Category: Gear
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Senseless – Bicycling Magazine
Take time to read the article at Bicycling Magazine http://www.bicycling.com/senseless/ It was worth the time and the length. Nothing is more important. Bicycle helmets do an outstanding job of keeping our skulls intact in a major crash. But they do almost nothing to prevent concussions and other significant brain injuries—and the very government agency created…
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How To Choose Running Shoes
The information in our How to Choose Running Shoes infographic can help you make the right decision when choosing running shoes!
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Video: How to True a Bicycle Wheel
Someone sent me this video from YouTube, it is hard to cull out a good one on any subject, the same with truing a bicycle wheel. This one is good.
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My New Bike Light–CygoLite Metro 300
This Christmas I purchased myself a CygoLite Metro 300, and have just mounted it on my commuter bike for tomorrow morning. It was a gift to keep myself alive. Over the last month or two, as the days get dark and rainy, cars have missed my older, and not too bad, headlight, and it has…
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Lose The Helmets
From Slashdot this morning. One imagines that one does understand the comments even before they are posted. Trot on out there and look at the billion comments if you dare. This much I see in Portland: whenever folks gather and try to stop any sport or activity they turn to an attempt to require helmets.…
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Custom Wheels from Psimet
A friend of the family is working here. Looks like a great place to be. Young man rode with my son through the midwest on his trip home in 2008 and again on motorcycles around the US a year ago. Psimet Custom Wheels from Robert Cawthorne on Vimeo.