If you don’t follow professional cycling, you may not know who Dave Zabriskie is. He’s the dude that beat Lance Armstrong on the time trial prologue of Lance’s last TdF. He later ate it in the team time trial and was out of the race. Anyhow, Dave has started a new campaign called ‘Yield to [...]

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The great news of Lance’s new bike shop in Austin and his interest in commuting and cycling culture reminded me of something I saw floating around the internet a few weeks ago. Lance on a tallbike! Apparently he ran into a bike group in Austin (Skidmarxx) at an art show and threw his [...]

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This article is making it’s rounds on the net, but I thought I’d mention it here. I saw the reference first on Jonthan Maus’ excellent bike news website in Portland, BikePortland.org, he reports:

The national bike movement might have just found its most important (and famous) ally: Lance Armstrong.
After just bumping into Lance at the [...]

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I’ve seen a number of guys wearing boxers or some type of underwear underneath their cycling shorts…to me it doesn’t make sense since that extra fabric could cause some chaffing. Besides its uncomfortable…I just don’t get it. So if your one of those fellas that wears their skivvies with your cycling shorts…baggy or tights…please explain [...]

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I love the question: if you could do anything for a living and money were not an option, what would you do?
When I finished college and was looking for a job, I took any interview I could get. There were a few interviews that quickly revealed to me that this was NOT the job for [...]

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This week’s Green Tuesday post is really a simple reflection on urban design…
When I first started cycling for recreation, I felt my urban utopia would be a place with miles of smooth-as-glass roadway for my cycling pleasure - the ultimate and never-ending century ride if you will. In Phoenix, I certainly have miles of roadway, [...]

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You may notice that the numbers in our Bikecommuters.com/Bikejournal.com log at the top of our page have changed dramatically since yesterday.
Faithful reader Mike Schlei of Webster, TX pointed out to us today that there was something amiss in the math, and he was right on the money! While our gas savings calculator works quite [...]

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Headed up to the Magnolia Pub & Brewery in San Francisco this weekend with my carpool buddy to take part in their and the 21st Amendment’s Strong Beer Month. What I wasn’t expecting was to be so distracted by the bike culture. Every second I’d see someone whiz by on their bike, whether it was [...]

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I hate it when I use my nether-regions to adjust my bicycle seat…just plain dislike the very essence of my saddle shifting out of it’s highly physically-resistant placement by nothing else except my bike-short-chamois and 180 pounds of Jeff.
I did it twice today.
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Last week, I wrote about the Slow Coast videos made by a couple that went on tour down the Pacific Coast. This week, I want to introduce you all to the mother of touring journals, DownTheRoad.org, a site maintained by a couple that has been on a continuous tour since March of 2002. [...]

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