Iain Treloar

Australia

Senior Features Editor at The Escape Collective

Features and feelings @EscapeCycling, podcasting @TheAlbumFiles, ex-CyclingTips. Dictator botherer, low-level bicyclist, mid-level moustache, curious mind.

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Rohan Dennis receives two year suspended sentence for Mel Hoskins' death

1 day ago | escapecollective.com | Iain Treloar

Rohan Dennis today received a two year suspended sentence for his role in the "tragic accident" leading to the 2023 death of his wife, Olympian and fellow pro cyclist Melissa Hoskins. In December 2024, Dennis reached a plea deal with prosecutors over the incident, pleading guilty to a charge of committing an aggravated act likely to cause harm. Prosecutors have said that he is not criminally responsible for his wife's death, conceding that the incident was unintentional.
12 types of people you'll meet on Facebook Marketplace

6 days ago | escapecollective.com | Iain Treloar

Viktor Bystrov/Unsplash and Iain TreloarMaybe you've been there, too - looking to offload or pick up something particular on Facebook Marketplace, or Gumtree, or Craigslist. The classifieds spool down the page, endlessly refreshing when you reach the bottom: hundreds of little boxes with bike stuff in them, filtered by brand, price, location or The Algorithm. The more time you spend in this digital river, you'll start to pick up on some themes - in photographs, or text, or just gut-feel.
How Uno-X Mobility brought Team 7-Eleven back to life

2 weeks ago | escapecollective.com | Iain Treloar

Uno-X Mobility, Cor Vos, KramonArdennes Week is a time of transition - the movement from one phase of the cycling season to another, the Classics to the Grand Tours. But while the racing itself delivered some exciting storylines - another step towards Tadej Pogačar's claim of being the GOAT; a first Monument win for an African rider with AG Insurance-Soudal's Kim Le Court - one of the biggest stories wasn't being told with sport but with marketing.
The curious case of Mauro Gianetti's disappearing 'doping incident'

2 weeks ago | escapecollective.com | Iain Treloar

Mauro Gianetti - the boss of UAE Team Emirates-XRG, the team of Tadej Pogačar - cuts an unmissable figure on the sidelines of the biggest bike races on the calendar. Lean, bald, patient, he's forthcoming about what his riders are up to, the tactical decisions that led to a result, and the broader context behind it.
Ari Bikes report theft of 'hundreds of bikes' from truck

3 weeks ago | escapecollective.com | Iain Treloar
There's a new cycling commerce scam to watch out for

4 weeks ago | escapecollective.com | Iain Treloar

If there's one thing you can rely on with the internet, it's this: trouble's never far away. Whether it's crypto-based Twitter hacks, the rising perils of AI, copycat pranksters, Google-results-juicing sponsored content or ransomware attacks, the information superhighway is full of things about to run you over. And the cycling industry is no less at threat of this than any other.
Where did all the headbadges go?

1 month ago | escapecollective.com | Iain Treloar

Iain Treloar, Jeffrey Conner, Dave Rome, Giant, Trek, Gruber Images, Curve, Wilde, Jen GreenEvery so often you'll come across a bike and see something glinting on the front of the head tube: a shiny badge, catching the sun and standing out against the frame like a little piece of bicycle jewellery. Headbadges are an eye-catching and attractive branding device, a way of transmitting the visual identity of a brand - a simple logo, perhaps, or a heritage-rich nod to the past.
Campagnolo is discontinuing its iconic Record groupset

1 month ago | escapecollective.com | Iain Treloar

Joe Lindsey, Campagnolo, Dave Rome and Gruber ImagesThere are few names in cycling as beloved as the Italian groupset manufacturer Campagnolo - a brand that has played a key part in cycling history and the bicycle's technological development. And within the Campagnolo lineage, there's one name that looms largest: Record, a groupset synonymous with top-end racing performance. Escape Collective has learned, however, that Campagnolo will be pulling the plug on the Record range after 62 years.
Tadej Pogańćar is coming for the Strava segments of Paris-Roubaix

1 month ago | escapecollective.com | Iain Treloar

Unless you've been living under a cobblestone, you've probably heard the news that Tadej Pogačar is lining up for this year's edition of Paris-Roubaix. In many ways it's a rebuttal of the decades-old received wisdom that the cobbled classics are not a place for the Grand Tour contender - but Tadej Pogačar is not just any Grand Tour contender, inching closer with each passing victory to Merckxian status.
SRAM confirms wide-ranging 'cybersecurity issue'

1 month ago | escapecollective.com | Iain Treloar

Two weeks after several of SRAM's systems went offline, the company has confirmed it is investigating "a cybersecurity issue." In a statement provided to Escape Collective by a spokesperson, SRAM confirmed that after discovery of the issue, "we immediately shut down affected areas and closed access to most of our IT systems as a precaution." Whispers of the issue began to surface around 15 days ago, with reports of outages to systems including: the B2B (business to business) portal - which...