By Martin Sigrist Takeaway: Your cadence is one of the most important factors in determining how fast and how far you can go on a bike. So it’s sensible to spend a little time experimenting and ensuring that your rpm is best for you in all the conditions in which you will ride. Two quick…
By Coach John Hughes I’m an optimist. I’ll turn 73 this year so I just ordered 17 more blank training journals – enough to last until I’m 90. I don’t know how many miles I rode last year. Or any year in the last decade. I use a training journal rather than an on-line program…
By Martin Sigrist Takeaway: Riding through the night is an experience like no other on a bike and a bike is the perfect form of transport on which to experience it. Those of us in the northern hemisphere were just recently at the darkest point of the year. The winter equinox occurs on 21st December…
By Kevin Kolodziejski What in the World’s ‘Gotta Wanna’? That’s what I was thinking, too, nearly 46 years ago when a high school basketball coach who sounded a bit like Rocky Balboa after six espressos used the phrase in a lecture at a summer basketball camp I attended. His topic was playing defense, something he said…
QUESTION: I ride between 210-235 miles a week, so I’m out on the road a lot. Issue: For any given number of reasons, changing lanes, checking to see if the lane is clear, etc., you glance over your left shoulder. What I witness among the riders I see is the following (and there was no…
