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Store brand cough medicine vs. Robitussin. Store brand cereal vs. Cheerios. Emerson vs. Sony. You don’t have to pay a lot to get a lot. Pay less and get a product that’s just as good as its higher priced competitor. In a lot of cases that works. $3 for 8 bars of Irish Spring soap [...]
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The other day I was talking with a coworker about riding and he said that he likes to push himself and go as fast as he can. To which I replied, but how do you know that that is all you can do? Recently I started riding with a heart monitor and it was an [...]
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I’m thinking about attempting a century (100-mile ride) later this summer. Selene Yeager, writing for the Bicycling magazine, has some useful advice on how to prepare to ride one of those. Out of the 3 types of rides that Selene is describing, the Speed Ride is the hardest one for me. Talk about fitting an [...]
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Just want to say many thanks to the wonderful folks at the Performance Bicycle store in Schaumburg, IL for rescuing my behind or rather my tire yesterday. I was out on the road, about 10 miles from my home when I suddenly felt that something was wrong with my back wheel. I found a pretty [...]
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What a weird weather! Where did all this snow come from? And where has it all gone? After a week of wonderfully warm weather, when every pore of my body was itching to ride, and which instead I spent running around at work, I woke up on Saturday to two inches of snow — this [...]
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A new issue of the Bicycling magazine is here. Great! Just bloody great! There’s a happy smiling male model atop an expensive road bike on the cover. He’s wearing shorts and a short sleeved jersey. While in Chicago it’s 20 degrees outside. (That’s 6 below zero, for you in the rest of the world that’s [...]
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