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Energy Balance and Your Body Weight
Energy balance and the effect on your body weight is the most important topic to understand whether your goal is to maintain, gain or lose body weight. Weight loss and weight gain are, in my opinion, are extremely simple topics that have been befuddled with pseudoscience, misinformation, and other bullcrap. I’ve heard it all: I’m…
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Gravel Builds of the ENVE Builder Round-Up 2020 – Part 2
If you missed it, check out Part 1 on the ENVE Builder Round-Up first, then enjoy Part 2 below! PURSUIT CYCLES BOZEMAN, MONTANA USA Drawing a line between venture and adventure, The LeadOut All Road is designed for some off-road fun, but not full blown gravel exploration. Made entirely in-house, the molded carbon frames can…
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Shimano RX8 “Cactus Berry” Gravel Race Shoes
First introduced in 2019, the RX8 gravel race shoe is a bit of a mashup, built from portions of both Shimano’s premium mountain bike shoes and road racing footwear. The new RX8 color scheme adds a third color option to the RX8 lineup and will be available starting in September 2020. The inspiration for this…
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Gravel Builds of the ENVE Builder Round-Up 2020
The 2nd Annual ENVE Builder Round-Up is happening now, virtually. The exhibition features beautiful bikes ranging from steel road bikes to enduro mountain bikes. All kitted out with top of the line, as you might have guessed, ENVE wheels and parts. There’s a lot of great looking bikes here, but if I had to pick just…
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Legion Puts the New Tarmac Through Its Paces
Justin and Cory Williams of Legion of Los Angeles put the new Tarmac SL7 through its paces.
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Z-Triton is an All-In-One Bike, Boat, and Camper
The Z-Triton might just be the ultimate bikepacking rig. It’s an all-in-one amphibious e-bike/camper/boat and you can buy one starting in 2021. The bike is powered by two, 250w electric motors. It take a lot to power this giant rig around, especially with it’s massive front wheel. It’s 36 inches, with two 20-inch wheels in the…
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Wyn Masters Climbs the Col du Galibier on a Downhill Bike
This was another one of my silly idea’s but a good one all the same, this is the GT Factory Racing Downhill bike VS Road bike Challenge where I take on our Junior in the team Ethan Craik in a race climbing up the Col Du Galibier with him on the GT Grade road bike…
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Riding Fixed, Up Mountains, With Pros: Lachlan Morton
Lachlan Morton is arguably the most interesting guy in professional cycling, he’s doing it all and succeeding.
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Endura has planted well over half a million trees in 2020
Endura is on schedule to hit its target of planting one million trees annually to help reduce the quantity of carbon in the atmosphere. That’s 619,962 trees planted so far! July 23, 2020 – Despite everything that has happened this year, Endura is delighted to announce that the Scottish cycle kit brand has reached the…
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Win a REEB “ReDikyelous” Mountain Bike
The Lake City Alpine 50 is a high alpine, endurance mountain race beginning in historic Lake City, Colorado. This 50 mile lung busting race will take you up and over 2 of the highest mountain passes in Colorado: Cinnamon (12,640 ft) and Engineer (12, 800 ft). The race will feature over 6,000 ft of climbing…
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Maloja Persicm. Bib Review
Maloja’s Persicm. Bib short builds on the compression muscle stabilization I enjoyed in their PushbikersM. SQlab Bib a couple years ago. The Persicm. Bib is constructed from Maloja’s Bike Stretch HC ECO material, the most technical Lycra in the Maloja collection. The shortcut HC stands for high compression. The combination of 65% Nylon and 35%…
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Despite Record Bicycle Sales People Are Riding Less
Sales of bicycles, bike equipment & services increased 81% to $1.11 billion in May 2020 compared to May 2019, according to PeopleForBikes data. Simply put, there has been a COVID-19 bike sales boom. According to reporting from Axios, however, all those new bikes have not translated to more people out riding. In fact, it would…
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Bontrager Release BITS Integrated Stem Tool System
Bontrager have released a stem-based integrated tool system. The BITS (Bontrager Integrated Tool System) installs without needing to thread the steerer tube and will work on any non-carbon 1-1/8″ mtb steerer tube. The tool uses a bolted compression fitting to stay secure and replaces the traditional star nut. Within the body of the tool are…
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Review: Crash Course: If You Want To Get Away With Murder Buy A Car by Woodrow Phoenix
Crash Course by Woodrow Phoenix is a painfully shocking indictment of driving which comes as less of a shock to those of us who spend significant amounts of time on two wheels. The British graphic novelist applies a not at all conventional medium for this kind of societal review in a thought-provoking and effective way.…
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Video: Pedal Through
Pedal Through invites us into the world of director-lead Analise Cleopatra as she discovers the healing and joy of mountain biking. Analise had never camped or ridden a bike off the pavement when she decided to plan a week-long mountain biking adventure with an all Black female team: her best friend and fellow newcomer to…
