Articles by Jordan Rapp

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Gravel From The Ground Up: Gearing

Continuing our series on gravel (or all-road or whatever...) bikes with a focus on understanding gear ratios and gearing selection.

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Rappstar’s 10th Annual Charity Challenge: The First And Last 100

Every year, the first 100 donors to the annual World Bicycle Relief charity challenge get something special. This year is no exception. Read on to find out what it is!

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The 10th Annual & Final World Bicycle Relief Charity Challenge

It's that time... one last time. The 10th - and final - edition of the annual Rappstar Charity Challenge for World Bicycle Relief. Let's go out with a bang.

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Gravel From The Ground Up: Geometry 101

Continuing our series on gravel bikes with an in-depth examination of front-end geometry and how geometric decisions play out on the road and trail.

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Gravel From The Ground Up: Tires & Pressure

On the anniversary of my first ever gravel bike race in 2017, I look back at what I learned about equipment, preparation, and more in this first in a series of articles about taking drop bars off road.

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$63,100

$63,100. That was the tally for the 9th Annual World Bicycle Relief Charity Challenge, putting us right around $600,000 raised over the nine years of this endeavor.

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Final Countdown for the 9th World Bicycle Relief Charity Challenge

We're in the home stretch. Only a few more days to go. But lots of amazing offerings in this year's Annual Charity Challenge for World Bicycle Relief!

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Rappstar’s 9th Annual World Bicycle Relief Charity Challenge

It's that time of the year again! For the ninth year in a row, it is time for the annual WBR fundraiser that puts bikes into the hands of MANY well-deserving folks around the world.

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Hands On With The Zwim HUD

We got our first look at a working prototype of the Zwim HUD, currently seeking funding via IndieGoGo.

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The Magic 5

The Magic 5, a small Danish company co-founded by a triathlete, his engineer uncle, and a national team swimmer, aims to use the availability of these tools to change the way swim goggles are made. They developed a proprietary face-scanning app which maps every contour of your face and - in particular - your eye sockets in three-dimensions. From there, they can create fully custom gaskets unique to each eye - and pair them with the exact right nose-bridge from their wide selection of pre-made widths to create a pair of goggles that matches perfectly to you.

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Splitting The Field In Chattanooga

Before the race has even begun, the 2017 Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Chattanooga, TN is already a watershed moment in the history of Ironman racing. For the first time, men and women will compete on different days. Totally separate races have long been a fixture on the draft-legal ITU elite circuit, but never before has Ironman split the field at a world championship race.

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The Coach’s Thoughts. Peak Performance Review Three.

Brian Stover, founder of Accelerate3 Coaching, offers a coach's perspective on Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness's book, "Peak Performance." This is the third review in our series.