Jeff Moser | October 30, 2009
Thursday’s lunch ride started off perfect. It was cold and overcast, but the biting windchill from the day before was gone. The trails were in great shape, and we had four fast guys pedaling up the hill. We had a brief rest at the top of the Creek Trail, and then we flew down the [...]
Category: Lunch Rides, stories |
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Tags: flat tires, marcus, tire slayer
Jeff Moser | October 29, 2009
I’ve been looking for a lightweight shoe cover for cold weather riding. My thick neoprene covers work great when the conditions are wet and really cold, but they can be bulky and cumbersome. Kristy recently brought me home a pair of Louis Garneau T-Covers from the Bike Habitat that seemed to be just what I [...]
Category: gear tests |
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Tags: booty, fall cycling gear, louis garneau, review, shoe covers, t-cover, winter cycling, winter cycling shoes
Jeff Moser | October 27, 2009
A book review of Metal Cowboy – Tales From the Road Less Pedaled by Joe Kurmaskie Back in May of 2009, I attended the Bicycle and Pedestrian Conference up at Lake Tahoe. Author Joe Kurmaskie was one of the guest speakers at the conference, speaking on bicycle advocacy during the day, and entertaining the crowd [...]
Category: books |
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Tags: bicycle touring, book review, joe kurmaskie, metal cowboy, tales from the road less pedaled
Jeff Moser | October 23, 2009
Today’s long travel mountain bikes do a great job of eating up bumps on the trail, enabling even the novice mountain biker to ride faster than on bikes from a decade ago. But if you go on a group ride, you’ll find that suspension doesn’t have much to do with who the fastest riders are. [...]
Category: riding skills |
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Tags: cornering, mountain biking, riding skills, turning technique
Jeff Moser | October 22, 2009
Back in September, I posted that the Bike and Brew Tour was leaving Brooklyn, NY, and that they’d be touring the country, stopping at as many breweries along the way as they could. The crew has finally reached Nevada, and will be in Reno/Sparks this Friday! On the morning of Wednesday the 21st, they were [...]
Category: News, Rides, beer, camping, events |
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Tags: beer, bicycle touring, bike and brew tour, great basin brewery, nevada
Jeff Moser | October 20, 2009
There was a recent story over on NewsCarsonCity.com about a girl that got hit while riding in a Carson City bike lane. Although bike lanes give cyclists room to ride on the road, especially for those riders that don’t like being part of traffic, they must still be vigilant. Possibly more so, since they are [...]
Category: Advocacy, commute, urban cycling |
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Tags: bicycle safety, safe cycling, sipde
Jeff Moser | October 19, 2009
Here’s one for you Lance fans out there! Denis Coyne at the Bike Habitat tipped me off to this cool video, the updated HD trailer for Race Across The Sky – Leadville Trail 100. “Race Across The Sky” Rides into Theaters October 22nd, 2009 The show date is Thursday October 22nd @ 8:00 PM, and [...]
Category: News, racing, video |
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Tags: lance armstrong, leadville 100, movie, race across the sky