Category: Fitness Gadgets
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Perplexed by a Presta Bike Tire Valve
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs you know, the other day I got a set of Mavic CrossLand wheels for my late model mountain bike. The CrossLand wheels are designed for Presta-valved tubes (or tubeless tires). Up to now, I had more conventional American wheels on my bike, which meant I was using Schrader-valved tubes. (I…
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Bobby Julich Rides Tour Team Time Trial Wearing a Camelbak
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you watched the Tour de France Team Time Trial earlier today, you may have seen Bobby Julich, the American rider on Team CSC, wearing a Camelbak hydration system. This is the first time I ever saw a rider wearing a hydration pack during a Tour stage. But, it was obvious and…
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Cycling Teams in Tour de France Publishing Performance Data on Web
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJosh Gray of Jtri.com told us about Lennard Zinn‘s report for Bicycling Magazine about the alliance between the Saeco Cycling Team and SRM to allow Tour de France watchers to monitor heart rate, power, speed, and cadence data for some of Saeco’s riders. The data is available during the running of…
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Replaced the Wheels on My Marin Bear Valley SE with Mavic CrossLands
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’ve been off of my Marin Bear Valley SE mountain bike recently because my wheels were too brittle to keep riding. I’m fortunate that I have never tacoed a wheel badly enough to have to replace one. But, lately the wheels became so weak due to metal fatigue that I was…
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Ciclosport HAC 4 Plus is the Bike Computer Lance Armstrong Uses on Race Day
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday, Jonathan Green pointed out that the July 2004 issue of Wired Magazine has a short article by Ben Hewitt about the gear that Lance Armstrong will use in his quest for a sixth consecutive Tour de France GC win. I bought the magazine at the newsstand in Newark Liberty Airport this…
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Radios Used by U.S. Postal Service Cycling Team During Races
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLast October, Men’s Journal did a cover story on Lance Armstrong that recapped his fifth Tour de France and his life at that time. A side bar to that article called The Innovator: The Winning Gear discussed many of the components that Armstrong and the U.S. Postal Service team used in…
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Donik Sports Hit-N-Stick is an Excellent Tool for Correcting Bat Swing Mechanics
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the July 5 edition of Forbes , Forbes Publisher Rich Karlgaard talks about the Donik Sports Hit-N-Stick Training Aid. This is a tool that he used to help his 8-year-old son correct the mechanics of his baseball bat swing. Karlgaard describes the Hit-N-Stick as a stick that “was about 4-to-5 feet…
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First Run of the Season in the Heat is Always Depressing
Reading Time: 2 minutesI went for a 10 K run through the Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park in 90 degree weather. It was a struggle to get through it. This is the first extended period of heat and humidity in New Jersey this year– 85 to 95 degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity. When it…
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Picked Up a LiveStrong Wristband at Princeton Running Company
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhile we were in Princeton on Wednesday evening, my wife and I stopped into the Princeton Running Company to browse and ask the store personnel about podiatrists that athletes in the area have seen. Inside we noticed a point-of-purchase display of LiveStrong yellow wristbands which are being sold to support a new…