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  • Weather Underground Road Trip Planner

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    Disclaimer: I provide a local weather station for Wundermap in support of bike commuters, riders, and local weather forecasting. I ran across this application, Road Trip Planner, on Weather Underground,  for providing weather forecasts to help in planning a road trip.  I like the idea, but entering my own cities seems so time consuming, I…

  • Found on Internet: Downhill bike race in Chile is insanity at its finest

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    HERE by Justin Delaney (RSS feed) on Mar 3rd 2011 at 3:30PM   VCA 2010 RACE RUN from changoman on Vimeo. I have seen insanity and it happens on the streets of Valparaiso, Chile. The Valparaiso Cerro Abajo Race is a legendary urban bike race and is more extreme than skydiving out of an exploding…

  • Hosting Touring Cyclist David Munusamy Reddie

    Hosting Touring Cyclist David Munusamy Reddie

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    This week we were fortunate enough to host David Munusamy Reddie, the organizer of bicycle touring in Nibong Tebal, Penang.   I have included David’s business card, although the best place to find him is at www.bicycletouringmalaysia.com. David was a wonderful guest who provided us with many insights into his culture, his country, as well as…

  • Watching: Danny MacAskill – “Way Back Home”

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  • I Am a Cat 6 Racer

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    Cyclists have a joke about “racing in cat 6,” which, despite the name, is not exactly a race nor does it refer to an official category of cyclists. Cat 6 refers to commuter cyclists, and racing each other to work is their sport. Also called “the great commuter race” and “hipster racing,” cat-6 racing is…

  • Keeping the Rubber Side Down

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    I have had a great deal of mail on the tires.  I had my tires recommended by the folks at Rivendell Bicycle Works and that made all the difference.  Keven may not think I am riding on a wide enough tire, and he had to work a great deal for him to get me on…

  • Keeping Goals

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    I completed the Adventure Cycling TransAm from Yorktown, VA to Portland, OR this summer. I had two cycling goals for the ride. First, try to ride as close to 100 miles per day as possible, given that towns are so far apart, I averaged 98.6 mpd.  I like how I chased this goal as I…