Category: Fitness Gadgets
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Keep Usable Bike Tires and Wheels in Case of Early Failure
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAbout a year ago, I replaced a set of Continental Double Fighter semi-slick mountain bike tires with Michelin Wildgripper Sprints. The reason I replaced the Double Fighters was because I wore the rubber down in the center of the rear tire on my bike to the point that I could see…
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Cadence Performance Cycling in Philadelphia Profiled by Pez Cycling News
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the most ambitious retail cycling stores in the United States was launched in Philadelphia in April 2004. Cadence Performance Cycling, which calls itself “The Cultural Capital of the Cycling World,” was recently profiled in Pez Cycling News. Richard Pestes, the founder and publisher of Pez Cycling, wrote the article…
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Toolkit for Turning Garmin Forerunner 201 Data into Overlay Maps
Reading Time: 3 minutesI finally took the time to sit down and figure out how best to create overlay maps for runs and rides that I take with my Garmin Forerunner 201 GPS Personal Training Device. The impetus for doing it was a 50-kilometer bike ride that I did on Sunday in Lancaster, PA with…
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Bush, Kerry, and Their Respective Bicycles
Reading Time: 3 minutesAndrew Leyden pointed out an article in The New York Times yesterday that compared and contrasted George W. Bush and John F. Kerry’s bicycles, trying to infer something about their personalities. The author of the Times piece, Charles McGrath, is pretty clearly not a cyclist of any kind, since he dutifully recites…
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Clean and Lubricate Your Bike’s Chain In Order to Keep Performance High
Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve been riding my mountain bike 21 miles a day this week. On Wednesday, I noticed that I was laboring to maintain a pace that had been easy for me last week. After I got home, I checked out my bike and saw that the chain was extremely dirty and had almost…
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Another Day, Another Rear Puncture
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday the Tour de France resumed action after its rest day. I’ve been trying ride my bike every day that the Tour has a stage, so I went out in the morning to try to ride from East Windsor to Allentown, NJ and back. You may remember that this was my intended…
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Oakley Thump Eyewear with Integrated Portable Audio Player Demonstrated to Lance Armstrong
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn Saturday, TDFblog reported that Lance Armstrong was photographed wearing a prototype Oakley product combining sunglasses with a portable audio player. Gizmodo reported on this photo as well, saying that Armstrong wore the prototype during the Prologue time trial, citing a SunSentinel.com article for attribution. These articles were pointed out to me…
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Cycling Samaritan
Reading Time: 2 minutesI set out on Saturday for my seventh consecutive day of cycling. I was planning on riding 20 miles from East Windsor to Allentown, NJ and back. This would be the longest ride I had done this season, had I made it. I had my flat tire with my new wheel set…
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iPod Cycling
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis week, I got back on the road to fitness. Over the last five days, I’ve done five hours of tempo riding on the open roads east of New Jersey Turnpike Exit 8A. For those of you who are not familiar with the area, I’m talking about roads in East Windsor, Washington…