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Privateer Diaries: Namibia, health, and the team
About time for an update.
Sep 13 • 
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From $0: Your questions about building a team
You asked, I'm trying to answer.
Sep 5 • 
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The $350,000 Blueprint: Why I want to build another team
What it takes to turn a crazy idea into a professional team.
Aug 19 • 
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Contract season
The anxious art of ensuring you have a job.
Aug 14 • 
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Sky to Ineos: The unravelling of Britain’s superteam
How Ineos squandered its dominance, culture, and Britain’s brightest talent.
Jul 28 • 
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The Church of Swatt Club: How a fan movement can change pro-cycling
No sponsors on the jersey, no riders on payroll: Swatt Club explained.
Jul 12 • 
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That Race in France
It’s the race that I remember running in the front door to watch after school, it’s the race that makes you dream of going pro.
Jul 4 • 
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Privateer Diaries: Grodeo to Oregon, strange summer so far
Hello, from somewhere above Utah.
Jun 24 • 
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The Sh!t No One Tells You About Privateering
Budgets, flights, and performance.
Jun 16 • 
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Life on the road.
Colorado, it has been a pleasure.
Jun 9 • 
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Would I do a road team again?
Yes.
Jun 7 • 
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7 Unbound Takeaways
Unbound, that 200-mile slog around the Flint Hills of Kansas…
Jun 3 • 
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Unbound: The Race Recap
This race giveth, this race taketh.
Jun 2 • 
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