Anatomy Awareness

by | Mar 18, 2015 | Cycling General, News, Technical, Training, Videos

Anatomy awareness How comfortable are you on your bicycle during a twenty mile ride, forty miles, sixty miles, century? What does tensional integrity have in common between Buckminster Fuller, a bicycle wheel, and one’s anatomy? How does saddle height range change...

Einsteinian Wobble

by | Mar 9, 2015 | Cycling General, Images, News, Technical

We could be riding in this. New York snow does not melt in one day like Santa Fe snow. Our friend Sandy, President of Cambridge Valley Cycling, sent the following experience with his classic steel bicycle, as he is thinking about a re-furbish project. With our season...

SOB Waiver

by | Feb 25, 2015 | Cycling General, News, Technical

Santa Fe Seniors on Bikes (SOB) Liability Waiver and Release Contract I understand any bicycle activity includes inherent dangers such as hazards of roads, off road terrain, accidents, actions of participants, and vehicle caused accidents. (INITIAL) I understand that...

Injury protocol

by | Feb 5, 2015 | Cycling General, News, Training

Gale Bernhardt past USA Triathlon team coach and World Cup triathlon coach http://galebernhardt.com presents some “revisionist” thinking concerning the previously accepted recovery protocols for bicycle injuries in her latest active.com article....

Tech Helmet Monitor

by | Feb 1, 2015 | News, Technical

Bill Pollock shared the following from the LA Times http://www.life-beam.com/product/lifebeam-smart-helmet-us/# LifeBeam bio-sensing bike helmet reads your heart rate and provides calorie burn data, eliminating the need for a conventional wrist-top heart-rate monitor...

Anti-seize Thread-lockers

by | Jan 27, 2015 | Cycling General, News, Technical

Preparing my bike for the senior’s new Off Road season I discovered the following manufacture’s warning on my five year warranty flat pedals, which are polycarbonate (high tech plastic) and aluminum with little steel pegs that can be height adjusted. Half of the...