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  • It Never Fails: Wrecks Come In Multiples

    Bike198
    198
    9 May 2012 | 8:16 am
    A week ago yesterday, I headed out for our regular Tuesday night “Dirt and Taco’s” at our local mountain bike trail.As part of the evenings festivities, we typically head back to a small DH/FR area and session for most of the night. We get in some great climbing while getting the added benefit of a big payoff on the way down. After about a dozen or so runs (the DH run only takes 43 seconds if you are pinning it), we finish out the XC loops and head to a great Mexican restaurant afterwards.Last Tuesday, I decided I was going to go for broke. Thanks to Strava, we have a…

  • Ian Morrison at Whistler Doing a Whip at 1,000 fps

    Bike198
    198
    15 May 2012 | 7:28 am
    Have you ever wondered what a full whip on a mountain bike looks like in super slow motion? Well here is Ian Morrison at Whistler Mountain Bike Park doing a whip over a table at 1,000 frames per second. You can actually watch each spoke move as he maneuvers this table. It is mesmerizing to watch.Rider: Ian Morrison Location: Whistler Mountain Bike Park Frame rate: 1,000 fps Live online premiere: May 24th 12:00pm PST – redbull.com/bikeStrength in Numbers is a rally call to connect all mountain bikers, regardless of location or language or discipline. The film captures a true way of life,…

  • Review: Renovo Badash 29er Wooden Hardtail Mountain Bike

    Bike198
    198
    9 May 2012 | 9:34 am
    The Renovo Badash 29er wooden bike. Arguably the only wooden bike we have seen at Bike198 that actually looks like it can shred trail and Renovo sent one over for us to throw a leg over. These past few weeks…that is what I have done, so we need to take a look at how this unique bike performs on the trail. Does it ride as good as it looks?Renovo is pretty unique. While other bike companies have gone the bamboo route, Renovo uses a series of hardwoods to build their bikes which include everything from time trial rigs to this 29er HT. This particular Badash 29er came out of the Red Stag…

  • Preview: Gran Fondo’s NYC Bike Expo

    BikeRadar.com Road
    15 May 2012 | 1:15 pm
    This weekend, Gran Fondo New York will be treating the city’s road cyclists to their 2nd annual Expo. Taking place just two weeks after Bike Expo New York, which was geared more towards commuters, GFNY’s Expo aims instead to bring “Italian style bike racing to NYC.” The Expo will be held from 11am-8pm on Friday, May 18th and Saturday, May 19th at the Penn Plaza Pavilion in Midtown Manhattan, and will lead up to the Gran Fondo New York on Sunday, May 20th. More 5,000 riders are expected to partake in this 110-mile event, which leaves from the George Washington Bridge at…

  • Car Companies Selling Bikes

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    Byron
    14 May 2012 | 2:42 pm
    A few weeks ago, the millennial’s buying habits we’re written about and how the automotive industry was in a panic. Car makers don’t know how to market to a generation that doesn’t care too much about cars. I confirmed this trend with my teens that don’t equate their social standing with the name brand of car they drive or will drive. I’ve also posted about many car-branded bikes, like BMW, Porsche, Mini, and more. That’s not new, of course, Volvo and Volkswagen were in the sport and now VW is back sponsoring USA Cycling. An Audi e-bike Even though…
 
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  • Garmin-Barracuda flexes muscles in California

    VeloNews.com
    16 May 2012 | 2:30 am
    LIVERMORE, California (VN) — The Amgen Tour of California has yet to take shape in the general classification, but one team has begun to assert itself over the peloton, firing the opening salvos in a GC fight that will go all the way to the summit of Mount Baldy on Saturday. For the second day in a row at the Amgen Tour, the blue and white of Garmin-Barracuda came to the front of the race Tuesday and showed, if only for a few kilometers, that it’s perhaps the strongest team in California. “I think it’s pretty incredible, really,” said Andrew Talansky, one of Garmin’s two GC…

  • RadioShack-Nissan gearing up for GC battle in California

    Neal Rogers
    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    LIVERMORE, California (VN) — With Thursday’s stage 5 time trial looming on the horizon, followed by stage 6 into Big Bear and the stage 7 summit finish on Mount Baldy, RadioShack-Nissan is preparing for a GC battle at the Amgen Tour of California in defense of Chris Horner’s 2011 title. While Liquigas-Cannondale’s Peter Sagan has won the first three stages and earned himself a total of 30 seconds in time bonuses, the early stages of the fight for GC supremacy have begun to take shape within the peloton. Though he’s coming off a broken leg, three-time winner Levi Leipheimer (Omega…

  • Questioning how to beat Mark Cavendish

    VeloNews.com
    16 May 2012 | 1:00 am
    FROSINONE, Italy (VN) — Monday passed at the Giro d’Italia with Mark Cavendish (Sky) blocked and unable to unleash his sprint yet again, but the world champion should have another chance on Wednesday in Montecatini. The British speedster spent Tuesday night at the team hotel, as he did Sunday, plotting how to win his third stage of this Giro d’Italia and his career 10th. His rivals and their teams spent the night mostly at a loss on how to topple King Cavendish. Matthew Goss (Orica-GreenEDGE) succeeded in the Giro’s third leg to Horsens, Denmark, but that was not a…

  • Video: Danielson thought Garmin could split the peloton in the crosswind on stage 3 of the Amgen Tour

    VeloNews.com
    15 May 2012 | 10:51 pm
    Tom Danielson tells VeloNews that Garmin wants to make every day hard at the 2012 Amgen Tour of California

  • At Amgen Tour, Bissell attacks at every chance

    VeloNews.com
    15 May 2012 | 10:25 pm
    LIVERMORE, California (VN) — For teams like Omega Pharma-Quick Step and RadioShack-Nissan, a race like the Amgen Tour of California is a big race, but it’s by no means the team’s biggest event of the year. For a team like Bissell Pro Cycling, a UCI Continental squad, the Amgen Tour is the single most important invitation of the year. The exposure is huge for a small team hungry for exposure. Also huge? The odds against the team winning a stage or classification. In fact, only one U.S.-based Continental rider has won a stage in a major U.S. race since 2009. What’s a small team to do,…
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    USA Cycling News Headlines

  • Devo Wrap: Win in Germany highlights week

    15 May 2012 | 5:56 pm
    The USA Cycling National Development Program enjoyed an extremely successful trip to Germany last week. A group of juniors competed in Etappen der Rad and rode away with the overall win and the Best Young Rider jersey while another group of riders tested their meddle against the worldand#39;s best at the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in the Czech Republic.

  • First Lady joins Team USA to get 1.7 million kids active this year

    14 May 2012 | 5:28 pm
    First Lady Michelle Obama joined U.S. Olympians, Paralympians and London hopefuls to announce a nationwide commitment to get more than 1.7 million American children active as part of her Letandrsquo;s Move! initiative to solve the problem of childhood obesity in a generation.

  • Shelley Olds wins World Cup; U.S. women successful over weekend

    14 May 2012 | 12:15 pm
    American women continued their mission this weekend to bolster their nationandrsquo;s ranking with UCI points in advance of this summerandrsquo;s Olympic Games.

  • NCC: Allar, Clarke stretch standings leads after Tour de Grove

    14 May 2012 | 11:56 am
    Many of the fastest criterium racers descended on St. Louis, Mo., for the Tour de Grove, the seventh event on the USA Cycling National Criterium Calendar. Under sunny skies and ideal racing conditions, the leaders in all four standings stretched their leads, but the competition for second place is tightly contested.

  • Alise Post wins Supercross World Cup in Papendal on Sunday

    13 May 2012 | 12:01 pm
    Alise Post claimed the victory in the third round of the 2012 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup today in Papendal.
 
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    SoCalCycling.com - Your Cycling Source

  • Amgen Tour of California: Sagan Threepeats in Sprint Finish into Livermore

    15 May 2012 | 11:36 pm
    Peter Sagan (SVK) of Liquigas-Cannondale made Amgen Tour of California history today by winning the Stage 3 of the 2012 race, marking his third consecutive stage win in as many days. The 22-year-old rider, once again, outsprinted Garmin-Barracuda’s Heinrich Haussler (AUS), and Tom Boonen (BEL) of Omega Pharma-QuickStep crossed the line in third place.

  • Amgen Tour of California: Sagan Repeats in Santa Cruz

    14 May 2012 | 10:42 pm
    Young Slovakian cycling sensation and overall 2012 Amgen Tour of California race leader Peter Sagan (SVK) of Liquigas-Cannondale crashed and punctured a tire on a wicked descent, but recovered to win Stage 2 of the race in Santa Cruz, Calif., his second consecutive stage in as many days.

  • Celebrate Italy with a Complimentary Copy of Italiano

    14 May 2012 | 7:02 pm
    Our friends at Cannondale and Peloton Magazine have produced Italiano, which is a beautiful newspaper that celebrates Italy. Italiano takes you inside the Giro d’Italia, looks at past and present riders of the Giro and gives you a taste of Italian culture.

  • State Individual Time Trial Championships Results

    14 May 2012 | 3:25 pm
    The Official Results have been posted on SoCalCycling.com for the State Individual Time Trial Championships that took place at Lake Los Angeles on May 12. Congratulations to all of the Individual Time Trial Champions in 33 categories!

  • Special Invitation to Attend The Champions Brunch on May 20

    14 May 2012 | 4:26 am
    SoCalCycling.com / Echelon Design Team sponsor Champion System has extended an invitation and special price to SoCalCycling.com's friends to celebrate the 2012 Amgen Tour of California as hosts of The Champions Brunch at Tra Di Noi of Beverly Hills.
 
 
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    PezCyclingNews.com

  • Mavic Altium Level Summer Clothing

    16 May 2012 | 3:53 am
    Message by Charles ManantanMavic = Wheels. That’s it, right? I mean why even think about big yellow for anything but round stuff… At least that was the thought process when I looked at the size of the box sent from Mavic’s Media mogul (an ex Tech-geek, so he’s OK) Zack V. “What kinda wheel fits in something that small?!” was the thought.

  • Giro di PEZ: The Road To Assisi

    15 May 2012 | 4:57 pm
    Message by Edmond Hood'The Rough Guide' isn't kind to Civitavecchia, they reckon the only reason to visit is if you're catching a ferry - oh well. We've been here before, on the way back from Sardinia in 2007 - we had to forced march from the docks to the car hire office...let's take a closer look at yet another amazing stage - this time, to Assisi!

  • ATOC'12 St.2: Sagan Scores Second in Santa Cruz

    15 May 2012 | 1:33 pm
    Message by NONEPhoto Report: His second win that is... Monday’s stage 2 of the Amgen Tour of California rolled from San Fransisco to Santa Cruz, and Liquigas’ Peter Sagan took his second stage win in convincing fashion. PEZ’s Darrell Parks was on course, and here’s how it looked through his lens…

  • Giro’12 St.10: Purito Pounces To Pink!

    15 May 2012 | 11:36 am
    Message by Dave AldersebaesRace Report: Katusha’s Joachim Rodriguez made the most of this tailor-made finish, and swiped an impressive victory and with it, the coveted maglia rosa. Another punchy day filled with action, so buckle up and read on!

  • Toolbox: Mental Boot Camp Re-Boot

    15 May 2012 | 3:11 am
    Message by Josh HorowitzWhile I was racing I did some crazy mental training. Hours upon hours of affirmations. Up Topanga Canyon, down Tuna, up Latigo, down Kanan Dune, up the PCH, up Mulholland, down Encinal and finally back through Malibu, Santa Monica, Venice and finishing on the Ballona Creek bike path into Culver City. All the time listening to tracks off The Ultimate Cyclist CD and repeating the affirmations to myself out loud and with conviction.
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    London Cyclist Blog

  • Electric Bikes: It’s not Cheating, it’s Transport

    Andreas
    16 May 2012 | 5:11 am
    The electric bike isn’t a replacement for a bicycle. It’s the replacement for a car or a motorbike. That’s the line Guy Wheeler of Leftfield Bikes used when he got in touch with me a while back. It’s an interesting view and as I continue to be surprised that electric bikes haven’t gained more traction in the UK, I invited Guy to share his views. I pass you on to Guy.. Before the tyres were even pumped-up on our new ‘pedelec’, two road racers appeared. One observed that it was electric and the other, that it was cheating… and thus began the debate: are electric…

  • What happens if you have a collision with a pedestrian

    Andreas
    15 May 2012 | 4:03 am
    Have you ever had a collision with a pedestrian? I’ve heard of friends damaging their bike after they perform of an emergency stop. However, that’s nothing compared to a story London Cyclist reader Tiva sent me. It all took place on Aldwych road. A pedestrian stepped out in Tiva’s path and did the classic “left-right-left-right-freeze” dance coming to a halt directly in the path of the bike. Tiva tried to slam on her brakes and in the process fell off the bike damaging her knee. The pedestrian apologised but Tiva was clearly injured. An ambulance was called. However, Tiva, in that…

  • Tour De Latitude competition

    Andreas
    14 May 2012 | 4:39 am
    We’ve got a new competition today to give away two tickets to The Latitude Festival and the Tour De Latitude ride to get there. What is the Tour De Latitude? Good question. I had to ask my much more hip friend Laura who told me that unlike other festivals it’s not just about the music. There’s a bunch of cool art, poetry, literature and cabaret acts to behold. Of course if you are just a fan of music then bands such as Elbow and Ben Howard should appeal. More details: http://www.latitudefestival.co.uk/ and on the Give2Go website who organise the ride. What are you giving away? Two…

  • The London Cyclist guide to cleaning your bike even when you’ve not got the room to do it

    Andreas
    10 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    Keeping your bike clean when you’ve not really got the room to do it is a pain. However, it is something that should be in your calendar at least once a month. It should be one of those things, you shouldn’t even think about having to do. “Oh, it’s the first of the month – time to clean the bike.” Why is it so important? Let me just create an image in your mind. You are riding along and road muck gets trapped in your rear cassette. As the chain spins round at high speed that muck slowly but surely grinds away at the components. With each ride you take you are getting your bike one…

  • DHB Sync Waterproof Jacket Review

    Andreas
    9 May 2012 | 2:58 am
    Provoked by the hosepipe ban, in the past 30 days we’ve seen the skies opening and unleashing their rainy fury on London’s cyclists. In response, I’ve been testing out the DHB Sync Waterproof Jacket (59.99 Wiggle). The ultimate solution for the worst weather that can be thrown at a cyclist. Let’s get one thing clear, I’ve always been a fan of the DHB range. In my own testing experience, it often outperforms more expensive products. The DHB Sync Jacket adds one very crucial element that I’ve found makes a big difference when compared to similar jackets. A hood. You may think riding…
 
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    Grit & Glimmer

  • Oh, Did I Mention I’m Riding the Tour de France?

    snarkypants
    21 Apr 2012 | 12:43 am
    [Photo: Michael Robertson] I apologize for the long gap between posts. Allow me to explain myself. Earlier this year, Michael Roberston and I decided to build a team to ride the entire 2012 Tour de France course. It started as a story idea and became something infinitely bigger than that. It has consumed most of my year. It has challenged me in ways I have never imagined (mostly from a time management perspective) It has driven almost every major decision I have made in the past four months. It’s really big. So big that if I’m able to complete all 3,497 or so kilometers with my…

  • PSA: How to Remove Embrocation FAST

    snarkypants
    6 Feb 2012 | 8:59 am
    We had an embrocation emergency here at Grit & Glimmer HQ over the weekend and I was forced to do some lightning quick internet research to determine the best way to remove the stuff quickly. It took about 10 or 15 minutes of reading through forum threads and long blog posts to find the best information, so I thought I’d do a recap as a kind of PSA. Here’s what worked. Wipe as much off as possible with a dry towel. Use cool water (not hot!) to avoid opening pores. Dawn dishsoap (or any dish soap for that matter, but Dawn worked great) cuts the grease and offers the kind of…

  • Tested: Rapha Women’s Winter Tights

    snarkypants
    2 Feb 2012 | 12:19 pm
    A few weeks ago, Rapha sent over the Women’s Winter Tight for review. I took them out for a week’s worth of rides including a few (2-hour) commutes and two 4-hour training rides and then wrote a re-cap of first impressions for the next issue of Peloton Magazine. Since then, they’ve been on heavy rotation in my winter mix, carrying me through 3.5-hour 40-degree downpours, 28-degree morning journeys and one long, climbey 5-hour adventure last Saturday in fairly moderate 45-ish-degree weather. Gotta be honest with you, I’ve owned other winter tights for years and have…

  • Shut Up Legs as Life Principle

    snarkypants
    1 Feb 2012 | 11:04 am
    There are a lot of things to love about Jens Voigt, his famous “Shut up, Legs!” quote notwithstanding. He is a classic hard man, hitting the gas when the tank is empty, boggling minds with his incredible strength and unmatched will power. He’s also quietly modest about the whole thing and endlessly kind, which makes it all the better. “Shut up, Legs!” stuck with us because of its simplicity. It’s a universally understood sentiment: the verbalization of the mind-over-body tricks we all try to employ when we’re on the rivet. But the other day as I read…

  • Flying Humans

    snarkypants
    31 Jan 2012 | 4:42 pm
    Give us this day our daily inspiration.   (Special thanks to buddy Dave S. for sending this my way.) No related posts.
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    Bike Snob NYC

  • BSNYC Field Trip: Full Bike Day!

    BikeSnobNYC
    15 May 2012 | 11:50 am
    Wikipedia defines "Stockholm syndrome" as "an apparently paradoxical psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and have positive feelings towards their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them."  I can certainly see how this can happen under circumstances of extreme duress.  For example, on Thursday night I was here: And then a few hours later I woke up on an airplane to see this: After which the plane landed and I found myself in a van looking at this: This was Mesagne, in the Italian region of Puglia, and my captor was a man named Vincenzo of the…

  • Homeword Bowned: One More Travel Day

    BikeSnobNYC
    14 May 2012 | 12:55 am
    Today is the last of many travel days in a whirlwind BRA tour that has taken me everywhere from Hudson Street to Brindisi, Italy.  Very shortly I will scrape myself off of Italy's heel and board the series of planes that will eventually take me home to New York.  Then, it's back to the "easy life" in Brooklyn, by which I mean blogging in sweatpants and with slices of cucumber under each armpit to keep me delightfully cool. You should try it. Pending a full report, I will say that until I reached Brindisi, I thought I'd seen it all.  I'd seen a No Bike Day.  I'd seen a Half…

  • Travel Day: Bound for Italy

    BikeSnobNYC
    10 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    In a very short while I will be departing London for Italy.  Despite the near-impossibility of finding a meal here that doesn't involve some combination of baked beans and pork products, I'm very fond of London, and I will leave with a heavy heart.  I'll also leave with a heavy wardrobe, since thanks to all the rain my entire wardrobe is waterlogged. I'm also very fond of Look Mum No Hands, which is where we had my BRA: Though the gentleman in the helmet looks less than plussed to see me: You know, "back in the day," if you wanted a new bicycle tire, a quinoa salad with corriander,…

  • Dispatch from the Road: Keeping it Short

    BikeSnobNYC
    10 May 2012 | 9:46 am
    One good thing about traveling is that it disabuses you of certain stereotypes and misconceptions.  For example, like most people, I always thought England was just a quaint nation of slow-moving, overly polite tea-slurpers whose biggest source of anxiety is gardening and who solve mysteries in their ample leisure time.  As it turns out though, this isn't true, and indeed life moves very quickly here.  For example, just yesterday at the Brooks factory, Eric "The Chamferer" Murray deftly whipped me up a saddle in a matter of minutes: Just a few hours later it was on my bike: And…

  • Field Trip!

    BikeSnobNYC
    9 May 2012 | 2:10 am
    Good morning, evening, middle of the night, middle of the day, or whatever time it is here in whatever country I'm in. Frankly, I've lost track. This post must be brief, for I am at this moment preparing to head from London to the Brooks factory in Birmingham.  Needless to say I'll be undertaking this journey by "Boris Bike," which means I should be able to make it there and back in roughly four days.  I'm also pretty nervous about my visit, mostly because it will involve seeing people working, and as a semi-professional bike blogger and book author I haven't done an honest day's…
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    Trek Bikes - Trek Life - News

  • Trek’s carbon recycling program keeps 70,000 lbs. of carbon from landfills in first year

    21 Apr 2012 | 7:00 pm
    (Waterloo, WI) - One year after piloting the bike industry’s first carbon fiber recycling program, Trek Bicycle, in partnership with Materials Innovation Technologies is proud to announce that over 70,000 lbs. of carbon fiber have been recycled from its domestic manufacturing facility in Water ...

  • Trek Bicycle Partners with Summer Gravity Camps

    18 Apr 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Trek Bicycle has partnered with Whistler-based Summer Gravity Camps to bring world-class mountain bike coaching to the next generation of shredders. Founded over a decade ago by longtime Trek athlete and freeride pioneer Andrew Shandro, SGC brings the world’s best freeriders together to coach ...

  • Trek Partners With Anthill Films for Premiere of Strength in Numbers

    8 Apr 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Trek Bicycle is proud to partner with Anthill Films for the world premiere of the game-changing film Strength in Numbers. As part of their continued effort to grow and share the sport of mountain biking around the world, Trek will be supporting the film’s premiere on April 20th, 2012 at the Se ...

  • Trek World Racing’s Willow Rockwell Retires From Professional Racing

    8 Apr 2012 | 7:00 pm
    Longtime Trek cross-country racer and Trek World Racing athlete, Willow Rockwell has announced she’s leaving professional racing. The 34-year old Durango resident has been at the front of women’s XC racing for the past decade. In 2011, Willow took the year off to have her first child, Rave ...

  • Trek redefines race performance with all-new Domane

    29 Mar 2012 | 7:00 pm
    After weeks of speculation, Trek Bicycle unveiled the highly-anticipated 2013 Domane (latin for “King’s Crown”), an all-new road racing bike that specifically addresses the challenges of rough road conditions found throughout the spring classics courses with a collection of key innovations ...
 
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    Big Wheel Building

  • Lava: Thirteen.

    MC
    11 May 2012 | 5:08 pm
    By morning our bedsteads of heaped grass with auxiliary boat lift had sunk to within millimeters of the waterline. Lean a bit too far to pull something out of your pack and you'd be elbow deep in soup. So it was a grim progress we made in packing up and getting going.Once you accept that you're going to be sodden and filthy for the foreseeable future, then the struggle to stay clean/dry can end. The sooner the better--not even a duck's ass could stay dry out here.We crossed the Meshik, even getting a tiny bit of current-assist before grounding out. We chased the receding tide to some avail,…

  • Lava: Ten, eleven, twelve.

    MC
    9 May 2012 | 10:23 pm
    On tap for the morning: 5 water crossings traversing the Seal Islands. The continuance of blue skies and light breezes kept us upbeat as the route edged back into a marine phase.Don't think we're in Kansas anymore...I dare say this was the most subtly memorable day of the trip. The riding was good--largely hardpacked but requiring you to pay attention and choose lines, often dancing right along water's edge to get the most glide per stroke. But it never went on for long before we'd be unpacking, inflating and paddling a brief bit of fun water. Then pack up, ride another interesting bit before…

  • Lava: Nine.

    MC
    8 May 2012 | 3:55 pm
    As weather for riding goes, you could do a lot worse than what we woke to and traveled through all of this day. Cerulean skies, light breezes, packed sand.While making breakfast and packing up I tried to dredge up a quotation from a book I'd read last spring. It had been on my mind since leaving the Bear River, but I wasn't able to remember it in sufficient enough detail to share it with the gang.But here, now, I can open the book and quote it verbatim: Half of our population considers grizzlies to be serial killers and the other half considers them a cross between Yogi Bear and Winnie the…

  • Lava: Intermission.

    MC
    5 May 2012 | 11:32 pm
    Tending to some other things today/tomorrow/Monday, and as such the continuance of the Lava series will be delayed til at least Tues.In the interim, refresh your own memory of the outtakes vid and attendant verbiage that I posted from this trip shortly after returning.That is all!

  • Lava: Eight.

    MC
    3 May 2012 | 11:32 pm
    It's tough to appreciate the simple act of waking up dry until you haven't.We were in great spirits this morning, largely because we had.Pete sniffed out some coffee and drank it while we all struggled to stuff the pile of food we'd bought (at village prices!) into our incredible shrinking packs. We stuffed and ate and stuffed and ate, and when there was no possible way to squeeze more food onto bikes or into bodies there was still a pile of food left in the room.We rolled out into drizzle, and for the few minutes it took us to find our way past the airstrip and down to the beach that was…
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    Cycling Training Tips

  • 47 Ways To Become a Better Race Rider

    Jesper Bondo Medhus
    13 May 2012 | 1:53 pm
    IF YOU think you’ve reached your cycling peak, then you should be applauded for training hard and doing all the right things.But when preparing and taking part in a race, are you really doing everything you should be?We can always find ways to boost our performance. In fact, the smallest improvements can make a huge difference to serious riders.If you have a race coming up, take a look at the following skills/tips. Are you applying them all to your training and racing? If not, now is the time for some serious self-analysis…Before the cycling race1. Nutrition: Getting this right before…

  • How to Boost Carb-Loading Before a Cycling Race

    Jesper Bondo Medhus
    23 Apr 2012 | 8:38 am
    Most cyclists and triathletes have heard about and experienced the consequences of insufficient carb-loading before races.Carbohydrate loading has been used for many years to boost performance in cycling races lasting more than two hours in duration.While there are various methods of carb-loading, the process basically involves consuming large quantities of carbohydrate-rich food in order to fill the muscle glucogen stores.More muscle glycogen protect you from (or delay) exercise-induced hypoglycemia and help you to exercise longer at high intensity.Please remember to practice your…

  • Practical Tips for Rehydration After Exercise

    Jesper Bondo Medhus
    19 Apr 2012 | 3:30 am
    Here are some practical tips helping you to become well hydrated after training and cycling races:The first step towards a better rehydration strategy is to measure your body weight before and after exercise.By monitoring changes in body mass from pre- to post-exercise, you’ll get important information about your current strategy for fluid intake during exercise.It is important to emphasize that weight loss after exercise is mostly due to fluid loss.Unfortunately fat is not burned so quickly. Sorry baby…Rehydration strategies for cyclistsIf your body mass is reduced less than 1kg…

  • The Story Behind the 12-Week Winter Training Program

    Jesper Bondo Medhus
    31 Mar 2012 | 7:53 am
    Now it is more than 4 months since I launched the updated version of my popular 12- week winter training program.The 12-week winter training program has actually been available since 2007 as a free version.Why?Because having thousands of users leaving feedback for me about this training program, I’ve gained more information than it is possible for me to get through individual coaching.Because so many riders tried my different versions of the winter training program (and gave me important feedback), I have been able to develop the ultimate winter training concept.The old version didn’t…

  • How to Optimize Your Pre-Season Cycling Training

    Jesper Bondo Medhus
    12 Mar 2012 | 3:08 pm
    The road cycling race season is just about to begin and in some countries they have already started. Today I will show you some highly effective techniques that will help you to perform better from the very first race.One of the most common arguments against interval training during the winter is the risk of peaking too early.I disagree.If you are not competing at a professional level, your risk of peaking too early is extremely low.Remember that your current fitness leaves significant room for improvement and that’s why it makes sense to train longer, faster and more frequently.You are far…
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    Bike Lane Diary

  • Harbord Street 8:44AM Tuesday

    Tino
    15 May 2012 | 12:52 pm
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  • Helltrack!

    Tino
    14 May 2012 | 4:43 pm

  • At Peace

    Tino
    12 May 2012 | 11:01 pm
    .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } P1060580, originally uploaded by Martinho.

  • Top Ten Cycling Destinations

    Tino
    11 May 2012 | 2:51 pm
    Reuters Article lists Montreal as the No. 1 cycling destination in the world. Makes sense to me. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/11/uk-travel-picks-cycling-idUSLNE84A01Q20120511

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  • Bike commuting changes your routine

    cafiend
    15 May 2012 | 7:01 pm

  • Turdwashing

    cafiend
    12 May 2012 | 5:05 pm
    America took its biggest wrong turn when people were encouraged to start taking pride in their paychecks instead of their work.I've just spent an hour or more of my life trying to get the shifting to work on a display-model Wal-Mart Schwein that was left out in the rain and then scraped off on a sucker for "a great sale price." This is after I had to scrap the adjustable stem because someone at some point graunched down on the stem pivot bolts hard enough to weld them in place and strip out the bolt heads.As I ran the bike through the gears, the water trapped inside the rear rim spritzed me…

  • The Italians don't get earwax

    cafiend
    3 May 2012 | 2:15 pm
    Shimano's very clever indexed-only shifters notoriously suffer from congealed lubricant that makes them quit working. When Rapidfire shifters were shoved down our throats introduced in 1990, Shimano made sure to let everyone know these shifters could not be serviced. We were told to replace any units that ceased to function. Dutifully, we did so. Enterprising mechanics tried to teach themselves how to work on things in there, but usually the patient died. The mechanism was intimidatingly complex and the basic problem was little understood.These days, whenever an older bike comes in we…

  • Accidental Duathlon

    cafiend
    16 Apr 2012 | 3:49 pm
    Wednesday was a great day for rainbows. I stopped to look at a spectacular double rainbow over Lake Wentworth as I rode out the path. Photographs of such things always fall short of the reality, so I did not try to capture it, only paused to admire it before pushing on. I was riding the whole route home, not just the short park-and-ride version.Beyond the rainbow is the rain. The first splatters hit me before I'd reached the end of the causeway with the colorful arch still in view. Within a quarter-mile the light was wet and gray around me.The forecast called for widely scattered showers. It…

  • The Illusion of Safety

    cafiend
    10 Apr 2012 | 10:29 am
    Wolfeboro is like a micro-city. Especially in the summer its downtown area is a churning mass of impatient drivers, determined cyclists and a whole spectrum of pedestrians. Any route along the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee from the downtown area is likely to be crowded with business and pleasure traffic including tractor-trailers, contractors in various size trucks, more landscapers and property care crews than you can believe, boat trailers and cars.Out in the countryside, some people drive in a more relaxed way, happy to be clear of either the bustle of the lake shore towns or the worse…
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  • Three is a magic number

    Richard Masoner
    15 May 2012 | 8:30 pm
    ATOC Stage 3 SPOILER BELOW the rockin’ video. How many Golden Jerseys is too many? Related posts: Three is a magic number for Levi Leipheimer ATOC Stage 4 Winners 2010 Tour of California host cities

  • $2 million for Bay Trail proposed

    Richard Masoner
    15 May 2012 | 7:22 pm
    Santa Clara County considers Bay Trail Gap funding – Key decision next Tuesday! Santa Clara County Supervisor Liz Kniss will hold a press conference tomorrow morning to announce a plan to invest $2 million to complete the Bay Trail Gap in Menlo Park and East Palo Alto and $5 million in the Adobe Creek Bicycle/Pedestrian Bridge over Highway 101 in Palo Alto. These funds will cover more than half the costs needed to construct each project. Supervisor Kniss’ event will be held on May 16 at 11:00 am at the Palo Alto East Bayshore Municipal Service Center at 3201 East Bayshore Road, Palo…

  • Tziporah Salamon rides a bicycle

    Richard Masoner
    15 May 2012 | 6:30 pm
    Stylist Tziporah Salamon is known for her outfits and riding her Bianchi Milano bicycle around New York City. Read more about her and her style at Collector’s Weekly.

  • San Jose Race Start

    Richard Masoner
    15 May 2012 | 4:04 pm
    MONSTER crowds of enthusiasts and the curious gathered on Berryessa Road to watch the Stage 3 start of the Amgen Tour of California in San Jose this morning. My random notes and observations: It was wonderful to see all of the children who came out to watch with their teachers from the nearby elementary school. The little tykes got into it, cheering anybody and everybody they saw on a bike. The city of San Jose provided a bike valet service. In the past this was always provided by volunteers from the Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition. Jens Voigt is absolutely adorable in person. George…

  • Bicycling Magazine hiring

    Richard Masoner
    15 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    Bicycle industry careers listing and other related jobs for May 15 2012. Rodale Publishing seeks a Sales Assistant in New York City for Runners World and Bicycling magazines. Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicycles hiring a marketing manager in Ramona, CA. 2D animator needed for a helmet promotion project. Translators needed for a film project. The U.S. Army needs you for bicycle patrol. “PLEASE UNDERSTAND YOU HAVE TO JOIN THE ARMY,” it says. This looks legit. Reality show seeks bike messengers and other ‘interesting’ small businesses. Attractive sales people (i.e. booth babes)…
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  • Best road helmets

    16 May 2012 | 5:05 am
    We’ve tested a wide range of road cycling helmets to find out if getting the right lid means spending big bucks or whether a more modest sum can buy the right fit, comfort and cooling for you. Here's our pick of the best helmets we've tested this year.Best helmets for road cyclingWinner: LAS Victory Limited£139.99 / US$The LAS Victory Limited has a highly adjustable fit and comes with three different pad sets, a soft bag and a hard case for travelling. Extras are all well and good, but the Victory’s construction quality, high-coverage hard shell, strap material, pads,…

  • Campagnolo 2013 Athena, Centaur and Veloce now with triple cranksets

    16 May 2012 | 3:16 am
    Campagnolo have announced several additions to their 2013 drivetrains (available now) to cater for riders who want a wider range of gears.First are the triple crankset options for Athena, Centaur and Veloce. These are available with 52-39-30 or 50-39-30 tooth chainrings,170, 172.5 and 175mm cranks with the Athena crank compatible with 11 speed sprockets. If you're considering a triple, then make sure your rear derailleur can handle all the gear combinations. Campagnolo will have this information on their website.Campagnolo Record 52-36 double cranksetFor those wanting a wider gear range but…

  • Video: Moots Psychlo X with Trickstuff Doppelmoppel review

    16 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    German performance specialists Trickstuff sent us this fully loaded cyclo-cross bike to showcase their latest products. Starting with a superb Moots Psychlo X titanium frame with disc brake mount, they added a carbon fibre Wound Up Team X Disc fork and then got to work.Crying out for attention are the 58mm-deep Schwarzbrenner carbon rims, which spin on 24-hole Tune King and Kong hubs. Fitted with bulging Tufo Flexus Primus tubular tyres, they're impressively light, and accelerate superbly, their short spokes keeping them taut, even under extreme loads on tight uphill…

  • Gold Rush! Team Exergy’s custom Felt FCs

    15 May 2012 | 6:26 pm
    This year marks the first time Team Exergy has been invited to the Amgen Tour of California. For an American Continental squad, California is The Big Show. As such, reasoned team manager Remi McManus, why not make the biggest visual splash we can?In the weeks leading into the race, McManus peppered his sponsors with one request: gold.California officially adopted ‘the golden state’ as its nickname in the 1960s, but the moniker comes from the discovery of gold in the state in 1848. “Every since I was a little kid I was interested in the flashy stuff, the good-looking…

  • Preview: Gran Fondo’s NYC Bike Expo

    15 May 2012 | 1:15 pm
    This weekend, Gran Fondo New York will be treating the city’s road cyclists to their 2nd annual Expo. Taking place just two weeks after Bike Expo New York, which was geared more towards commuters, GFNY’s Expo aims instead to bring “Italian style bike racing to NYC.” The Expo will be held from 11am-8pm on Friday, May 18th and Saturday, May 19th at the Penn Plaza Pavilion in Midtown Manhattan, and will lead up to the Gran Fondo New York on Sunday, May 20th. More 5,000 riders are expected to partake in this 110-mile event, which leaves from the George Washington Bridge at…
 
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  • 300 Miles of Gravel on TV

    Jeff
    23 Apr 2012 | 7:31 pm
    300 Miles of Gravel, the new documentary about Trans Iowa will air on Fox 6 on April 28th at 3:00 pm or immediately following the Brewers game.  Tell all your friends.BikesaferJeff

  • If Only There Was A Way....

    Jeff
    2 Apr 2012 | 7:34 pm
    It must be something about spring. Maybe drivers aren't used to bikes on the roads after the winter. I'm not sure why but spring is usually a bad time for bad drivers. Two days, two rides, two dangerous drivers.Since alerting the authorities to these incidents likely wouldn't result in any repercussions for the drivers, I was musing on my ride today, if only there was a way to easily, cheaply, and legally get information from these license plates...perhaps if these drivers got a note from the cyclist they buzzed with a copy of the video and pertinent statutes they violated, maybe they would…

  • She Should be Thanking Him

    Jeff
    26 Nov 2011 | 9:09 am
    I have found that taking more of the lane can tend to subject me to fewer close passes. I have also found that more and more drivers are making ridiculously dangerous passes that could still get me, and others, killed. Black Friday was almost truly a dark day for 3 families. A driver named Debra made this pass and when I tracked her down and talked to her she told me when she went around me there was a guy coming toward her but no one was coming at the time she passed.HUH? Let me get this straight, there was no one coming, but there was a guy coming toward her????As you can see for yourself…

  • If You Reason, They Will Listen...

    Jeff
    22 Oct 2011 | 8:55 am
    ...occasionally.I got out for an afternoon ride on Friday, during which I got buzzed by a Lincoln Navigator which immediately turned into a subdivision. Naturally I followed. A conversation ensued. Differing opinions were offered, but the driver seemed genuinely interested in the laws I was telling him about. I think it's because he believed he could prove me wrong. The conversation was passionate but not heated and eventually we both started to talk more calmly and even shook hands. The driver agreed to try to allow more room for bikes. I'll follow up with a copy of the video and the…

  • Cop Crossing

    Jeff
    10 Sep 2011 | 12:10 pm
    The good news is that after this driver crossed in front of me he apologized. The bad news is that he did it in the first place. It turns out he was an (I assume) off duty but in uniform city of Brookfield reserve police officer.This is the same department that has threatened to cite me for disorderly conduct for shouting at a driver who ran me off the road, and told me that I have no right to ride on any street in Brookfield if I'm not going the speed limit.I wonder how the Brookfield Police Department would have responded to this incident, since, when it occurred I was in fact riding at the…
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  • Truss fork headsets

    Jeff
    15 May 2012 | 2:07 am
    My Truss fork does not use a normal ‘press on’ crown race but the alterations required are not complicated. Here I explain what will work and how to set things up. Headsets that are compatible with the Truss fork are (left to right) 1. Cane Creek 10 2. Cane Creek 20 3. Cane Creek 30 4. Cane Creek ‘Jones Assembly’ 100 (silver) 5. Chris King Headset. All shown with spacers (on top bearing assembly – see notes). Above, the options and parts for headsets to be used with the Truss fork. The 10, 40 and 110 Cane Creek headsets just need the compression ring (A) under the crown race and a…

  • Frame bags

    Jeff
    1 May 2012 | 5:38 pm
    Scott has been working on the new Spaceframe and Diamond frame bags. They should be ready in about a week.

  • Kim’s bike

    Jeff
    30 Apr 2012 | 4:56 am
      This is Kim’s single speed bike. It’s been built with an XT rear hub so that she can add gears later…  

  • New reviews…

    Jeff
    5 Apr 2012 | 6:51 am
    Dirt Rag sent me through a copy of the review they recently ran (in issue #160) of my bike. And in the UK Shred have a few things to say about a Jones too. Both well worth a read, and thanks to both publications for letting me reproduce the tests here (the files are quite large, and too big for most screens so be patient, and do scroll).

  • New home page photo and bags being tested…

    Jeff
    29 Mar 2012 | 2:23 am
    This photo (featured on the home page of my web site) of Scott Felter out on his new bike was taken by Vik Banerjee of The Lazy Randonneur blog . Scott makes very nice custom bike bags under the name Porcelain Rocket in Victoria, British Colombia. I have new Spaceframe and Truss fork bags from Scott and I’m testing them out now. They will fit the titanium or steel Spaceframe and Truss fork. We’ll have these bags in stock and more info later in the year.  
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  • Coyote Gulch

    Dave
    4 May 2012 | 7:13 pm
    Cooling off We like it out here Pool with a view Follow the cairn runner Steep? A little.

  • Springbreak Arizona Trail bikepack trip

    Lynda
    18 Mar 2012 | 5:00 pm
    I love this AZT sign! After Scott posted this pic I had to go there to see and smell for myself...our spring break bikepack destination was sealed. The new Antelope Peak section trail that bypasses the gas line and Gila River Canyons sections needed my tracks. Click on the links for photos because Scott's pics are far, far better than any of mine. We parked at Picket Post, rode 65 miles on the road to the trailhead at Tiger Mine Road, then 100 miles of sweet AZT back to the car. We took 4 days - very casual pace :-) I was lucky to have my fave ride partner DH come along too. The flowers were…

  • Camp Lynda V5.0 Debrief

    Lynda
    7 Feb 2012 | 12:20 pm
    Camp this year was the best ever yet . I know, I know, I say that every year, but it was!! It was AWESOME. I used that word a lot this weekend then this morning (Tuesday) I randomly came across a TED talk on awesome and it got me thinking more about that word and the volume of awesome experiences in my life. Camp is deffo one of them. How much awesome is in this pic? I could write an entire blog on the awesome in this pic. Camp for me was very different this year. I have been dealing with a knee issue and do not have the ability to hammer right now (I'll be back ;-) All previous camps for…

  • Grit testing

    Dave
    4 Feb 2012 | 6:39 am
    With any luck there will be some dots on this map today. A harbinger of things to come in the race scene!

  • Church Rocks – Prospector – Leeds Reef – Silver Reef – Icehouse – Dino Cliffs

    Lynda
    16 Jan 2012 | 11:41 am
    Awesome 40 mile trail hook up yesterday with DH, Kenny and Heather. To download the gpx of this file plug this http://app.strava.com/rides/3379510 into this handy tool http://cosmocatalano.com/strava-gpx-export/ and click export Here is the route visual: Church Rocks Prospector Trail Leeds Reef Trail looking at Red Cliffs This is not a recommended way to see a mine shaft This is a recommended way to see the view at the top. It was nice out! All smiles on the road section to the top of Icehouse single-track All whoops and yippees on the Icehouse descent Then on to Dino Cliffs Trail A few…
 
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    Twenty Nine Inches

  • Breezer Lightning Pro 29: Final Review

    Guitar Ted
    15 May 2012 | 9:22 pm
    Breezer Lightning Pro 29: Final Review- by Guitar Ted The steel framed Breezer Lightning Pro is ready for a final verdict. But before we delve into that, here is the Mid-Term report, and the First Impressions can be found here. Now let’s take a final look at this classy blue and white hard tail. Riding a Breezer is a mind-bender from the standpoint of history. Here you are on the marque that graced the first purpose built mountain bike, but all wrapped up in a modern package with 29 inch wheels. You are reminded of this every time you look at that sapphire blue and white darted paint…

  • Alpinestars Does Cycling Clothing?

    Grannygear
    14 May 2012 | 9:06 pm
    Alpinestars Does Cycling Clothing?-by Grannygear Or at least mountain bike clothing?  How about that!  I thought they were moto guys!  Well of course I knew of them from ‘back in the day’ when there were even Alpinestars bikes, but that had long passed into memory.  So when Nic Sims, ex-Specialized marketing wizard, now with Alpinestars, called and asked about us reviewing some clothing, I was not sure what to expect.  I have had branded clothing from other companies before…some were from clothing specific companies, some not…that seemed like a marketing person…

  • Salsa Spearfish 1: Project Go ‘Fish Goes Long

    Grannygear
    13 May 2012 | 7:32 pm
    Salsa Spearfish 1: Project Go ‘Fish Goes Long- by Grannygear “Spearfish is our ultra-endurance racing and riding machine, perfect for 100-milers, 24-hour races, and all-day singletrack sessions.” Salsa Cycles website. Well Ok then.  I have no experience with 24 hour races…maybe some day…and all day singletrack sessions are fine and all, but that 100 miler part caught my eye.  100 miles off road was a laudable goal for me and there was the Salsa Spearfish 1 and there was this 103 mile ride in Utah and the next thing I knew we were on the road to WRIAD.  But…

  • Chris King Introduces 83mm and 100mm Bottom Brackets

    Guitar Ted
    11 May 2012 | 9:25 pm
    Here at Twenty Nine Inches, we’re big fans of fat bikes, (see here), and in the fat bike world, there are not too many choices for specific components tailored to the necessities of fat bike design. One being bottom brackets. Well, Chris King has stepped up to put another choice out there. Here is the Press Release: Image courtesy of Chris King Introducing 83mm and 100mm Chris King Bottom Brackets It’s no secret that downhill and fat bikes experience a tremendous amount of abuse putting significant wear and tear on their components. With the introduction of the new Chris King downhill…

  • Riva Bike Festival 2012: Felt Edict Nine

    Guitar Ted
    10 May 2012 | 8:22 pm
    Garda BIKE Festival’12 – part 5: FELT Edict Nine-by c_g Life as a bike tester is usually great – you get to ride cool bikes and parts, meet new people and do what is fun anyway … biking. But sometimes, when for days all circles around bike issues, it also happens that I just get enough if it. And so it was near the end of the BIKE festival and I still needed to take the new FELT Edict Nine for a ride (tough life, I know ). The 2013er FELT Edict Nine was already revealed at Sea Otter, but since Grannygear had not had the opportunity to cover it, it was up to me.
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  • Fight Cancer, Win a “Dream” Trip . . . And Something Else I Will Reveal Tomorrow

    fatty
    15 May 2012 | 12:31 pm
    A Note from Fatty: If you’ve already read (or are not currently in the mood to read) all the hoopla around this contest and are now in the mood to just get on with the entering of said contest already, click here to donate (in multiples of $5, please) to my LiveStrong Challenge page. Thanks! I am a deliberate and thoughtful person. For example, it is no accident that I live where I live — I picked this place because it is an unbelievably wonderful spot to go bike riding — whether you like road or mountain biking. Furthermore — and your mind may reel at this — it…

  • Decisions, Decisions

    fatty
    14 May 2012 | 12:08 pm
    Update from the Winner: I just heard from ClydeInKS, and here’s what he had to say: Elden – I am letting you know the results of my decision and will be much less dramatic that televised nonsense of a particular basketball player. I must proclaim THANK YOU for creating the motivation and inspiring myself (and my wife Mighty Athena) for losing some excess, it was badly needed! A second THANK YOU goes for not getting the waffles out after the week 1 announcement – I would have surely been thrown off course shortly after their arrival. And finally a third, and largest THANK YOU for…

  • Free Verse Friday: Impending Panic

    fatty
    11 May 2012 | 1:34 pm
    A “Hey, Come Eat and then Race With Me” Note from Fatty: Perhaps the funnest race I have ever done was the Rockwell Relay: Moab to St. George. Seriously, it was a blast. Just go read my race report and you’ll see why I loved it so much. Well, Team Fatty (Kenny, Heather, The Hammer and I) will be racing it again this year (June 8 – 9), defending our Coed team title. And you should come join us, for the following reasons: You will have an awesome time. I am not even remotely kidding when I say that this is a fantastic race. The scenery is incredible. You’ll be…

  • She Said, He Said

    fatty
    9 May 2012 | 11:26 am
    A Note from Fatty: Last Saturday, The Hammer raced the Provo City Marathon; I rode my bike along the same route, leapfrogging her and cheering her along the way. Obviously, this resulted in two very different experiences. Let’s start with The Hammer’s. The Hammer’s Story: The Best Cheering Section…And The Marathon Wasn’t Half Bad, Either The day started bright and early, well, maybe not bright-it was 3:45 when the alarm went off. I rolled out of bed after a pretty good Ambien induced slumber. I was starting to get the obligatory pre race jitters and new I would be…

  • Fit-Fat

    fatty
    7 May 2012 | 11:33 am
    Today’s story shall be told mostly in pictures. Here are Kenny and I last year, after racing the Tour de Donut. Apart from the magnificently appropriate backdrop of the line of portapotties, my favorite thing about this photo is . . . me. I look fantastic. Yes, in spite of the fact that I had just eaten ten donuts, I look great. Leadville was just a month away and — while I didn’t know it for sure — I was light (about 156 pounds, if I remember correctly) and fit enough that a sub-9 was looking entirely possible. And a few weeks later, I’d cross the Leadville…
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    Bike Noob

  • When Are Your Favorite Shorts — Not?

    rainycamp
    15 May 2012 | 9:52 pm
    Whenever I go on an organized ride, or a club ride, or a ride where I’ll be doing more mileage than normal, I have a pair of bib shorts that I always pull out of the dresser drawer. They’re by Pearl Izumi, and I’ve had them for almost four years. The reason they’re my go-to short is comfort. The chamois pad just seems to fit my bottom well. I’ve been more comfortable in these shorts than in any of my other pairs. But that’s changed. In last weekend’s Armadillo ride, I noticed some discomfort down there after about 25 miles. That hadn’t ever…

  • Armadillo – Turkeys and Chickens and Skunks, Oh My!

    rainycamp
    13 May 2012 | 9:01 pm
    The Armadillo Hill Country Classic is the Austin Cycling Association’s main fundraiser every year. It’s a nice supported ride starting from Liberty Hill, northwest of Austin, and I like to ride it if my schedule lets me. I’ve done the 50-mile version the past two times I’ve ridden it, and was looking forward to do the 60-miler this time around. The day was darn near perfect. The 105-mile ride had to be shortened to 90, because two cattle guards on the long route were under water from recent rains, and those roads were impassable. The long riders set off at 7:30, a half…

  • Misplaced Loyalty To The Local Bike Shop?

    rainycamp
    10 May 2012 | 6:49 pm
    Guest poster Jeff Hemmel liked his local bike shop — until he realized he didn’t.  We hear a lot about doing business with the LBS, or local bike shop. For the most part, I agree. These are businesses in our community, supporting our sport. Sure, I’ll get something online if it’s truly a fantastic deal. But for the most part, I try to keep things close to home. Lately, however, I’ve been having second thoughts about which of those community shops deserves my support. This isn’t about calling anyone out. Suffice it to say one bike shop is where I have bought two bikes,…

  • Ride Prep – Just As Important When Going Short

    rainycamp
    8 May 2012 | 11:10 pm
    My friend Aaron West over at the Steep Climbs blog complains that he was ill-prepared for a major training ride the other day. He didn’t hydrate properly, didn’t eat right the night before the ride, and didn’t eat the morning of the ride. So he only managed to cover 100 miles with 9,300 feet of climbing in 6 hours, 39 minutes. Well, Aaron is in a different league than I am. But I had much the same experience as he did that day. And what happened to me is a reminder that we all must attend to the necessities of prepping ourselves for our rides, no matter how tough or modest…

  • Functional Power Threshold – Part 2

    rainycamp
    6 May 2012 | 7:00 pm
    In part 2 of his account of his FTP test, guest poster Don Blount explains how it works.  Completing the functional threshold power (FTP) test opened a new world of cycling to me. I used to think of cycling as an endurance activity akin to running a marathon. I had worked at building my endurance through time in the saddle and not through specific effort. I learned that cycling is a power activity more like running a series of short to long repeat sprints with easy to hard recovery efforts in between. Instead of focusing on endurance I needed to focus on building power and while building…
 
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    Urban Velo

  • GIRO REVERB SESSION 1: ARTIST CHRIS MCNALLY RIDES SAN FRANCISCO

    Urban Jeff
    15 May 2012 | 10:35 pm
    Here’s a short video that tells the story behind the Giro ad in Urban Velo #31. It’s a profile of artist Chris McNally, who has done work for Puma, Levi’s, Ibis Cycles and more.

  • Knog Blinder USB Rechargeable Blinkie Review

    brad
    15 May 2012 | 8:53 am
    Knog was one of the first on the scene with soft-bodied blinkie lights, and have been pushing USB rechargeable lights since the technology first came out. Their latest product is the $45 Knog Blinder, a USB rechargeable LED light featuring an anodized aluminum body, single button switch and quick release mount. The pictured Blinder 4 has four LEDs housed in an aluminum and polycarbonate body, with a silicone strap compatible with 22-35 mm bars or seatposts. Hidden under the strap is a fold out USB plug for recharging. In use the Blinder is quite bright—Knog claims 80 Lumens of front white…

  • Bicycle-powered Television at Bed and Breakfast

    Scott Spitz
    15 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Running on a treadmill at the Y last week, while watching others spinning like mad on the stationary bikes, I couldn’t help but wonder why they haven’t hooked these machines up to generators and started recycling the energy. It seems like a no-brainer to me. So, imagine my surprise when I found this article the very same day. An eco-friendly bed and breakfast in the UK has hooked up a stationary bike in one of their rooms to the television, so if you want to watch your favorite shows (let’s assume it’s just raining outside) you have to start pedaling. This may be a…

  • Kenda Kwick Tendril Tire Review

    brad
    14 May 2012 | 9:38 am
    For the past couple of months I’ve been running Kenda Kwick Tendril tires on my polo bike, giving them a pretty abusive run through in the process. I was on the hunt for a larger volume tire with minimal tread and good flat protection that was also available for a 26″ wheel and wasn’t going to break the bank—the $35 Kwick Tendril met the bill. It is not the cheapest tire you can purchase, but one shouldn’t expect a folding bead and effective flat protection for much less. I tend to go through rear tires on my polo bike pretty regularly and these from Kenda were no…

  • How a Bicycle is Made

    Scott Spitz
    14 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    Let’s kick off the week of Bike To Work Day with this simply awesome video that is what the title says, “How a Bicycle is Made”. Part of me thinks I’m about to watch a Tom & Jerry cartoon and another part is waiting for the MST3K silhouettes to pop up and start delivering witty snark. But really, it’s just an incredibly fascinating and detailed video from 1945 that shows questionably young workers putting bikes together with “bracket pieces” and makes me wish for ye days of olde when the bike industry necessitated seemingly endless rows of…
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  • Most Scenic Byway (Photos)

    Grizzly Adam
    15 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Yesterday I said that the Alpine Loop is “the most scenic road in North America.” I may have been exaggerating, but I’m not so sure. You be the judge: Related posts: Recovery (Photos) Autumn. Fall. (Photos) Slideshow (Photos) Random Photos Black and White (Photos)

  • Sundance, Spinning

    Grizzly Adam
    14 May 2012 | 12:49 pm
    The North Fork of Provo Canyon is wonderful. In 1944 Ray and Eva Stewart opened a small ski resort in the shadow of Big Provo Cirque, and Timpanogos. 25 years later, the resort, and many of the adjacent acres, were bought by Robert Redford. He called the place Sundance. I first remember visiting Sundance when I was 10 years old. I learned to ski in a Sundance-hosted after-school ski program. A few years later, I started riding my mountain bike during the summer on the fledgling trail network. Since then, I have spent as much time on the Sundance slopes during the summer, as I ever had during…

  • Wanted: More Cyclists

    Grizzly Adam
    10 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    It’s impossible to pinpoint exactly when I started calling myself “a cyclist”. Maybe it happened when I started using clipless pedals. Or the first time I rode with a heart rate monitor. Or when I started shaving my legs more often than my wife. I once read (in Bicycling, if I remember correctly) that riding a century for the first time is a sort of signal flare, a way of telling your friends and family that all this bike riding is “more than a hobby, but a lifestyle.” I rode my first century at about the same time I started using clipless pedals, the heart…

  • Slay the Dragon

    Grizzly Adam
    9 May 2012 | 10:25 am
    Here be dragons. Mythology is rampant with dragons. Dragons occupy our collective stories, from ancient Greece, to China, India, and Europe, and even to current American and English pop-culture. The dragon is a universal symbol of evil, chaos, or struggle. Throughout mythology a dragon is always slain by a hero, often an unsuspecting, humble, reluctant everyman; a man who draws his power to defeat the beast, not from nobility or royalty, and not from magic or brute strength, but from righteous honor and the worthiness of his cause and character. The motif is common and inspiring, even…

  • Tubeless vs. Tubular

    Grizzly Adam
    8 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    For any cyclocross racer, the question of tires is an ongoing, perpetual question. An eternal round. Different courses call for different tread patterns and tire pressures. Various weather causes various tire conundrums. As such, ‘cross racers are maniacal in their collection of wheels and tires. Spare wheels for the pits, spare wheels for sudden weather, spare wheels for the pre-ride, spare wheels for the spare wheels. To say nothing of the brand of wheels and tires being used. Underlying the debate about tread and pressure mysteries, is the ultimate cyclocross discourse:…
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  • Keeping Your Skratch Fresh

    Byron
    15 May 2012 | 3:49 pm
    Best way to keep your 1-lb bag of Secret Drink Mix fresh? With a Clip-n-Seal. That white plastic thing hanging off the side of a 1 lb bag of Skratch is a Clip-n-Seal. One of our readers and Clip-n-Seal fans sent us this photo of Skratch Labs Everyday Hydration Mix in his pantry. Clip-n-Seal is a bag clip that the parent company of Bike Hugger, Textura Design, invented and brought to market a decade ago. It’s quite the little bag clip that’s flown in space, been frozen in Antartica, and used in the production of carbon wheels like ENVE. Really. Try it yourself on your Skratch,…

  • Proper MCA Tribute

    Byron
    15 May 2012 | 11:56 am
    Unmoored by MCA’s death, didn’t know yet what to write or say…This blog and what we do here and elsewhere were defined, in part, by the Beastie Boys. Just like a generation was. When the news broke, saw images like this on Facebook Photo by April Dawne in Austin and all I could muster at the time was a status message on G+ Feel like smashing a TV in a smoke-filled room, while cracking open cheap beers, and walking around with a fish eye lens camera. Effects set to polarize. Then we went on vacation. Back now and to this The best tribute. Sabotage with the wife, kids, and…

  • Car Companies Selling Bikes

    Byron
    14 May 2012 | 2:42 pm
    A few weeks ago, the millennial’s buying habits we’re written about and how the automotive industry was in a panic. Car makers don’t know how to market to a generation that doesn’t care too much about cars. I confirmed this trend with my teens that don’t equate their social standing with the name brand of car they drive or will drive. I’ve also posted about many car-branded bikes, like BMW, Porsche, Mini, and more. That’s not new, of course, Volvo and Volkswagen were in the sport and now VW is back sponsoring USA Cycling. An Audi e-bike Even though…

  • How a Raleigh Bicycle Was Made in 1945

    Byron
    14 May 2012 | 9:24 am
    This video is from the British Film Council and shows the Raleigh Bicycle factory in 1945. Of course, they don’t make bikes like that anymore and few in the UK. While in the UK a few years ago, we toured the Moulton factory, where they still make bikes and 14 Bike Co. Mad Men Marketing bikes

  • Once and Liberty Seguros team bikes on eBay: Manolo Saiz’s clearance sale?

    Mark V
    13 May 2012 | 5:05 pm
    images from Barreda Museum’s shutterfly Byron sent me this link, which seems as if Manolo Saiz, the former team manager of ONCE, Liberty Seguros, and Astana professional cycling teams, is selling off his personal collection of bikes. I don’t know if it’s legit or not, but I don’t really care since I don’t have $50K to advance the bid nor do I have room for 57 bicycles in my studio loft. But the array of bicycles listed is just amazing, almost 2 decades of cycling exotica. Sure, Saiz might be a pariah now, since the Operacion Puerto, but the advances he brought in…
 
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  • Isles of Idyll — An Excerpt from “Crossings”

    Free
    14 May 2012 | 4:50 pm
    by Michael Kew From “Coral Refuge, Ocean Deep,” Chapter 8This atoll is on the way to nowhere except the crossroads of romance and adventure. Après-surf and brunch, Yvon and I board the skiff and buzz into close range; Francois kills the motor. Adrift within the lagoon’s turquoise comfort, far from the roily pass and its fish traps, a broad, sandy flat is declared quintessential bonefish domain. Nearby, a few decayed fishing shacks face dense coconut palms—Polynesia’s most important tree—hinting a wistful regard to overfishing and a once-seemingly endless bounty.“Well, there’s…

  • Well-Worn Wading Boots on Christmas Island

    Free
    11 May 2012 | 5:36 pm
    by Tom Morehouse I have an interesting Patagonia photo to share with you. I was on Christmas Island (Kiribati) in March. My guide was Moana who was one of the founders of bonefishing on Christmas Island in the '80s when he was about 30 years of age.[Nothing beats local knowledge. Moana Kofe scouts for bonefish on Kiribati. Photo: Tom Morehouse]While fishing, I noticed that he had an old pair of Patagonia wading shoes on which were very well-worn. But here is the interesting part. He fishes every day for 12 hours in the salt water. These shoes have not only held up but, as the picture shows,…

  • Ryan Montbleau Raises His Voice for Louisiana Wetlands

    Free
    9 May 2012 | 5:30 pm
    by Ryan Montbleau As a New England boy through and through, I have to ask myself: what if over the last 80 years, Rhode Island had washed away into the sea and was now completely gone? That is essentially what has happened to Louisiana's coastal wetlands since the 1930s. Over 1,880 square miles of land have been lost during that time (an area significantly larger than Rhode Island), thanks in large part to the policies of human beings. [Above: Musician and voice of the wetlands, Ryan Montbleau. Photo: Ryan Laurey] [Wetlands near Dulac, Louisiana. Photo: Jim Little]The loss of Louisiana's…

  • Dirtbag Diaries: Live From 5Point Vol. 3

    Free
    8 May 2012 | 6:49 pm
    by Fitz & Becca Cahall 5Point Film Festival invited us back for another live Dirtbag Diaries. And of course, we said, "Yes!" We invited four people up on stage to to talk about a moment in their lives when it all seemed to go wrong. And where those moments have led them, as the effects have rippled through their lives. Today we present the first two stories. At 23, free skier Josh Dueck overshot the landing of a jump and fell 100 feet out of the air. He returned to skiing the following winter in a sit ski. And he rips! You owe it to yourself to watch The Freedom Chair and Josh hucking a…

  • What Inspired You?

    Old School
    7 May 2012 | 7:49 pm
    We recently received this email from Ross Curwen, a reader from, as he says, "rainy old England." Just a letter saying thanks to The Cleanest Line community from rainy old England. About a year ago I injured my shoulder. This meant I had to cut right back on two things pretty huge to me: surfing and climbing. I was a bit mopey for a bit.I needed to have something to maintain my fitness. Gyms, road running, cycling are all good but they're missing something. That's when I found trail running, through the Patagonia site. I don't have the huge expanse of mountains and national parks but I am…
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  • New Closure on the Tomahawk Creek Trail

    Warren T
    30 Apr 2012 | 10:29 am
    During this morning's ride I chanced upon these newly planted signs declaring a closure on the Tomahawk Creek Trail. These signs are actually still on the Indian Creek Trail side of the 111th street underpass. I talked to one of the crew that were setting up some of the orange plastic fencing around Tomahawk Parkway North Pond and they said that the trail would probably be closed tomorrow unless they are  delayed by rain. He said they're going to be re-routing part of the path away from the creek. Here's why...Recent rains have further eroded the bank of the creek to within a foot of the…

  • Indian Creek Trail Closure at Switzer Extended to October 2012

    Warren T
    30 Mar 2012 | 10:37 am
    I called the Parks Department yesterday to inquire as to when the trail would be re-opened since the original plan for March was about to expire and it looks like there is quite a bit of work left to do. I was told that the new date for completion is now, tentatively, set for some time in October.I took a ride this morning to take some more pictures and, sure enough, they've updated the sign to say "Fall 2012." I don't know about you, but I'm not planning on this being open until December or January. That works out fine for me; I'm riding on roads to get some training in before Biking…

  • Divergent Attitudes

    Warren T
    26 Feb 2012 | 2:30 pm
    Seen during today's ride:From General Bike PixAndFrom General Bike PixThink about it...

  • Post-Apocalyptic Cycling

    Warren T
    10 Jan 2012 | 7:29 pm
    My children might tell you that I tend to pontificate during episodes of The Walking Dead about the way the survivors could simplify their journey by ditching the cars and trucks and setting out on bicycles instead. And then, during commercials, I go into my reasons. They go get a snack.It's not just The Walking Dead, look at any story from this genre, from Will Smith's I Am Legend,  any zombie movie, and all the way back to the grandfather of all these stories, the excellent 1949 post-apocalyptic science fiction novel - Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. (Seriously, if you haven't read…

  • Indian Creek Trail Mile Marker 3 has Moved

    Warren T
    6 Jan 2012 | 10:05 am
    In September I mentioned that the new mile marker at mile 3 was either a stroke of traffic calming genious or poor planning. Looks like it was the second option since enough of us must have complained that the marker has now been moved.From General Bike PixThe marker has been re-positioned so it is no longer in the path of riders coming off the bridge a little too quickly.From General Bike PixAs an added bonus, it is now also visible as you pass under Nall.From General Bike PixOne look at the tire tracks on the ground where they first placed the marker shows that cooler heads have…
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  • An electric trials bike from Audi?

    James Thomas
    14 May 2012 | 5:13 pm
    On Friday, I first saw the images of the Audi designed e-bike that is now spreading around the web like wildfire. I admit that I didn’t pay much attention to the text accompanying the articles at first, so I was initially confused by the geometry and the oddly shaped “vestigial” saddle that it appears would be comfortable to absolutely no one. Now that I actually have taken the time to read about the bike though, the design makes much more sense. It turns out that the electric bike concept from Audi was designed for trials riding, a discipline where a comfortable seat really is quite…

  • Bicycle Design Competition follow-up

    James Thomas
    9 May 2012 | 12:03 pm
    OK, we are nearly halfway into 2012, and I still haven’t started working on the new design competition that I mentioned late last year. I still need to decide on the details and find a company to provide a prize for the winner, but it is going to happen (once I can find a little free time). There are some great topic ideas that have been suggested by readers, and you still have time to leave additional comments with ideas for the contest.  As some have suggested, I am going to let you all decide the winner of this next competition. I will still assemble a jury to narrow down the entries to…

  • Design of the Alize and other assorted links

    James Thomas
    4 May 2012 | 1:27 pm
    When I first heard about NeilPryde bikes a couple years ago, the renderings of the sculpted carbon Alize frame immediately caught my attention. Perhaps the design of the Alize is old news at this point, but I just discovered Sonny Lim’s portfolio page on the Behance network, which gives us a glimpse into the design of the aero frameset from NeilPryde. While you are on the Behance site, take a minute to check out a few of the other bike projects that are featured there. I was a huge Cinelli fan in the 80’s (back when I dreamed of owning a Laser), so I am pretty excited about a new book…

  • Porsche concept bike by David Schultz

    James Thomas
    1 May 2012 | 11:55 am
    Not too long ago, I posted a picture from a 20 year old copy of Bicycling Magazine, which featured two industrial designers at Specialized in the early 90s (two of the first in the bike industry). One of those young designers was current Specialized creative director Robert Egger, who I have mentioned on this blog a few times. The other designer, whose sculpted carbon mountain bike concept was featured on the cover of that “1992’s Hottest Bikes” issue, was David Schultz, who today owns a design consulting firm and works on a variety of products in the computer, medical and sporting…

  • Dura Ace 11 speed

    James Thomas
    25 Apr 2012 | 10:52 am
    I don’t have much time for a post today, but this is worth a quick mention. A Japanese website has a few spy shots of what appears to be the new Dura-Ace 11 speed 9000 grouppo. I first spotted these photos by way of Bike Hugger, but you can also find discussion of this at Bike Rumor, Slowtwitch, and many other places on the web. The design of the unevenly spaced 4 bolt crankset is definitely different, and I suspect people will either love it or hate it. Personally I like the look of it, though it is another nonstandard chainring bolt pattern. Hopefully this new crank will use a common bolt…
 
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  • This Week: Win a Basket from Adeline Adeline

    Clarence Eckerson, Jr.
    9 May 2012 | 2:18 pm
    We have three weeks left in our spring pledge drive. Thanks to all our readers who’ve contributed so far — your support has become indispensable to the reporting, commentary, and videos we produce at Streetsblog and Streetfilms. If you visit our sites regularly and haven’t given yet, please consider making a donation. This week we’re giving away a House of Talents bike basket courtesy of the very nice bicycle purveyors at Adeline Adeline. Have a look: Congrats to our supporters who won last week’s Planet Bike giveaway: Mark Guralnick and Mike Dowd of Brooklyn, and Michelle…

  • Streetfilms Promo 2012

    Clarence Eckerson, Jr.
    7 May 2012 | 7:09 pm
    We've done over 450 Streetfilms in nearly 6 years!  We've been a lot of places. We've explored a lot of ideas. We've interviewed the top world experts in the transportation & livable streets realm. We figured it was time to celebrate, so enjoy our sassy 2012 promo celebrating all that and more with this montage-arama featuring dozens of our Streetfilms of the past years.  We'll be using this promo to kick off all future movie screenings, community events and powerpoint presentations.  Enjoy.

  • Cornell Awards Us The Golden Sasquatch!

    Clarence Eckerson, Jr.
    30 Apr 2012 | 7:50 pm
    How cool is it that we were awarded the Golden Sasquatch Award at our Ithaca presentation a few weeks ago?  Actually, heck, let's be honest - it's the coolest award we'll probably ever get.  Forget a head of state giving us a key to the city. Or a proclamation for a National Streetfilms Day. Or a million dollar grant from the Clinton Global Initiative to fund our work. Okay, maybe we'd take that million dollars, but still, how cool is this award from the great people of Ithaca?  It has been enshrined in a proper place in the office.  And since it is only a "Partial Lifetime Achievement",…

  • San Francisco: Reclaiming Streets With Innovative Solutions

    Clarence Eckerson, Jr.
    24 Apr 2012 | 4:46 pm
    Tom Radulovich, the executive director of the local non-profit Livable City, describes the recent livable streets achievements in San Francisco as "tactical urbanism" -- using low-cost materials like paint and bollards to reclaim street space. That willingness to experiment was a big reason that the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP) gave its 2012 Sustainable Transport Award to San Francisco (an honor shared with Medellín, Colombia). In this Streetfilm we profile the innovations that earned SF recognition from ITDP. Perhaps the city's most exciting new development…

  • “The Case for a Car-Free Central Park” (A 2004 Flashback)

    Clarence Eckerson, Jr.
    23 Apr 2012 | 9:10 pm
    Though it's sad we still allow cars to drive through NYC's Central & Prospect Parks, there've been numerous victories over the years as advocates have nibbled away hours cars have been allowed in our parks. Flashback to 2004:  there had been little to get excited about in nearly ten years on the car-free Central Park movement. Looking for a way to gain momentum and take advantage of a 100,000 signature campaign in progress, Transportation Alternatives (T.A.) hired me to produce a mini film called, "The Case for a Car-Free Central Park", which featured interviews with many prominent New…
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    Bikes For The Rest Of Us

  • Bike To Work Day

    Freewheel
    14 May 2012 | 8:28 am
    This Friday is Bike to Work Day, and after 16 years of bike commuting, I thought I would share a few thoughts on the subject: #1   I love it. That's most important thing. Every workday, no matter what else is going on, I always have two bike rides to look forward to.  If you try it, you may love it, too.  That's the whole point of Bike to Work Day. #2  Once you start biking to work, you may find that you no longer need a car.  Or you can go car lite, as my family has (1 car for a family of 4).  The savings are phenomenal. #3  Weather is not a problem.

  • Fuji Porteur

    Freewheel
    9 May 2012 | 8:51 am
    2012 Fuji Porteur in dark gold. Courtesy: Fuji. Fuji is offering its new Porteur bike at an MSRP of $559.  The price is right, and so is the bike, with its  fenders, chainguard, high stem with riser bars, and comfy upright ride.  But what about that front rack? Porteurs were French newspaper deliverers, and the newspapers were stacked up high on a front rack right in front of their handlebars.  A bike needs a certain design to accomplish this - primarily a front fork that is strong enough (Fuji is using hi-tensile steel) to…

  • Surly Pacer

    Freewheel
    2 May 2012 | 8:32 am
    The 2012 Surly Pacer is "sparkleboogie blue."  Sharp. Courtesy: Surly. The Surly Pacer, available as a complete bike for MSRP $1175, or as a frameset for MSRP $465. The Pacer has always stood out as an all-purpose steel road bike, especially in this era of carbon fiber racing machines, but three things about the 2012 Pacer caught my attention. First, it's available as a complete bike now, not just as a frameset. That makes it more accessible to wider range of bike buyers. Second, the 2012 model takes wider tires than previous Pacers. It will take a 32 mm tire, or 28 mm with fenders.

  • Soma Tradesman

    Freewheel
    30 Apr 2012 | 11:24 am
    What you see is what you get.  Courtesy: Soma Fabrications. Soma is offering this new-for-2012 Tradesman cargo frameset for $700. According to Soma, the Tange chromoly frame can load 40-50 pounds of cargo. It's one-size-fits-all.  Here's a few more details: > 22" inches wide and 68" long > Designed for 26" rear and 20" front wheels. > Designed for front and rear disc brakes > Extra long 40mm oversize head tube for maximum cargo capacity > Modular high-tensile steel rack. > Wheelbase of 1116mm What it looks like built up. Courtesy: Somafab Blog  There have been…

  • Raleigh Roper and Furley

    Freewheel
    11 Apr 2012 | 7:30 am
    The 2012 Raleigh Roper.  Credit: Raleigh USA The Raleigh Roper sells for $1,500 at Revolution Cycles. Some people look at Raleigh's new-for-2012 offerings - the Roper and the Furley (what's up with the Three's Company references?) - and conclude that Raleigh is getting serious about cyclocross.  I look at them and see bikes for the rest of us. They're steel, take wide tires, have fender and rack mounts, and disc brakes. The components are high quality - the Roper has FSA cranks and Shimano 105 derailers.  I love what Urban Velo had to say about the Roper: "The Roper is a bike…
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  • Tested: Voler Campione White Bib Shorts

    Levi
    9 May 2012 | 11:03 am
    Based on my good luck with Voler bib shorts (I loved the Voler Elite bibs,) I picked up a pair of the Voler Campione bib shorts. The Campione line had just launched (January 2009,) so VeloWear did a 30% off sale to support it! So I got a sweet pair of white bib shorts for $55.97! Normally I wouldn’t buy white shorts, but hey, the price was right! Here are my thoughts on these bibs: Price Like I said, the price was right. $55 for nice bibs is a steal, even in the case of white bibs that I probably won’t wear very often. Comfort These shorts are certainly comfortable. They are nicer…

  • 5 Tips For Riding a Mountain Bike In a Road Race

    Levi
    25 Apr 2012 | 9:10 am
    A lot of small, local road races include a mountain bike category. This is nice because a lot of recreational riders do not own road bikes, but still want to be able to compete in their hometown race. My mountain bike buddies and I did quite a few road races on our mountain bikes over the years, and I’d like to share some tips for anyone that plans to race their mountain bike on the road. Mountain Biking on Pavement – General Theory The main goal is to make your mountain bike as much like a road bike as possible. That means you want very little rolling resistance, lots of…

  • Tested: Sidi Dominator 5 Lorica MTB Shoes

    Levi
    11 Apr 2012 | 11:46 am
    Despite my fixation on fixing old shoes with Shoe Goo, eventually my old Northwaves had to retire from racing, and I had to choose something new to take their place. Being a huge fan of Sidi, I chose the Sidi Dominator 5 for my new MTB racing shoes. At first, I really wasn’t sure what to get. There are cool shoes out there, but I didn’t want to risk buying a new brand without trying them on first (without an actual local bike shop at the time, my chances of trying on shoes were slim to none.) So, naturally, I decided to stick with Sidi, because I knew their size 46 road shoes fit…

  • Tested: PowerBar Performance Bar

    Levi
    14 Mar 2012 | 12:07 pm
    After years of writing about the latest and greatest new offerings in the energy bar world, I’m taking the time to point out the energy bar that has stood by my side for well over a decade – the PowerBar Performance Bar. This is the old standby with a proven track record. People either don’t like it or, like me, they take it for granted. If I need an energy bar, I know that the Powerbar is going to do the job, and I know I can find it just about anywhere. (Remember the days when the Powerbar was the only bar on the shelves?) Continue reading to find out just what it is that…

  • Mountain Bike Sizing Explained

    Levi
    22 Feb 2012 | 1:45 pm
    One very popular topic that’s always asked about online is mountain bike sizing. But here’s the funny part – you need to get off the internet and spend some quality time with some real mountain bikes to learn about sizing them! But since it is so important to get it right (your comfort and safety depend on it,) I’m going to give you some tips to point you in the right direction. So let’s get started right now!   Mountain Bike vs Road Bike Sizing (Feel free to skip this section if you have no interest in road bikes.) In case you are used to sizing road bikes,…
 
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  • Portlander launches 'It's in my heart' cycling apparel brand

    Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)
    15 May 2012 | 4:33 pm
    Portland resident Chris Chapman has launched a new cycling apparel brand called, "It's in my Heart". The business is just getting off the ground; but Chapman, a former brand manager at Castelli/Sportful, says he's already got orders flowing in from all of Portland's major bike shops as well as the Made in Oregon store and REI. Chapman has licensed the well-known heart artwork from Portlander Chris Bucci. Bucci is the man who became something of a local celebrity for his ubiquitous stickers and hats with a simple green heart inside an outline of the state of Oregon. Chapman plans to take that…

  • A look back at a look ahead: Portland's bikeway evolution

    Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)
    15 May 2012 | 1:37 pm
    Portland's paltry network of bike-specific infrastructure, circa 1980. See how it has evolved below. Portland's bike network was not built overnight. Most of our bike-specific infrastructure was built in the mid to late 1990s, but it really started in the early '80s. About seven years ago (before many of you even knew about BikePortland), I stitched together an animation showing how Portland's bike network has evolved. Yesterday, something on Twitter sparked my memory of the animation, so I shared it again. Given how it has spread overnight, I figured many folks might be interested in seeing…

  • Today is the day: Vote

    Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)
    15 May 2012 | 1:16 pm
    To all of our readers in Portland and Oregon (which is just over half of our audience by the way), your ballots are due by 8:00 pm tonight. There really is no good reason to sit this one out, so if you haven't mailed in your ballot yet, check out BallotDrop.org for a location near you. In Portland, we've got a tight race for Mayor that could very likely be decided by who shows up. The most recent OPB poll shows that Charlie Hales has surged into the lead with 32% of the vote, Jefferson Smith getting 24%, and Eileen Brady dropping seven percentage points in just one month to come in third with…

  • An interview with ODOT Director Matt Garrett (Part 1)

    Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)
    15 May 2012 | 12:13 pm
    The director of the Oregon Department of Transportation, Matt Garrett, in his office in Salem.(Photos © J. Maus) During the Oregon Active Transportation Summit last month, I had the opportunity to sit down with Matt Garrett, the director of the Oregon Department of Transportation. The main reason I requested the time with him was to learn more about the agency's organizational shifts. Toward the end of our chat, I also asked him about a few other topics, like the Bike Bill, the Columbia River Crossing and the St. Johns Bridge, and more. I'll run this interview in two parts, with the first…

  • Over 28,000 turn out for first Sunday Parkways of the year

    Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor)
    14 May 2012 | 6:31 pm
    NE Simpson Street in the Cully neighborhood has never seen bike traffic like this before!(Photos © J. Maus/BikePortland) Sunday Parkways got off to a great start yesterday as throngs of Portlanders enjoyed the warm sun and rolled through eight miles of carfree northeast neighborhoods. The City of Portland put the total crowd at an estimated 28,250, which makes it just a few thousand shy of the record (31,600, in North Portland last summer). Here are a few more crowd shots... The route stretched from Woodlawn Park to the new cycletrack on Cully Blvd, and south to the neighborhood greenway on…
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    Singletracks Mountain Bike Blog

  • Chattanooga Ride Report: White Oak Mountain + Enterprise South

    trek7k
    15 May 2012 | 7:45 am
    Last week I met up with Greg and Jeremy near Chattanooga, TN to check out a couple mountain bike trails. Chattanooga was recently named “Best Town Ever” by Outside Magazine thanks to the miles and miles of fresh singletrack in the area – and local trail builders aren’t done yet. The weather was great on Thursday – sunny and warm but not too humid. White Oak Mountain I had ridden Raccoon Mountain a couple times and Greg and I recently checked Five Points off our trail wishlist so we decided to ride White Oak Mountain on Thursday. Jeremy has ridden pretty much all…

  • Mountain Bike Spring Cleaning, Part 1: Washing and Fork Maintenance

    element22
    14 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    So you did the unthinkable and forgot to clean up your bike for the coming riding season. Now you’re stuck, and the shops are all backed up for weeks. Well you could panic, cry, curse… or all of the above. Or you could try your hand at bike maintenance and do it yourself. Overhauling a bike may be a daunting task for some but if you’re one who has regular doses of dirt under the nails and knows which way to turn a wrench, a modern bike shouldn’t be too much of an issue. Not too long ago one of my good friends needed to have some work done on one of his bikes. He wasn’t in a rush,…

  • Cinema Sunday: Silvia at Sun Peaks Bike Park – Matt Miles

    mtbgreg1
    13 May 2012 | 11:44 am
    Coming to you from British Columbia, this video might capture the essence of downhill mountain biking better than any video I’ve ever seen! That, and the fact this guy is flippin’ flyin’ down the mountain with more steeze than I can even dream of possessing, make this video worthy of a Cinema Sunday, as well as Video of the Year accolades on Pinkbke. Related posts:Cinema Sunday: MTB Strength Training Exercise Cinema Sunday: Mountain Bike vs. Snowboard Cinema Sunday: Hans Rey at Singltrek pod Smrkem

  • Week in Review: Mountain Bike PODS

    mtbgreg1
    12 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    The seasons are changing all across the nation (and the rest of the globe). Spring is in full swing in in the northern hemisphere, and in the southern US we are already feeling the heat of summer in places. With more people getting out on the trails and tons of amazing photos coming in left and right, we’re having a hard time keeping up with them all! What a great problem to have! If you’ve submitted an amazing photo that you think should be featured, just be patient: it probably will be, but it might take a few weeks (or months) to get worked into the rotation. For now, enjoy…

  • How To Choose Your First Mountain Bike

    maddslacker
    11 May 2012 | 8:55 am
    Soon after getting bitten by the mountain biking bug, you will be ready to purchase your first ‘real’ mountain bike. The myriad of prices, models and types of mountain bikes available makes the process not unlike buying a car. This guide will give you the info you need to be an informed buyer with realistic expectations about what you need and what you can afford. First, Establish a budget Modern mountain bikes can cost as much as $10,000, and while these bikes are super cool, there is no need to spend that much to get a bike that will allow you to have a safe and fun ride on…
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  • Demo Rides: Trek Superfly Al and Niner S.I.R. 9

    Matt D
    16 May 2012 | 5:31 am
    A couple weeks ago, I got the opportunity to drop by the Paul’s Ride for Life event, which centers around a charity ride that raises money for life-saving organ transplants. While I found out about it too late to join in the ride (which seems like it might be a cool thing to do next year), there was also a Cyclefest event sponsored by a local shop, the Bike Lane. As part of that, there were not only tables and booths for cool local organizations like MORE and FABB (join one or both if you’re in the area!), but demo bikes on hand from Niner, Felt, and Trek. I got to try out the…

  • Ibex Asta Expert 16” Review

    RL Policar
    14 May 2012 | 5:25 am
    When we received the Ibex Asta Expert to review, I assigned one of our Team Racers, Nick DiBlasi to test it for MtnBikeRiders.com. Read his review below. Summary: The Ibex Asta Expert is an all 6069 Aluminum cross country bike that everyone will love. It comes with virtually ever feature you would want or need. Ibex spared no expense on getting the right components for this $1319.99 price point. I have taken it on several rides now switching it up to see how it reacts to each different environment. I must say that this thing brings a smile to my face every time I hop on it. The feel of this…

  • 3 feet

    RL Policar
    10 May 2012 | 11:18 pm
    One of my favorite pictures of my Bro-Friend Art Aguilar is from the most recent Sea Otter Race. Check out how much air he got! Join us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Bookmark It Hide Sites

  • Mother’s Day Give Away

    RL Policar
    9 May 2012 | 11:08 am
    Just in time for Mother’s Day, we have a contest that will make your mom pretty happy. Win this gift pack from Clif Bar. All you have to do is leave a comment on why your mom is the best or worst in the world. We’ll randomly pick a winner. (US Only). Contest ends 05/13/2012 12noon. Join us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Bookmark It Hide Sites

  • SEA OTTER 2012 RECAP

    Art Aguilar
    9 May 2012 | 2:35 am
    AS THE DUST SETTLES Well now that I’m back to the world of reality the thought sets in as I feel a little sad, I think back to myself about being  in Monterey California a few weeks ago with my friends and teammates at one of the biggest cycling events on the west coast, home of Laguna Seca raceway and home of The Sea Otter Classic. The weather was so unbelievably wonderful, sunny, hot, and cool at night. It was perfect. Now I have gone there wearing different hats, one as a race, one as a vendor, and one as media, but I have never gone wearing all three, which I gotta say is really…
 
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    Sick Lines - mountain bike reviews, news, videos | Your comprehensive downhill and freeride mountain bike resource

  • $10,000 Pro Purse Between Mountain Creek and Plattekill Bike Park’s ESC Pro GRT Races

    sicklines
    15 May 2012 | 1:41 pm
    The POC Eastern States Cup is kicking off the DH MTB Race Season with two USA Cycling Pro GRT Series races. The Mountain Creek Spring Classic, May 17-20 and the Plattekill FOX RACING SHOX Gravity Open, May 24-27. The two bike parks have doubled the Pro GRT Pro Purse to $5000 at each race. The Pro GRT is the only national series recognized by USA Cycling. The races are USAC World Team Qualifiers for Pros and Juniors, the competition among the fastest DH racers in the USA will be fierce. Amateurs will get a chance to race on the same course as many national and international world cup regulars…

  • Review: Yeti Cycles SB-66 Aluminum – Part 2

    sicklines
    15 May 2012 | 9:47 am
    The Yeti SB-66 has been a biek on our list for some time. Inside you can check out our Yeti SB-66 custom build that we’ve put together. Look for Part 3 soon to read our riding impressions on the SB-66. [Review: Part 2 - Yeti SB-66 Build]

  • New and Improved 2012 Angel Fire Bike Park Opens Memorial Weekend

    sicklines
    15 May 2012 | 8:02 am
    Want to knock the dust off your DH rig? Or maybe you just want to try out your new steed for the season? Summer is right around the corner and your buddies want take the first road trip of the season, what better place to clear your head than the new and improved Angel Fire Bike Park on May 24th-28th. Our lifts are opening Memorial weekend May 24th- May 28th. The weekend will be filled with plenty of fun things to do such as: the new Strength and Numbers movie premier by Anthill Films, Dash “4” Cash Downhill, live music, Fireworks, Kids crit race, camping and more. Last year the trail…

  • Strength In Numbers: Slow Motion + Movie Premiere On May 18th

    sicklines
    14 May 2012 | 1:30 pm
    Anthill’s Strength in Numbers is finally out and they’ve released a 1000 FPS video of Ian Morrision scrubbing a jump that is just awesome in our opinion.  Check it out inside along with details on a Whistler movie premiere and the trailer. Taking place May 18 in Whistler (Whistler Conference Centre). Be sure to check out their TOUR DATES. You can also buy tickets online. Amongst the cast of biking pros are local riders Anthony Messere (Surrey) and Brandon Semenuk (Squamish). They are two of the many B.C. natives featured in the film, and you can join Anthony and Brandon for the…

  • Whistler Bike Park – Anticipation # 1

    sicklines
    14 May 2012 | 12:35 pm
    Opening day at Whistler Bike Park is a day that many riders look forward to. This year is no different. Video #1 inside to get you stoked on opening day.
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  • Salas Takes Over KOM Jersey After Stage 3

    lyne
    16 May 2012 | 3:09 am
    In what has turned out to be a Canadian battle at the Amgen Tour of California, Sebastian Salas (Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) made his way into the early break on stage 3 to garner points to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Vennell – “I was the lucky one to be there”

    lyne
    16 May 2012 | 2:01 am
    For the second stage in a row, Jeremy Vennell (Bissell) found his way into the break of the day at the Amgen Tour of California. On stage 2, he was awarded the Breakaway From Cancer Most Courageous... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Wilson Marentes Torres Awarded the Breakaway from Cancer’s Most Courageous Jersey

    stephanie
    15 May 2012 | 9:45 pm
    Thirty minutes into today’s stage at the Amgen Tour of California, four riders managed to break from the main group. Sebastian Salas (Optum p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies) was only a few points behind... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Amgen Tour of California Stage 3

    lyne
    15 May 2012 | 9:04 pm
    Photos from stage 3, from San Jose to Livermore, of the Amgen Tour of California. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Amgen Tour of California Stage 3 Replay

    lyne
    15 May 2012 | 7:52 pm
    Replay of live updates of stage 3, from San Jose to Livermore, of the Amgen Tour of California. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
 
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  • On Sunday, at the Dorpenomloop in Drenthe, I finally managed to ride well in a klassieker and, for...

    15 May 2012 | 3:37 pm
    On Sunday, at the Dorpenomloop in Drenthe, I finally managed to ride well in a klassieker and, for the first time this year, take some satisfaction from my performance in an important race. I had a point to prove, as Saturday’s A7 Classic had been a write off for me. There, things went terribly from the start for me, even though I had good legs. I was caught behind a series of mishaps in the early kilometres and was left near the rear of bunch without time to move forward in the wind before the pack detonated into waaiers, twenty kilometres into the race. The next hundred and twenty…

  • I’m heading north to Friesland to race the A7 classic today.

    11 May 2012 | 11:29 pm
    I’m heading north to Friesland to race the A7 classic today.

  • Fields of flowers.

    10 May 2012 | 11:32 pm
    Fields of flowers.

  • Cycling by the sea.

    10 May 2012 | 11:27 pm
    Cycling by the sea.

  • Sometimes, it is important to take a step back and remember how much fun bike racing is. Cycling is...

    10 May 2012 | 11:05 pm
    Sometimes, it is important to take a step back and remember how much fun bike racing is. Cycling is demanding and it is easy to get lost in all of the stress and the pressure to perform. That pressure is necessary, it is the force that drives one to better performances; sometimes however, it is important to let it all go and just race for the joy of racing, to ride for the exhilaration of railing corners and going on the attack, even if there is only a prime here or there on the line. Racing has the power to bring about a special kind of elation that is rare in everyday life; by fostering…
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  • Can Phinney save cycling in America?

    Neil
    6 May 2012 | 5:48 pm
    Americans love winners. It’s a cliché, but true. Taylor Phinney’s win in stage 1 of the Giro d’ Italia won’t project him onto the front page of newspaper’s here in the States as that’s reserved for the one bike race Americans know – the Tour de France. However, I’m hoping Phinney’s victory in Henning helps save cycling in the U.S. Even the most casual follower of professional cycling knows that the sport has taken a beating like a red headed step-child. In the beginning we all cheered for Lance Armstrong, but as the accusations built his popularity took a hit. Sure, if he…

  • Automobile influence on the bike industry

    Neil
    18 Apr 2012 | 4:59 pm
    BMC LamboWith air slicing design, coupled with a mechanical beauty and visually pleasing color schemes, it’s no wonder that several bike companies have used automobiles as inspiration. Ferrari has been a muse to Colnago for several years. According to the Colnago site the first Ferrari badged Colnago was the CF-1 with a limited production run of 500. And if you need to ask how much a CF-1 retailed for, you can’t afford one. However if you gotta have one, I discovered that the Bike Exchange in Australia is selling a 60cm Ferrari for 26,000 Australian dollars ($26,915 American).

  • Paris-Roubaix scenarios with Levi Leipheimer

    Neil
    8 Apr 2012 | 5:37 pm
    Boonen's victory proves I have a tiny bit of psychic abilityWith Levi Leiphimer back in the States nursing his injury from his recent accident I interviewed him for Cyclingnews.com. The main focus of the interview was of course his injury, how serious it was and what affect would it have on the season – meaning the Amgen Tour of California, the Tour de France and the Olympics. However, as you talk other topics come up that don’t fit with the article. And sometimes, like in any conversation, you make small talk to broach a subject. With the obligatory Amgen Tour of California…

  • Is this the new pro cycling meme?

    Neil
    5 Apr 2012 | 3:11 pm
    They taste like victory with a dash of crushed dreams Remember the Dirk Hofman Motorhome banners we’d see in the final 100 meters of all the classics. So far this year I haven’t seen them. However, this guy seems to have taken his spot. With about 17 kilometers remaining in the Tour of Flanders and then again at the finish this guy was waving his huge “Tornado Tom Frites” banner. You might remember that Boonen also has a training book, which I suspect doesn’t mention frities as part of any training plan. For those who may not know – frites are primary known…

  • Belgian spectators at Flanders

    Neil
    2 Apr 2012 | 4:13 pm
    Check out the spectator that gets spun around by Sebastian Langeveld. He steps away from the crash like he wasn’t involved. He starts to approach Langeveld, but then turns around and returns to his group. That’s a dick move in my book not to even check how serious Sebastian hurt! According to Cyclingnews Langeveld was going between 70 to 80 kilometers an hour when they collided. The result was a broken collarbone for the GreenEdge rider and I’m guessing a sore calf for the lucky spectator to go along with a lifetime of story telling at the local pub. I don’t completely…
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  • Ian Morrison at Whistler Doing a Whip at 1,000 fps

    198
    15 May 2012 | 7:28 am
    Have you ever wondered what a full whip on a mountain bike looks like in super slow motion? Well here is Ian Morrison at Whistler Mountain Bike Park doing a whip over a table at 1,000 frames per second. You can actually watch each spoke move as he maneuvers this table. It is mesmerizing to watch.Rider: Ian Morrison Location: Whistler Mountain Bike Park Frame rate: 1,000 fps Live online premiere: May 24th 12:00pm PST – redbull.com/bikeStrength in Numbers is a rally call to connect all mountain bikers, regardless of location or language or discipline. The film captures a true way of life,…

  • Review: Renovo Badash 29er Wooden Hardtail Mountain Bike

    198
    9 May 2012 | 9:34 am
    The Renovo Badash 29er wooden bike. Arguably the only wooden bike we have seen at Bike198 that actually looks like it can shred trail and Renovo sent one over for us to throw a leg over. These past few weeks…that is what I have done, so we need to take a look at how this unique bike performs on the trail. Does it ride as good as it looks?Renovo is pretty unique. While other bike companies have gone the bamboo route, Renovo uses a series of hardwoods to build their bikes which include everything from time trial rigs to this 29er HT. This particular Badash 29er came out of the Red Stag…

  • It Never Fails: Wrecks Come In Multiples

    198
    9 May 2012 | 8:16 am
    A week ago yesterday, I headed out for our regular Tuesday night “Dirt and Taco’s” at our local mountain bike trail.As part of the evenings festivities, we typically head back to a small DH/FR area and session for most of the night. We get in some great climbing while getting the added benefit of a big payoff on the way down. After about a dozen or so runs (the DH run only takes 43 seconds if you are pinning it), we finish out the XC loops and head to a great Mexican restaurant afterwards.Last Tuesday, I decided I was going to go for broke. Thanks to Strava, we have a…

  • One for the ladies – Projekt Roam: Silver Star Resort in BC Canada

    198
    8 May 2012 | 9:02 am
    Our friends over at Projekt Roam sent us over their latest edit from Silver Star Resort in British Columbia, Canada. Needless to say…this is just one of the amazing places to ride in the area. What we particularly like about this video is much different that most that are posted on the site. If you look closely…it is actually a female ripping up the resort. I don’t know about you…but we think that is pretty damn cool. Enjoy.Busy day in and day out throughout the winter, Projekt Roam held on to their Silver Star film footage. Now, in the clutches of spring fever,…

  • Trials Riding in Moab in Full HD Glory. Yes…it is that beautiful…

    198
    1 May 2012 | 10:26 am
    If you can’t already tell…trials bikes are on the brain of Bike198 right now. We are actually on the hunt to find the perfect trials bike for the site so we can start gearing more content in that area of riding. When a friend of ours posted up a link to this video on Facebook, we knew right away it needed to be posted here. Moab is one of the best places to mountain bike in the world. When you add a sunset, trials maneuvers by Jeremy VanSchoonhoven and HD video…the outcome is breathtaking.Sit back, relax and enjoy dreaming away with this clip. It is worth every second.This…
 
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  • Choosing the Right Wrench

    BluesCat
    15 May 2012 | 11:42 am
    BluesCat is a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, who originally returned to bicycling in 2002 in order to help his son get the Boy Scout Cycling merit badge. His bikes sat idle until the summer of 2008 when gas prices spiked at over $4.00 per gallon. Since then, he has become active cycling, day-touring, commuting by [...]

  • Are We Overselling National Bike to Work Week?

    Ted Johnson
    14 May 2012 | 4:58 pm
    And so it begins… National Bike to Work Week 2012 is officially underway. If you are a newcomer to Commute by Bike, then welcome. Did you find all the information you needed? For God’s sake, I hope so. That’s what we’re about. Last week I received a message from the California Bicycle Coalition which began [...]

  • Banjo Brothers Saddlebag Panniers: Cram Away!

    Vanessa Marie Robinson
    9 May 2012 | 2:42 pm
    Vanessa Marie Robinson is a NYC-based industrial designer who’s blog For The Love Of Bikes covers her multifaceted interests in all things cycling. Having started commuting year-round by bike in Montreal, Canada 13 years ago, she currently enjoys here 22-mile, rain-or shine-commute along the Hudson River. Whether you commute by bike or just ride a [...]

  • Four Things About Cycling that aren’t ‘Just Like Riding a Bike’

    Ted Johnson
    8 May 2012 | 12:47 am
    Bike to Work Week is when we regular bike commuters hope to inspire new people to join our ranks. I hesitate to say “our ranks” because I don’t feel as though I’m in a rank. Do you want to join a rank? I doubt it. I prefer to think of all of us as users [...]

  • Banjo Brothers Metro Backpack: A Place for My Stapler

    Melanie Meyers Colavito
    5 May 2012 | 11:15 am
    I have had a lot of backpacks in my life. Big ones. Small ones. Barbie-themed ones. Outdoorsy ones. Good ones. Bad ones. A backpack is my preferred bag for traveling away from home, as well as back and forth to school, work, and all kinds of other activities. I mean, why use a bag with [...]
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  • Trans-Sylvania Epic Ladies Smackdown

    Bike Shop Girl
    15 May 2012 | 8:42 pm
    Dirt Rag did a great job of giving a run down of what ladies are going to battle in a few weeks at the Trans-Sylvania Epic in Pennsylvania.

  • Reveal the Path Movie Trailer

    Bike Shop Girl
    12 May 2012 | 7:20 am

  • Pisgah Stage Race Sept 17-22, 2012

    Bike Shop Girl
    10 May 2012 | 10:56 am
    Why must this be the same week as Interbike in Las Vegas? 2012 Pisgah Stage Race September 17 – 22, 2012 5 Days, 195 Miles, 28,000+ ft of Elevation Gain

  • Short & Sweet Review: Giro DJ Gloves

    Bike Shop Girl
    9 May 2012 | 6:43 am
    Touch points on the bike are critical. I talk about saddles, shorts, grips, gloves and shoes enough that I hope you realize how important those comforts are. Introducing Giro DJ Gloves $34.99 Last week I was in Piney Flats Bicycles in Piney Flats, TN. On their wall a rather bright pair of gloves caught my eye. Giro DJ Gloves, the padding was minimum, the venting looked great, and the wrist wrap was very comfortable. Of course I bought them. Forever I’m looking for good gloves that fit my very long, skinny, hands. Initial Preview The gloves have about 4 rides on them. They are working…

  • Tracking My Progress with Strava

    Bike Shop Girl
    7 May 2012 | 7:32 am
    My background in marketing and sales management have been specifically highlighted with my love of analytics, report running and data mining. I love theories, graphs and making decisions by gut and knowledge. (More gut than knowledge.) Now, I don’t go as extreme with numbers around training as I do with marketing and sales..but it’s close. Normally I’m NOT tracking every movement, gear usage and PSI of tires or suspension pressure on EVERY ride. (I have my moments when I go through that cycle, mostly when I have a new bike to dial in.) For the past few years I’ve used…
 
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  • Team in Training Summer 2012 Events

    Lynn Smythe
    3 May 2012 | 11:35 am
      Learn more about Team In Training at an upcoming Information Meeting! The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Team In Training (TNT)   is the world's first, best and largest charity sports training program - and the only one to offer a full complement of exciting sports training options. More than 420,000 people, from first-timers to seasoned athletes, have trained with TNT and achieved their best at marathons, half marathons, triathlons & centry rides.Join TNT and raise funds for blood cancer research - help find cures today!!Attend a TNT Information Meeting! Bring a Friend!! Meet…

  • Bike Diva Tries Green Drink Diet

    Lynn Smythe
    9 Apr 2012 | 11:23 am
      Above: blend up a green drink for a healthy way to start off your day. Bike Diva Likes Green Drinks Last Monday I posted a review of The Healthy Green Drink Diet book to my Cuisine Diva blog: Healthy Green Drink Diet Book. I mentioned in the review that I would be trying to add at least one green drink to my diet, each day, for the first part of the week. I have been wanting to drop a few pounds, and starting my day off with a health infused green drink seemed the perfect way to jump start my weight loss plan. I find that the key to loosing weight is to keep my metabolism fired up all day…

  • HERO Charity Bike Ride

    Lynn Smythe
    14 Feb 2012 | 12:50 pm
    HERO Charity Bike Ride I want to let you know about a fantastic cycling opportunity coming your way. The HERO Charity Bike Ride will be covering 1,200 miles as participants cycle from Battery Park, NY to West Palm Beach, FL during the month of May. Participating HERO Riders will be biking the 1,200 miles utilizing the East Coast Greenway trail system. Wounded Warrior Project The HERO Charity Bike Ride benefit’s the Wounded Warrior Project. There is no cost to participate in this fully SAG supported ride. However; anyone who wishes to raise funds for the organization is welcome to do so. The…

  • Chrissie Wellington to Take Break From Triathlons

    Lynn Smythe
    17 Jan 2012 | 12:18 pm
    FOUR TIME WORLD CHAMPION TO PURSUE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES IN 2012 16th January 2012 – London, UK:  Four time World Champion and World Ironman Distance Record Holder, Chrissie Wellington has announced that she’ll be taking a break from competing in Ironman during 2012 to explore other opportunities, including the forthcoming publication of her autobiography, A Life Without Limits.  Chrissie, who won her fourth World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, last October and maintained her unbeaten record at Ironman distance – making it 13 victories from 13 races – said of her decision, “I’ve…

  • 2012 West Palm Beach Race Series

    Lynn Smythe
    17 Jan 2012 | 9:11 am
    I've been waiting for the official schedule to come out for the West Palm Beach Race Series. WPBRS is a series of 15k time trial bike races which take place near 20 Mile Bend in West Palm Beach. I have been doing a few of the races every year since 2008. There is a lot going on in my personal life right now, so I am looking for some local, inexpensive races to participate in for 2012. Each race costs $15, which is pretty cheap as far as races are concerned. Awards are given out 5 deep in 10 year age groups, along with awards for the days fastest male and female cyclist. Race Schedule Mike and…
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    Cyclocross Magazine - Cyclocross News, Races, Bikes, Photos, Videos

  • Justin Lindine’s Off-Season “Balancing Act”

    molly
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Justin Lindine took the cyclocross scene by storm last year, snatching his first C1 win at the Providence Cyclocross Festival, and only narrowly missing scooping the entire New England Pro Shimano Series. By the end of October — after an amazing first half of the season — he was leading... ...view the full story & post your comments at our site: http://cxmagazine.com

  • Mechanical Mondays: It’s the Pits

    molly
    14 May 2012 | 8:19 am
    Working in the pits for a friend can be just as rewarding as racing in a cyclocross race … right? OK, odds are good you got roped into being in the pit, or bribed with promises of post-race beer, or you lost a bet or a game of rock-paper-scissors. But whatever the reason, you’re in [...] ...view the full story & post your comments at our site: http://cxmagazine.com

  • PDXCROSS Presents Cross-Dressed, The Video

    molly
    13 May 2012 | 1:26 pm
    We love Oregon’s cyclocross scene. After all, it’s home of the Cross Crusades as well as a USGP and the two-time site of Nationals in Bend. So when PDX Cross came out with their video from the Halloween race in Bend last year, we had to share it. Of Portland’s cyclocross scene,... ...view the full story & post your comments at our site: http://cxmagazine.com

  • More on Motivation: A Column by Lee Waldman

    molly
    12 May 2012 | 11:26 am
    A couple of weeks back, Lee Waldman talked about his off-season motivation issues. Today, he’s coming back to the topic of motivation, which is hard to come by in the off-season, and even harder when things don’t seem to be going right. by Lee Waldman What do you do when you have that... ...view the full story & post your comments at our site: http://cxmagazine.com

  • StarCrossed 2012 returns to Marymoor Park for an Eight-Hour Enduro and Eliminator Shoot Out

    molly
    11 May 2012 | 5:09 pm
    SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – Low Pressure Promotions, LLC of Seattle, Washington, released the details for StarCrossed today, with an event date confirmed for Saturday, September 22nd, 2012 at Marymoor Park in Redmond, Washington.   The 2012 edition of StarCrossed will take on two formats:  an eight-hour... ...view the full story & post your comments at our site: http://cxmagazine.com
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    Carolina Cycling News

  • Wintergreen Hill Climb

    John Summerson
    9 May 2012 | 11:15 am
    On Sunday, April 29, Jimmy Picard won the overall title at the hill climb race up infamous Wintergreen in Virginia. Picard, from Richmond, VA, finished with a time of 34:31 over the grueling ascent.... Read the full post at CarolinaCyclingNews.com.

  • Spartanburg Regional Classic

    Weldon Weaver
    7 May 2012 | 5:32 pm
    Speed Week’s Friday race kicked off a three-day street festival in “Bike Town”, Spartanburg, SC. The downtown race was part of an Omnium weekend and on the National Criterium Calendar. It was... Read the full post at CarolinaCyclingNews.com.

  • Terrapin Twilight – Athens GA

    Weldon Weaver
    3 May 2012 | 6:38 pm
    Are you looking for a road trip to watch a bike race? You and your pals should make the annual drive down I-85 to one of the greatest crit races in the world – The Terrapin Twilight in Athens... Read the full post at CarolinaCyclingNews.com.

  • Optimal Fueling

    Audrey Lee
    30 Apr 2012 | 8:06 am
    Do you know what time it is? It’s time for optimal fueling. Optimal fueling is not only about the content of your meal or snack, but also about the timing. Whether you are a power lifter,... Read the full post at CarolinaCyclingNews.com.

  • Presbyterian Hospital Invitational Criterium

    Neil Browne
    16 Apr 2012 | 5:32 pm
    The ninth annual Presbyterian Hospital Invitational Criterium in downtown Charlotte brought out the heavy hitters. The women were racing for 25 miles and for a $25,000 total purse while the men were... Read the full post at CarolinaCyclingNews.com.
 
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    Bikedan in Asia

  • China: Chengdu 65km Road Race

    Bikedan
    14 May 2012 | 12:15 am
    As my previous blog posting indicated, China has a large number of Amateur events scattered throughout the largest country in the world.  Out of the five that was listed, I managed to attend two – one in Yiwu and the other in Chengdu. The event in Chengdu required me to take a flight from Hangzhou to Chengdu and it became a long journey due to flight delays! I ended up reaching the race hotel at 4am in the morning! Not ideal preparation ahead of the race with only three hours sleep. The winners group... Laochemi (translated as “Old Fans Cycling Club”) was established in…

  • China: Sportive Cycling Events

    Bikedan
    6 May 2012 | 9:47 pm
    This is who you will be racing against here in China… … actually just kidding, there is in fact a thriving amateur racing scene in China that  anyone can participate in if they can find the races.  I recently read on  CyclingIQ about race events in China and the chances of finding one is slim while visiting on business or leisure. I don’t find this to be 100% accurate as in my opinion, the chances of ‘stumbling’ across a cycling event is, in fact, quite high. The Chinese government, particularly the local provincial governments are very keen to showcase their…

  • China: 2012 Yellow Mountain MTB Race

    Bikedan
    9 Apr 2012 | 6:01 am
    Yellow Mountain Mountain Bike Race If you are looking for a picturesque mountain bike race combining ancient villages and traditional Chinese countryside, then the Yellow Mountain event is the race that has it all.  The start/finish area is right by the famous Hongcun, where the opening scene of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon is shot.  Many of the old narrow cobblestoned streets of Hongcun are utilized to enhance the cultural feel of the popular region.  The region is also famous for China’s most famous mountain, Yellow Mountain and many Chinese will tell you that if you have been to all…

  • China: Specialized 29er MTB Series

    Bikedan
    5 Apr 2012 | 12:23 am
    Specialized China kicked off their mountain bike series in Shanghai on April 2nd with a focus on racing 29er bikes. Since Format started with their inaugural 29er specific race in Guangzhou late 2011, the interest in 29er bikes has surged significantly and this has prompted Specialized China to host their own 29er MTB series in the Shanghai region in conjunction with Shanghairace.net. Representing WTB, I made the train trip from Hangzhou to attend this special race. More than 60 riders from all the categories raced over the very short 1.1km circuit that was largely on a bull-dozed area and…

  • Malaysia: Tour de Langkawi Stage Three

    Bikedan
    27 Feb 2012 | 10:43 am
    I can never get enough done here at the Tour de Langkawi especially when you go out on bike rides of epic proportions after the pro racing has finished! Cam Whiting, a fellow cycling journalist and analyst in Asia-Pacific, and I went out on a road bike ride that turned into a 3-hour adventure with tropical rain-storms, jungle riding and getting a little lost before eventually finding our way back to the media hotel.  It was one of those epic rides that won’t be forgotten in a while. Yesterday was my first time on the media motorbike and, frankly, I find it more tiring than bike racing…
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    All up to date 2012 Texas bicycle rides in one location

  • 25th Annual Cross Timber Classic Bicycle Ride – Win a free entry!

    WB admin
    15 May 2012 | 8:04 am
    Win a free entry to Saturday’s 25th Annual Cross Timbers Classic in Fort Worth, by posting one of your favorite cycling pictures on our Facebook page.  Have a group picture you took on a recent ride?  Discovering something fun or interesting on your training ride?  Want to show of your club jerseys? Just snap a picture and post it! Winner will be announced on Friday morning.

  • Cycling Fridays – Videos to get you ready for the weekend!

    WB admin
    11 May 2012 | 9:01 am
    Besides covering Texas bicycle rides, we are featuring some funny, interesting and inspiring videos each Friday, to celebrate the upcoming weekend! Dance Like No one is Watching! Some crazy drafting skills at 55mph! My week as a cyclist A driver trades in his car for a bicycle and commutes to work for one week. See how his attitude changes… Bicycle Lane Safety in the City of Fort Worth! Big kudos to the City of Fort Worth for making Texas a lot more bike friendly! My favorite cycling movie of all times!!! This is by far my favorite cycling movie of all times. The movie is a bit dated…

  • 25th Annual Cross Timbers Classic in Fort Worth, TX

    WB admin
    10 May 2012 | 8:30 am
    The 25th Annual Cross Timbers Classic benefiting Northwest Metroport Chamber of Commerce and Flower Mound Rotary invites you to join their upcoming ride happening on May 19, 2012 at Texas Motor Speedway We were lucky enough to be granted an interview with Jill Burns, Event Coordinator of Cross Timbers Classic to ask some questions about their upcoming ride. Why join the this year’s ride? To meet friendly volunteers and enjoy the beautiful North Texas countryside. How long has the event been around? It’s our 25th anniversary this year! Every rider who crosses the finish line will…

  • Tour de Norway in Clifton, TX

    WB admin
    5 May 2012 | 8:41 am
    The 1st Annual Tour de Norway invites you to join their ride happening on May 12, 2012 at Clifton High School, Clifton, Texas, United States We were lucky enough to be granted an interview with Brent Grelle, Ride Director of Tour de Norway to ask some questions about their upcoming ride. Why join the “Tour de Norway”?  To have fun riding in a new area and get to see a little Texas history. How long has the event been around?  This is our first year. What was the motivation behind starting the tour and who benefits from it? After moving here from the DFW area and riding in a…

  • Cycling Fridays – Videos to get you ready for the weekend!

    WB admin
    4 May 2012 | 8:43 am
    Besides covering Texas bicycle rides, from now on, we will be featuring some funny, interesting and inspiring videos each Friday to celebrate the upcoming weekend! This week we’ll have some Trikes, Bikes and a full length video of two guys experiencing one of my dreams! Some crazy guys on Trikes Here is a fun video from the JPB Racing Team in Fredericksburg, Texas going on a bicycle ride! These two guys were able to do something that is on my bucket list. I would LOVE to do this one day!!
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  • Feather Cycles No. 50

    Adam
    15 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    We’ve all asked ourselves what we’d have built if we had carte blanche for the custom frame builder of our choice. Ricky Feather has gone a long way in answering that question: his fiftieth frame coincided with the 2012 Bespoked Bristol show and is part racer, part cyclocrosser and even part light tourer. Each of Ricky’s fifty frames have been exercises in sophisticated design — not to mention typography. This latest rendition is dripping with details that kept viewers intrigued at the Bespoked Bristol show in March. The aim was to create a bike that was capable of quick…

  • Bob Jackson Olympus

    Adam
    14 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    It’s safe to assume that Dan Hunt is the most stylish of the Headset Press triumvirate. At least he has been since he built up his Bob Jackson Olympus frame — a 30th birthday present to himself. Bob Jackson Cycles is an English institution of cycling, predominantly building frames out of Reynolds tubing for nearly 80 years. Headset Press is more a Readers Digest for cyclists than a blog, reviewing garments and gadgets, providing coverage of events such as the UCI Track Worlds and the Tour de France, even interviewing custom builders such as Robin Mather. It was founded in 2010 by…

  • Yeti ARC-X

    Adam
    12 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Fans of Yeti Cycles are as one-eyed as they come, getting as excited about a 1971 Chrysler auto color called Desert Turquoise as Bianchi fans do about Celeste. With good reason, too. Yeti’s reputation for reliability and well-designed innovation has been a mainstay of their business since its inception during the early 80s. One model that enjoyed only a fleeting appearance in the range was their cyclocross frame, the ARC-X. A very talented Sydney photographer, Matthew Mead, managed to procure one of the rare frames, built it up and shot it ‘on location’ in the warm…

  • Hampsten Cycles Gran Paradiso

    Adam
    11 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    The 2012 Giro d’Italia will be the 95th edition of the Italian Grand Tour and it’s about this time of year that Andy Hampsten reminisces about his shining performances in the event over his career. His first appearance in the Giro was in 1985 when he won the 20th stage, the first chapter of one of America’s finest pro cyclists, the highlight of which would surely be his overall Giro victory in 1988. He has since started Hampsten Cycles with his brother Steve, where he lends his experience to fitting, sourcing and building dream bikes — including their Gran Paradiso. The…

  • Eroica Cicli Basso Loto

    Adam
    10 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Eroica Cicli are specialists in the restoration and assembly of vintage Italian racing bicycles — talk about a dream job. Their online store stock a dazzling array of frames from the masters of the business, including this Loto by Marino Basso and his brothers, Renato and Alcide. Most of the frames, parts and accessories in the Eroica Cicli are New Old Stock, like this Basso. While it could have been built up with a gruppo more suited to the Loto’s era, ‘the customer gets what the customer wants’ — in this case, Campagnolo’s Veloce range. I’m a big fan of the…
 
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  • Building a Raleigh Bicycle

    Dave Moulton
    15 May 2012 | 10:58 am
    Here is an interesting video of how a Raleigh bicycle was made in 1945. I lived in Nottingham, England in the 1960s when this factory was still in operation; it was huge and took up many city blocks. In fact the company started out on Raleigh Street in Nottingham in 1887, hence the company name. An interesting part of the video early on shows a Bottom Bracket shell being made by pressing from a flat piece of steel. I was still building my frames in the 1970s with bottom brackets made in this fashion. (By a French manufacturer named Bocama (BCM); not by Raleigh.) By the late 1970s early 1980s…

  • Too many hit and runs

    Dave Moulton
    10 May 2012 | 8:07 am
    I try not to report too often on cycling deaths because I hate to dwell on the negative. However, when a local cyclist died in the early hours of last Friday morning, it hit home personally because it happened in almost the exact same spot where I was hit in 2006. Savannah Highway (17) and White Oak Drive, Charleston, South Carolina. Gerard Nieto was riding his bicycle when he was struck from behind and left to die by the roadside by a driver who did not stop. The driver, 32 year old Jason Frank Marion, did later come forward and surrender to the police on Tuesday. As the collision happened…

  • Who will history remember?

    Dave Moulton
    8 May 2012 | 10:36 am
    Once again the Giro d’Italia is on us, to be followed by the Tour de France in a few months. This year’s Giro is exciting because there is no firm favorite; the race is wide open. Even in a race where there are favorites and the end result is somewhat of a foregone conclusion; on any given day an outsider can win a stage, sometimes in spectacular fashion like a solo break away. The art of a solo breakaway win is often all about timing, choosing the right psychological moment to attack. Often this comes as a chasing group catches another group or an individual. Everyone in that…

  • Boston Bike Share: The helmet issue

    Dave Moulton
    1 May 2012 | 2:05 pm
    Look at the above picture; why is this woman not being hauled off to jail for child endangerment? Why are these children not being taken into protective custody? The answer is simple; the picture is from Holland where 99% of the population ride a bicycle at some time or other; for most it is their main form of transportation. Very few Dutch people wear a helmet while cycling, and as far as I know there are not huge numbers of people dying from head injuries. In fact Holland (The Netherlands.) is one of the safest places in the world to ride a bike. By contrast the City of Boston,…

  • Asleep at the wheel

    Dave Moulton
    23 Apr 2012 | 2:00 am
    It is no secret that when I left the bike business in 1993 I fell on hard times financially; it was the reason I had to give up framebuilding. People stopped buying road bikes in favor of mountain bikes. My car reflected my financial status; it was a piece of junk, 1975 Mercury Station Wagon. Not the one pictured here; mine was in much worse condition and in need of repair. Not the kind of vehicle one would take pictures to save and show to their grandchildren. It did however, come with certain advantages; it gave me right of way for one. On those six and eight lane freeways…
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    Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast | ICI/PRO

  • Take the Trail

    john@indoorcycleinstructor.com (John@indoorcycleinstructor.com)
    15 May 2012 | 8:12 am
    Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast | ICI/PRO - ICI/PRO is the Indoor Cycling Instructor Community's resource for tips, free music, motivation, education, entertainment, class profiles and playlists.It is difficult to explain how iconic the Cabot Trail is to Nova Scotians and even Canadians.  With six significant climbs (some of which are 13-17% for long stretches) it is notorious and glorious at the same time.  The scenery is unparalleled and there is a mystique about the Highlands which captures everyone’s imagination.  The... Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast | ICI/PRO

  • We have some very talented Instructors

    john@indoorcycleinstructor.com (John@indoorcycleinstructor.com)
    15 May 2012 | 7:56 am
    Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast | ICI/PRO - ICI/PRO is the Indoor Cycling Instructor Community's resource for tips, free music, motivation, education, entertainment, class profiles and playlists.All I can say is “WOW!” We have received a bunch of very well designed class profiles, from some very talented Indoor Cycling Instructors. Now the hard part as we review each and try to decide which one is the Ultimate Instructor Class Profile. Thank you to everyone who entered and we hope to have... Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast | ICI/PRO

  • iPhone App you and your student’s will love

    john@indoorcycleinstructor.com (John@indoorcycleinstructor.com)
    13 May 2012 | 11:33 am
    Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast | ICI/PRO - ICI/PRO is the Indoor Cycling Instructor Community's resource for tips, free music, motivation, education, entertainment, class profiles and playlists.When I’m asked to review a product or service that includes new technology, I’m always a bit hesitant. You see I like simple and I tend to see many new products trying to solve a problem that really doesn’t need to be solved or will add another (needless) layer of complexity/frustration/distraction to the lives of Instructors and/or... Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast | ICI/PRO

  • Mixed Indoor Cycling Class Music from IndoorCyclingMusic.com

    john@indoorcycleinstructor.com (John@indoorcycleinstructor.com)
    11 May 2012 | 7:41 am
    Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast | ICI/PRO - ICI/PRO is the Indoor Cycling Instructor Community's resource for tips, free music, motivation, education, entertainment, class profiles and playlists.Friday is our music day here at ICI/PRO so it’s the right time to tell you that Keith Burnage has re-branded Cadence Revolution and it’s is now IndoorCyclingMusic.com I’ll let you in on a little secret – on occasion I’ve used Keith’s 60 minute mixed Podcasts in my class… they’re a real lifesaver and my... Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast | ICI/PRO

  • Tech Tuesday – Spotify Now On Your iPad = Bigger Numbers

    john@indoorcycleinstructor.com (John@indoorcycleinstructor.com)
    8 May 2012 | 5:08 am
    Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast | ICI/PRO - ICI/PRO is the Indoor Cycling Instructor Community's resource for tips, free music, motivation, education, entertainment, class profiles and playlists.I don’t own an iPad (my birthday is soon Amy – in case you need an idea) but if I did I would want to use it in my class now that Spotify has an official iPad App! The biggest reason I would prefer it, over my iPhone, is the font size. The “Time Remaining”... Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast | ICI/PRO
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    Bicyclelab.com

  • One Athletes Ironman Story of His Near Death Experience

    Victor
    23 Apr 2012 | 8:52 am
    One Athletes Ironman Story of His Near Death ExperienceHow I found my Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) Intense foot pain slowed me down to a crawl as I finished IMLP in 2010 In January of 2010, whilst lying quietly in bed, I noticed a prominent pulse in my lower abdomen. At that time I was at an intense level of training for my favorite [...]Bicyclelab.com

  • Bicycle Saddle Pain and Discomfort

    Victor
    14 Apr 2012 | 12:57 pm
    Bicycle Saddle Pain and DiscomfortLearn about your anatomy to get more comfortable on your bike seat. Nearly all cyclists have problems with their body/saddle connection at some point. Some people just deal with the pain and discomfort while others give up cycling all together. It does not have to be that way.  We created this series of videos to [...]Bicyclelab.com

  • Interview with the Sufferfest King

    Victor
    23 Mar 2012 | 10:44 am
    Interview with the Sufferfest KingInterview with the king of Sufferlandria IWBMATTKYT   There is one thing for sure. I despise riding inside. I would rather ride out in the weather or do something else entirely, like go for a walk or run. Yes I have watched videos and even have all the fancy trainers and gadgets in the lab. [...]Bicyclelab.com

  • Only 28 Minutes of Riding Improved Power by 6%

    Ashley Yeager
    28 Feb 2012 | 10:30 am
    Only 28 Minutes of Riding Improved Power by 6%30 second sprints can give a big boost to your power Adding a few sprints to your weekly workouts may give you an edge over the competition. When scientists compared trained cyclists who did their normal endurance sessions with riders who added a series of sprint sets twice a week, they found the intense efforts [...]Bicyclelab.com

  • How to Change a Flat Tire on a Road or Tri bike

    Victor
    15 Feb 2012 | 3:31 pm
    How to Change a Flat Tire on a Road or Tri bikeWatch this video and learn one method to change a tire on a road or triathlon bike There are many different ways to change a flat. There really is not one perfect method. This video shows one way to change a tire using tire levers. I suggest that you learn all of the methods and [...]Bicyclelab.com
 
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    Cycling 360 media

  • Clipless Pedals

    victor@cycling360media.com (Victor Jimenez, Darryl Kotyk, Rob Grissom)
    11 May 2012 | 7:39 am
    Clipless PedalsClipless pedals are a big part of road cycling (as well as mountain bike and triathlon) these days, but how did it all begin?  In this Cycling 360 podcast, Darryl and Victor go over everything from what Clipless pedals are to alternatives for those that aren’t interested or comfortable in using them.This is another one of those podcasts that is applicable to riders of every level and for all types of cycling.  This podcast will make you a better cyclists.  Tune in to find out:Why are they called “Clipless”?The benefits of using clipless pedals.The different…

  • Riding in The Rain

    victor@cycling360media.com (Victor Jimenez, Darryl Kotyk, Rob Grissom)
    4 May 2012 | 7:17 am
    Cycling in the RainHave you experienced a period in your cycling when it seems like every time you try to go for a ride it’s raining?  What can you do to get in those much needed bike miles?  Victor and Rob discuss the topic of cycling in the rain and provide feedback, comments, and tips on how to make your way through it.Speaking of rain, what are your thoughts about it?  Do you agree with the information the guys bring up in the podcast.  What do you have to say on the subject?  Be sure to contact us and tell us your thoughts.Be sure to listen in to this Cycling 360 podcast and find…

  • Triathlon vs Road Bikes

    victor@cycling360media.com (Victor Jimenez, Darryl Kotyk, Rob Grissom)
    27 Apr 2012 | 9:52 am
    Road or Triathlon Bike which is Best?It’s a question that our co-host Victor gets asked each and every day…..do I need a Tri bike if I’m doing triathlons?If you’ve been asking yourself this same question, you’ll want to tune into this podcast and join Darryl and Victor as they go over every angle in this podcast on triathlon bikes.  Even if you already have a tri bike, you’ll find what the guys have to say very informative and we’re sure there are some great tips for you to take away.  Maybe you’re like Darryl and have never been overly…

  • The Cadence Show

    victor@cycling360media.com (Victor Jimenez, Darryl Kotyk, Rob Grissom)
    20 Apr 2012 | 1:00 am
     All about Cadence and CyclingWe’ve been talking about doing a show on Cycling Cadence for quite some time now.  It was Victor who first brought the idea up and it slowly built momentum until we had many of our listeners writing in telling us that they’d really like to see this show go on.  It’s finally happened, and the results include information for all types of riders.Tune in to this podcast and listen in as Darryl, Rob, and Victor discuss all things cadence.  This podcast includes:Who should be concerned with tracking cadence and how it can improve your…

  • Carbs and Cycling

    victor@cycling360media.com (Victor Jimenez, Darryl Kotyk, Rob Grissom)
    13 Apr 2012 | 1:00 am
    It’s always a good day when Kelli Jennings drops by to record with the Cycling 360 guys….join us in this podcast to learn valuable information on carbs, nutrition, and how it all applies to cycling.  As we state in the opening of each podcasts, this one is sure to make you a better cyclist.Kelli Jennings is a Registered Dietitian with a passion for healthy eating, wellness, & sports nutrition. She is an avid athlete herself, and has become a leader and expert in the field of Sports Nutrition for endurance athletes.  Kelli runs a nutrition company called, Apex Nutrition, is…
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    lovingthebike.com

  • The Joys of Finding a Riding Partner

    Darryl
    15 May 2012 | 4:47 am
    Share/BookmarkIf you haven’t noticed, I don’t have a lot of posts about cycling with partners or groups.  I’m primarily a solo cyclist, so when Mike Neifert came to me with a guest post on “The Joys of Finding a Riding Partner” I was stoked to get it up and include some content on this subject. We’re giving Stevie the day off and felt that this post by Mike would fit in quite nicely for our #bikeschool series.  I invite you all to read Mike’s story of a solo rider who found riding partners and how it changed his cycling. The Joys of Finding a Riding…

  • Who Wants Saddle Sores?

    Darryl
    14 May 2012 | 2:07 pm
    Share/BookmarkPhoto c/o www.bicycling.co.za Getting or having saddle sores is probably something us cyclists would like to keep to ourselves, right?  I don’t get them very often, but here I am publicly announcing that I just so happen to have a couple right now and they sure did make today’s ride a little uncomfortable.  Yeah, it’s a nasty subject to talk about so I’ll keep things very short. My Cycling 360 co-hosts and I recently did a show all about saddle sores….including what causes them and a secret remedy to cure them (trying that one out myself right…

  • Make it Happen Monday: Comparison to Your Best Self

    Darryl
    14 May 2012 | 4:42 am
    Share/BookmarkI’m definitely of the opinion that we should strive to be the best person that we can possibly be….but sometimes making comparisons to your “best self” can have negative results. When I was around 14 years old, I spent a lot of my summers playing golf.  My friends and I would bike over to the course and play a round almost every week day and as far as I can remember, it was a lot of fun (especially the freedom of getting there on our own).  I don’t have a lot of specific memories about that time in my life, but I can remember having spells of…

  • Early Morning Fuel

    Darryl
    12 May 2012 | 6:00 am
    Share/BookmarkWhat’s the best fuel for an early morning ride? Question: Out of habit, I’ve always eaten cereal (granola) before my morning ride.  For the last several weeks, I’ve been riding at 6am to avoid the heat, and eating at 5:30 am.  I haven’t had any stomach issues, but I am not sure that this is the best pre-ride meal strategy. My legs have felt heavy since starting to ride earlier.  My rides are 1.5-2 hours.  Should I eat less, something different, or nothing at all?  What do you think? Kelli’s Answer: I think your pre-ride fuel strategy can be improved. …

  • Loving the Commute: Safety

    AaronMadrid
    11 May 2012 | 4:39 am
    Share/Bookmark In light of recent tragic cycling events, this post is going to have a slightly different tone.  This post is aimed at the bike commuter and those of you driving your cars.  Unfortunately, I know that most of those who will read this spend much of their time on the bike and already know a lot of what I will say.  So first and foremost, I implore you, the simplest thing you can do is share this post.  I challenge you to send this post to at least one person you know that DOES NOT ride a bike regularly.  Email it, Facebook it, tweet it, post it to the ends of the earth.
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    Motocross Hideout

  • Ultimate MX Hauler – No More Ramp or Straps – Review

    Tom Stark
    14 May 2012 | 7:30 pm
    Tired of cheap Chinese junk? Now you can haul your dirt bike on your hitch in a different, yet easier way. The Ultimate MX Hauler is the latest and greatest in technology when it comes to hauling your bike to the track or trails. There are no required straps or ramps; it is easy enough for any one person to load a dirt bike on it. No More Rails Flopping Around Unlike other motorcycle/dirt bike carriers, the Ultimate MX hauler does not have a rail that the wheels roll up onto. Instead, you roll the bike up to it so the bike is sitting above the platform. For most vehicle hitches you…

  • What To Look For When Buying A Helmet Cam

    Tom Stark
    14 May 2012 | 12:39 pm
    Helmet Cams have become very popular in the extreme sport scene. There are so many to choose from now that you have to do a lot of research to find which one fits your needs and budget. They range from very inexpensive and poor quality for the newbie, to somewhat expensive and HD for the weekend warrior or videographer. Depending on what you’re looking to spend, there are many different qualities a helmet camera can have. The main specs you want to keep in mind are: image quality, sound quality, size, mounting units, and durability. I’ll let you in on some other quirks these…

  • How To Fix YZ250F Choke – Video

    Tom Stark
    12 May 2012 | 12:18 pm
    A tip on how to fix the choke knob on a yz250f. This has been a common problem for my yz250f’s, but it might occur on other bikes too. -Tom Stark Originally posted 2010-01-21 17:05:52.

  • KTM SX 2008

    Tom Stark
    10 May 2012 | 11:55 am
    New Bike Just picked up a 2008 KTM 125 2-stroke dirt bike. I have to change the oil and get some more gas before I really test this thing out. It’s not actually new off the showroom floor. I bought it used, but it’s the newest bike I’ve had. The bike is all stock except for the FMF spark arrestor and has decently low hours. This will be my race bike for hopefully the next few years. Please comment if you would like me to make a review for it. Originally posted 2009-09-07 00:17:00.

  • 2003 Kawasaki KLX300 Review – Rival of The Honda XR

    Tom Stark
    8 May 2012 | 11:49 am
    It’s always been known that Honda XR’s are pretty much bomb-proof trail bikes. It would seriously take some long and hard abuse to kill one of those things. But in this day and age, the XR is becoming more of an out-dated piece of machinery compared to the modern high-tech dirt bikes. Kawasaki has been making the liquid-cooled KLX300R trail bike since 1997, but in 2003 it got a nice face-lift. The KLX300 is in the same class as Honda’s XR250R, but even with the extra displacement, it will still be hard to beat the mighty, air-cooled XR. More power is better, but it…
 
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  • FSale: Titus Carbon X

    AdrainCo
    16 May 2012 | 1:54 am
    Titus Carbon X'09 purchased brand new late 2010: SRAM XO '11 Groupset Magura MD100 Forks MAVIC SLR '09 FSA K-Force Handlebar, Stem and Seatpost Crank Brother Egg Beater Built Bike 180K (Firm) Willing to sell parts Separarely. my email: adrain168@yahoo.com my mobile no. 0917-6311688 (pls. text only) * i can also email you some more pics

  • FSale: Shock pump

    ajmm
    15 May 2012 | 9:57 pm
    Shock Pump Price: P800.00 Spec: 2-3 psi micro adjust button Max. Pressure 300 psi All Aluminum Alloy Structure Non-scratch rubber sealing system Meet Up: Diliman, TSora,Fairview or Commonwealth Txt me @ 09274515777....

  • FSale: Bomber55 marzocchi TST2

    toneng
    15 May 2012 | 9:29 pm
    For sale fork tru axle 20 mm, bomber 55 marzoochi TST2, second hand, very good condition, slight scratch on sticker. P 12,000.00 Location Makati weekdays, San Pablo City weekends. SMS 09209134597

  • FS Used: mtb components

    crimson
    15 May 2012 | 9:07 pm
    1 - wheelset 10.5k negotiable DT Swiss 4.2D white 32 holes Tank Suplite black Wheelsmith Spokes and nipples aest lightweight skewer red color Ashima Rotors bolt type item 2 - schwalbe smart sam tires pair 85% thread life - 2k fixed item 3 - handle bar FSA Carbon low rise oversize uncut - 3.2k fixed item 4 - seat post both 27.2 size la bici pewter color - 600 petot SOLD traction zero red color - 500 petot item 5 - stem la bici oversize pewter color - 600 petot item 6 - khs alite 2000 model 2012 white/red color size 17 with traction sealed bearing and generic clamps price 5.8k negotiable item 7…

  • 2nd Hand Bianchi Bike

    rushmore3238
    15 May 2012 | 9:02 pm
    Patulong naman mga sir ano ba feedback sa brand na ito? Binebenta siya for 9k.. tingin nyo talo o panalo? Test upload pic hehe.. Ayaw gumana kanina o hindi lang ako marunong hehe..
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    TheDirtyWheel - The Mud Blog

  • A Celebration of Speed - R.I.P. Carroll Shelby

    12 May 2012 | 5:03 pm
        It is rare for my blog to deviate from cycling content but certain things in life warrant and command full attention. So today we will celebrate the speed we all thirst for, by honoring a man known for his accomplishments in propelling forward.  The faction of cyclists that are focused on the "One less car on the road" movement may have let yesterday pass without absorbing the full impact of Carroll Shelby's passing.  Automotive enthusiasts understand his contributions but Shelby was a man with a midas touch and a reach that extended far beyond the boundaries of the…

  • MTB : UnPlugged - Trails minus Technology

    7 May 2012 | 2:53 am
      Let us start by setting some expectations for what this is all about.  You are not about to be subjected to a rant about how I despise electronic devices, riders wearing headphones, or most of the things you may expect.  For a good portion of riders/readers you are more than aware of the points that I am about to blabber on about.  That is because for a good contingent of riders, we view the trail as a sanctuary, or distraction from the stresses and routines embedded into our daily lives.  Quite honestly, I view myself as a rider that uses the trails as therapy - an…

  • CURVEBALLS, BROKEN SPOKES, AND WINDS OF CHANGE

    9 Mar 2012 | 2:15 pm
    Well at this point its not surprising that another month has past and content generation for my blog is still one of the most challenging aspects for me.  The original intent was to share passion, witty anecdotes, and stories I just had to share.  Truth be told, the website consumes a lot of my time, leaving me always focused on the next project.  So this blog post will serve merely as an outline of things to that are happening and things to come.  First and foremost, my goal to get back in shape earlier in the year was a rousing ..... FAILURE.  Like most of you guys,…

  • Do you Want a Free Bike ??? and a little insight?

    18 Jan 2012 | 12:59 pm
      Well it has been almost a year and the time is upon us again...  What time?  Time for Airborne Bicycles to start accepting applications for their Flight Crew.  Airborne Bicycles is entering the third year of their program and they need new members.  The program has been so successful that others in the Industry; Specialized, Giant, and Foundry offer similar programs. What you may not know is that TheDirtyWheel was actually born out of the Airborne opportunity.  Who doesn't want a free bike and to be sponsored?  That was what we said. So we put together a…

  • 2012 DirtyWheel Dream Stable

    10 Jan 2012 | 12:28 pm
      As we enter into the heart of the month of January, we have finally excepted that 2012 is in full swing.  It isn't that we are not looking forward to a new and awesome year, but it has been a different transition.  The time honored tradition of making New Year's Resolutions has come and gone for most, and while we have had our lists in the back of our heads, it was not until right now that we will begin to acknowledge them.  So we are going to start real slow and easy and take a look at our TOP 10 LIST of bikes that we would love to flog in 2012.  Before we jump in…
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  • Race Report – Paris to Ancaster 2012 a.k.a. Bike Karma

    darrencope
    24 Apr 2012 | 7:20 pm
    Call it statistics, call it karma, call it just plain bad luck. Whatever you call it, it results in a short ‘race report’ post for the 2012 Paris to Ancaster race. It all began the weekend before the race, when I figured it was a good idea to get the ‘cross bike cleaned up and prepared for the race. For anyone who doesn’t know me well, I should mention that bike maintenance is not my strong point. I guess I prefer riding bikes over washing or maintaining them. As such, it came as a bit of a shock to me that the XTR pulleys that I had replaced not too long ago (no more…

  • From Stout to Hefeweizen

    darrencope
    6 Apr 2012 | 4:44 pm
    In what seems like a flash, we’ve gone from stout to hefeweizen; from snow to sap, from glorious sunny skate skis to glorious sunny road rides; from ‘cross withdrawal to spring classics fever (is this Georgie’s last chance??) In short, life is good, and we’ve transitioned from my favourite season of winter to my other favourite season—spring is here! (for the record, spring is followed by summer, which is by far my favourite season, and then fall, which is better still!) I apologize (as it seems I do every time I post) that I’ve been negligent in keeping…

  • 2011 – The Year in Review

    darrencope
    21 Feb 2012 | 8:44 pm
    Once again, I’m late with my summary of the past year. Shocking, I know ;) Better late than never though, so deal with it! I’m not even sure how best to summarize 2011; once again it was a year of ups and downs, both in life in general, and in my cycling. However, like 2010, I’m very fortunate that the ups outnumber the downs by a significant degree! If only I could figure out how to eliminate those downs all together… Cycling   In 2011, I got out on the bike 150 times, for a total of 6882.96km. This is down 964.01km from 2010, which seems hard to believe because…

  • Tour de Brew – Part VI

    darrencope
    12 Dec 2011 | 5:53 pm
    The long awaited Tour de Brew – Part VI is finally here! It’s the wrap-up edition, and I’ll try to keep it short and sweet! Monday morning was warm again, but not super hot, with a misty rain that left the roads wet. Matt and I were up for one final ride before leaving, so we kitted up and rolled out the gravel road from the cabin back to the pavement. We then went down to Jeffersonville, so we could say we officially started the ride at the bottom of the climb :) We repeated the climb up Smuggler’s Notch that we did the first day. Despite the miles and elevation gain…

  • Tour de Brew – Part V

    darrencope
    13 Nov 2011 | 8:18 pm
    While waiting for our Thai takeout in Burlington box mall hell on Saturday night, we took a visit to a book shop. In the book shop, we found a copy of the book Backroad Bicycling In Vermont which we flipped through. Despite some very odd advice (never make a left turn???) the book contained some interesting route ideas. One of them started in Jeffersonville, and went North, missing most of the big hills. This looked ideal for an ‘easy’ day on Sunday, so we noted the route and planned on riding it the next day. Sunday morning, we took the quick drive from the cabin down to a car…
 
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    London Cyclist Blog

  • Electric Bikes: It’s not Cheating, it’s Transport

    Andreas
    16 May 2012 | 5:11 am
    The electric bike isn’t a replacement for a bicycle. It’s the replacement for a car or a motorbike. That’s the line Guy Wheeler of Leftfield Bikes used when he got in touch with me a while back. It’s an interesting view and as I continue to be surprised that electric bikes haven’t gained more traction in the UK, I invited Guy to share his views. I pass you on to Guy.. Before the tyres were even pumped-up on our new ‘pedelec’, two road racers appeared. One observed that it was electric and the other, that it was cheating… and thus began the debate: are electric…

  • What happens if you have a collision with a pedestrian

    Andreas
    15 May 2012 | 4:03 am
    Have you ever had a collision with a pedestrian? I’ve heard of friends damaging their bike after they perform of an emergency stop. However, that’s nothing compared to a story London Cyclist reader Tiva sent me. It all took place on Aldwych road. A pedestrian stepped out in Tiva’s path and did the classic “left-right-left-right-freeze” dance coming to a halt directly in the path of the bike. Tiva tried to slam on her brakes and in the process fell off the bike damaging her knee. The pedestrian apologised but Tiva was clearly injured. An ambulance was called. However, Tiva, in that…

  • Tour De Latitude competition

    Andreas
    14 May 2012 | 4:39 am
    We’ve got a new competition today to give away two tickets to The Latitude Festival and the Tour De Latitude ride to get there. What is the Tour De Latitude? Good question. I had to ask my much more hip friend Laura who told me that unlike other festivals it’s not just about the music. There’s a bunch of cool art, poetry, literature and cabaret acts to behold. Of course if you are just a fan of music then bands such as Elbow and Ben Howard should appeal. More details: http://www.latitudefestival.co.uk/ and on the Give2Go website who organise the ride. What are you giving away? Two…

  • The London Cyclist guide to cleaning your bike even when you’ve not got the room to do it

    Andreas
    10 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    Keeping your bike clean when you’ve not really got the room to do it is a pain. However, it is something that should be in your calendar at least once a month. It should be one of those things, you shouldn’t even think about having to do. “Oh, it’s the first of the month – time to clean the bike.” Why is it so important? Let me just create an image in your mind. You are riding along and road muck gets trapped in your rear cassette. As the chain spins round at high speed that muck slowly but surely grinds away at the components. With each ride you take you are getting your bike one…

  • DHB Sync Waterproof Jacket Review

    Andreas
    9 May 2012 | 2:58 am
    Provoked by the hosepipe ban, in the past 30 days we’ve seen the skies opening and unleashing their rainy fury on London’s cyclists. In response, I’ve been testing out the DHB Sync Waterproof Jacket (59.99 Wiggle). The ultimate solution for the worst weather that can be thrown at a cyclist. Let’s get one thing clear, I’ve always been a fan of the DHB range. In my own testing experience, it often outperforms more expensive products. The DHB Sync Jacket adds one very crucial element that I’ve found makes a big difference when compared to similar jackets. A hood. You may think riding…
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    Local Bicycle Trader - Used Bicycles for Sale

  • SCHWINN MIDTOWN 21SPD, 17FR 2xSSP HYBRID

    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Have a Schwinn Midtown 17 aluminum frame 21spd hybrid comfort mountain bike with dual suspension for sale. VERY WELL KEPT CONDITION. Bike runs perfect, I believe her to be 2007ish, so around 5 years old? Great shape really fun perfect for summer. Shimano components (Tourney rear derail.) w/ mega range for uphill 17 aluminum frame 26 tires with Schwinn Deep Dish Aluminum 32 spoke rims w (4-spoke cluster design) SR Suntour front suspension fork Quick release tires Quick adjust seat. 160 obo cash. Email is best.

  • DIAMONDBACK APEX 18sp, 22frm Mountain

    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Diamondback Apex 18 speed 22 size CRMO frame. Designed in USA, it has 26 tires, is in amazing running conditions and ready to ride away today. Shimano components (Deore DX rear derail.), brake booster seat stays, tange double butted tubing, avenir equipped, designed in the USA. 140 or best serious cash offer, no trades please. Live in and can meet around SDSU or College Grove area of San Diego.

  • Retro 1990s Univega Alpina Sport - OBO

    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Early-Mid 90s Univega Alpina Sport near SDSU. 15 speed 22 red frame 26 tires with aluminum rims stainless steel spokes lightweight and excellent running conditions great for students exercise or commuting would like 120 or best cash only, not interested in trades please.

  • Tommasini Super Prestige

    16 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    This is a vintage Tommasini Super Prestige (circa 1984) valued at 1500. The frame size is much too large for me so I am trying to trade it in for one that is closer to my size. The bike is in excellent condition. It has all dura-ace components and a nearly perfect paint job.

  • Bottecchia Road Frame 60 cm

    15 May 2012 | 2:03 pm
     From the early to mid 80's, Columbus Aelle tubing, bb is itl threading, 126mm rear spacing, 2 bottle mounts, front derailuer tab, uses a 27.2 seatpost, recessed allen brakes, on a 10 to 1 scale, a 4 or 3, I think the frame was chromed with paint over. It ahs been a while since I used this but I recall it is a very nice riding frame. no shipping, gmails, texts, in person offers considered burrussw@earthlink.net Listing originally posted at http://wisconsin.findanycycle.com/bicycles/bottecchia-road-frame-60-cm.html
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    Cycling Tips

  • News Shorts – 16th May, 2012

    Veeral Patel
    15 May 2012 | 5:58 pm
    Last week’s headlines in Pro Cycling news and what’s coming up… Garmin’s romp, from the time trial to the maglia rosa; Welcome to the club; One for the other guys; Cavendish’s ups and downs; Sprinters heading home; The other classifications; Giro d’Italia to race Galibier; Ullrich admits mistakes; Sagan back to his winning ways in California; Garmin’s romp, from the time trial to the maglia rosa Garmin proved the importance of time trial strength in Verona. It capitalised on its placings in the opening time trial, won the team time trial and placed little-known…

  • Giro d’Italia Stage 11 Preview

    cyclingtips
    15 May 2012 | 4:15 pm
    Take a closer look at the Giro d’Italia as Daniel Lloyd and Dario Cioni provide some technical insights into how the pros will tackle stage 11. Take a closer look at the Giro d’Italia as Daniel Lloyd and Dario Cioni provide some technical insights into how the pros will tackle stage 11.

  • Giro d’Italia – Stage 10

    jarrodp
    15 May 2012 | 2:29 pm
    When looking at the finishing profile into the historic town of Assisi it’s no surprise that Joaquim Rodriguez walked away with the win and took over the maglia rosa. Over the past couple of years he’s proved to be an incredibly classy rider who loves the steep and sharp finishes. With Contador sidelined until the Vuelta, Rodriguez is Spain’s shining star and the thread that keeps the Spanish connected to the Giro. Finishing Profile The finish in the medieval town of Assisi featuring a section at 15% and narrow cobbled roads. Photos Stage 11 Preview Stage 11 is the longest…

  • Giro d’Italia – Stage 9 “Ahhh Pippo, What Are You Doing?”

    jarrodp
    14 May 2012 | 3:36 pm
    “Ahhh Pippo, What Are You Doing?” as David Harmon (Eurosport) yells he calls another messy sprint in the Giro today with Filippo “Pippo” Pozzato taking down many of the top sprinters at the final corner with 350m to go. The cameras didn’t catch exactly what happened but as Gossy went wide into the final left-hand corner Pozzato seemed to run straight into the side of him causing the lead sprinters to either hit the deck or come to a standstill. Thankfully nobody was seriously hurt (that I’m aware of). As Gregor Brown reports for CyclingWeekly, here is…

  • Bikes of the Bunch – Stoemper

    cyclingtips
    14 May 2012 | 2:06 pm
    In a day when many frame makers have moved to carbon, titanium and retro steel, aluminium has taken a backseat with most high-end bikes. It was the alloy of choice ten to twenty years ago but is now relegated to inexpensive cyclocross and mountain bike frames. Fortunatley aluminium still has a place in my mate Roger’s heart and he managed to find a framebuilder in Springfield, Oregon who still specialises in using it. Stoemper is Flemish for “mashing a big gear”, in English, or “Big Dog” in Aussie, or probably more literally, “Stomper”. It’s an…
 
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  • Ian Morrison at Whistler Doing a Whip at 1,000 fps

    198
    15 May 2012 | 7:28 am
    Have you ever wondered what a full whip on a mountain bike looks like in super slow motion? Well here is Ian Morrison at Whistler Mountain Bike Park doing a whip over a table at 1,000 frames per second. You can actually watch each spoke move as he maneuvers this table. It is mesmerizing to watch.Rider: Ian Morrison Location: Whistler Mountain Bike Park Frame rate: 1,000 fps Live online premiere: May 24th 12:00pm PST – redbull.com/bikeStrength in Numbers is a rally call to connect all mountain bikers, regardless of location or language or discipline. The film captures a true way of life,…

  • Review: Renovo Badash 29er Wooden Hardtail Mountain Bike

    198
    9 May 2012 | 9:34 am
    The Renovo Badash 29er wooden bike. Arguably the only wooden bike we have seen at Bike198 that actually looks like it can shred trail and Renovo sent one over for us to throw a leg over. These past few weeks…that is what I have done, so we need to take a look at how this unique bike performs on the trail. Does it ride as good as it looks?Renovo is pretty unique. While other bike companies have gone the bamboo route, Renovo uses a series of hardwoods to build their bikes which include everything from time trial rigs to this 29er HT. This particular Badash 29er came out of the Red Stag…

  • It Never Fails: Wrecks Come In Multiples

    198
    9 May 2012 | 8:16 am
    A week ago yesterday, I headed out for our regular Tuesday night “Dirt and Taco’s” at our local mountain bike trail.As part of the evenings festivities, we typically head back to a small DH/FR area and session for most of the night. We get in some great climbing while getting the added benefit of a big payoff on the way down. After about a dozen or so runs (the DH run only takes 43 seconds if you are pinning it), we finish out the XC loops and head to a great Mexican restaurant afterwards.Last Tuesday, I decided I was going to go for broke. Thanks to Strava, we have a…

  • One for the ladies – Projekt Roam: Silver Star Resort in BC Canada

    198
    8 May 2012 | 9:02 am
    Our friends over at Projekt Roam sent us over their latest edit from Silver Star Resort in British Columbia, Canada. Needless to say…this is just one of the amazing places to ride in the area. What we particularly like about this video is much different that most that are posted on the site. If you look closely…it is actually a female ripping up the resort. I don’t know about you…but we think that is pretty damn cool. Enjoy.Busy day in and day out throughout the winter, Projekt Roam held on to their Silver Star film footage. Now, in the clutches of spring fever,…

  • Trials Riding in Moab in Full HD Glory. Yes…it is that beautiful…

    198
    1 May 2012 | 10:26 am
    If you can’t already tell…trials bikes are on the brain of Bike198 right now. We are actually on the hunt to find the perfect trials bike for the site so we can start gearing more content in that area of riding. When a friend of ours posted up a link to this video on Facebook, we knew right away it needed to be posted here. Moab is one of the best places to mountain bike in the world. When you add a sunset, trials maneuvers by Jeremy VanSchoonhoven and HD video…the outcome is breathtaking.Sit back, relax and enjoy dreaming away with this clip. It is worth every second.This…
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    Northwest Evolution

  • Garage Race

    Elliott Lemenager
    11 May 2012 | 3:09 pm
    In Prague FUNBIKE puts on a garage race for the locals and I have to say it looks like a blast. Maybe it’s time that the NW has one of it’s own.

  • Spring with Jaws

    Elliott Lemenager
    7 May 2012 | 12:50 pm
    If you haven’t dusted off your mountain bike in your garage and got out on the trails this spring yet he’s a little video that will get you stoked. Spring with Jaws has been in the works since the first green leaves started to pop and the last month that they’ve put into this video bring some great eye candy. If you like tight berms, big air and some slick videography hit play and wash those Monday blues away.

  • Dustin Greenall

    Elliott Lemenager
    7 May 2012 | 12:34 pm
    Dustin Greenall Has been riding mountain bikes as long as his parents took off his training wheels. Based in Kimberley, B.C., Canada Dustin is still shredding the brown pow. With the weather getting better every day in the Northwest I’m sure we’re going to see some more great videos like these coming our way. Keep up the great work!

  • Follow Steve Peat And The Life Of a Downhill Racer

    Elliott Lemenager
    4 May 2012 | 4:59 pm
    If you don’t know who Steve Peat is then I guess you’re not a fan of downhill mountain biking. No matter if you’re a mega fan or just getting into this sport you need to watch this video. Steve Peat is an icon for downhill racing and this video will take you through an international whirlwind adventure of what it’s like to be Steve Peat. The film starts in Sheffield and take you through Argentina, South Africa, and even Satna Cruz. It’s a little bit of a longer video so grab a snack and enjoy.

  • Andrew Bigelow Joins Specialized

    Elliott Lemenager
    4 May 2012 | 4:48 pm
    Here’s a preview of what to come from the Specialized team. This short clip highlights Andrew Bigelow and his raw talent especially since he has been more focused on park and street riding. It will be fun to watch Andrew this next year trying his chops out on the dirt.
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  • Motivating the Stoker

    Anne
    7 May 2012 | 8:18 am
      We’ve been busy this spring getting ready for our Pacific Coast bike tour in July (even though we’d love to do the whole thing, we only have time for Seattle to SFO).  We’re buying light weight camping gear, planning our route, getting the bikes set up and doing lots of tandem riding on the weekends. The whole family goes for at least one long ride every week – usually between 20 and 35 miles. We’ll slowly build up to 50 miles by the time we’re ready to roll out-of-town in July. It’s all about the stoker: Tim rides with our 11-year-old daughter…

  • Talk about Walk & Bike to School programs Thurs!

    Tim K
    12 Apr 2012 | 2:00 am
    Walk.Bike.Schools! is a blog,  meeting (7pm Thursday @ Bryant Elementary library) and (hopefully) a movement to support and encourage parents and kids walking and biking to school. Our mission (though calling it such seems a little grand right now) is to build a network of parents, neighbors, members of school communities, and yes, students, who can share ideas and energy around the goal of encouraging more kids and families to bike to school—at least some of the time. Our loose group of ~6-8 parents has been reasonably successful—Bryant won SDOT’s Golden Shoe award for the largest…

  • Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Action is Afoot (and a-Bicycle, for that matter)

    Tim K
    21 Mar 2012 | 4:43 am
    edit:I’ve been told that a shared definition of a Neighborhood Greenway would be helpful for some readers. We’re working toward  our “ideal vision” but in the meantime check out the “What is a neighborhood Greenway” section in this post by Sally Bagshaw for the basics. -Tim) The Carfreedays family is jumping into the hotbed of Seattle Greenways grass-roots activism and joining up with our neighbors in NE Seattle on the NE Greenways project! Greenways fit with the kind of riding we do (parent and kid-powered transportation), and c0uld really be the key…

  • Grand-mère rocks the folding-bike wheelie

    Tim K
    8 Mar 2012 | 4:39 pm
    Daily Bike surfaced this beauty with the title “Most Awesome Wheelie ever.” While I won’t disagree with that assessment, I can’t help but notice the photo is chock-a-block full of awesomeness (like most-awesome everyday-cycling role model, most-active grandma, best Parisian folding-bike wheelie, and best Parisian cargo-bike wheelie, for starters). Je tire mon casquette à vous grand-mère! -Tim Via Adventure Journal and biCyCle Store Paris. Holler if credit should be applied elsewhere.

  • Grab a sitter, Shirley, it’s Pedal Party time!

    Tim K
    8 Mar 2012 | 1:55 am
    What, you haven’t been to an afterparty since before you had the kids? Lucky for you, our buddy Ryan, AKA Go Means Go, is throwing down his  a 3rd-annual Pedal Party, an essential post-Expo opportunity to shed your Cascade-mandated yellow jacket, helmet and clicky shoes to slip into some sexy partywear (or at least some clean skinny jeans with a rolled up right leg) and SHAKE IT.This is an honest-to-goodness grown-up event.: 21+, alcohol, music you don’t recognize, alcohol, and a chance to mix it up with a wide cross-section of the Seattle cycling community (the booty shakers and…
 
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    its all cyclelogical

  • may sale

    cyclelogicalgear
    7 May 2012 | 1:06 pm
    We just added more bags to our May Sale! Check it out! 

  • Bike Month Events

    cyclelogicalgear
    4 May 2012 | 9:00 am
    Check out the League of American Bicyclists for more info on Bike Month Find an event in your city

  • May is Bicycle Month

    cyclelogicalgear
    2 May 2012 | 3:41 pm

  • Muse Cycles-Interviewed

    cyclelogicalgear
    24 Apr 2012 | 8:50 am
    We came across Muse Cycles at the North American Handmade Bike Show back in March, where they won an award for Best City Bike. Here is an interview we did this week  with owner/creator Lyle Harlow. 1.How long have you been building bikes? I have been building bikes for almost 3 years now. While this may sound like only a short while – I have been designing, building, welding, machining, and basically fabricating this and that for most of my adult life.    2. what is your favorite part about being a bike builder?  My favorite part of building bicycles is that I am able to create …

  • monday morning inspiration-urban cycling

    cyclelogicalgear
    16 Apr 2012 | 9:19 am
    We found this via REI’s facebook feed this morning and we thought we would share the video with you all!   Discover urban cycling with REI Enjoy and we hope this gives you a great start to your week!
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    RadioshackNissanTrekFan.com

  • Schleck surprised by late Giro d’Italia call-up

    Jens
    5 May 2012 | 2:13 am
    Fränk Schleck has admitted that he was surprised at his late call-up to lead the RadioShack-Nissan team at the Giro d’Italia, but he has insisted that he will do all he can to finish in the top 5 in Milan. Schleck was only informed of his selection on Saturday afternoon, after previously designated leader Jakob Fuglsang was forced to give best to a knee injury. “It was a big surprise for me because I didn’t expect to have to replace Jakob,” Schleck told Le Quotidien. “Since 2006, I’ve had the habit of taking a week off after the classics and then preparing for the Tour de France…

  • Cancellara on Road to Recovery

    Jens
    5 May 2012 | 2:10 am
    Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Nissan) has resumed training on the road after breaking his collarbone in a crash at the Tour of Flanders but the Swiss rider has revealed that his recovery from injury has taken longer than anticipated. “It took a long time, longer than I had hoped and longer than anyone had expected,” Cancellara told Het Laatste Nieuws. “I’ve only been back on the road for a few days and it’s still a strange feeling.” Cancellara’s classics campaign was cut short when he hit the deck during the Tour of Flanders, and while the surgery on his broken collarbone was a…

  • Jesse Sergent to race his first Giro d’Italia

    Jens
    5 May 2012 | 2:07 am
    New Zealand Olympic cyclist Jesse Sergent has been confirmed to ride in his first Grand Tour as part of the strong Radioshack Nissan Trek lineup for the three-week Giro D’Italia, which starts with a prologue in Denmark on Sunday (NZT). Fairfax reported in February that the Manawatu star had been shoulder-tapped for a start in this year’s Giro, and confirmation came overnight when he was named in Radioshack’s team. Frank Schleck will lead heavy-hitting team after designated Giro captain Jakob Fuglsang dropped out with a knee injury… Read the full story on stuff.co.nz Photo:…

  • Radioshack Nissan Trek Line-up, Giro d’Italia

    Jens
    5 May 2012 | 1:59 am
    One major change has been made in the Radioshack Nissan Trek Line-up, after captain Jakob Fuglsang had to pull out due to injuries. Frank Schleck will take over the leader position, although he was quite surprised by the news. Usually he has a different way of preparing for the Tour de France. Where: Denmark/Italy When: May 5-27, 2012 Riders: Jan Bakelants, Daniele Bennati, Ben Hermans, Giacomo Nizzolo, Nelson Oliveira, Thomas Rohregger, Fränk Schleck, Jesse Sergent & Oliver Zaugg. Race website: http://www.gazzetta.it/Speciali/Giroditalia/2012/en/

  • Fuglsang out of Tour de Romandie & Giro d’Italia

    Jens
    27 Apr 2012 | 11:50 am
    Jakob Fuglsang didn’t take the start in the 3rd stage of the Tour de Romandie because of an inflammation of the articular capsule and ligament of the left knee. The team management and medical staff have decided to take the Danish rider off the team’s roster for the Giro d’Italia. “I am very disappointed,” commented Fuglsang in Basel. “The Giro was my big objective for this year. Yesterday I had so much pain in the last 40K, I was just miserable. At that point I realized that it might be the end of my Giro dream. Moreover I was already running behind my schedule after…
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    The Over 40 Cyclist

  • Ladies You Too Might Damage Your Sexual Health Cycling. Newsletter 14

    Peter Crump
    15 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    The risk of cycling to our sexual health doesn’t just affect us men A couple of newsletters back I talked about the risks of cycling to the sexual health of men. Now it’s the turn of the women. Just to refresh your memory, there was evidence that cycling can cause impotence in men. Whilst there [...] Similar Articles: Can Cycling Damage Your Bones? Newsletter 9 One for the Girls, Buying a Woman’s Road Bike. Newsletter 7

  • Sooner or Later the Day Will Arrive. Going Clipless. Newsletter 12

    Peter Crump
    1 May 2012 | 3:00 pm
    The positives and the negatives of going clipless Many older road riders have got back into cycling after many years off the bike. I’m a good example of that. Up to the age of 25 I rode regularly on a good racing bike, though I was commuting. Between the ages of 25 and 50 I [...] Similar Articles: For When You Have A Bad Day On The Road. Newsletter 2. On The Joys, And Risks, Of Descending. Newsletter 1.

  • Guys, Is Cycling Ruining Your Sex Life? Newsetter 11

    Peter Crump
    24 Apr 2012 | 3:00 pm
    Is your bike saddle causing impotence? Over the last decade and a half there has been a raging debate about whether or not cycling causes impotence, or specifically erectile dysfunction, in men. So, if you’re a man and a cyclist, should you be worried? This issue first arose after an article was published in Bicycling [...] No Similar Articles.

  • How To Fix a Flat Tire Explained (Video)

    Peter Crump
    18 Apr 2012 | 12:12 am
    Fixing a puncture is a crucial skill to learn. Once you’ve taken up road cycling there is one problem that I guarantee will afflict you sooner or later. Flat tires. Everyone gets a flat tire from time to time. There’s ways to minimize the likelihood, but there is no way to eliminate the problem entirely. [...] Similar Articles: How to Enjoy Your Ride More. 6 Tips to Avoiding Flat Tires.

  • How Do You Counter Osteoporosis In Cyclists? Vitamin D Can Help. Newsletter 10

    Peter Crump
    17 Apr 2012 | 3:00 pm
    More Vitamin D might help counter Osteoporosis, and improve your cycling In our last newsletter we published an article by Alan McCubbin about one of the potential risks of cycling, namely the depletion of calcium in your bones, and the possibility of osteoporosis. If you’d like to read that newsletter you can do so here  [...] Similar Articles: Can Cycling Damage Your Bones? Newsletter 9
 
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