Brake levers that double as shift levers were a huge advance in shifting when they first appeared. Finally, we didn’t have to move our hands down to shift from levers located on the ends of the handlebars, or off the bars to shift levers mounted on the frame. This made it much easier to always…
Coach Mark Edwards (Jim Langley’s coach) sent us this week’s QT, which is a response to last week’s Ask the Coach in which Coach Fred Matheny offered tips on choosing a good saddle for indoor training. Here’s what Coach Mark wrote: Great and timely topic as those of us in the Northern hemisphere head into…
By Jim Langley On the bucket lists of many roadies I know (including mine) is an extended vacation in France to trace the wheel tracks of the legends of the Tour de France. Or, for those more touring-oriented, discovering secret climbs to follow a ribbon of switchbacks to the sky. Three books arrived…
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. I think that asking people to stand at work, rather than sit, is harmful advice because standing and not moving is no better than sitting and is just going to make you too tired to exercise vigorously when you are not working. The recent highly-publicized studies that showed sitting is harmful…
In San Francisco, the second most densely populated city in the U.S., a proposed ordinance that would allow bike riders to treat stop signs as yield signs comes to a vote in December. The mayor promises a veto if it passes. But the city supervisors could override the veto, possibly paving the way for more…
