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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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This happened to me just this morning on my morning ride. Somewhere on my way back, about 5 miles from home, I ran over some sharp rocks or something. I only noticed that something was amiss when the bike started feeling weird. At the next light I stopped to check and, sure enough, the back [...]
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You’ve probably heard it said that inflating your tires to the tire pressure recommended by the manufacturer of your vehicle will improve your gas mileage and save you money on gas. If you are like me, you probably thought that while it kind of made sense, the difference in gas mileage is likely to be [...]
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I finally got a new bike. I’ve been talking about it long enough and took my time to decide and select one. Just like I do with every purchase more than 50 or 100 bucks. So what I got is a brand spanking new all-carbon 2008 Scattante Race road bike. Shimano Ultegra components. Mavic wheels. [...]
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