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cycling

More ride me pumps!

13 March 2010

Birthday Date
Originally uploaded by Madness Rivera

I have always thought beautiful women and hot bikes were a great matching. The contrast of street shoes and the bike is also fascinating. I set up a similar shot, shown here,  and when I find others the are interesting I have to share!

Originally posted 2009-04-11 05:07:30. Republished by [...]

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Track Cycling World Championship 2009 – Mens Sprint Final 2nd Race

10 March 2010

I was a former track sprinter and even though I rarely get on the track anymore I am so excited to see the big boys (and girls) do it right. Here is a You Tube video from the Track World Championships, showing Malaysia’s Azizulhashi Awang against France’s Gregory Bauge, race won by Azizul. Video courtesy [...]

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TDF Coverage from Benepe’s Bike Blog, pt 1

15 February 2010

My good friend Jen Benepe is covering the Tour De France this year and I am going to post links to her blog every day to give you updates. She is a journalist and also is the creator of hotvelociti clothing, who supplies our KGS Bikes jersey.
Here is the first post, titled TDF 2009: Cancellara [...]

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What I learned about bicycle positioning from a speed skater

15 February 2010

The 2010 Winter Olympics are happening and yesterday I saw Apolo Anton Ohno capture a silver medal which puts him in some pretty good company with Bonnie Blair and Eric Heiden. You might ask, “What does ice skating have to do with bicycling?” Well, it is not so much ice skating, but skating in general.
Skaters [...]

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Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live. ~Mark Twain, “Taming the Bicycle”

25 January 2010

I found a great website with bicycle quotes like the one above from the great Mark Twain.

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Ear Mitts – the “Why didn’t I think of that” stocking stuffer

2 December 2009

I am Facebook Friends with Brad Levinson who runs Ear Mitts. I have had many a cold bicycle ride and found that many skull caps and hats either didn’t fit well under my helmet or didn’t cover my ears well. Another irritant was wind whistling in under the cap making for cold and noisy rides. [...]

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Real Ale Ride photos posted on Flickr

31 May 2009

I have been slowly getting back on the bike and the Real Ale Ride in Blanco was a great 65 mile test because of the hills. This ride featured a few 11-12% grades, lots more 8-10% grades and a 16% grade hill thrown in for good measure! Red Licorice Events did a marvelous job of [...]

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“The Street” Magazine likes $30,000 bikes and KGS too.

21 May 2009

I recently got a call from Nate Herpich
at TheStreet.com as they wanted to know what the big deal was with our top of the line Tier 3 bicycles. They published a nice article here and I thought you might like to read it.
Thanks so much for looking and commenting.

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How safe is bicycling, really?

6 May 2009

I was checking out my friends at the eco velo blog and found this great post about the relative safety of cycling.
Please read the whole article but here is the chart which I found most interesting:
Following is a list compiled by Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (Design News, 10-4-93) comparing the fatal risk associated with participating [...]

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Three dogs on a bike – Don’t let your carma run over my dogma!

8 April 2009

Proof that cyclists can be dogmatic
Originally uploaded by andrew_f_martin
It’s a dog’s life! Three dogs are shown here getting personally chauffeured around town on a bicycle.
You don’t see this every day.

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