Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley Last week, we helped a reader named Nathaniel with his tight and nearly impossibly difficult to remove tires: Tech Q & A: Nathaniel’s Too Tight Tire Troubles. We asked your help too and you delivered in the comments with excellent suggestions for taming tight tires, which will surely help…
When it’s going to be extremely hot, the simplest way to beat it is to beat it out the door. Roll out early, and you can finish your ride before the day turns brutal. The hottest part of the day usually falls between noon and 3 p.m. It isn’t just the air temperature, either. Radiant…
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Question: My local shop hosts a Saturday morning ride that’s advertised as no-drop. The only place it actually says that is a flyer taped up by the register, and I think the flyer is older than some of the bikes in the shop. Nobody announces anything at the start. Over the last couple of years,…
By Ric Stern FTP. It’s the number we’re all chasing, right? But what if I told you it shouldn’t be? I know, if you read some of the online training articles you’ll see things like “FTP is wrong, you should be using critical power (CP).” But I mean something different to that.
