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Home About Contact Us Cyclist Profiles My Bike Cycle Topics Reviews Articles Comment , Opinion And Views On Many Cycle Topics Disabled Cycling Read More Cyclocross Cyclocross also know as CX , CycloX or cross is predominately a winter season sport and is a relatively new cycling discipline to the UK . A bit like cross country for mountain bikes it usually is held at a venue with multiple terrains , including on and off road section and is done in laps . There are Read More Social Cycling Cycling is best known as a sport with high level races like the Tour de France , Vuelta a Espana and the Giro de Italia , but many cyclists do the sport as a way of getting out with buddies and team mates on a sunday ride and not to take part in it competitively . We explore Read More Cycle Infrastructure
Home About Contact Us Cyclist Profiles My Bike Cycle Topics Reviews Articles Guide To Getting Started In Road Cycling If you are brand new to road biking this guide is based on my own experiences , when I started out a few years ago biking up a steep learning . curve Why start road biking Well for me it was simple a friend and I had a few drinks in our late twenties and he proposed a mammoth 7 day cycle ride from Chamonix to Barcelona for charity . Of course with a few beers already consumed it was easy to say yes without really thinking about what I have committed to . Surely enough a few days later the enormity of what I had done hit me , which was a good thing . In a positive light I would be helping raise money for a charity , getting fitter reduction of beer belly and completing a
Home About Contact Us Cyclist Profiles My Bike Cycle Topics Reviews Articles Road Bike Sizing Guide First and foremost Be comfortable Even the sizing systems in bike shops can get it wrong . If you don’t feel comfortable , you definately won’t in a few weeks , months , years time . Getting the fitting of a road bike takes time and tweaking , so don’t expect to get it right first time . Over time you will also change the way you want to ride , so you will be tweaking a number of the points we make . below Ask yourself What kind of biking are you going to do If you are going to get into racing then your road bars will need to be lower than you saddle to get you in an aerodynamic race . position Touring or beginners will want to have the handlebar higher , as this will allow you to get used
A Boulder, Colorado, man arrived safely back in Chile this past weekend after abandoning his attempt to be the first person to ride a bicycle to the South Pole.
Eric Larson, 41, launched the solo Cycle South expedition from the Hercules Inlet on the Antarctic coast on Dec. 20 with a goal to cover the 750 miles to the South Pole by Jan. 12.
Eight days after setting off, however, Larsen said he realized that he was only making about 10 nautical miles a day, not enough to reach his destination before his supplies ran out.
Climbing, headwinds, snow drifts ...
: , , 09 January 2013 Cycle Paths City Traffic 1945-1995 in UK , Denmark , Germany We are nourishing a monster of great potential destructiveness . 187 Colin Buchanan , 1960. Quote referring to the car-oriented planning in a report for the Minister for Transport , . UK It was a privilege to read , over the last few days , a thesis written by Joe Goddard a friend of Mikael's . The thesis’ full title is Cycle Paths and City Traffic 1945-1995” and it was a work submitted to the University of Bristol , in order to obtain the Master of Arts degree in the Faculty of Historical Studies . Amazingly , it was written back in 1995. Back then there were hardly any papers about bicycle infrastructure or bicycles at all so Mr Goddard was quite ahead of the modern . curve Dr Joe Goddard is now Associate
With the many accomplished cycling journalists of many nationalities who have followed Lance Armstrong’s career, who better to get the first interview since his downfall than hard-hitting investigative reporter Oprah Winfrey. With CNN’s Larry King retired now, I suppose Winfrey is the best choice for Armstrong to spin his story. He appears next Thursday on … Continue reading »
: 08 January 2013 Bicycle Tube Dispenser in Copenhagen Our intrepid correspondant Lars Barfred spotted this bicycle tube dispenser outside Loke Cykler a bike shop in Griffenfeldsgade , in the Nørrebro . neighbourhood 50 kroner 8.00 for a . tube There's no school like the old . school Random fact : Loke , or Loki is a Norse god . Often regarded as a bit of a trickster , he also helps the other gods in important matters . Which is the case , it would seem , with this bicycle tube . dispenser Put here by Mikael Colville-Andersen at 14:09 tags : bike accessories how to market cycling loke nørrebro promoting cycling 5 : comments girl on wheels said . UBikes University Bicycles in Boulder , Colorado also has a pretty cool 24-hour vending machine . It also has different sizes of tubes . In
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Two brothers are developing a horn that enables cyclists to be heard, if not seen, on their bicycles. Called Loud Bicycle, the small horn is activated by a button on the handlebars and blares with the same loudness and pitch of a car horn. Says Loud Bicycle developer Jonathan Landsey: “Drivers react to car horns … Continue reading »
: . 04 January 2013 Reflective Material on Cars . Seriously Out of the many articles on the subject of rationality and logic here on the blog , you may remember our proposal for health warnings on automobiles from a while back . Another logical idea that we have pitched around is forcing motorists to add reflective material to their cars in order for cyclists and pedestrians to see them better . It usually garners a chuckle and a yeah , why don't we But why don't we It's not such a crazy idea . According to a study from Monash University Accident Research Centre in Australia the same people who developed protective headwear for . motorists do you have yours yet black cars are more likely to be involved in crashes , whilst white , gold and yellow cars are least likely to suffer the same
The only explanation for this is a slow news day, or perhaps an editor looking for some quirky tale from the Pacific Northwest. In any case, ABC News followed by Huffington Post this week did short pieces on that 50-some year old bicycle lodged in a tree on Vashon Island in the Puget Sound. It … Continue reading »
: 04 January 2013 The Police Officers of New York City The New Copenhagen a collection of urban planning tales from a modern progressive city turned 1950s old school urban theatre was a running theme last year . Unfortunately , our decision makers and law enforcers gave us plenty of reason for it to be . We're kicking off 2013 on a more positive note . and with that , here's the story of a brief encounter I had with the New York Police Department last . summer It's late evening . Jens and I are cycling home from a Broadway show Rock of Ages , unexpectedly good We're on cloud nine from the show , the drinks , and a cool light breeze that matches our mood sweeps through the air . We've left Manhattan and are weaving our way through Brooklyn . There are no bicycle lanes , but traffic is .
: 03 January 2013 World's Youngest Urbanist Again Lulu-Sophia , who I called the World's Youngest Urbanist last year and who features in my recent TED x talk from Zurich constantly fires off simple and logical observations from the urban theatre . Yesterday we were out shopping on our cargo bike and we spotted these two red peppers that had presumably fallen off a bicycle . We chatted about them and then off we went . Lulu-Sophia was quiet for a moment and then : said Daddy , I bet they'll get run over and squished . I'm sure they will . I think it'll be a car that runs them over . Why Because cars can't see them . Cyclists can see them but the people in cars can't . Ah , yes . Indeed . The interaction with the urban landscape is heightened on a bicycle or on foot . And motorists can't see
The highly anticipated first of three auctions of vintage bicycles and memorabilia from a recently closed New York-based museum earlier this month brought in a jaw-dropping half-million dollars, about 150% of what the auctioneers predicted. The highest bid item sold at the auction turned out to be the 1892 Geared Front Drive Telegram, at right. … Continue reading »
Seattle officials are proposing a full-blown environmental impact statement to study the effects of completing the Burke-Gilman Trail in a section of the city where several property owners have blocked the project for a decade. While the study could take several years to complete, Mayor Mike McGinn and Councilmember Tom Rasmussen said Thursday that an … Continue reading »
: 24 December 2012 Copenhagen Christmas Tree Transport . UPDATE Typical . Write a blog post and then two bikes with christmas trees roll past your window . So here's an . update Above : Sorte Jernhest cargo bike complete with tree and kid wearing an elf hat heading home in the evening . . Fantastic This lady rolled past my window pulling her tree on a . trailer Getting close to Jul here in Copenhagen . Christmas tree sellers are occupying squares all around the city . Many people use their bicycles to get the tree . home Here's a collection of the shots we have of people moving their trees home by . bike This lady had just bought a jule tree and the seller was helping her strap it to her bicycle . It took some work and discussion but they finally succeeded . She didn't have far to go , so