Knees Pedals

Bill Pollock pollockb@aol.com sent us an article from the LA TIMES http://latimes.com about new pedal technology from http://nikolainnovation.com It may help to review how the knee joint works in cycling, which tells us there is a slight rotation between the tibia and...

Bear

Had to share this little flash back with you. This rider is not me. However; this same exciting adventure happened to me one Sunday when I worked at the University of Idaho, Moscow. In my case I was on a Moscow Mountain trail. My bike, Black Schwinn Paramount 26 inch...

Anatomy Awareness

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...

Injury protocol

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....

How exercise keeps us young

This article was in the New York Times today, Tuesday, Jan 13th and it is by Gretchen Reynolds.  I thought it was great, except that some of our women could easily bike as far and as fast as the men!...

Mitochondria Master Age Riders

Not quite adapted to our cold weather yet and being a bit physically under-active, remiss, and negligent, I have been catching up on sports related mitochondrial information to share with our master age riders. As usual in the précis are offered as briefly as...