Culture & Opinion
When you leave the hospital with a bottle of medication, it comes with a warning label or two; “Don’t operate a motor vehicle while taking this medication.” When you leave the hospital with a newborn, however, you’re handed a baby and told good luck. My daughter should have
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
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
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
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,
Culture & Opinion
Bicycle lanes are great for cyclists, but they can also create dangerous “door zones” when they are sandwiched between vehicle lanes and parked cars. The expensive, pie-in-the-sky approach is to design and build better bike lanes, but in the meantime, drivers can do something very simple to help protect cyclists
Culture & Opinion
Those of you who frequent the site know I spend some time over on Reddit. I was checking out some stuff on r/Fitness recently and I came across this Chest 101: An Anatomical Guide to Training post and I just sighed to myself and moved on. But later on
Culture & Opinion
There is a lot going on in this great country right now and many people are disillusioned with our government. It’s understandable, lobbyists and private interest groups with gobs of money seem impossible to compete with, but disengaging from the system is not the answer. Nor is turning to
Tech & Data
Through the haze of wattage, feet climbed per minute, cadence and a plethora of other measurements and metrics cycling really boils down to just three key things: speed, distance and time. In 2016, three cyclists broke world records in each. Speed: Denise Mueller Powers Bicycle to 147 MPH Sitting just