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Posts on ‘March 13th, 2009’

Last minute change: Bikes Across Borders Benefit location changed

The location for Saturday’ benefit for Bikes Across Borders has changed to the Club Deville, 900 Red River St. It had been at the Rhizome Collective, but the city is closing down the Rhizome Collective warehouse due to code violations with orders to move out by Monday. More on the drama with the Rhizome Collective here.  It’s unknown how this [...]

The Training Process: Recovery

Now that many of you are knee-deep in the race season, it’s a good time to talk about an important aspect of the training process: recovery.   If asked, most athletes will be able to tell you that recovery is something that is necessary after a hard workout, and they would be correct. But the [...]

Dumbest Product of the Week: Goldfinger Edition, Aurumania Gold Bike

(Before we go any further, click here and start this YouTube video in the background to get you in the mood.) I have to say I was mildly irritated with Marcus this week when he took what could have been a perfectly good Dumbest Product of the Week away from me with the $27,000 “The World’s Most [...]

Wisconsin Fox News photojournalist and cyclist documents close calls with motorists

I came across this story from a Wisconsin Fox affiliate about one of their photojournalists who is a cyclists and decided to start video taping his rides so police would believe him when he claimed motorists were acting aggressively. He was successful in getting a motorist ticketed in one instance but had the police try to [...]