speaking of the TdF, could team substitutions ever work in a grand tour? The UCI is gonna UCI. More rumors on the new cycling super league and its huge influx of cash.

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