Category: News
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Bicycle Shops in Portland
From PBOT, I was looking up a shop for someone, there is this list These shops offer bicycle sales and/or service. If you’d like to learn to repair your bike, check out this link. For a list of the shops that offer bicycle rentals, check out this link. To view a…
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Bicycle Shops in Portland
From PBOT, I was looking up a shop for someone, there is this list These shops offer bicycle sales and/or service. If you’d like to learn to repair your bike, check out this link. For a list of the shops that offer bicycle rentals, check out this link. To view a…
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Bike Safety Maps via Crowdsourcing
via Commute by Bike This combines three of my favorite things – mapping, crowdsourcing, and bicycling – is something I can’t help cheer! Earlier this month, at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, geography professor Dr. Trisalyn Nelson launched a new bike mapping website called BikeMaps.org. The website is a crowdsourced bike safety map…
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Is a Lighter Bike Faster?
I enjoyed this article in VeloNews, it explains why I like my Atlantis so much Editor’s Note: This excerpt is adapted from the book FASTER: Demystifying the Science of Triathlon Speed by Jim Gourley and republished with permission from VeloPress. Learn more about the science of triathlon at freetrispeed.com. Let’s clear something up. There is…
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Voigt sets new hour record
I saw this on VeloNews today, I am so pleased that Jens set this record, also that the rules are so much clearer now. Jens Voigt (Trek Factory Racing) set a new hour record at the Velodrome Suisse in Grenchen, Switzerland. He rode 51.115km over the course of an hour Thursday. The 43-year-old German bested…
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Jens Voigt Reminds Me Who I Am
From VeloNews COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (VN) — In the end, it really didn’t matter if he’d won or lost. Jens Voigt, the 42-year-old German whose career has spanned two decades, was off the front, alone, battling against the wind, the peloton, and his own inner demons, one last time. In his final race, in what…