Body

Tuesdays with Wilcockson: Greater parity means tougher finishes Tuesdays with Wilcockson: Greater parity means tougher finishes

[Editor's note: Due to an extraordinary amount of travel with little to no down... 

A Ride With Omega Pharma-Quickstep A Ride With Omega Pharma-Quickstep

Late last week I received a rather last-minute invitation from the PR machine at... 

Tuesdays with Wilcockson: A birthday ride Tuesdays with Wilcockson: A birthday ride

Most cyclists set some sort of challenge each year to give them an incentive to... 

Friday Group Ride #116 Friday Group Ride #116

Junket is a word for a trip made at someone else’s expense, as in a press... 

6 Questions for the 2012 Giro d’Italia 6 Questions for the 2012 Giro d’Italia

The 2012 Giro d’Italia begins this Saturday in Denmark—here are 6 questions... 

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Mind

Friday Group Ride #118 Friday Group Ride #118

It’s National Bike-to-Work Day here in the States, or as I like to call it... 

Live Coverage: Stage 13 of the 2012 Giro d’Italia Live Coverage: Stage 13 of the 2012 Giro d’Italia

Live Coverage of Stage 13 of the 2012 Giro d’Italia, a 155km 122-km stage from... 

Being Cyclists Being Cyclists

In college, when I was doing an extremely rewarding and valuable liberal arts degree,... 

Friday Group Ride #117 Friday Group Ride #117

No one can stay on their bike at the Giro d’Italia this year. From the roll... 

The Distractions The Distractions

After the first, second and third innings, as my son’s team finished batting... 

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Machine

First Ride: Cervelo P5 First Ride: Cervelo P5

Last week I was invited to a small media camp that gave me the opportunity to spend some time on the Cervelo R5 and be among a select group of people to have actually ridden the Cervelo P5 time trial bike. Now, I don’t ride a lot of time trial bikes, but I’ve ridden enough of them over the years that when I climbed on the P5 I knew instantly... [Read more of this review]

SRAM Red 2012 Installation SRAM Red 2012 Installation

So last week I laid my hands on a SRAM 2012 Red group. To use a more colloquial phrasing, you might say that my stock has risen enough with the folks in Chicago that they were willing to provide me with a group for review. It suggests they have some regard for my work. Which is pretty cool, considering we’re this tiny, independent blog thingy. My... [Read more of this review]

Giro Apeckx Shoes Giro Apeckx Shoes

When I first pulled the Giro Apeckx shoes out of the box, my reaction was lackluster. The problem wasn’t with the shoe, it was with me. It just took me a month to figure that out. What I didn’t appreciate when I first looked at them or when I first wore them or even when I got back from my first three-hour ride in them was what a value... [Read more of this review]

Rapha Grand Tour Shoes Rapha Grand Tour Shoes

  When I heard (through a somewhat cryptic email) that Rapha was going to offer cycling shoes, I need to be honest and admit that I was more excited than intrigued. My duty as a reviewer obliges me to maintain a certain skepticism about any new product. Alas, I’m a bike geek and some companies tend to do consistently good, if not excellent,... [Read more of this review]

Wabi Woolens Long-Sleeve Jersey Wabi Woolens Long-Sleeve Jersey

Every now and then I encounter a product so well done, so dialed in conception and execution that I end up at a loss for words. It’s as if the reviewer in me comes up against a massive existential, “Well yeah.” Were I French, then I’d be thinking, “Mais oui.” And while I’m not French, I mention that phrase... [Read more of this review]

Fi’zi:k Kurve Saddle Fi’zi:k Kurve Saddle

  In the last 10 years a funny thing has happened with saddle design. Saddle shapes have become ever more diverse in an all-consuming quest to improve comfort and decrease the chances that your undercarriage will suffer any negative side effects as a result of logging long and/or frequent miles on a bicycle. As those shapes have evolved (gotten... [Read more of this review]

First Ride: SRAM Red First Ride: SRAM Red

SRAM’s Bill Keith discusses New Red with Slowtwitch meister Dan Empfield. Back in January I was charged with writing peloton magazine’s look at SRAM’s new Red group. To do my job I was equipped with six or seven images and a bunch of copy. Then I went to work, connecting dots, describing features and noting differences. I was forced... [Read more of this review]

The BMC Teamelite TE01 The BMC Teamelite TE01

The BMC media event I attended included not one but two bike introductions. Yesterday I had the opportunity to ride the new Teamelite TE01, a hard-tail 29er. Don’t worry, RKP isn’t changing its editorial direction, but we’ve made the decision to start including some off-road content when it seems appropriate. And this bike was so... [Read more of this review]

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