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By Jim Langley Introductory note: As my ride-every-day streak neared 8,000 days (as of today, it’s at 8,006), The Ride Journal and my old employer, Bicycling Magazine, asked me to write about streaking. My short essay appears on page 55 in a feature called We Dare You, in the Jan/Feb 2016 issue of Bicycling…
An interesting article in VeloNews noted that the UCI has approved disc brakes for use in the pro peloton in 2016 – but questions whether all (or any) riders will elect to ride disc-equipped bikes by season’s end. In the article, despite there being no argument that discs offer superior braking performance and stopping power in…
By Elizabeth Wicks (Note from Coach John Hughes: Elizabeth Wicks, 71, lives in the central Massachusetts area just north of Worcester and has been an endurance cyclist for 20 years. She rides year-round and logged 5,500 miles in 2013, 5,700 miles in 2014 and 5,824 miles so far in 2015 (aiming for 6,000). She has…
Question: I’ll be riding my Kurt Kinetic Road Machine indoor trainer for several months this winter and I wondered how I can tell if I’m improving over the course of the workouts? Coach Fred Matheny Replies: The best way to gauge improvement is to ride your trainer with a power meter on your bike. Then…
