What is stopping people from maintaining their bikes themselves?

Doing your own routine bike maintenance has many benefits. You can instantly fix your bike, without relying on the timetable of the local bike shop. You can save significant amounts of money on bike shop repairs. It can also be reassuring to know that if something goes wrong, you can fix it. So why don?t [...]

Source: http://www.londoncyclist.co.uk/what-is-stopping-people-from-maintaining-their-bikes-themselves/

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How I learnt everything I know about cycling

It’s a funny thing cycling. How do you actually learn what to do? I’m currently reading Ned Boulting’s ‘How I won the Yellow Jumper‘ – an entertaining look at someone thrown in at the deep end of professional cycling. Asked to cover the Tour de France with pretty much zero knowledge of cycling, Ned endured [...]

Source: http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/6345/funny/how-i-learnt-everything-i-know-about-cycling/

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Team RadioShack Moves 3 into Paris-Nice Top 10 after Stage 6

In Friday’s race of truth, the individual time trial at the 69th running of Paris-Nice, Tony Martin of HTC-Highroad, as expected by many, laid down a devastating effort over the 27 kilometer course, beating the next competitor by a full 20 seconds and scrambling the general classification from the previous day’s posting. However, Team RadioShack [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/team-radioshack-moves-3-into-paris-nice-top-10-after-stage-6/

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Mirza Ghasemi (Iranian Aubergine Dip) - Eating London A to Z

Mirza Ghasemi (Iranian Aubergine Dip) Here is a recipe from Mohsen Iranian restaurant. Aubergines are considered a staple in Iran, not dissimilar to our potato. They are used in numerous recipes an this simple recipe is for a tasty dip...

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The Faces of Bicycle Travel #2


People. The true treasures of bicycle travel. 

Mexico, 1991

We are lying down on the cool tile floor of the kitchen. The smell of fresh tortillas mingles with perfume. A conversation on the side of the road while cycling down the Baja Peninsula led to an invitation to Adriano?s place in La Paz.

What I thought would be a single night?s stay turned out to be nine days as I helped Adriano and his brothers run their food booth during Carnival. The Gulf War had just begun, and many of the locals were afraid that Mexico, with its oil reserves, would soon be attacked by the U.S. I met all the neighbors, including ?the girl next door.? When her mother told me if I stuck around until Valentine?s Day that she?d throw us a big party, it was time to move on.


Panama, 1992

It is a hot afternoon and I?ve crossed the border from Costa Rica into Panama after three months of pedaling in Central America. I?m hot and want nothing more than some cold water or fruit juice. These gentlemen insist on buying me a beer. The small roadside cantina is buzzing with flies, and the radio blares with a local soccer match.

My newfound friends are jovial and boisterous. The beer is warm. There are kids playing baseball in the sparse field across the road. The men are all smiles -- until they pose for the photo. Everyone outside of this photo is laughing hysterically.



New Zealand, 1993

Mark was his name. He was a New Zealand kid from the North Island on his first bike trip. We are crossing a bridge on the west coast (also known as the wet coast) of the South Island. He called me grandpa because I was the oldest bicycle traveler he?d met.

He didn?t have much money and detested pasta, so he was lugging a 20-pound bag of potatoes along with the rest of his gear. I?d never seen any human eat as much as Mark could at one sitting. He slowed his pace to travel with me a while.When I asked him how far he usually traveled in a day, he replied, ?Oh, I guess about 130 to 180 kilometers a day. Is that good??

I assured him that even for most cyclists who weren?t lugging around a 20 pound sack of potatoes, that was a healthy daily distance.

Photos: By Willie Weir

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SIGHTS AND SOUNDS is posted every other Friday. Willie Weir is a columnist for Adventure Cyclist magazine. His latest book Travels with Willie: Adventure Cyclist will inspire you to hit the road and just might change the way you approach bicycle travel. He lives in Seattle with his wife Kat. You can read about their adventures at http://yellowtentadventures.com/.


Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2012/10/the-faces-of-bicycle-travel-2.html

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Fumiyuki Beppu Profile

Fumiyuki Beppu (born April 10, 1983 in Kanagawa-ken) is a Japanese professional road racer who started his pro cycling career with the Discovery Channel Team in 2005. Known as Fumy, he is an overall rider for Team RadioShack, starting with the 2010 season. Beppu started racing bikes when he was only 9-years old, entering local [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/fumiyuki-beppu-profile/

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