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Performance Journalism™ about the culture of Bicycles, Sport and Other. YP = YJ + MFS + 🚲 + 😜 X PJ™

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Masthead

Daniel Pasley Founder, Editor, Contributor, Blogger

Kevin Brown Publisher, Web Editor, Interneter

Justin Balog Cinematographer, Video Editor

Steve Hockett Illustrator, Animator, UK Section Chief

Klaus Pro Cycling Historian, Colombia Expert

Kyle von Hoetzendorf Editor, Now at Large

Emiliano Granado Honorary Board Member, Yonder & MFS Co-Founder

THE SPECTACLE OF ROAD RACING→
Professional 🚴🏼‍♂️ is the finest, most beautiful, most relevant sport in the world and for many that’s as complicated and/or nuanced as the whole thing needs to get. But for us, for MFS, racing is more profound and, frankly, more interesting than a simple display of competition and speed. In service to this core belief which, here and now, we submit as a Universal Truth, we created an episodic multimedia documentary and contemporary study exalting Road Cycling for ALL that it is: ✨The ✨Greatest ✨Spectacle ✨On ✨Earth ✨

Fan Club

We interview—DEEP DIVE STYLE—our favorite Professional Racers. (+++FUN FACTS!)

Human Athlete Visual Showcase

The Human Athlete Visual Showcase is an exercise in personality. Because listen, these dudes aren’t robots.

At The Races

A study of the more ubiquitous or “prevalent” types of chillers found spectating PRRs on any given day, at any given race. Illustrated by Thomas Slater.

WHOOSH

The Red Hook Criterium series (RHC) represents a look into the “current” future of professional road cycling.

American Criteriums

What we really want to do is convince you that Crit Racing doesn't suck.

Typologies

1. a classification according to general type, especially in archaeology, psychology, or the social sciences.

The MFS Kit Series

Since 2011, MFS has produced a litany of game-changing kits.

2018 UCI Road World Championships

MFS is at the House of Tirol AKA Innsbruck, Austria for the World Championships.

2018 Tour de France

DCWF Street Team v 2nd week of TDF = 6 Stage Reports, 6 Field Recordings, @millarmind poster campaign, a Soigneur Cliché series, a new T-shirt, Chilleurs, etc.

2018 Tulsa Tough

We’re not doing Knife Fights this year, we’re doing Most Animal Primes. What’s the difference? 💵Five-hundred bucks! 💵

2018 Giro d'Italia

Welcome to Italy, aka the best country in Europe

2018 American Tour of Kalifornia

We took a two-day tour to Long Beach and Santa Barbara in search of sunshine and California Chillers.

Dear Cycling, We're Fans

We are professional, possibly preeminent, Fans doing a multidisciplinary episodic artwork exploring Cycling Fanaticism.

2018 Spring Classics

Watching dusty AF racers pound Fantas in a field among the dead and wounded NEVER gets old. It should, but it doesn’t.

2017 Spring Classics

Luck, chance, and surprise are an unavoidable result of The Classic’s design. A self-fulfilling prophecy.

2017 Red Hook Crit

The Red Hook Criterium series (RHC) represents a look into the “current” future of professional road cycling.

2017 Tour de California

This is the Tour de California and California is 1000% the best state in the World.

2017 Tour de France

Two years ago I vowed to never document the Tour de France ever again. But I’m not over it anymore. I’m into it.

2017 Tulsa Tough

Tulsa Tough is CRITSMAS

2017 USA Cycling National Championships

A) it’s just race and B) if you prepare and train your whole life for racing, but you see Nationals as something other than a race.

2017 Vuelta a España

The Vuelta is a last chance, go for broke, desperate, new-meets-old-meets-possible-meets-heartbreak grand tour during the bright hot death throes of summer.

2016 American Tour of Kalifornia

I can tell you that every single day when that first rider crosses the finish line, it is spine tingling. This sport is beautiful.

2016 Tour De France

After a long and, at times, turbulent negotiation with A.S.O, Manual for Speed is proud to announce the introduction of the Most Animal Classification Jersey

2016 Spring Classics

What makes the Spring Classics so classic? Hmmm, could it be that the races travel through ancient and medieval European towns teeming with drunk zombies?

2015 Milano-Sanremo

Gettin’ fired up with Garmindale and Mountain Chewbacca

2015 Paris–Nice

Seriously, the coffee in France is pathetic. ☕That France borders Italy only further confounds slash exacerbates the problem. 😔

2015 Tour of Yorkshire

I forgot my computer charger. I forgot to pack socks. I wore the same socks for three days, the first of which days was 37 hours long.

2015 Tour De France

This year, for the first time ever Manual for Speed squares off against the Tour de France

2015 USA Pro Challenge

If you don’t want your picture taken, then don’t come to the race in a costume that screams, “PLEASE TAKE MY PICTURE."

2015 Giro day'Italia

A quotidian aggregation of the day’s events at the Giro, as told by an enthusiastic eight-pound miniature dachshund named Manuel. Illustrated by Thomas Slater.

2015 Tour of California

When the world’s most talented cyclists are literally tearing each other apart in the gladiator pit that is professional cycling, Manual for Speed is there.

2015 Tour de San Luis

345 bikes, 15 Total Bikes Per Team, 23 Teams

2015 USA Cycling Road National Championships

Dear Matthew Busche, I hope you enjoy your jersey bro! P.S. Can we be friends?

2015 UCI Road Race World Championships

Richmonders refer to the World Championship race as “The UCI.”

2014 Vuelta al País Vasco

Hey Raoul, next time we pass a larger than life paper mâché time trial bike resting on a forklift on the side of the road, can you stop so we can photograph it?

2014 Tour Down Under

When I approached Graham Watson at the start of the bike thingy this morning he gave me a low-five like straight away, just like that, like we were buds. Boom.

2014 USA Pro Challenge

And that is how Manual for Speed discovered the existence of Dolphin Tale 2, and by proxy, Dolphin Tale 1.

2014 Tour day France

A quotidian aggregation of the day’s events at the Tour de France, as experienced by an enthusiastic eight-pound miniature dachshund named Manuel.

2014 Dubai Tour

A dust storm or sandstorm, or haboob (هَبوب) in Arabic, is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions.

2014 Paris Roubaix

#CHILLEURS #CHILLEURS #BECAUSEFRANCE #COBBLEGOBLINS

2013 USA Pro Challenge

Favorite USA Pro Challenge Cycling Term found in the Glossary section in the back of the USA Pro Challenge Media Guide: "Big Ringing It."

2013 Tour of California

2013 Giro d’Italia

The old guys, the bikinis, the naked kids, the summer Sunday Mediterranean Harbor Tableau of it all.

2013 Spring Classics

Seeing any given race more than once or twice is difficult. Seeing the start and the finish and maybe once in between is often the best case scenario.

2011–2012 Team Exergy

From 2011 to 2012, MFS embedded with Team Exergy across the United States.

2012 Tour of Utah

"A race like this could prepare you well for what’s next, or you could just dig yourself into a big hole."

2012 Tour of California

Manual for Speed was at the Tour of California and talked with various players in the workings of Team Exergy and Team Garmin-Barracuda.

2011 Spring Classics

1. We do not speak Flemish. 2. We do not speak French. 3. We are not accredited AP photographers. 5. We are not in their “system.” Not even a little bit.

Colombia

Six years ago, we went to Colombia. We met riders and staff from the 4-72-Colombia team in both Medellín and Bogotá.

Cyclocross

Manual For Speed collaborated with the institution that is American Cyclocross.

Yo! MFS Cribz

Where and how Pros actually, literally, live. At least for two maybe three months out of the year.

EXPLORATION, ENGAGEMENT, EDUCATION→
In partnership with NASA and the US Military this a reboot of Lewis & Clark. Our mandate: Explore, Engage, Educate. Our POV? Our modus operandi? Our raison d'être? D-i-s-c-o-v-e-r-y, discovery. From pseudo anthropology, interpretive cartography, field observations, illustrations, typologies, catalogs, terrestrial vs. galactic and bicycle-/non-bicycle-based adventure to Shackleton, Darwin, Captain Cook, we are the Corps of Discovery. 🌕🚀🚁🚲🛶🌍

Fitness Fight

A series of pop-up competitions wherein Subject Athletes push their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual limitations in the pursuit of a challenge.

Project Y

We use Art and Science to answer humanity’s most important question: why do Subject-Aths push their mental, physical, spiritual and emotional limits? And PSAs!

Dead Reckoning

Type II Discovery, Transformation, and the people, places and things you discover on the other side of a mountain and/or elevation sickness.

Brodrick Pass

Riding/pushing AWOLs from hut to hut in New Zealand's biggest mountains.

Sunchuli Pass

The Dead Reckoning crew takes fat bikes to Bolivia to find big mountains and bucket chicken.

Piute Pass

Once upon a time there was a dream of a route across the mountains that would link Fresno and the coast to Bishop, then on to Nevada, the midwest and beyond.

Iron Pass

Four days riding, pushing, pulling-carrying-dragging-shoving-sliding-portaging our bikes.

Syd 2 Mel Normcore Bicycle Tour

A 10-day Normcore Bicycle Tour through the Australian In-Back.

Lost Nevados

We wanted unseen backroads through washed out ravines, we wanted jungle and Joan Wilder, we wanted angry mountains and rowdy compañeros.

Mad Wikkid Bike Toouah

Vermont’s excellence isn’t limited to a surfeit of jams made from hand-coddled berries and gamey ripe yogurt, still warm with the bustle of a probiotic kingdom.

Bumspringer

We called audibles, we looked for shortcuts, we enjoyed our evenings, we camped longer, slept in, swam, and went off-route for gross pizza and delicious candy.

Dat Moonshine Doe

After three days of rural Virginia hedonism we realized that the bicycle isn’t just about pushing limits.

Holin

Before reading ahead, know that what you will see will probably cause you to quit your job, grab your bike and your swim trunks, and hightail it to the MSOJ.

Sweaty in Svaneti

Russia to the north. Azerbaijan, Armenia, Iran and Turkey to the south. To the west, the Black Sea. The east, the Caspian Sea. Georgia is in a magical spot.

Warm Springs Road

If you’re going to pack up and equip bikes, Sun Valley is the place to do it.

Elkhorn Crest

If you were to make a board game about bikepacking, this route would be the game board.

Brovet

Inspired by Randonnuering as well as our love of maps, cue-sheets, history, colloquial nuance and regional vernacular.

The Mythical State of Jefferson

Auditing a (nearly) mythical Gold Rush burro trail through the mtns, hornets, poison oak, Big Feet, weed farms and Happy Camps of the MSOJ. Pistols & Crystals!

Club Macho

Club Macho is a completely integrated vertical lifestyle system developed and perfected by Benedict “Poppi” Wheeler.

Clewis & Lark

They went West, we’re going East. They endeavored to discover America, we endeavour to REdiscover America.

Outer Space

NASA commissioned MSO to create the International Alphonsus Lunar Celestial Vortex Park: the first intergalactic reserve/wilderness area in the Known Universe.

THE CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY OF OTHER→
We are Cultural Anthropologists and Sportsmen compelled into the Wilderness to explore, document and publish a lasting and meaningful record of our experiences there. Through a collection of fictional and non-fictional multimedia we endeavor to understand and relate those people, places and pursuits the purview of Yonder. What is our purview? All things other. ///// Edges, Frontiers and Margins. Nerds & Warriors. The DTF. The Salty. W E 💖 O T H E R.

2016 World Championship Snowmobile Hill Climb

The hardest part about shooting a drag race snowmobile up a steep hill is staying on it.

2016 IAAF Track & Field World Indoor Championships

We wanted media passes, we coveted vests, we had visions of standing so close to the track that we’d feel the wind on our faces as the sprinters flew by.

Rendezvous

A rendezvous is basically a Historical Pop-up Village for fur traders.

Hot Springs

Hot Springs are public gathering venues-nexuses-places. Historical reverberations manifested as geothermal energy.

Swimming Holes

Experiencing a swimming hole may not seem like a matter of life or death, but it does require an adventurous spirit.

Western Recreation

The study of the recreational habits and habitats of Americans in our Western states.

Fire Towers

As much an exclamation as a remote and desirable escapist location, fire lookout towers are the true tree forts, now made available for societal escapism.

Kalmiopsis

What if i told you there was a savage wilderness filled with unimaginable riches? Physical riches, spiritual riches, natural riches, all of the riches.

Results for

2015 Tulsa Tough

Field Report | Blue Dome Crit

2015 McNellie’s Group Blue Dome Criterium Outside it’s so hot that being alive is more painful and tedious than usual.

Jul 12, 2015 Tulsa, Oklahoma

Field Report | Brady Arts Dist. Crit

2015 George Kaiser Family Fnd. Brady Arts Dist. Criterium Happen what may, the crowd was thirsty for the fight.

Jul 13, 2015 Tulsa, Oklahoma

Photoset | Brady Arts Dist. Crit

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Jul 13, 2015 Tulsa, Oklahoma

Field Report | Brady Arts Dist. Crit

2015 River Parks Criterium Point is, Cry Baby Hill is definitely a Music Festival.

Jul 14, 2015 Tulsa, Oklahoma

Photoset | Post-race

Post-Tulsa Tough Tulsa Tour On a weekend, downtown Tulsa appears to be an empty post-apocalyptic movie set.

Jul 15, 2015 Tulsa, Oklahoma

Post-Tulsa Tough Tulsa Tour

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After the race, we went on a tour of downtown Tulsa. On a weekend, downtown Tulsa appears to be an empty post-apocalyptic movie set. Or maybe everyone is just in church.

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Field Report

2015 Tour de France: Stage 11 Stage 11