While I always enjoy Lon and Susan’s updates on their latest planned adventures, the thing that was perfectly timed was a video of Lon showing how they wash bikes during their tours. Having been on several shorter PacTours, I’ve experienced this first-hand and it’s another awesome approach to keeping your road rig spic and span….
Today’s QT comes to us from Dave Champlin and really is a “quick” tip. Short and sweet, but tried and true. Dave wrote: Spray dry Teflon lubricant on pedals/cleats (after cleaning). This lets the float / pivot work freely and assists clipping in / out. [I mentioned to Dave that Finish Line recently launched Pedal…
1. Remain active. One of the worst things you can do when you get injured is to completely stop all physical activity. You may need to rest the injured area, and/or work it gently (emphasis on gently, not to the point where you get reinjured). If your injury allows you to ride—but not hard or…
I have a request: Two weeks from now, I’d like to feature some more goals and 2015 riding plans from readers and a few of our coaches and contributors. Don’t feel like you have to focus solely on goals, though. If you’re not a goal-driven rider, I’d still love for you to share what you…
Godwin, though, kept riding after his year was up, logging a total of 100,000 miles (160,000 km) in 500 days – averaging 200 miles a day for those 500 days. I honestly can’t do justice to how staggeringly impossible that sounds! Yet, Abraham, an unmarried 40-year-old who hails from Milton Keynes in central England, knows…
