Professional biking:
For years, it has languished in obscurity behind much more widespread sports activities equivalent to racewalking and curling:
Curling: the place the thrill’s on ice.
Nicely, right here comes the umpteenth try and make professional biking extra widespread, and it’s one thing referred to as “One Biking:”
The reply to the rhetorical query within the headline is, after all, “No.”
Right here’s why:

When you even bothered studying that in any respect you then most likely gave up studying midway by means of, so there’s your reply. I did my finest to learn the entire thing, and it seems like One Biking is a Saudi funding agency slotting themselves in just below the UCI and above everybody else:

If I perceive that appropriately, then the UCI is the Burger King drive-thru, the race organizers are your hungry mates, and One Biking is you providing to go decide meals for everyone as a way to eat all their fries on the way in which dwelling.
In fact, right here in the USA, we don’t want the Tour de France or any of that stuff since we’ve bought the Nationwide Biking League:

Oh wait, no we don’t:

This isn’t shocking. The NCL appeared like they had been trying to create form of an NBA on Wheels, which was a mistake, since Individuals actually don’t relate to biking as a group sport. Nonetheless, they do get the idea of a bunch of self-managed endurance freaks torturing themselves on distant roads whey’re they’re not inconveniencing anyone, which is why gravel is basically the way forward for home aggressive biking. So possibly that Corridor of Fame isn’t so untimely in spite of everything:

By the way in which, the Gravel Corridor of Fame shouldn’t be confused with the Gavel Corridor of Fame, and listed here are your 2025 inductees, who’ve been awarded the coveted “Golden Gavel” for excellence in authorized advertising and promoting:

[From here.]
I ponder what number of different individuals have landed on that web site whereas trying to find the Gravel Corridor of Fame, as a result of I can’t be the one one, and it’s most likely driving them loopy.
Lastly, in additional professional cycling-adjacent information, Ritchey will not use the UCI World Championship rainbow bands on its WCS parts:

Apparently their settlement with the UCI is up, and it’s “not eligible for renewal”

Lazily, Ritchey will merely take away the colour from the stripes, although they missed an enormous alternative by not changing them with Tom Ritchey’s mustache:

These are supposedly Ritchey’s top-tier parts in spite of everything, and they need to make it clear to the buyer {that a} mustache journey is the perfect you may get.
I’m additionally shocked they’re protecting the “WCS,” for the reason that acronym stands for “World Championship Sequence,” and I’d assume with the termination of the settlement they’d not have the ability to try this as nicely. Then once more, possibly it’s simply so simple as altering the acronym, so maybe it stands for “Profitable Biking Stuff.”
Let me know when it is available in a threaded model.
