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Bikes & Gear | Jim Langley

Which Gearing for This Steel Touring Bike?
August 25, 2020August 31, 2020

Jim’s Tech Talk By Jim Langley Last week, a roadie named Daniel, who just got a magnificent vintage-style steel Bottecchia (photo) wrote with a question that caused me to do a double-take. I started banging out a reply and then hit the delete key and sent something completely different.

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Strength Training

Muscle Loss from Inactivity: 34 Percent in Just Two Weeks
July 13, 2016August 31, 2020

By Gabe Mirkin, M.D. A study from the University of Copenhagen shows that wearing an immobilizing knee brace for just two weeks caused men in their 20s to lose 22 to 34 percent of their leg muscle strength, while men in their 60s lost 20 to 26 percent (Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, June 26, 2015)….

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