For awhile now, I have been using the GoPro HD to record footage for the mountain biking section of Bike198. After some positioning testing, I decided to test out the helmet cam on the road bike in preparation for some product reviews and long downhill runs in the mountains to see how it would do. For this test, I mounted it to the stem and recorded some of our regular Thursday night road ride. As you can tell by the [...]
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Charity Bike Ride: Road Bike Rides For A Cause
A charity bike ride, like the 24 Hours of Booty for the Livestrong Foundation, is a great road bike ride where you can put in long miles without the worry of getting lost or left out in the cold. With multiple mileage options and a wide variety of road bikers, charity bike rides give road bikers a way to get involved and enjoy the sport of cycling. Every city in just about every country in the world has their own form [...]
The Road Biking Season Has Officially Started
In the southeast United States, we finally hit daylight savings time and the promise of more riding as the weather gets warmer and it stays light outside longer. Normally, we get to ride through the winter as wickedly cold days are few and far between, but…this year…has been filled with nothing but rain, snow and ice as we tried to get off the trainer, out of the gym and on the road. Unfortunately, that did not happen nearly enough and [...]
NYC Road Biking – Lapping Central Park
Over the past couple of days, I got the chance to head up to New York City for some downtime with my wife and her family. During the course of the stay, I think we hit up every single site seeing/locals only spots in NYC. Over the course of the trip, I kept on wondering…where the hell to New York City dwellers put in the miles?! In my suburb of Atlanta, I can head straight out of my driveway and [...]
The Solo Ride – Peace On Blacktop
One of the things I love the most about the road bike is the ability to leave straight from my house and get in as many miles as my legs can handle. There is something about the solo road ride that is extremely peaceful but motivating at the same time. Yes…hitting 40+ mph inches away from your closest friends is a rush in itself, but what about those days where you just need to ride? You need those brief hours [...]
Torture: Gaps Road Biking – Bring The Pain
As many of you already know…this year marked a first for me. For the first time in my 14 years of cycling, I bit the bullet and started to ride a road bike on a regular basis. At the end of last year, I picked up a Blue Competition Cycles Nx7 and went to work. At that point in time, my cycling exploits had been restricted to trail, urban and trials riding for 99% of my cycling career. In the [...]
Hospitality Highway Century Road Bike Ride
It was time for my second road biking century. Fresh off a two week hiatus from riding due to a shoulder and neck annoyance, I got up a 5am to meet up with other road bikers in the Roswell, GA area to complete a 100 mile road bike ride through north metro Georgia. This inaugural Hospitality Highway Century was going to be a special one. Not only did it cover a lot of my local road biking routes, but we [...]
Road Ride: Circling Brasstown Bald
This past weekend, my parents headed up to Lake Chatuge for the weekend, so my wife and I (and my brother and his wife) headed up to spend the weekend with them. Normally, I do not bring the bikes with me on these trips because I rarely have enough time to ride dirt. However, this time I brought up the Blue Nx7 road bike and my trusty Garmin Edge 705 to lead the way for a great morning road ride. [...]
Thursday Night Road Ride and Thoughts from 198
Last night, a group of 4 of us hit up a local Thursday night road ride in Roswell, GA. This was the first time I had ever done this ride, but I was familiar with the route as I have ridden it once before. The route takes you through fantastic areas of Roswell as you follow the Chattahoochee River and end up riding straight through historic Roswell. After a long downpour earlier that afternoon, the thick air was fog filled [...]
Becoming a Roadie – The First Century
This past Saturday, the Coosa Valley Cycling Association had its annual Up the Creek Without a Pedal road ride in Rome, GA. This road ride has several different mileage options (30, 45,62, 100) available to accommodate riders at all skill levels. With a ton (576 riders) of riders all eager to conquer the roads surrounding Rome, it was time for me to make a decision. How far was I going to take these legs that have never seen more than [...]
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Road Bike GoPro HD Footage: Regular Thursday Night Ride
For awhile now, I have been using the GoPro HD to record footage for the mountain biking section of Bike198. After some positioning testing, I decided to test out the helmet cam on the road bike in preparation for some product reviews and long downhill runs in the mountains to see how it would do. For this test, I mounted it to the stem and recorded some of our regular Thursday night road ride. As you can tell by the [...]
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Review: Bicycle Dreams – It’s The Race For Life
The crew over at Bicycle Dreams sent over a copy of their video for review on Bike198.com. The film goes on a journey with several of the solo racers as they attempt to conquer The Race Across America (RAAM). Before we get into the film, let’s take a look at what it is about and RAAM itself. From BicycleDreamsMovie.com: They are seekers, madmen, and angels hell-bent on riding across America on a bicycle in less than ten days. But what [...]
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The Roadie Attitude: Killing The Cause
Over the past couple of weeks, I have heard a couple of stories of roadies and drivers going at it because of actions taken on the road. While this is a super sensitive subject amongst cyclists, each of the stories involved a road cyclist that was in the wrong and they took it among themselves to attack the driver with words and flying water bottles. The Roadie Attitude In my mind, there are two different kinds of road bikers. The [...]
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SRAM Red and Shimano Dura-Ace: Are they really worth it?
SRAM Red and Shimano Dura-Ace…the top of the pack of road bike components that roadies all over the world lust after on a regular basis. With SRAM entering the market and having huge success at this years Tour, Campagnolo and Shimano now have some serious competition out of the once mountain only component group company. When you think of ultra-light, high performance components for road bikes, names like Red, Super Record and Dura-Ace are the go to groupos to shave [...]
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The Key To Getting Faster: There is no replacement for consistent miles
Our bodies are well oiled machines that rely on muscle memory to get the job done. Some of those actions are automated and others are conditioned over time to perform a certain task. With road biking, it is no different. If you are wanting to get faster on the bike, there is still no replacement for consistent miles over time to increase your speed and the distance you are able to ride in a day. Your Body: What Happens With Consistent [...]
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Road Riding Tip: How To Pull The Paceline
If you have been on a road bike for more than 5 seconds, you already know that you can ride faster with less energy exerted in a paceline. By sharing the wind resistance among multiple riders, the pack can move forward, faster as a whole than one at a time. In an organized pace line, riders take turns pulling the group over the course of the ride to insure proper pacing and energy release. However, there are certain things that [...]
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First Look: FSA K-Wing Compact Carbon Drop Road Bars
Road bike drop bars have changed a lot in design over recent years. With more road bikers spending the majority of the ride time with their hands on the hoods, component manufacturers have started to design the hoods and bars to accomodate a flatter top section for increased comfort. The FSA K-Wing compact carbon drop bars feature this shift in design to the extreme with solid flat profiles in the hoods and in the flats for climbing. FSA K-Wing Compact [...]
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Have a Coke and a Smile – Extra Road Riding Energy For The Last Climb
Are you looking for a cheap way to get some extra energy for those last climbs on your road ride? Next time you have a store stop, have a Coke and a smile. Over our last road ride last weekend, a friend of mine reminded me of a riding tip that actually produces real results and it all centers around having a Coke and a smile. I actually first learned about this trick from some marathon runner friends of mine. [...]
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