Crooked Zippers, See-Through Jerseys, and Screaming Dolphins

Filed under: Newsletters — Andrew Barlage @ 4:00 am on February 26, 2009

We’ve started to get a bunch of our 2009 clothing and shoes in, and there’s some pretty cool stuff in the mix. Most of Mavic’s road shoe line arrived recently, as well as a small sampling of their clothing and a few pieces of Campagnolo’s clothing too. Since we’re all such bike nerds, we took [...]

Your Bike Makes You Smarter… But You Already Knew That

Filed under: Newsletters — Andrew Barlage @ 10:20 pm on February 17, 2009

I got a message on Facebook the other day from my aunt pointing me toward a new book by John Ratey, M.D. that uses case studies and all sorts of other evidence to show that exercise makes you smarter. Not any sort of crazy amount of strenuous exercise either – just about a half an [...]

How Does Heart Rate Based Training Work?

Filed under: Training and Goals — Blayne Puklich @ 4:54 pm on February 9, 2009

Your heart, it’s pretty important huh? Understanding the basics of your heart rate when training on your bike allows to you to not only improve your fitness and enhance your performance, it also enables you to set, reach and eventually bypass goals you’ve created to train your body at specific intensities to 1-up your game. We’re about to teach you how.