Cycling Training Tips and Bicycling
Resources
The bicycle is one of the best pieces of equipment to use for fitness
as well as a fun way to get into and stay in shape. In addition to being a
competitive sport, you can bike for pleasure, bike to work, bike to school or
use your bicycle to enhance your quality of life. Whether you have a road bike,
a mountain bike or an exercise bike, bicycling is one of the purest forms of
exercise. You can use your road bike to commute to work and then come home and
use your mountain bike to experience the serenity and beauty of trails that
tranverse our country sides. If you are a city dweller, an exercise bike is the
perfect way to get a fitness workout because it takes up very little space and
only requires some comfortable bicycling apparel and a few bicycling
accessories for a complete workout.
Cycling Gear and Cycling Resources
| Bicycles, Bicycle Apparel & Bicycling
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Bike Nashbar -
Find an
awesome selection of great cycling gear at the best prices. With everything
from bags and bottom brackets to watches and wheels and everything in between
you will be able to find all of your cycling gear needs |
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Performance Bicycle -
At
Performance Bicycle, our goal is simple ... to give you the best customer
satisfaction possible. And we never forget that cyclists love low prices. Due
to our size, we offer AMERICA'S BEST PRICES ... PERIOD. A claim no other
cycling retailer can back up like Performance. Cycling's best brands, best
prices and best customer service ... the winning combination that makes us #1.
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| Bicycling Resources |
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National Bike Registry -
Since 1984,
the National Bike Registry (NBR®) has been working with law enforcement to
return stolen bikes to their rightful owners. A bike registered with NBR, the
only true national database, can be identified by police and returned to you
instead of being sold at an auction. Protect your bike and your investment!
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Trails.com -
We invite
you to try our subscription service - FOR FREE! This 14-day trial subscription
includes the following features. : 30,000 trails from 1,000 guidebooks, 30
outdoor & travel activities, Unlimited topo maps, 20 guidebook chapter
downloads (3 during trial) 20 hi-resolution map downloads (3 during trial)
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| Bicycling Magazines |
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Bike Magazine -
The one
mountain bike magazine that takes its readers on a ride. With each issue,
you'll enjoy the style, substance and highest quality photography that only
Bike delivers. There's also product and accessory reviews to keep you informed
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Mountain Biking Magazine
- Capture
the fun and excitement of America's hottest recreational sport! Top biking
experts provide how-to tips on riding, the latest bikes and accessories, and
more. A snappy format caters to the widest segment of biking- fun and fitness
oriented family group activity. |
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| Pedal Off the Pounds. Distance cycling is definitely the way to
trim your waistline. Stay at a lower intensity to accelerate your metabolism
and aid fat-burning. Ride an hour or more 3-4 times a week and kick it up a
notch with a 2-hour-long weekend ride. |
| If you're running short on fluid, guzzle it all. It's better to
be hydrated for a while than to ride on a continual shortage. |
| Pedal with one leg at a time to become better at applying force
all the way around the pedal circle. |
| Even if your brakeshifter system is designed to work lubeless,
you might want to lay a thin layer of lube if you ride often in wet conditions.
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| Your body accounts for 70% of air resistance. In the wind,
hunker down on the drops or bar-ends. |
| Spinning in the saddle for the bulk of the climb, then shifting
to a bigger gear and standing up to blast over the top is a classic technique
for dropping other riders. |
| Train your legs for faster pedal turnover on flats and climbs
by spinning out while pedaling downhill. |
| Eat the same in training as you'll be eating in an event. You
aren't just conditioning your muscles, you're conditioning your stomach.
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| Wear sunglasses to feel fresher on long rides. Sound silly?
Squinting into the sun and wind taxes the muscles of your eyes and face, which
contributes significantly to fatigue. |
| Get Fit Bicycling: If you are 150 pounds, sleeping burns 61
calories an hour, tap dancing burns 326 calories, and bicycling at 15 MPH burns
680 calories an hour! |
| If your back hurts when you ride in the drops, raise the stem
until the handlebar is less than an inch below the top of the saddle, or even
with the saddle. |
| To easily adjust a borrowed bike, memorize the distance from
the center of your crank to the top of the saddle. |
| Check brake pads for wear or embedded objects after every wet
or muddy ride, or every 3-5 rides in clean conditions. |
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