By Martin Sigrist In late 2005, after years of trying and failing, I finally managed to get my weight down to what doctor’s would consider not unhealthy. I’d lost over 40 pounds of fat, around a fifth of my bodyweight, mainly by buying a recliner exercise bike and spending a couple of hours a day…
By Kevin Kolodziejski Two Encounters Lead to This Column A friend who doesn’t cycle and suffers from depression visited me unexpectedly. He noticed a bottle of ashwagandha on my kitchen counter and remarked he never knew I battled the disease, too. I told him I didn’t, that my battle was with sarcopenia and since ashwagandha has been…
By Sheri Rosenbaum Garmin launched their Rally Power Pedals in late March of this year, replacing their Vector 3 model. The Rally intrigued me because Garmin touted how easy it is to swap from bike to bike and swap pedals to accommodate different cleats by moving the spindle from one set of pedals to the…
By Darren Cope By now you’ve most certainly heard of it. You have maybe even seen it, and some of you probably have friends who do it. What is it? Cyclocross of course! It’s also the fastest growing segment of the sport of cycling, and a whole lot of fun! If you’ve come this far,…
By Jim Langley With the mainstreaming of carbon frames and components – and at so many price points – you probably already know that the best way to safely tighten modern carbon parts is by owning and using a torque wrench. Torque wrenches allow you to tighten metal parts properly, too. But did you know that…
