Copy cats and Kazakhstani Cav

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Copy cats and Kazakhstani Cav

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Dec 19, 2022

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In this week's episode:
- Cav, again, FFS
- Ineos' copycats
- The pro team kit that looks like a tampon box
- A Magnus Sheffield chat
- Internal routing on mountains bikes and other harbingers of humanity's impending collapse

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Dec 19, 2022

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