Official Team Radioshack Roster for Tour de France 2011

Team Radioshack has just announced their line-up for Tour de France 2011. Jani Brajkovic Chris Horner Markel Irizar Andreas Klden Levi Leipheimer Dmitriy Muravyev Srgio Paulinho Yaroslav Popovych Haimar Zubeldia Team Sports Manager Johan Bruyneel, together with Team Directors Dirk Demol and Alain Gallopin will direct the team. ?It was hard to make the selection of these nine riders,” said Johan Bruyneel. ?After the injury of [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/official-team-radioshack-roster-for-tour-de-france-2011/

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How Many Miles do You Cycle?

One of the most frequent questions I get asked is how many miles do you cycle? When I first got back into cycling in 2003/2004, I didn’t used to race, I just cycled for the fun of it. Part of the fun was cycling all day – 100-150 miles in the Cotswolds or Yorkshire Dales. I remember one day cycling to Cambridge and back 180 miles in the middle of winter. This gave big weekly mileages of perhaps 300 miles a week. I would regularly churn out 1,000 plus miles a month. It was great, the only target was miles and I would diligently note down every mile cycled in my notebook. When I started racing, I found mileage would go down. Churning out the miles doesn’t necessarily make you go faster. If you train at a high intensity, you need more rest and recovery and so doing big mileages can be counter-productive. One of the drawbacks of a busy racing schedule, is that I don’t make so much time for long easy century rides. A typical week this season has been   Sat: 10 mile TT Sun 25 mile TT Mon rest Tues 70 miles hard with hill intervals [...]

Source: http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/articles/how-many-miles-do-you-cycle/

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Cycling in Copenhagen Vs London

I have a question can London really be ever, a commuter friendly city for cyclist? After watching the video of cyclist commuting on the streets of Copenhagen streets, it becomes clear why cycling commuting works in Copenhagen. It?s a culture it a way of life. Every need of cyclists has been considered, cycling is for all skills levels in Copenhagen some as young as 4 years old are riding to school, you have 50% of women cycling and even the motorist have a better understanding of cycling as they would have being cycling from a very young age themselves. ?It just great I am totally sold?

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Total Bliss

One of my favorite moments of any bike trip comes when I'm not on my bike. It is that time after a long day's ride. The tent is set up. The sun is getting low in the sky. There is nothing to do but observe the beauty around me and listen to the world as it winds down.

I've heard it said, "If you listen closely ... you just might hear your priorities."

Total bicycle and travel bliss.

Photo: Portugal--2010 by Willie Weir

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SIGHTS AND SOUNDS appears on Friday afternoons. 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 local adventures and life without a car at http://YellowTentAdventures.com/.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2011/08/total-bliss.html

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A cyclist problem of bike storage.

Article by: Thom Milson
In the last few years, more and more people are starting to realise that we really need to think about changing the ways we get around, so that they are a lot more "green". The electric car seems to be the vehicle really being pushed, but for those of us that know that the majority of electricity is produced from burning fossil fuels, it is a sub-standard idea and the bike still remains best (I don't know if I have to claim the bike is best on a cycling blog, but never mind). If you live inner city like I do, you'll probably know that bikes can get stolen quite regularly. So what are our options, when it comes to the question 'where do we keep our bikes?' Obviously, indoors is the first place I would keep my bike, but I live in a house in which the front door enters straight into the living room and it can very annoying and often messy (during the wetter and muddier months) to store my bike indoors, especially when the three other people I live with, like the place clean and junk free, which for some reason, regardless of my opinions, includes my bike. So I have been pressured into leaving my bike outdoors, which is the last thing I want to do. Not only because of the possibility it could be stolen, but also because it cost me quite a lot of money (for a recent graduate) and I wouldn't like it to seize up due to rust and other conditions caused by the weather.

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