Goal setting can help you real new milestones in your cycling, and now is a great time to get started. DREAM Brainstorm – Go back to your “Bucket List” or create one, think about what brings you joy, what energizes you, makes you excited about life. Think about what obstacles are out there that you […]
Winter training is an important part of maintaining and developing fitness for your upcoming seasonal goals. We don’t all have the luxury of training in the sunshine, so getting comfortable with cold weather cycling is a goal in and of itself. Training in winter can present us with wet, frozen and dark conditions. Winter conditions […]
One of the most critical attentions to bike fit is the tilt of the saddle. Saddle tilt affects pelvic and spine postures and can be a source of irregular compression to the hands. Irregular saddle tilt can also be a source of excessive rider forward and back motion on the saddle. The best way to […]
Flexibility has gotten a few knocks in the common press as of late. The knocks have come in relationship to the use of stretching before an event to prevent injury during that event, but the numbers don’t lie. While it’s true that stretching just prior to an event alone will not “save your bacon” with […]
The saddle and seatpost are important components on the bicycle as they support a majority of your body weight. Saddles and seatposts are not created equally. A lot of attention has been made to the saddle as a source of urogenital issues in numerous scientific studies and reviews. Leibovitch and Mor (1) in their 2005 […]
Bicycling participation is on the rise in a big way. In fact, bicycling is growing on a national level faster than any other recreational sport, even surpassing golf. Factors such as Lance Armstrong’s popularity and organization, charity rides such as Team in Training and Tour de Cure, increased fitness awareness in the fight against obesity, […]
Picky Bars are the brain children of endurance wunderkinds Lauren Fleshman, Jesse Thomas, and Stephanie Rothstein. These yummy treats come in gluten-free and dairy-free varieties. An important aspect of this nutrition bar is the 4:1 ratio of carbohydrates to protein. Most of these bars are around 200 calories and have roughly 6g fat, 28g carbohydrate […]
My favorite, most reliable seatpost is the Thompson Elite. The Thomson Elite has several valuable features. The most important feature to me is the ease of saddle tilt adjustment or fine tuning of saddle tilt. The tilt range goes from minus 5° to plus 29°. The Thomson Elite seatpost is made from series 7000 aluminum. […]