Caley Fretz
@CaleyFretz
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Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Escape Collective.
Joined November 2008
From Mavic: Uran's hanger was bent and his shifting was broken. He asked Mavic mechanic to put it in the 11t and he'd go for it. Baller.
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The Tour de France is a lot better when the best rider isn't on the best team.
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Mullet makes him 50% more likeable.
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This is a legit mtb pass. Bars in front, going for the same line.
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When @rusty_woods finishes the Tour tomorrow he’ll be the first human to run a sub-4 min mile and finish the Tour de France. Which is pretty neat.
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You tell me what and who this appears to be. (Photo from a little birdie in Spain)
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Notice how the director of today’s F1 broadcast didn’t show us replays of Grosjean’s crash until he was confirmed OK. Not sure why cycling can’t figure this one out.
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We’ve cut a lot of flying and driving out of our race coverage but it never feels like enough (because it isn’t) and sometimes you just need a 22 year old with a fuckload of conviction to rattle your routine a bit.
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Ban the Specialized head sock helmet for crimes against style, vibes, class, panache, aesthetics, humanity, all that is good in the world, and also because it looks like a face fairing so it's actually illegal.
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De Gendt's secrets to breakaway success, paraphrased: Find a stage just a bit too hard for the sprinters. Bring a friend. Put out 420 watts on all the climbs. And stop thinking so much. Easy.
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You don't race your own teammates. It's really as simple as that.
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I will remember so many moments with Richard Moore. Here are a few, and why they meant so much.
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End of an era and the untimely demise of an icon: Geraint Thomas has to wear SunGod glasses next year. No more Oakley Racing Jackets. "All riders will be contractually required to wear SunGod," a team rep told me. I have photoshoppped our future.
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Mike Woods remains (to my knowledge) the only person in history to have run a sub-4 mile and finish the Tour de France.
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A smart man just told me, “Don’t do nothing because you can’t do all of it at once.”. We won’t cover CX worlds if this isn’t changed. Not a single reporter, not one dime.
BREAKING: Arkansas has become the first state to ban health care for trans youth.
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GCN (sometimes + VPN) is the greatest thing to happen to American bike racing fans since Greg LeMond.
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Movistar v Nairo is the duel we've all been waiting for this Tour.
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Shouts of "Froome dopé!" have largely been replaced by "Allez Froome!" on the roads of France. We're all suckers for a comeback story.
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"I don’t think I can ever be compared to Eddy Merckx, the greatest male road cyclist of all time," Cav says to open today's press conference.
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Have decided I'm 100% emotionally invested in the success of Thibaut Pinot this year.
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Higher resolution. Final stage gives us greatest GIF of the Giro.
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Learn from Specialized. Don’t protect a trademark that every cyclist on earth feels you stole from them with your damn lawyers.
So. @OnePeloton have set their lawyers onto me in regard to my "Digital Peloton News" segment on YouTube. They own the term peloton? As in a group of cyclists?
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If 15 sec. of car drafting is the limit the UCI wants to enforce, every rider who crashed or had a mechanical over the last week should get a DQ, and every rider who crashes or has a mechanical over the next two days might as well just stop. None chase back alone. What a farce.
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Full head/shoulder contact before the elbow ever comes out. Sagan playing defense. Jury is off its rocker.
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Fuck the gun lobby, fuck your stupid fucking hobby, take them back and melt them down. All of them. My wife's a teacher not too far from there. Nothing is worth this.
BREAKING: A high ranking law enforcement source says "multiple" victims have been shot at a school in suburban Denver. Two suspects are in custody. Police are "engaging" a third. @ABC.
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Unacceptable from the UCI, and we don’t just let things like this go quietly.
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I recommend all cycling fans watch a bit of World Cup because Gianni Infantino will make you feel way better about David Lappartient.
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We're going to build the best damn bike media thing you've ever seen.
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Boonen:.How will you feel Monday?.I'm sure I will have the biggest hangover. But . happy, sad?.I'm always sad when I have a hangover.
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Pog making every GC contender for the last 30 years look soft as hell.
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Sitting in a coffee shop in Gent next to the Katusha boys, and amateur bike racers everywhere will be pleased to know that they're telling race stories from yesterday in exactly the same way we reminisce about office park crits.
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I didn’t even say anything to him 🤷♂️ in fact we had a pretty good chat at worlds last year!. That said, I don’t plan on sitting down to interview a white guy from Durango who used a black hand waving emoji to make a political statement. Ever.
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Y'all should see the emails I get from dudes with deep and genuine and not at all misogynistic concerns over our increase in women's racing content and female perspectives in general. To quote my favorite middle manager, these sound like you problems, champ, not me problems.
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Public Service Announcement: If you're watching Unchained with dubbing, please stop. Select language French (Original) and subtitles of your choice. This leaves everyone in their native language (incl. English speakers). The dubbing is awful. Ruins all the emotional moments.
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I for one am glad we nipped state sponsored doping in the bud by adding a couple words after Russia.
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It is extremely unclear who is at fault for Cavendish's crash, and this lack of clarity is precisely what makes a disqualification absurd.
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90 year old Carl Grove busted by USADA for what turned out to be a contaminanted supplement. Race on, Carl. I’m cool with you taking whatever you want to keep racing at 90.
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As an April Fools joke, some bike brand should have been like, "We have bikes in stock!".
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What's absolutely wild is Kate wrote this AS THE RACE WAS HAPPENING, and filed it like 15 minutes after the finish.
It took 300 kilometers to get here, to tell this story. It also took 62 years. 38 years. For Mathieu van der Poel, 28 years old, it took a lifetime.
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ANSWERING EMAILS!. Sorry I thought we were just yelling about what we're doing right now.
ELECTION INTERFERENCE!.
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Shhh, the Nairo attack is quite rare, and very shy. Don't spook it.
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Thank you for all the kind messages. This is an odd, incredibly public job. We work out in the open. That's a blessing and a curse, but on days like today, which is unquestionably a shit day, it's amazing. It's stuff like this that makes me most proud:
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Today, Sagan relegated for pushing his way through a gap that was closing/never truly existed (while avoiding tightening barriers and a selfie stick). In 2017, Sagan was disqualified for holding his line when Cav tried to do the same to him. I think the jury is bad at this.
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Look at this crew. Absurd levels of talent here. I’m so thankful they all agreed to jump on this (risk-laden and guarantee-free!) party bus with us. Every single member supports their work, and your dollars set them free to make the stuff you want them to make. Thank you ❤️
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Cav did come in under Sagan's elbow. This isn't Sagan's fault.
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Uran just gained almost as much time on Froome as he lost the Tour by last year.
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GCN post-race show is the best I've ever seen in cycling. By a lot. Real tactical insight, intelligent analysis, @daniellloyd1 with a touchscreen. Explaining not just what happened, but why. Thanks @SportsOrla, @AdamBlythe89 and the rest of the crew. Loving it.
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The jury is wrong on Sagan. Not because we know for sure, but precisely because we don't.
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Based on my Twitter feed, it appears that barring a few small hamlets in England the entire world is in Dumoulin's corner right now. And that's the great shame of his controversy: Once again, fans are forced to question great racing because they (rightfully) question the racer.
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Over 1000 comments and not a single reported for breaking our guidelines on @EscapeCycling so far. In other words, not a single dickhead. I'm sure this won't last forever but it's an amazing little community already.
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I’d like to propose a UCI ban on white shorts, because rain happens.
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Pogačar crashed on his first ever training ride (on a green aluminum bike from Italy) because he couldn't unclip from his pedals. Tour winners, they're just like us.
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Whatever you may think of Sagan's relegation, we can agree that these advertising bollards are monumentally stupid, right? . First time I remember seeing them was 2016, when the race started in Normandy. 📸: @jeredgruber
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People of Twitter, I have excellent news!. My Mosaic has emerged from the ooze of Goose Creek more than 3 years after it was stolen. It was found by none other than the man who built it, Aaron Barcheck, less than a mile from my old house.
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Most confusing tactics award goes to Ineos and their hit song Riding For A Sprint Without A Sprinter.
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This is how it's gonna go. 1) Roadies and fixie kids find cross, mid 2000's. 2) Roadies and cross racers find gravel.3) Groadies realize dirt is really fun.4) Groadies ride harder and harder stuff on drop bar bikes.5) Flat bars and suspension seem like a good idea.6) XC racing!.
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Boulder! Some asshole stole my Mosaic from my house last night. Custom Ti with my damn name on the top tube. Easily identified. Keep an eye out, share this!
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"only won because Ewan wasn't there" is the dumbest TDF sprint take I can think of. Please stop tweeting it at me.
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Chad Haga, winner of the final TT at the Giro, just caught and passed his minute man. Which would be sort of no big deal, except that minute man is Tony Martin. (who, admittedly, spent about a month on the front in the past week).
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I'm so tired of this buffoon stealing moments from my day. If I was a democrat running for office, I think my platform would be "You'll be so bored by my competence you'll go entire days without remembering I exist.".
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Team leaders have bad moments. When they do, their teams rally around them - they continue to be a team. They don't attack each other. That was pretty shameful.
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Give me a tanwall 28 you monsters.
Continental launches special edition cream sidewall GP 5000. We're just sad it only comes in 25mm 😢.
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Escape Collective is our vision for what bike media can be. Hope you'll join us:
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Newsflash from the freshly unemployed: The health insurance system this country is idiotic bordering on criminal.
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My not at all groundbreaking Peter Sagan take is that he's a quiet guy who thinks roadie culture is pretty silly and played an outsized, extroverted character we wanted him to be incredibly well. When he's motivated, he's still one of the best. Hope we see that this year.
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The best thing about covering the Tour is that I've been so busy and tired that I got to forget for almost an entire week that the President of the United States is a racist. Now, back to bike racing. #Happyplace.
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Reminder that for most of the 2010s we would have done unmentionable things for a Tour de France only separated by 1'48" with two massive mountain stages to go.
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Do it, ASO. Just do it.
“If there’s ever a women’s Paris Roubaix, then I would very much like the chance to compete. But that doesn’t currently exist so I’ll have to keep those ambitions under wraps.” - Sanne Cant. Even cyclocrossers are calling for a women's @Paris_Roubaix !
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Reaction to one-day La Course from one pro woman I spoke with this morning: "Oh for fuck's sake." . Sums it up I think.
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Sagan and Cancellara show us how pros do bike handling. And it's crazy. Sagan straight back on the gas!
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Key moment drones. Poggio, Paterberg, Arenberg, Carrefour. Make it happen, broadcasters.
I want that drone shot on the Poggio descent in Milano-Sanremo. #Hoogerheide2023.
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For women’s XCO, ads every two minutes. Sometimes as close as 50 seconds. Randomly placed so they covered key moments. We PAY FOR THIS SHIT.
The utter disdain from NBC toward anybody with the gall to watch something other than swimming.
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Geez @RuthWinder of @TrekSegafredo just monstered the Vuelta Comunidad Valencia. Held on from the break. Finished with a couple bike lengths.
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Roglic chatting with Kruijswijk during cooldown, explaining his move: “We have to try, eh? In the end, everybody suffers.” Also said he wished today’s climb was longer. Maybe the team to take it to Sky isn’t Movistar?.
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🚨 Roglič to Trek? . Both parties are talking. Current contract to 2025, buyout necessary. Complicated, but an interesting move for a team with a much bigger budget than last year. Big picture: If he wants to try for the TDF again, he has to leave.
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So we have DQ for an elbow that never made contact and 200CHF and a GC relegation (might lose 155th!) for hand-off-the-bars whacking a guy.
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