Question: I ride fine through the summer and spring, but when the weather drops to sub 50F, my knees complain. Doesn’t matter how much I layer up. Wool layers, nylon pant shell, knee warmers, 3/4 tights, etc., my knees just ache on long rides after about 20 miles and I don’t know what to do….
By Jim Langley After last week’s column covering the California Highway 1 rumble strips here in Santa Cruz, and our Question Of The Week asking about RS, some different viewpoints came in. Even though I – and every cycling group and organization I’m aware of – oppose rumble strips (because they cause bike…
By Jim Langley In late February of 2012 in this column, I told you about Caltrans’ (what California’s Department of Transportation is called) plans to install rumble strips on one of the sacred cycling roads in America, California’s Highway 1. And I asked for your help to try to stop the project. Unfortunately,…
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. Abdominal obesity comes from high blood insulin levels. To prevent blood sugar levels from rising too high after you eat, your pancreas releases insulin, which converts blood sugar to a type of fat called triglyceride. Insulin drives triglycerides into the fat cells in your belly. So having high triglycerides and a…
By John Marsh, Editor & Publisher The New York Times recently reported about an interesting twist in the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe. Instead of risking their lives to make the dangerous crossing of the Mediterranean in a flimsy boat or rubber dinghy to one of the ports in Greece, Italy and elsewhere where migrants…
