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Why does a triathlete need a road bike?

17 September 2009

Does a triathlete need a road bike? Well, of course not! You don’t “need” anything more than a bicycle to be a triathlete. If you are wanting to really improve your triathlon times, however, a good road bicycle is quite important. Taking the often used phrase I learned from an automobile racer, “The best you [...]

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Awesome fixed gear ride in Dallas

13 December 2008

I delivered Clayton’s refurbished Colnago Titanio yesterday which I converted into a fixed gear, or “fixie”. The normal ride for me when I do my Dallas Fitting Trips is the Greater Dallas Bicyclists ride from Preston and Forest out to DFW airport and back. It has a 20 mile leg out to the airport, an [...]

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Best Open Letter to Motorists I have ever seen

6 December 2008

I was blog surfing today and came upon the following post on Adventures of a Crazy Biker Chick: http://crazybikerchick.blogspot.com/2006/09/things-non-cyclist-might-not.html This is an incredibly well written letter to motorists and I had to share. We have a lot of responsibility as cyclists as well as teachers of road etiquette to motorists. I look forward to your [...]

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Responsiblity in Cycling

13 October 2008

I use Google Alerts to keep abreast of blogs about cycling and got a tremendous link in my inbox this morning. The blog Bicycle Driving has a paper on The Dilemmas of Bicycle Planning which states our problems very well. If cycling is “The Fountain of Youth” as I maintain, we have to learn how [...]

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