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Race Report: Tour of the Battenkill–2011–Cat 3-Pink
The joke’s on you. The post is on the CB Blog. Here.
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Battenkill Bike Set Up–2010
Most races require minimal bike prep. Usually a simple clean, tune and lube will suffice. But Battenkill is different. Racers have been geeking out about bike setup for Tour of the Battenkill since it was a reasonably priced event called Battenkill-Roubaix. Since over a third of the course is unpaved, durable equipment is in order. Tire selection is of paramount importance, since what
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The Rest Week
Anyone reading this blog can ride hard. Hard enough to vomit, hard enough to be sore for days afterward, hard enough to hallucinate and meet god. If you didn’t like to ride hard, you’d be reading another blog. While training hard takes discipline, most of us relish a hard ride. We live for it. We are more than willing to suffer on the bike, even indoors and in darkened basements. If we didn
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Wells Needs you this Saturday—Bring a Broom and a Shovel—Saturday March 26 8:30am
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RMM’s 3rd Annual Guide to Local Road Teams–Part II
Back Bay Cycling Club–B2C2Membership: by request with some screening process.This is the newest of the local road teams mentioned here. B2C2 has built up a respectable road team from a solid background in mountain and cyclocross. They are a Boston based team, who competes with Cambridge for prizes such as "hippest team," "most exposed tattoos," and "most fun to invite to a party." I am very good
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RMM’s 3rd Annual Guide to Local Road Teams–Part II
Back Bay Cycling Club–B2C2Membership: by request with some screening process.This is the newest of the local road teams mentioned here. B2C2 has built up a respectable road team from a solid background in mountain and cyclocross. They are a Boston based team, who competes with Cambridge for prizes such as "hippest team," "most exposed tattoos," and "most fun to invite to a party." I am very good
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The Post You’ve All Been Waiting For: RMM’s 3rd Annual Guide to Local Road Teams–Part 1
Every year this is one of my most controversial posts. The fallout generally lasts for months with riders commenting in person and online. I do my best to just present things as I see them, while acknowledging my biases. Again, I am category racer, so I will only be offering observations about lower category teams. Part II will be published this coming Monday. Enjoy. North East Bicycle
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The Post You’ve All Been Waiting For: RMM’s 3rd Annual Guide to Local Road Teams–Part 1
Every year this is one of my most controversial posts. The fallout generally lasts for months with riders commenting in person and online. I do my best to just present things as I see them, while acknowledging my biases. Again, I am category racer, so I will only be offering observations about lower category teams. Part II will be published this coming Monday. Enjoy. North East Bicycle
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Georgia Death…er…Training Camp Update
So as many of you know, my team mate Matt Wheatley and I drove down to Georgia to hook up with the Cyclonauts to ride ourselves inside out in preparation for the upcoming spring campaign.Instead of boring you with details about rides and climbs, I’ll just say that I have ridden 3 days in a row and have none of the rides have been under 3000 kilojoules, or under 7000 feet of climbing or under 80
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CB is Promoting a BIG Stage Race: The Giro de Fred
Well, maybe its not quite a race. But it is an event. While this will compete for cycling traffic with my new favorite website, therollercam.com , if Ryan Kelly sucks up enough, I may be able to arrange a webcam feed of the event. How bout comping my upcoming banner ad big guy?I am getting ahead of myself. The Giro de Fred is an indoor stage race that will take place at the Bikes Not Bombs
