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Newsletter Issue No. 1196
October 23, 2025 Attention City Dwellers: Please Share Your Bike Care Tips for Those Living in Small Spaces Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley Reader “Nancy M” read last week’s article titled How to Keep Your Bike Clean and asked this excellent question: “Any tips for those of us who live in the city and don’t…
Newsletter Issue No. 1054
February 2, 2023 5 Ways to Improve Your Riding This Winter By Coach John Hughes The top contenders in the pro peloton are all very fit and winning races requires more than fitness. Team Sky used a strategy called “the aggregation of marginal gains.” The coaches identify different ways riders can improve slightly, which when…
Newsletter Issue No. 945
December 24, 2020 Riding Gravel Is Good for Everyone By Coach John Hughes And it doesn’t have to be expensive. I frequently ride gravel roads and bike trails on my road bike and really enjoy it as a literal change of pace with new scenery. I ride 28 mm tires on the road and they’re…
Newsletter Issue No. 922
July 16, 2020 PDF version for Premium Members is here. More Lessons from My 92-Year-Old Hero By Coach John Hughes I wrote a recent column on My 92-Year-Old Hero: What We Can Learn. I’m living with Rick helping him to recover from a fall. I went home for three days and when we got back…
Newsletter Issue No. 1104
January 18, 2024 Anti-Aging: What’s Your Fitness Age? By Coach John Hughes I’m almost 75 and have the fitness of a 53-year-old (although I felt older shoveling the foot of snow in the driveway this morning). This column explains the importance of your fitness age and how to estimate it. Read more. Fixing Rubbing Hydraulic…
Newsletter Issue No. 990
November 11, 2021 Anti-Aging New Exercise Recommendations By Coach John Hughes In my columns and eBooks I use the recommendations of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) on Exercise and Physical Activity for Older Adults. (2009). In 2018 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published Physical Activity for Americans, 2nd ed. The…