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Unzué#PoscastJS Why is pro cycling paid for youth mileage?How to be informed and participate in race and product raffles, DO NOT MISS IT!The Takatuka publishing house has published this spring "Bicycles", a book that highlights the importance of this means of transport and sports practice.Written by Fleur Daugey and illustrated by Karine Maincent, it is a tribute to the most ecological and sustainable vehicle, which revolutionized the history of humanity.With a simple language, easy to read and understand, the little reader will know the history of the bicycle and its evolution, from the velocipede to the MTB.A great invention of which 140 million are manufactured worldwide every year, three times as many cars.Thanks to it, many of us can get around quickly and easily to go to work, to play sports or just to have fun.In this illustrated album we will travel through the history and culture of different countries to learn about the importance and different uses of this extraordinary means of transport.Thus we will meet Karl Drais von Sauerbronn, the inventor of the velocipede in 1817, predecessor of the bicycle, or Pierre Michaux who in 1861 invented pedals to put the feet on them and transmit the force of the legs to the wheel.Also, we will know how the bicycle helped liberate women, made the revolution in China and replaced cars during the Second World War, when there was a shortage of fuel.And we will analyze the elements that make it a unique and indispensable vehicle.The book also dedicates a space to cycling competitions such as races or grand tours that are held in different countries and that have more and more followers, without forgetting bad practices, such as doping, or the technical modernizations that it has been adopting. the bike.Accompanied by attractive colorful illustrations, the text invites us to reflect on how the bicycle can be part of the solution to get around and have fun in the world without harming the environment.Fleur Daugey trained in Psychology and Ethology and began his career working for numerous nature protection NGOs, before turning to writing and journalism.She was an editor for three years of the magazine La Salamandre, she currently works as an independent journalist and author for different magazines and publishers.Karine Maincent is a French designer and illustrator, graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d'Art et de Design d'Amiens.In 2007 she went to work as a graphic designer for the French Institute in Cotonou, in Benin.Upon her return, he founded the Tokpa studio in 2009, which allows him to divide his time between artistic direction, illustration, the production of illustrated reports and the animation of children's workshops.Pirinexus Challenge: the friendliest and least known face of the PyreneesThe Giro 2022 touches the sky in PordoiMMR creates its MMR Cycling ShopThe most cycling topics on the marketThe Factor O2 VAM, without cables in sightYour email address will not be published.Required fields are marked with *Save my name, email and website in this browser for the next time I comment.This site uses Akismet to reduce spam.Learn how your comment data is processed.With Tadej Pogacar in the 2022 Tour one thing happens, if he is well and comes out of the first difficulties unscathed, as Taxi Key would say "the story is over".Last year, with a Tour week consumed, I remember that we called our friend Chema Rodríguez in the heat of the Pogacar alpine exhibition.Many say that the first week of the last Tour was excellent.In it we saw shows from VDP and Van Aert, but mainly timeless exhibitions from Pogacar, winner in the time trial and sweeping rivals with a smile on his face between la Romme and la Colombiere.Returning to the conversation of the creator of El Ciclista -newspaper that appears in the famous spot for the Vuelta 2022 song-, we asked him if we could start talking about Pogacar in the key of legend.The answer was yes "without a doubt, it is something that we see every so often, in one or two generations."The dominance that Pogacar achieved in the last Tour was so insane that by 2022 we can think of no other name than him, only him.It is true that like almost everyone who flew very high in this sport there is a latent expectation of the start.We all see him as a favorite, but reviewing the list of rivals, hoping that Roglic can be 100% plus all those who come from behind, we believe that Tadej can overcome his problems.And he will pass them, some very complicated first stages await him, much in which he precisely has more to lose than anyone else.For that alone, we are cautious.But as I said at the beginning, if the Slovenian passes unscathed through the Danish bridges and the pavés that ends at the entrance to Arenberg, you will tell me who is the handsome man who can argue with him for the throne.Do you want to know what the UAE Team Emirates wardrobe looks like for the Tour de France?He has a career tailored to him, mountain chains in the Alps in which he has already shown that his pulse is not trembling to take risks and finish off rivals, far from the finish line.Then a somewhat softer Pyrenees, without so much chaining, but with the certainty that, if he arrives with others, he will kill them at the finish line.To finish a time trial in which if he has to play the quarterfinals, he will do it without much problem.Right now he is the franchise cyclist in the peloton, his age is not a problem, his way of coping with the race and the difficulties is admirable, I only see him as vulnerable at the start.We all also look at his team, but this UAE, which loses the cobblestone guide Matteo Trentin, is a team that little or nothing can be questioned.Pogacar has cyclists by his side who can accompany him to the top in the big stages, combined with authentic trotters for the garbage minutes.I don't know if there will be a third Tour for Tadel, but beware, if there were, the kid who says that the priority is to have a good time would knock on the door of the greats of always.He already eats between some of them, but three Tours... that's a level at which so many other cyclists are lavish right now: Philippe Thys, Louison Bobet and Greg Lemond.Image: ASO/Pauline BalletGravel seeks democratic cycling, in which everyone has their terrain, their choice, the Orbea Girona Gravel Ride is the nod from the Sea Otter Europe to that cyclist who goes out without looking at the clock because his view is lost in the landscape.That is why Girona Gravel Ride captures in a 78-kilometre circular route, starting and finishing at the Sea Otter Europe, combining all the elements of gravel: legend and dirt, with contained hardness, beauty in the landscape and a point of exploration.They are not looking for machadas, or heroes, explorers are required, wanting to see and experience cycling that is not a fashion, it is a way of understanding life.The link between Girona and cycling is a binomial that has been going on for a long time.Jordi Cantal, also the inventor of the Pirinexus, once made friends with the many professional cyclists who settle in Girona.Some like David Millar, eccentric, a story in himself, and Michael Barry asked him about something different..."They asked me to go to the slopes in preseason, not necessarily to mountain bike trails, but rather to unique places that would evade them from so many roads," recalls Jordi.More than ten years have passed since those outings of friends, through places unexplored by many and today those tracks are the "stir-fried" of the Sea Otter Europe gravel test.There are 78 kilometers to “enjoy gravel, with contained difficulty and two sections with only a certain technical difficulty.There are only two because the objective is to open the range to the greatest number of people who want to enjoy a morning of quiet cycling away from the asphalt«.The start is taken facing the Pyrenees, from the Sea Otter Europe site, heading north.They are flat kilometers, in the direction of the river Ter, comfortable and wide tracks.The track continues its course until it turns right, in the direction of Les Gavarres, after bordering the beautiful village of Monells, a beautiful medieval complex.The first ascent is located in the Montnegre area and then towards Sant Miquel, a small castle that surveyed the valleys several centuries ago, although without reaching it.The truth is that the asphalt also appears in some areas, there are just over twenty kilometers, but they are quiet sections, with the aim of connecting sectors of land.It also passes near another emblematic point among local cyclists, Els Angels.The road here is already back, and through the Sant Daniel Valley, following the Galligants River, the cyclist will be back at the Sea Otter site.Entrance back to GironaThe fastest runners are expected to finish the route in about three hours, and those who want to better savor each bend in four or four and a half.Gravel is gaining ground «it has been sounding for about two years, as a result of the Strade Bianche and look what route it has done.The sterrato, the land, is attractive, epic and to some extent heroic.People like it» confesses Jordi.“I am more and more fond of classic cycling versus carbon,” he adds.And he concludes "that there is a little dirt is always good".The other day I was invited to the “geek” exercise that my friend Miguel González proposes every week with his Vintage Pedal to talk about the 1992 Tour.The ephemeris, eye that weighs, celebrates thirty years, thirty springs of our life that betrays a little how old each of us is.The truth is that immersing yourself in such a methodical and conscientious podcast has intangible advantages, such as dipping into the memories that you have left and those that you had already turned the page on.I keep great moments from that Tour, like all those who lived it from my generation or before, but talking to Miguel has a memory bonus that makes you go into a trance.Remembering and telling what we have about the 1992 Tour is a trip to a cycling that we never wanted to leave.He caught me with my son's age right now, with the same dreams and desires, with thoughts so far removed from what was actually happening that today it's almost hard to admit it.But it was the first cycling of the many that we swarmed through the networks, the cycling of some runners who did not think about tomorrow, if they could compete with everything today, of some cyclists who faced some savagery of stages that today would not fit the mold.In the talk, with Miguel we already talked about the prologue to San Sebastian and how number 1, Miguel Indurain comes out with all the rockets to be the first leader in front of his fans.Not content with that, the big names were already ahead in the first important port, the Marie Blanque, which did not see the QH this Saturday, to start marking the package.That race was, we could say, deformed, since it started with several conditioning factors, the departure from San Sebastián decimated the Pyrenees and several European countries had to be visited due to the Maastricht crash.That the mountain was concentrated did not mean that there was an almost daily brawl, a fact that reflects the number of massive sprints that were seen.Special was that stage in Brussels, under the deluge, with the Kapelmuur and Chiapucci and Lemond making things very tense.It was a Tour of I want and I can't for many, because what happened in Luxembourg transcended history: a time trial, more than 60 kilometers, three lapped cyclists and the certainty that as long as Indurain was out of the game and was fine, the Tour would not it would be for someone else.For those who say that a time trial does terrible damage to a big one, Claudio Chiapucci's monumental reaction in Sestriere, if not the stage of our lives, in the top 3 of all time.That day Indurain sentenced the Tour, between the nebula of a final straw and the total fall of the opposition of Gianni Bugno.Days like this, 60 kilometers against the clock, 250 kilometers through the mountains, competed as if there were no tomorrow... that was another cycling.And mind you, I don't want to say that this cycling was better, nor worse, it was different, to what I was used to then and yes, I miss it.The Tour that begins in a few days offers almost no stages that we can imagine arriving one by one, at the same time it begins to announce super teams that will leave nothing to chance and numerical control will prevail.I hope I'm wrong, while I'll keep remembering those races that had us six hours in front of the television.Ten years ago a challenge was proposed in the European Union, its name was Pirinexus and it was nothing more than a route devised by the Vies Verdes de Girona consortium linking several points on one side and the other of the Pyrenees.With a community fund dedicated to its creation, the route went from paper to territory.Routes, curves, in the middle of nowhere, between forests, the buttresses of the mountain, a circle on the map that grew and became larger with the most important thing, the approval of cyclists, were marked.The Pirinexus, as its name suggests, linked places, points beyond the border, the Vallespir with others in Girona, that site that someone chiseled for cyclists to expand on.And for this, a 350-kilometre route was arranged along secondary roads that invited what one day the randonneurs devised, those long-distance wizards, who found pleasure in pedaling without haste, but for hours and hours, by means of world.Jordi Cantal was the originator of all this.One day he took a map, traced the outline of the Pyrenees with his finger, thought about what the Pirinexus would be and decided to cover it in 24 hours, or less.“Twenty hours left me, in the end.I went to the Patronat de Vies Verdes to present a challenge project, a challenge that was done in one go but within a time frame: from dawn to dusk».This is how the Pirinexus Challenge was born, a book of white sheets for quiet gravel, which seeks to breathe in unique, intimate places, in frontier terrain.In 2015 the first edition was held, with twelve teams, as it was held in relay.Over time it entered the program of the Sea Otter Europe, forming part of its sports program right now.This year it will be on September 24.It is a different proposal, because it is long-distance cycling, the one away in a hurry and that breathes in a frenetic activity appointment.Ahead of a rounded proposal in 335 kilometers, which starts at dawn with time to finish until midnight.A changing challenge, with dirt and asphalt that offers fun, variety and cycling in essence.On the map it would be the section furthest to the right, in reality they are the least known Pyrenees, those that lose height because the Mediterranean demands them.The Challenge Pirinexus does not claim the Tourmalet, nor the Aubisque, but the limit of the horizon draws the very profile of pleasure.Its unevenness, about 3500 meters in 335 kilometers, speaks of the pleasure of rolling and rolling.If the route offers surprises, they will come, but a priori the Pirinexus hides some treasures that can be drawn.One is the descent of the Coll d' Ares towards Vallespir, already in France: "it is rough asphalt, typical, the landscapes fill the gaze".Another is the Coll de Panissar, which marks the return to Girona, near Le Perthus, with L' Empordá below.The last one is the legend and history of Empúries and the eternal Greek legacy that it has left us.For those who have references to past experiences, we must note some improvements in the route that show the commitment of the territory for this formula.Thus, in the section from Sant Joan de les Abadesses to Ripoll, a completely new track has been proposed that even incorporates a bridge.Also note that in Platja d'Aro the bike lanes parallel to the road have been improved.Let's remember that this year the route will be clockwise...Profile of @JoanSeguidor's Notebook9 Spaniards at the start of #TDF2022, and only Enric Mas and Ion Izagirre with certain stripes.It is the first Tour without anyone from the Purito-Valverde-Contador trident since 2004... now, yes, Spanish cycling is at its lowest point.It can only be improved https://joanseguidor.com/tour-2022-ciclismo-espanol/Today begins the Tour de France, which has never excited me the least... BUT The Tour is the Tour and its route is a priceless cultural artifact, that's what we're excited to talk about with @TuristaVuelta and @JoanSeguidor Listen to us!https://twitter.com/JoanSeguidor/status/1542759174106390530In the thousand pre #TDF2022 pools, that little yellow guy that shows up is the FAVORITE, the rest, applicants.If Pogacar emerges unscathed from the first trances of the race -wind, bridges and cobblestones-, I do not see another end than his third Tour https://joanseguidor.com/tour-2022-tadej-pogacar/Leon's jerky🎙️🎙️🎙️ "The Little Mermaid hides a love story in which even the @carlsberg_es beer family is involved" @TuristaVuelta & @FAremberg in the #TourParaCuriosos https://www.ivoox.com/tour-para-curiosos- 8211-vol-i-audios-mp3_rf_89093539_1.html #PodcastJSTour 1983: Angel Arroyo turned the tablesTour 1992, that will not come backMarie Blanque, the white lady of the QHMerano-Apirca: The best stage of our livesComparing Carlos Rodríguez with Juan Ayuso is uselessTo warm up the Tour, from Merckx to the French vacuumThe chimney sweep who won the first TourIt is convenient to differentiate between La Sarenne and Alpe d´HuezCopyright © 2017 Page owned by JoanSeguidor.www.joanseguidor.com and www.elvelodromo.com are owned by Joanseguidor.Agency specialized in sports content, road cycling, BTT Mountain Bike, Gravel or cyclocross and the world related to bicycles.