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Biking Errands

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

This summer I have been riding a new bike for the commute to work and school. It’s been fun in many ways because the bike, a Specialized Tri-Cross, is a capable bike off road as well as being a decent road bike. What’s really nice is the bike feels much better than my older racer [...]

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Wheel Truing Meditation

Saturday, August 5, 2006

Somewhere along the line I must have changed…
There was a time when I considered truing a wheel an exercise in pure frustration. I would take the offending wheel to the local bike shop (LBS) and have them do it, even if it was what they considered a quick and easy job of truing. I did [...]

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Deutschland Tour Pt.1

Friday, August 4, 2006

The Deutschland Tour on Cycling.TV has been a pretty good race so far, with some exciting finishes. The prologue was won by Gusev of Discovery Channel, who continues to hold the Leaders jersey and the best young rider jersey. Astaná-Würth scored a victory in stage one when Assan Bazayev outsprinted Erik Zabel and Danilo Napolitano [...]

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Triple, Double & Single

Wednesday, August 2, 2006

Today while we watched the Deutschland Tour this morning on Cycling TV, Johann helped me put new cleats on my Sidi Dominator’s (by far, the best mountain/spd shoe I have ever used!) and switch out the pedals on the bike from the Shimano SPD-R’s — which I loathe — to some straight SPD’s until I [...]

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