Front flips, privateer dreams, yellow rampage, feral paint jobs, and a Sedona trail that gaslights your soul - yeah, you’ll want to read this. LET'S SEND IT 👇
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Photo of the Day
Armin has the kind of energy that gets you added to Red Bull’s Christmas card list.
📷 Martin Bissig behind the lens.
Video of the Day
Bertrand promised chill, but served Maubermé, which translates loosely to “your suffering pleases the mountain.”
A must-watch for anyone who’s ever been betrayed by a friend with a GPS and too much optimism.
⏰ Watch time - 20 min 39 sec
Bonus: Welcome to Season 3 of “Will This Work?” starring Dom Platt, a Peruvian wild card, and the Fort William death zone known as a “track.”
The Privateer Project returns with more duct tape, borrowed tools, and emotional turbulence than ever.
Episode 1 is basically the World Cup… if you skipped the factory support and just brought snacks and bad decisions.
⏰ Watch time - 04 min 59 sec
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Send of the Day
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Pauline Ferrand-Prévot Went Full MTB on the Roadies and Crushed the Tour de France Femmes
PC: Bartek Wolinski
Some riders race.
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot hunts.
And at the Tour de France Femmes, she didn’t just win.
She lit the whole damn peloton on fire and rode off wearing yellow like it was her birthright.
What’s the secret? Mountain biking.
Yeah, that scrappy, dusty, knee-pad-wearing world the roadies like to pretend doesn’t exist when they’re sipping espresso and shaving their legs.
Ferrand-Prévot didn’t win this Tour in July — she won it over years of railing singletrack, riding on the rivet, and surviving XC races where everyone’s already red-lined 90 seconds into the start gun.
Trail Brains, Road Gains
The road world thought she’d need years to adapt.
PC: Szymon Gruchalski/Getty Images
“But can she handle five-hour stages?” they whispered in group chats and comment sections (At least we think that that’s what happened).
Spoiler: she didn’t just handle them. She treated the Col de la Madeleine like a Tuesday ride in Les Gets.
Her mindset? Pure mountain biker.
She knew the route like it was a World Cup XC course.
She scouted the finale like she was prepping for roots, drops, and ego-shattering descents because that’s what MTBers do.
They don’t just look at maps; they recon like generals.
And when the race hit the Alps, she flipped the script.
While others stared at their stems and prayed for gels, she was running an internal lap timer from a decade of managing the red zone.
This Wasn’t Road Racing. This Was an XC Stage with Better Paving.
She averaged over 5 watts per kilo for more than an hour, treating the queen stage like a short-track suffer fest with prize money.
Her rivals were pretty much erased.
Demi Vollering and Kasia Niewiadoma are no slouches (they’re world-class) but on the Madeleine, they got Ferrand-Prévot’d.
Which is to say: they got dragged into a kind of misery you only learn by trying to pass someone on a singletrack climb with your heart rate at 198 and three spectators yelling in Flemish.
A Champion Built on Dirt, Not Tarmac
Let’s not forget: Ferrand-Prévot has world titles in road, cyclocross, MTB, gravel, and possibly martial arts at this point.
She’s basically Thanos with cleats.
She's won rainbow stripes in every terrain that exists, including imaginary ones UCI hasn't invented yet.
She finally nabbed that elusive Olympic XC gold in Paris last year, and her reward?
A yellow jersey. Twelve months later. On the road. Casual.
But this isn’t just a "crossover" story.
This is a full-blown takeover.
Her bike-handling in the peloton? Supreme.
Her tactical awareness? Trail-honed.
While roadies feared descents and jockeyed for position like fragile tea cups, she moved like someone who’s bunny-hopped over chaos for the last 15 years.
From Rock Gardens to Podiums
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot is proof that mountain biking is a weapon.
And when pointed at road racing, it blows the doors off the caravan.
She didn’t win the Tour in spite of her mountain biking past.
She won it because of it.
And now, every future roadie with GC dreams better start thinking about learning to ride rocks, roots, and maybe a few sketchy switchbacks, because the era of “just pedal harder” is over.
You want to win yellow?
You’d better be ready to shred.
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Trail of the Day
High On The Hog Multi Trail - Sedona, Arizona
If you ever wanted a trail that gaslights you from start to finish, High on the Hog is it.
Step one: find the entrance.
Good luck.
Then it’s straight into slickrock heartbreak, like skating on cheese graters with a GoPro watching.
The off-camber stretch doesn’t care about your clipless pedals or your will to live.
And when Hog Heaven appears, 50 feet up like a smug overachiever, you realize this trail was a personality test.
That’s all for today folks. We hope everyone gets some saddle time out there. See you all tomorrow! 🤙
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