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Building Escape Collective and also a few sets of Legos

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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Does this Italian TV host like what he sees with the musical balancing bicyclist? Apparently not. escapecollective.com/just-look-at...
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Just look at how much this TV host hates the multitasking cyclist
Bicycle adventures in the trashy Italian talent show scene.
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
How does the Giro GC look behind Isaac Del Toro after chaotic stage 14? escapecollective.com/chaos-reigns...
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Chaos reigns behind Del Toro at the Giro: Who lost time on stage 14, and what are they all saying?
Del Toro's lead is now greater than ever at the Giro d'Italia, with Simon Yates now up to second, and Ayuso dropping to third – Roglič, Bernal and Tiberi also lose time.
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Geraint Thomas set for senior management role at Ineos escapecollective.com/exclusive-ge...
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Exclusive: Geraint Thomas set for senior management role at Ineos
The team's longest-tenured rider will step into a newly created role after his racing career ends this September.
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
This is the best way to remove dried tyre sealant stains: escapecollective.com/threaded-39-...
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Threaded #39: The best way to remove dried tyre sealant stains
There are several products that are intended to get stubborn sealant stains off frames, components and clothing, but our testing produced a clear winner.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Genuinely one of the best grand tour stages of the last decade. So many storylines. Here’s one big one:
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
A breakdown of a baller ride
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Welcome to Rabbit Holes, a new podcast presented by Escape Collective. Each episode, we'll be diving into a fascinating story from the world of cycling, telling it in a way you may never have heard it before. The first episode: Who shot Greg LeMond? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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Rabbit Holes
Sports News Podcast · Welcome to Rabbit Holes, a podcast presented by Escape Collective. Each episode, we'll be diving into a fascinating story from the world of cycling, telling it in a way you may n...
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
How to be a tourist at the 2025 Tour de France escapecollective.com/how-to-be-a-...
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How to be a tourist at the 2025 Tour de France
An insider's guide to watching the Tour de France in person.
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Let's take a trip back to 2017, and the last hurrah for one of Belgium's favourite sons. escapecollective.com/tom-boonen-f...
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There ain't no party like a Tom Boonen farewell party
Let's take a trip back to 2017: the distilled essence of Belgian cycling, featuring one of its biggest stars.
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Unpacking the power numbers behind the 2025 men's Tour of Flanders escapecollective.com/unpacking-th...
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Unpacking the power numbers behind the 2025 men's Tour of Flanders
As much as the early break might make sense on paper, getting there is anything but straightforward.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The Flanders tactics that didn’t work escapecollective.com/the-flanders...
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The Flanders tactics that didn’t work
There comes a point where you've done everything you can and simply accept that it's not enough.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Ai is very funny sometimes
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
hahahaha bike racing is hilarious sometimes
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Tactically, how should Pogačar approach Paris-Roubaix? escapecollective.com/tahow-should...
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Tactically, how should Pogačar approach Paris-Roubaix?
Whether as sole leader or co-leader, the Slovenian's best bet is to be sneaky.
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
We're live with How The Race Was Won, Paris-Nice edition over here: www.youtube.com/live/sumK2pd...
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Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico 2025: How the Race was Won®
YouTube video by Escape Collective
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
The riding in Nice is so good. Need to go back.
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Mid South Gravel faces potential cancellation amid high winds and wildfires escapecollective.com/mid-south-gr...
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Mid South Gravel Faces Potential Cancellation Amid High Winds, Wildfires
Multiple fires have been reported in the area, with smoke visible from the finish line of the first major US gravel event of the year.
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Alex Heard @aheard.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
You may have heard rumblings about turmoil at my former and longtime employer, @outsidemag.bsky.social ... This is the first story I've seen that explains in-depth what's been going on (and Outside is heard from, too). It's worth your time. escapecollective.com/theres-a-wil...
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There’s a wildfire outside
Media veterans are demanding their names be removed from Outside Magazine's masthead. How did we get here?
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Vern Pitt @vernpitt.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Rarely do I agree 100% with any single piece I read but I do with these scintillating words and clear eyed analysis from @caleyfretz.bsky.social. escapecollective.com/theres-a-wil...
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Ryan Wichelns @ryan.trailsmag.net · 13/03/2025
In so many ways, the people who signed that letter to Robin Thursday earlier this week are the reason I am where I am. I'm thankful that they were brave enough to say enough is enough. A great tick-tock of the Outside saga from @caleyfretz.bsky.social: escapecollective.com/theres-a-wil...
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There’s a wildfire outside
Media veterans are demanding their names be removed from Outside Magazine's masthead. How did we get here?
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This is fascinating. Bikes are gonna change.
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Wondering where to watch Omloop and KBK this weekend? We got you. escapecollective.com/how-and-wher...
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How and where to watch pro cycling in 2025
A complete guide for how to watch the Tour de France and every 2025 men's and women's WorldTour road race for audiences in the US, Australia, Canada, and the UK, plus tips on how to save money.
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Jos Sluijsmans @jossluijsmans.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The lab group of Prof. Melissa Bop, Penn State University, is doing a research study on cargo bike users in North America. If you are a cargo bike user and have a minute to take the survey they’d love to hear from you: pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @cathytuttle.bsky.social
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Sometimes you just need some good writing about being a human in your cycling publication escapecollective.com/when-the-dus...
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When the dust settles
Mountainous gravel ride as metaphor for the hard slog of adulthood.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
How and where to watch pro cycling when it seems like nobody wants to let you escapecollective.com/how-and-wher...
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How and where to watch pro cycling in 2025
A complete guide for how to watch the Tour de France and every 2025 men's and women's WorldTour road race for audiences in the US, Australia, Canada, and the UK, plus tips on how to save money.
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Forget One Cycling. @iamjonnylong has plans for the Two Cycling revolution. National teams ✅ Classics Cup 🏆 A draft 🏈 And lots more escapecollective.com/forget-one-c...
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Forget One Cycling, here's our plan for the Two Cycling revolution - Escape Collective
Yep, we've gone one better. Here's how we would fix the sport.
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It's the end of an era for Ritchey's WCS range, with the UCI calling time on the company's use of rainbow bands. escapecollective.com/ritcheys-rai...
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Ritchey’s rainbows are no more - Escape Collective
The UCI has called time on the company’s long-established WCS branding.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Some big news from @katewagner.bsky.social and me.
Deepseek ai making things up about Caley Fretz and Kate Wagner
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I want to talk to somebody about the actual economics of these streaming decisions. Anybody out there have insight? Diggon on a few WBD leads but need somebody willing to talk numbers.
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Brian Cookson @briancookson.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
What's most disappointing about this is the total misunderstanding of the asset that WBD/Disney/Eurosport have had in broadcasting/ streaming cycling. Packaging it in with other bigger sports in a "Premium" package is completely the wrong thing to do. 1/2. escapecollective.com/tnt-blows-up...
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TNT blows up cycling TV coverage with 443% price increase - Escape Collective
Eurosport is being shut down in the UK and Ireland, and prices are going up.
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Benoît Vittek @bvittek.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Yeah... That profile (shown but little noticed at the Tour presentation back in October) doesn't align with the traditional finish in Paris, right @cyclartist.bsky.social? Would Montmartre be just for vibes or to (slightly) spice things up for the 50th anniversary of the Champs-Elysées finish?
Profile of stage 21 of the Tour de France 2025 designed by the organisers for the race presentation in October 2024. It features a downhill just before the finish rather than a repeated pattern
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
BikeGrid 309 - 9/9 PERFECT! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Rarity: 16.9 bikegrid.escapecollective.com
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BikeGrid | Cycling Grid Game by Escape Collective
Play the popular new Cycling Trivia game - BikeGrid! Complete your grid using any current pro cyclists and earn rarity points for unique picks.
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
The Tour de France may try to make its traditional final stage more entertaining with three laps of the climb from the Olympics, but Jasper Philipsen and Co. probably won't be thrilled. escapecollective.com/bad-for-spri...
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Bad for sprinters, good for fans? How a circuit up Montmartre could change the Tour finale - Escape Collective
The Tour de France may try to make its traditional final stage more entertaining with three laps of the climb from the Olympics, but Jasper Philipsen and Co. probably won't be thrilled.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Lovely piece in from photog Zac Williams on shooting a hometown hero at his hometown nationals escapecollective.com/behind-the-l...
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Behind the lens: Hometown heroics at Aussie Road Nats - Escape Collective
Watching, and photographing, a hometown hero from inside the race itself.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
One Cycling has a PR problem. Many of the underlying ideas are decently sound (I think, and this is based on reporting as no formal plan has been released) but the public perception is... very bad. Our comments section on the last story is proof of that. escapecollective.com/richard-plug...
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Richard Plugge responds to One Cycling criticism - Escape Collective
The architect of One Cycling batted back concerns over course changes and Saudi investment.
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Plugge responds to One Cycling criticism: “What I would be afraid of as a fan is that in 10 years time, a lot of races will not exist anymore." escapecollective.com/richard-plug...
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Richard Plugge responds to One Cycling criticism - Escape Collective
The architect of One Cycling batted back concerns over course changes and Saudi investment.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The Giro route announcement is... really something.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
BikeGrid 302 - 9/9 PERFECT! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Rarity: 31.1 bikegrid.escapecollective.com
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BikeGrid | Cycling Grid Game by Escape Collective
Play the popular new Cycling Trivia game - BikeGrid! Complete your grid using any current pro cyclists and earn rarity points for unique picks.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Vail ruins everything they touch. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/t...
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Park City Ski Patrol Strike Against Vail Resorts Continues (Gift Article)
Long lift lines, limited terrain and frustration among skiers and snowboarders are downstream impacts of a wage dispute between union workers at Park City Mountain in Utah and its owner, Vail Resorts.
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Keagan Girdlestone thought he'd left bike racing behind forever, but after an epiphany this summer, he wants another shot at the career that almost cost him his life. escapecollective.com/ive-fallen-i...
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'I've fallen in love with riding my bike again' - Escape Collective
Keagan Girdlestone thought he'd left bike racing behind forever, but after a July epiphany he wants another shot at the career that almost cost him his life.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Lots of movement in the XC world. escapecollective.com/why-are-ther...
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Why are there so many MTB transfers right now?  - Escape Collective
An industry budget crunch and the end of an Olympic cycle mean a busy XC transfer season.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
"Born in the 80s" is my favorite category. BikeGrid 281 - 9/9 PERFECT! 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Rarity: 41.4 bikegrid.escapecollective.com
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BikeGrid | Cycling Grid Game by Escape Collective
Play the popular new Cycling Trivia game - BikeGrid! Complete your grid using any current pro cyclists and earn rarity points for unique picks.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Super fun Spin Cycle pod this week, last full ep of the year! Merckx's promise, a Giro start list taking shape, and the return of the Milk Wars: share.transistor.fm/s/3ca0524f
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Vice champion of the milk wars | Spin Cycle | Episode 423
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
As a US-based soccer/foootball fan I begrudgingly opened up the ticket portal for the Club World Cup (aka the formalized Fifa milking of American soccer fans), just in case there was something decent in a city I'd like to go to, and am pleased to report that it all looks awful.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
How to plan a group ride: escapecollective.com/how-to-plan-...
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How to plan a group ride - Escape Collective
Whether you have a ton of options nearby to ride with others or not, here's how to put together a regular group outing that fits your needs and grows the community.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
EF+Rapha and now (maybe) Jayco+Maap show us what cycling could be if more teams had fully functional and funded marketing departments with world-class content and brand people. For the price of a few domestiques every year...
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
AI Carlton Kirby is coming for your youtube algorithm escapecollective.com/the-curious-...
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The curious case of the AI Carlton Kirby - Escape Collective
When your voice puts food on the table, and someone else is using it for free, what happens next?
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
A hiatus? Or gone? The official word from GT is that it's undergoing a "strategic reorientation to align with evolving customer preferences," but GT athletes were just told the iconic brand is no more. The full story: escapecollective.com/is-this-the-...
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Is this the end of the road for GT Bicycles? - Escape Collective
The official word is layoffs and a pause on new releases – but the reality may be bleaker.
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Escape Collective @escapecollective.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
What it's like to rip through 80 miles of Texas in the rain, watching a guy I cheer for on TV spray muddy water into my stupid grinning face. escapecollective.com/thoughts-on-...
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Thoughts on one ride with Neilson Powless - Escape Collective
What it's like to rip through 80 miles of Texas in the rain, watching a guy I cheer for on TV spray muddy water into my stupid grinning face.
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Caley Fretz @caleyfretz.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
What it's like to rip through 80 miles of Texas in the rain, watching a guy you cheer for on TV spray muddy water into your stupid grinning face. escapecollective.com/thoughts-on-...
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Thoughts on one ride with Neilson Powless - Escape Collective
What it's like to rip through 80 miles of Texas in the rain, watching a guy I cheer for on TV spray muddy water into my stupid grinning face.
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