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James Spender

London

Deputy Editor at Cyclist Magazine

deputy editor @Cyclist magazine. All the views expressed here are probably someone else's.

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  • 1 week ago | cyclist.co.uk | James Spender

    This week James is Fran Miller, possibly the most influential woman in British cycling. Today Fran is CEO at Rapha, but her long CV includes managing Geraint Thomas and Mark Cavendish; a decade at Team Sky/Ineos, in which she became ‘head of winning behaviours’; operations director for Eliud Kipchoge’s sub-2hr marathon record; and then CEO at clothing brand Belstaff. She is also David Millar’s sister, but really that’s just a footnote to a fascinating career.

  • 1 month ago | cyclist.co.uk | James Spender

    In this week’s episode of the Cyclist Magazine Podcast, Robyn and James are joined by Connie Carpenter-Phinney, who is 1984 became the first ever Olympic Women’s Road Race gold medal winner. Connie charts her career from 14 year-old winter Olympic speed skater to champion road cyclist, a sporting career which saw her win multiple national titles and dominate races such as the Coors Classic.

  • 1 month ago | cyclist.co.uk | James Spender

    金曜日ですね , or kin-yōbi desu ne. That’s Japanese for ‘isn’t it Friday?’ According to Google’s AI search results summary thing, it’s a traditional Japanese greeting on Fridays. Only it’s not. As Quora regular (2,300 answers and counting) Eiji Takano replied to the question, ‘How do you say “happy Friday” in Japanese?’: ‘Of course Friday is the end of our working day, but we don’t celebrate it. No special phrases.

  • 1 month ago | cyclist.co.uk | James Spender

    This week on the Cyclist Magazine Podcast, James and Will are joined by Dr Aron D’Souza, president of the Enhanced Games.

  • 1 month ago | cyclist.co.uk | James Spender

    There are few more game-changing pieces of kit – in my lifetime at least – than the Castelli Gabba, one so good at what it does that its release in 2011 saw non-Castelli-sponsored pros buying their own and Sharpie-ing out the logo. It was, and still is, a tremendous piece of kit. Six generations on and this is the most radically different Gabba yet: the Gabba R. The headline here is speed.

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14 Dec 21

RT @PeterStuart3: Does Shimano make more money from fishing or cycling? I was very interested by the results of this little quiz. Largely…

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7 Oct 21

RT @PeterStuart3: By both open and click rate, our @rouleur Paris-Roubaix Femmes newsletter had our highest numbers of any send ever. Chap…

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14 Jun 21

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