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Katusha revisits Crime and Punishment
Would-be Russian superteam Katusha has is making its riders sign a contract addendum requiring them to pay the team back five times their annual salary in the event of a positive doping test. The new "agreement" came up after one rider got popped before the Giro and several riders initially refused to sign it. Gert Steegmans is final remaining holdout and has sacrificed his Tour de France start. What are his reasons? What are the team's? What's the point?
Influx Curated recap
If someone gave you 5 minutes to inspire a room of 200+ people, what would you say? That was the directive at the Influx Curated conference that I went to yesterday. Ed Cotton – the guy who organized the event, writes the Influx Insights blog, and interviewed me about bikes – picked 10 speakers. Each of them picked two additional speakers. There was a 5-minute time limit and a simple directive: to inspire.
Print advertising as sponsorship
Streetwear and sneaker design tastemaker Jeff Staple has launched a print magazine called Reed Pages (his store/gallery is called Reed Space). It’s a good-looking mag, although visually it doesn’t stand out from the rest of the modern design genre. That said, Reed Pages takes a fresh approach to content where all stories are given equal billing and organized alphabetically. But what’s most interesting about Reed Pages is its approach to advertising. According to Staple, there isn’t any.
Quick update from Indy
Today Zipp's engineers gave us an all-access tour of the in-house manufacturing facility where every Zipp rim is made by hand. Having worked with Zipp for over a year, what really impressed me was that they put the same level of engineering and technology into their processes as they do into the products themselves. Many of their machines and tools are custom-built. Unfortunately, I can't really show any pictures of those.
Gone from performance cycling, adidas goes fixed-gear
The sneaker world has been abuzz this week with news of a limited-edition adidas fixed gear shoe, which is an interesting development given adidas' departure from the cycling business at the end of last year. Granted, adidas Performance and adidas Originals are very different brands and separate parts of the company. But symbolically, it's an intriguing statement for the bike industry
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