By Coach Fred Matheny You love to compete in the local time trials and you’ve done well on your road bike equipped with bolt-on aero bars. But you’ve been watching the pros during the TTs in all the recent stage races on their fancy (and expensive) aerodynamic time trial bikes. And you’re wondering: Should I…
By Jim Langley Longtime readers will recall that RBR was the first publication to review the road tubeless system. Thanks to Shimano and Hutchinson reaching out to me, we were able to get one of the first wheel and tire setups and hit the road. That would have been about 2007. I loved…
Question: My max heart rate is usually right at 160 bpm. I did some heavy training for eight weeks (sprint intervals, hill intervals, long rides), then took six days off. No riding or other exercise. Now when I do sprint intervals, my max HR is about 10 beats higher than before my break. Is this…
On Tuesday’s Tour de France rest day, Team Sky finally relented to the mounting pressure and released race leader Chris Froome’s performance data from his Stage 10 victory, on which he crushed his closest rivals on the first major climb of the Tour to take a commanding lead. Since that day, he’s been in the…
By John Marsh, Editor & Publisher Back in early January, I asked readers to share some of their 2015 riding goals. Among the submissions was this, from Robert Minner: “I am 65 and was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in December 2012. There is no cure but I am in partial remission thanks to a transplant…
