Are you sick of training hard, only to feel flat during an important race or ride? Are you tired of being tired from training? Do you start out your cycling season with great aspirations in March, only to become burnt out by August? If you can identify with any one of these statements then you […]
Improve your Pedaling Technique
Ian Jackson of Breathplay is back again, this time with the Coup de Torchon, a pedaling technique you can use to become a better rider. Enjoy the podcast, and find out more at http://bit.ly/S2xIa or at breathplay.com Listen Here
Breathe Right, Ride Fast!
Ian Jackson of Breathplay discussing his paradigm where breathing is turned upside down to become air-pushing instead of air-sucking, to become the driving force behind powerful, efficient pedaling. Listen Here
It’s Not Your Mother’s Wool
It’s not your mother’s wool. Or maybe it is. The Jones’ dynasty of superb wool cycle clothing continues with her daughters. Wool never goes out of style. It is the original technical fabric. Listen Here
Keeping Cyclists Safe
Joe Mizereck, the founder of 3feetplease.com and roadguardian.com joins me to talk about his campaign to save cyclists’ lives. Listen Here
Learning from the Rest Day at the Tour de France
Kym Fasczewski talks about a rest day in the Tour de France and how recreational cyclists can apply similar techniques to fine tune their own riding. Listen Here
Yoga and Cycling
How yoga can help you balance your mind, strength and breathing to become a more proficient cyclist. Andria Davis is an expert at riding and yoga-ing! Listen Here
The Path to Becoming a Normal Eater
Suzanne Girard Eberle, a board-certified sports dietician discusses the path to becoming a normal eater. Listen Here
Winter Cycling in Alaska
Not cold enough for you in the lower 48? Then come to Alaska for some real winter riding. Rocky Reifenstuhl, Iditasport competitor, geologist and all-around nice guy tells us what it’s like. Listen Here
Off Season Bike Training
My conversation with Graeme Street, founder of the Cyclo-CLUB, about improving cycling fitness with off season training. Listen Here
The Voices of Conservation
Hear the voices of the women behind conservation efforts. From the grassland and beaches of New York to the rice fields of Bolivia, their research is a sentinel on the state of our environment. Listen Here
WomanTours – Bicycle Tours for Women
Have you ever thought about taking a bike tour? Maybe for a weekend or a week or even for a couple of months? Enter WomanTours, the premier bike touring company for women. Enjoy this podcast with Jackie Marchand, the owner of WomanTours.
The Wheel Debate Continues
A recent posting on FaceBook reminded me yet again of what a poor job our industry does of educating the consumer. My small effort to right this wrong is this eLetter, which I hope will clear up the continuing miasma surrounding yet again…wheel sizes! Here’s the gist of the post: “I have a 650 Brand […]
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
This eLetter is about challenging our perception of the definition of a “good” bike. I thought a visual presentation of how we regard bicycles would be cool way to put things in perspective. So I’ve come up with a grid to illustrate my point. Even if you shun math, I think you’ll find this very […]
Make Me Ride Faster
One of my favorite cycling publications is Bicycle Quarterly. Now in its eighth year, it began life as Vintage Bicycle Quarterly, but has evolved to cover modern bicycles as well as vintage bikes. It was created by Jan Heine, a German emigrant, avid randonneur and former road racer. He brings his education in mathematics and […]
It’s Not About the Wheels
Recently I read a forum posting in which the writer stated she preferred 700c wheels to 650c wheels because she sat higher on the bike and felt more on a par with riders around her. She may have felt this way, but it had nothing to do with wheel size. Something else was going on. […]
Saga of the Stuck Seatpost
If you followed my recent tweets, you know I was obsessed for a while trying to remove a stuck seatpost from one of my favorite rides, “Moo”, a 22 year old hybrid. Last summer, I designated this winter as the time when Moo would shed her tired 7-speed components for something a little more up-to-date. […]
The Tale of the Beater Bike
Recently, I received an email from a customer inquiring about “step through” frames. Often the need arises from a physical disability, a lack of flexibility or the need to achieve that certain comfort and confidence level that only a step through provides. As we exchanged emails, I learned a lot about bike design, thanks to […]
Will my tires explode?
The fodder for this eLetter came from this blog post: “I won a new bike at my company picnic and I’d love to ride it, but I’m extremely afraid of popping all the tires at my weight!!!” Here’s the quick answer — the tires will be fine. Food for thought: a 4000 pound car is […]
Bicycling for Ladies
This Cycling Savvy eLetter is a little bit of a departure for me. I usually focus on technical aspects of cycling, but when a customer was kind enough to send me this book, I thought this would be an appropriate place to present it. The book is Bicycling for Ladies (The Common Sense of Bicycling). […]
