Archive for the ‘single-speed’ Category

Fixie Brick

July 1, 2007

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After spending the afternoon with my daughters selling lemonade on the Burke Gilman trail, I was given permission to go and do a quick brick workout. My plan was 1 hour of cycling, followed by 30 minutes of running. I figured I’d get about 18 miles and 4 miles.

In a fit of “what the heck”, I decided to ride my fixed gear bike, in FIXED mode. Maybe it was the weekend in San Francisco… although I really only saw about 6 fixies in the mother of all fixie towns… I guess it was just walking around SF all geeked out on the idea that I might see a bad ass fixie skidding down one of those gnarly hills. Never did, so I never got my fixie fix… so I had to do my best to give myself my own fixie fix.

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…we want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man.

May 8, 2007

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The Wild Angels We want to be free! We want to be free to do what we want to do! We want to be free to ride. And we want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by The Man.

- Heavenly Blues,
from the eulogy of the Loser,
from the classic Biker movie “The Wild Angels.”

 

Well, I’ve been busy busy busy the last week… but today I was stopped by Johnny Law for supposedly riding my bike inappropriately.

What!? Here’s my story… and I’m sticking to it!

One-Leg at a Time

April 20, 2007

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Pedal Stroke Diagram - with color coded feet/leg positions.How about a cycling specific post? It seems like I haven’t written about cycling in a while, so today on my LSD ride (that’s Long Steady Distance) I did a lot of thinking about some cycling training topics that may be worth exploring. While I was pedaling away at a very steady (and a little slow) pace of 16mph, with a low low heart rate of around 110-120, I decided to do some one-legged intervals.

What? You’ve never heard of one-legged intervals before? Here’s a quick explanation of what they are and how they may help you in your cycling, triathlon, and maybe even your run training…

Cool Old Bike

April 3, 2007

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Cool Old BikeLast month when we took our trip to Victoria BC we stopped by the BC Museum of Natural History. They have an exhibit there that is a replica of 19th Century Western Canada/British Columbia. As we strolled through the mock streets looking in shop windows and touring “houses”, “livery stables”, “restaurants”, “theaters” and the like, we happened upon this cool old bike.

Needless to say I had to snap a bunch of photos…