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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 4h

Go for a hard ride back on Wednesday, then don't do anything until your preride. Wait... do you want to know how fast people do them or how I do them?

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 5h

Big week for reports about problematic team cultures, I guess.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I mean, it's harmless, but the hand wringing every transfer season of "OMG, X rider will be on Y bike brand, so wrong!" always cracks me up. Do we not know how this works?

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ours were yelled at for standing on a pile of mulch in the YMCA parking lot.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If we all work together, I think we can make the fall classics A Thing. The vibes are there.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think they're going to have to lead with more basic terms than "orchitis" if they want to reach the relevant audience.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Definitely the most recent exception. His reminds me of Freire's first a bit. Not favorites at the time they won, but doesn't look like an anomaly on hindsight.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Some folks only know an era where only superstars win world championships, and it shows.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Alternatively, send yours to me, I will fix the seat clamp, then keep it.

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/10/2026

The possibility of losing a 3-mile loop of road has stirred fears among the runners, cyclists, fishermen, birders and others who use it. Lawmakers are beginning to raise concerns about Ohio Drive in East Potomac Park, too.

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Trump’s upscale golf plan could destroy a D.C. haven for cyclists, runners

The president wants to eliminate the public road that loops around the Hains Point peninsula, allowing the golf course to stretch to the water’s edge.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bummed I manufactured neither a plan nor the energy to do an incredible Road Worlds - MTB World Cup double with Montreal and Lake Placid on successive weekends.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bwahaha - almost same post, same time.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I mean, I’m not saying you need to have some 80-year-old in there smoking and playing the concertina, but geez.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Love to buy a storied Italian legacy brand and render it completely soulless.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hats off to the three beers guy behind you.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Asia Games are overlapping this year, and they value that more (and have better odds), so that’s siphoned off a lot of that talent.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

There is an actual soup-in-the-car argument that rears its ugly head in my family from time to time.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's really stunningly bad. "Are you doing this on purpose?" bad.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I subscribe to a few substacks, mostly cycling, so when a notification popped up about "Forgotten Italian Classics", I got excited. Turns out it's just a recipe site I signed up for. Come for Milano-Torino, stay for the breaded anchovies, I guess.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You guys, it's just a bib shorts company.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I will accept this only if the host nation jersey designs are plays on entertaining-but-benign national stereotypes.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

To me, it's just funny that the 20-something-year-old pro athletes are tuned into exactly what the industry should be tuned into, but frequently isn't: it's part of our job to make this fun and accessible and inclusive.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I typically avoid Wave Discourse (TM), but it’s worth noting that when I was out riding the Scheldt canal path this spring, among various other amateurs and weekend warriors, the guys who waved first and without fail…Alpecin-Premier Tech.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

If you enjoyed this piece, boy does cycling have a story for you!

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Neck wound out, head shaking, cheeks blowing, bike swaying. 5/5

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Decathlon guy on the front of the peloton is channeling Voeckler and I love it.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

But what if I told you that it’s also choppy?

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There’s a raw, ambient noise feed on Facebook if you’re willing.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yet again cyclocross practice has started and I am without tires. If only there were a way to know that the season was coming.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Kind of wild that we have airplanes that will very nearly fly themselves across entire oceans, but then when they park them, they're like, "hey, throw some wood under the tires so it doesn't roll away!"

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

20 years on, I am once again begging American races to stop giving out jerseys for one-day events.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I wish I could remember the year they put one of their reporters (whose quals were that she'd done a triathlon or something) into the Liberty Classic field with a camera on her head. In the era of Petra Rossner and Ina Teutenberg. Gold.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I mean, gotta have clean underwear, so what choice do you have?

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There's a "clean Florida title" joke about the cars in there somewhere, too.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Seeing Puck Pieterse and Isabella Holmgren tearing up the TdFF warms an old cyclocrossist's heart.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I was fully expecting him to be making his own in an old gas can behind the shed.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Roma tomato plants are paying out, so it’s been a big pan con tomate month.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Devin's writing has been a highlight of this Tour.

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We were two blocks inland from the boardwalk, which has had its own separate bike lane for my entire living memory. Tourists walked or biked. Locals either walked, biked, or knew you just park on a side street (for everything, all summer).

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

But also... fond memories of my father (a former city planner) talking to the owner of the *bike shop* I worked in, who was convinced that any car traffic flow changes to the street would kill his business. "Why do you think that?"

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Service Course Ryan @servicecourse.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Weird to see an extended AFCC shout-out on the Peacock Tour coverage, complete with a prepped video package to show younger VDV and Roll.

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