Culture & Opinion
The Giro d’Italia (May 5-28) is second only to the Tour de France in popularity, many of you are probably rolling your eyes that I’m even including it in this series. There’s so much to love about the Giro, which is why I’m including it on
Having trouble cultivating mass and your lifts are not progressing? You’re not alone. Despite best-laid plans and plenty of effort, most guys struggle in the weight room at some point. The following are five reasons why you may be lagging and having a hard time trying to change your
Recovery
When it comes to strength training and bodybuilding the desired traits of training usually include raw strength, power, speed and putting on muscle mass. Mobility, how well your joints move, is often left by the wayside or confused with flexibility. Mobility, however, is key to developing strength and size efficiently
Culture & Opinion
The United States of America’s National parks are changing due to the effects of climate change. Glaciers are melting, wildfires are becoming more prominent and more devastating and whitebark pines and other tree species are under attack by pests, that’s just to name a few. What will our
Culture & Opinion
Next week is National Park Week, which means you can get into your national parks for free for the next two weekends. If you want to take advantage of the opportunity for a free visit, here’s what you can do to get the most out of your visit. * Find
Road
Here’s a question that popped up in my inbox regarding club rides: “I use a computer on my rides and I have a pretty good idea of what my average speed is when riding. I joined a club ride with the same stated average pace and it kicked my
Bikes & Frames
The Red Dot Design Awards put out a press release today that seems to have leaked something new from Canyon, a carbon fiber version of the popular aluminum gravel Inflite. The new offering is dubbed the Inflite CF SLX and it looks amazing. The new, yet to be released, bike
Culture & Opinion
Spring is upon us! The days are getting longer, the flowers are blooming and the weather is getting nicer by the day. That means it’s time to tune up the legs on some club rides! Cycling teams, clubs, and bicycles shops typically start their season of club rides sometime
Culture & Opinion
The propaganda model seeks to explain media behavior by examining the institutional pressures that constrain and influence news content within a capitalist system. It flies in the face of theories that argue that journalism is by its nature adversarial to established power. The propaganda model predicts that corporate-owned media will
Clinical Cycling
A few months back I hurt my shoulder performing bench press. I put on a little too much weight and let my form go and ended up with a sharp pain in my shoulder and the inability to sleep on my side or bench more than about 95 pounds without
Culture & Opinion
Take 5-minutes and watch this awesome video from Diamondback Bicycles. Dreamride 2 featuring Mike Hopkins and filmed by Scott Secco, Jordan Manley, and Bruno Long. The short-film really captures what I love about mountain biking; escaping reality and surrounding myself with nature. The location and film work are fantastic as
Bikes & Frames
The North American Handbuilt Bike Show is the venue for frame builders to show off their chops. Compared to Interbike where you get what big name manufacturers are prepping for the market, at the NAHBS you get to see the products of sweat, tears, years of expertise and fine-tuning technique,
