My first experience with the CrankBrothers did not start well, but Lord did I want it too. I’ve long held them in the “jeeze, this stuff is cool” category, but it just wasn’t meant to be… At least not right away. I had a birthday a few months ago where Smart had gifted me a [...]

Banned from cycling because his hair was too long, Gary Fisher started taking his bike off road and into the hills of Marin California. More than founder of Gary Fisher mountain bikes, he’s a founding father of Mountain Biking as we know it today, period. He’s going for a ride May 9th and you could [...]

For the past few months I’ve been test driving a social training site called Dailymile. Claiming that “training is more fun with friends”, Dailymile allows you to share your workouts and connect with friends or contacts online and use them for motivation, challenge, or advice. I for one definitely think they’re on to something (and [...]

Sheldon and I may like to ride crazy distances through varying landscapes, but when it comes to the urban jungle, trials are where it’s at. In it’s simplest form mountain bike trials are where a rider negotiates a series of obstacles without their feet touching the ground, but as you can see in this video, [...]

It’s only my opinion, but there is no such thing as a fair, or level playing field – not when you really get down to it. In the recent wake of the media mayhem surrounding Lance and the Tour, I sat around this weekend and gave it some thought, and in the realm of sports, [...]

To promote their new Golden Race Series, GT has launched a new website that allows you to not only learn a little bit about their tongue-in-cheek elitist ‘Golden Bike’, but also taunt and chastise your friends using the ‘GT Gold Diggers’ cheer team. For those unfamiliar with the Golden Race Series, GT has put their Golden Bike up [...]

Something you start to get used to when you train a lot, is your training equipment takes a beating. My Schwinn stationary bike still works fine, but its frame has developed creaks and squeaks, while my A-frame mag trainer seems to be getting louder and louder as time goes by as well. Such is life. [...]

Really great post from PezCycling going through the tactics and strategy behind winning on the pavement. The article(s) are a little long, but definitely worth the read if you want a better understanding of what goes into a road race. From PezCycling: Tactics and strategy in bike racing comes down to predicting how a particular [...]

As you cut through the clouds you look out the cabin window and see the Eiffel Tower tenderly reaching into the sky. The plane touches down and you’re quickly whisked to your hotel, shortly after which the custom pro-spec bike fitting begins. You relax, breathe in the fresh Parisian air, unpack and get ready for [...]

SPIN – Sweat , Gears, and Techno Beats Who hasn’t heard of SPIN class? For the longest time, this exercise phenomena, this exercise craze, seemed to me like little more than another late-night infomercial fad. Thai-Bo, Pilates, Hip-Hop Abs, or P90 X, they come and they go. But SPIN doesn’t appear to be fading away. [...]