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Rotor Athlete Sasha Yakovleff Resurrects Classic Park City Feature
Kait Boyle finishes 4th at 24h World Champs
Bike Check for ROTOR athlete Remy Metailler
ROTOR Athlete Remy Metailler has been riding ROTOR cranks for nigh onto 6 years now. Find out why in his latest Bike Check, summarized here for our hot take.
ROTOR made the annual pilgrimage to Portland to take part in the MADE Bike show, where bike nerds go to get stoked. Nothing scalable, nothing mass produced, the MADE show is the core show for handbuilt bikes & the people who love them. Check out our pics & hot takes here!
Team Vorarlberg Finds Their Rhythm
Rotor sponsored professional racing squad Team Vorarlberg traveled to Holland for the semi-Classic race Ronde van de Achterhoek this August. Although the team is used to racing in the high mountains of Europe, the flat terrain of Holland with its wind and small roads makes this an even bigger challenge. Notably, there were 19 gravel sectors giving this race a true Classics feel to it. With such a crazy course, the team had to do some recon for the next day's adventure.
There is something to say about the diversity of racing different terrain- on one hand, mountains and KOM’s take a certain mindset of constant high watts and thresholds. Racing the chaotic classics parcours requires multiple efforts from covering attacks, accelerating out of turns, and constant foot on the gas racing requires a completely different type of rider. Team Vorarlberg accepted the challenge and came home with experience and takeaways for their next day at The Classics.
Team Vorarlberg rides the Rotor 2INpower SL Road power meters to gauge their efforts in races and training taking their performance to new heights. Learn more about the family of Rotor 2INpower SL here.
2024 Volta a Portugal- The Best Race You Have Never Heard Of
Rotor sponsored Pro road squad Team Vorarlberg is currently in Portugal competing in the Volta a Portugal, a 10 stage event, including a prologue, that is the longest UCI race on the calendar outside the 3 Grand Tours. Read below the race report from the team during the first half of the race up to the rest day, in the teams own words:
Who would have thought to start the second stage from Santarem to the capital of Lisbon over 164 kilometers in yellow. After Colin Stüssi's heroic victory on Thursday, the starting position was not entirely new, but being in yellow so early was. That means: “There's a lot of work on the road.”
AND yes - it was a day of work, especially at the beginning, until a small group was able to break away, and from KM 50 before Lisbon. The gusty wind replaced the altitude meters. At KM 30, the top three set off in a sprint. Vorarlberg's own Colin Stüssi is the first to secure three seconds. Team Vorarlberg continued to take responsibility right into the final.
Pirmin Benz, Felix Stehli and Lukas Meiler do the main work in the fight for Lisbon and put their noses to the grindstone!
The longed-for rest day was used to recover, but also to do some preparatory work for week two of the tour. There are still 12,000 (39k feet!) meters of climbing and 900 kilometers (559 miles) of racing ahead. And, above all, the decision about the Tour.
Tuesday’s stage, July 30, from Penedono to Braganca over 177 kilometers and 3300 (over 10k feet!) meters of altitude began like most of the stages. With attacks right from the start, the riders’ computers showed a speed of over 50kmph. One of the killer climbs, the 12 kilometer climb in the middle of the stage. And here the attacks of the top ten in the GC. The stage developed into a real speed chase!
TOP TEAM WORK AGAIN TODAY - a hard day's work comes to an end!
The entire team once again took on responsibility today, riding in second position in the peloton, keeping an eye on the race until the finale and avoiding all attacks. There they let the breakaway leading group go. The winner was American Hugo JR Scala (Project Echelon). Vorarlberg team leader Colin Stüssi finished 18th today, safely with the same time as the top ten riders and defended second place in the overall standings. After a total of nearly 21 hours of racing, young Vorarlberg rider Jannis Peter is still a strong 19th in the 85th Tour of Portugal.
And chapeau to Vorarlberg team riders Lukas Meiler, Alexander Konychev, Felix Stehli, Pirmin Benz and also to Lukas Rüegg, who fought their way through the heat today.
Stage 6: Uphill for breakfast
On Wednesday, the sixth stage leads from Braganca 170 kilometers to Boticas. From the first kilometer onwards, 500 meters (1500 feet!) of elevation gain and a further five mountain classifications spread over almost 2700 meters of elevation gain await.
Kate Boyle and Adventure Riding
Kait Boyle Strives to Empower
Rotor athlete Kait Boyle is constantly on the move in the biggest way. Always looking towards new, bold, and ultra-endurance mountain bike adventures. Cait has set course records in 24-hour races and self-supported multi-day bikepacking races, even winning a 24-hour World Championship title in 2018. Kait took on the challenge of riding from Teton Valley, ID to Emporia, KS and racing the Unbound XL (300 miles!). All these experiences have led Kait to become a vocal advocate for mtb trails and wild landscape access through her non-profit Bikepacking Roots. Athletes like Kait rely on components that combine lightweight performance and durability. The Rotor family of mtb cranks offer just those aspects using the highest quality materials and cutting edge technology such as
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Are you Unbound-Ready?
Who here likes to suffer? We're guessing more than we'd be thinking, but who doesn't like to look back on a day in the saddle & know they left it all on the course? Check out what one of our athletes had to say about getting ready for your big day.
The Road Less Traveled: Vegan Cyclist
Some athletes just capture the spirit of what we want to do on the bike, or at least, what we think we'd want to do from the comfort of our group rides & familiar terrain. Tyler Pearce, aka the Vegan Cyclist is always having a grand adventure & lives to tell the tale.
ROTOR Gravel Adventurer, Juliana Veterano
ROTOR America is excited to support Juliana & Miguel Veterano as they make their way worldwide, basically living the life we all wish we had!
Sea Otter Photo Dump!
If you couldn't make it in person, check out the curated pics & you'll feel like you were there... kind of!
Sasha Yakovleff - Scott O Wall Pics
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Tour of Antalya UCI 2.1 Stage 2 - Hard Work on Slippery Terrain!
Remy Metailler: Shredding one of Revelstoke's Best Trails and loosing the dog...
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Remy Metailler - Attempting One of the World's Hardest Trails in the Dark!
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Remy Metailler - Riding Moab's Infamous Portal Trail
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2INpower SL (Power Meter) - Bicycle Magazine Gear of the Year 2023
Remy Metailler - Races Against a Drone on one the World's Most Beautiful Playground
DNA Pro Cycling Reveals 2024 UCI Roster
Remy Metailler - The Craziest Mountain Bike Stunt I Have Ever Ridden
Rui Costa’s Cube Litening - INspider Aldhu Crankset
Remy Metailler - Best Jump Trail Ever Ridden (Montana)
K4 Racing - Success at Ardeche ACC Gatineau
Rémy Métailler takes on Sentiers du Moulin - Quebec