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Time off the bike
I took a couple of days off last weekend. Made cookies with the kids, drank some beer with some friends, spent some time in the sauna, and watched some football. The weekend wasn’t completely bike-free...
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Cycling and Cross Country Skiing: A Match Made in Heaven
Each and every winter I contemplate joining the ranks of many of my fellow cyclists and taking up cross country skiing (skate skiing, of course, roadies don’t believe in classic skiing). I’ve heard...
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Got some old timey roadie nostalgia?
There is much to be revered about the beauty and simplicity of bikes and their riders in the so-called glory days of cycling in Europe (anytime before the 90s I guess). Old steel frames, tubular tires,...
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Rejected!
Got this email last night from Strava. After crying into my beer for the remainder of the evening, I am now able to reflect on this rejection an what it means for my once-aspiring career as a Strava...
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Strava or Bike Racing
In case you have been living under a rock for the last couple of years, and are wondering what Strava is, go check out the site. Their marketing department will do a much better job of explaining it...
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Dear FSA Customer Service…
Tonight, I am sad to report that yet another one of my cranksets (two and counting) has fallen victim to a defect in the pedal insert in early model of the FSA K-Force crankset. Aside from this defect,...
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The Computerless Revolution
Garmin, Polar, Ant +, Strava, Suunto, SRM, PowerTap, Quarq, Look… the list goes on. All of these companies have created the analytic tools we need to become a destructive force to be reckoned with on a...
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What would Kevin Bacon do?
For anyone out there who gets to work on a couple of skinny pieces of rubber, you likely draw a lot of inspiration from Kevin Bacon’s classic cycling movie Quicksilver. Who wouldn’t want to emulate the...
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Racing Like a Girl
There was a lot of discussion during BC Superweek about the state of local women’s bike racing. For those that missed it, or have never seen a women’s bike race, the heart of the issue is pretty...
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First and final word on doping / lying / swindling in cycling
Lance appears to be on the verge of a full-blown doping confession that looks eerily similar to an article that The Onion ran back in 2010. I have been trying to ignore most of the fanfare and...
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