paved Happy 25th, Timbuk2 The San Francisco bag company Timbuk2 is celebrating 25 years. And that means some new stuff. The company recently partnered with Mission Cycling, a cycling club in San Francisco, to design a pair of new products for happy on-the-bike adventuring. Proof | 2013 Boulder Cup Marked by a fine fall day, the 2013 Boulder Cup made for a solid day of racing as riders took to the particularly challenging course at Boulder’s Valmont Bike Park. Book Report | Skills, Drills and Bellyaches By Jen See All your friends are talking about it. Theater Thursday Theater Thursday | Inside the Team Sky Service Course Sure, you’re accustomed to the plethora of drool-worthy bike bits inside the service course of a ProTour-level team, but how many have a four-bedroom luxury apartment? Meet the Fall Issue of Paved Just in case you’re not already in the know, the Fall 2013 issue of Paved is now in bike shops, on traditional newsstands and available for download on iTunes and Zinio.
PSBBMV We are the Peninsula and South Bay Bicycling Group (PSBBG)! Without exception, we aim to be a clean fun group - no drugs, alcohol, or flouting of California vehicle code on these rides, other than rolling through a stop sign at your own discretion. We do not welcome cross-posts or suggested rides with other groups which do not follow these guidelines. This group is for experienced group-riding road-bike riders. If you are joining a group-riding Meetup group for the first time, this actually might not be the best fit for you. PSBBG is predominantly a very active, strong group of fairly frequent riders who like going fairly fast, include hills on most rides, and it is just not an easy place for someone to start out, without prior group riding experience, and a fairly strong current ability in terms of speed and hills. If you still think this might be the right group for you ... read on. Know what toe-clips are? This group is your alternative to spin class or solo riding. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Joe Friel's Blog I consider specificity the most important principle of training. And I tie specificity in with periodization to create training plans for the athletes I coach. So what is it? Basically, the specificity principle says that if you want to become good at something you need to do that thing. According to the specificity principle to ultimately become good at bicycle racing you should ride a bike – not run. So how about this one… If your goal is to run a 7-minute pace you need to do a lot of 7-minute-paced running. One I deal with a lot has to do with triathletes and bike races… Many multisport athletes believe that bike road racing is good training for triathlon. (A brief aside… I know many triathletes may be upset about what I just said. Here’s an even less obvious example… If training for a criterium you need to spend a lot of time in the drops or hooks of your handlebars – not on the brake hoods or tops. Essentially, a key workout is a hard session. Labels: specificity, TSS
Joe Friel Bike Rides open originals: false The Bay Area is a perfect place for cycling. We have rideable weather all year, a vast array of terrain and scenery, and great cycling roads all over the place. We also have a transit system that allows bikes; the combination of BART and bike can get you to all of the best places to ride, car-free. I organize recreational rides for friends of different backgrounds, ranging from serious racing cyclists to people doing fun rides for the first time in their adult lives. I owe a debt to Grant Petersen (now of Rivendell Cycles) for his old Roads to Ride books. I’ve shamelessly stolen the “Ride Bike!” Cycling Routes America's Best Road Bike Descents Downhill Cycling America's Best Descents All that goes up must come down. Lucky you. I've plunged and plummeted and careened and careered and in many other action-verb ways pointed my front wheel down the Rockies, the Cascades, the Appalachians, the Green Mountains, the Coastal Range from Cali to Oregon, the Sierra Madres and Nevadas, the Berks, the White Mountains and a good share of the isolated freaks such as Mt. Rainier and, just off Elliot Road in Wayne County, the highest point in Indiana (at which you ought to stop and ask the Gobels for permission to ride across their property before you go). Something happens on the best descent. The sensation ends. The best descent is over, one more time. GPS maps of the best descents in the United States: Onion Valley Road, California Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah Haleakala National Park, Hawaii Bohlman Road/On Orbit Drive, California Lake Sabrina, California Whiteface Mountain, Adirondack Park, New York High Knob, Jefferson National Forest, Virginia