Tips: Recumbents and Trailers

BicyleR Evolution - The Shopper
There are times when you need to tote more than you can comfortably carry on your bicycle, even a long wheel base recumbent designed for self contained touring. That is when you need a trailer.
I used a trailer for all of my European Tours and for Newfoundland and Labrador. I didn’t [...]

Fixing Rear Deraileur Shifting Problems on the Road

Nice set of tips on fixing Rear Dérailleur shifting problems. This video is not a tutorial on how to adjust your rear deraileur see Rear Deraileur Adjustment Made Simple - Wow!!! for that.
Instead this video goes through common rear shifting problems and how to fix them on the road. Yes, the video is in [...]

Hot Buy - Recumbent Rain Pants

Nice price at Campmor on Rain Pants, they are on sales for $14.97 (List is $60). These won’t be around for very long so if you would like a pair of rain pants for summer/spring wear at an excellent price grab them fast. At this price these kind of pants make sense. They don’t last [...]

Hot Buy: Cycling in Quebec, 5th Edition

A new edition of Cycling in Quebec: Official Guide, 5th Edition in English is coming out very soon and can be ordered now. This is the best guide available for La Route Verde and cycling around Montreal and Quebec City. The English version is hard to get and usually sold out before summer. So if [...]

Keen Commuter Sandal - First Impressions

My Keen Commuter Sandals arrived today from REI. I have been hearing people rave about them and despite price decided to buy a pair.
These are very nice looking sandals with a comfortable foot bed. Unfortunately for me they have a shallow toe box that crushes my Hobbit toes. I was not able to put the [...]

Best Cleated Bicycling Sandal Yet

Follow on from an earlier post: Another Cycling Sandal - Nashbar Ragster
Update 4/24/08 -It ha s been unseasonably warm this week and I have been wearing the Ragsters  without socks. Not so good without socks, as expected the foot bed is pretty rough on bare feet. It is too bad that they couldn’t have made [...]

Garmin Maps - Price Increase Continued

Continued from: Garmin Maps - Big Price Increase, Using a GPS as a Bike Computer
Just got off the phone with Garmin after trying to update the maps in my 60cs. I purchased the retail version of the maps because it was cheaper than the $75 on line update. But I couldn’t get it to work.
Here’s what [...]

How to Adjust the Front Deraileur

After installing shorter cranks, I just needed to touch up my front derailleur. Here’s a video on Front Dérailleur Adjustment.
The good news is that front dérailleurs are more stable than rear derailleurs and don’t require much attention. When they do you usually don’t have to go through the whole procedure, most of the time it [...]

KneeSavers: First Impressions

When you first put your foot on the pedal after installing KneeSavers, things feel quite different. You can feel the wider spacing and it feels awkward. After riding a few miles that feeling diminishes.

Tip: In for a Fall with your Slipstream?

Yesterday, I fell for the first time in quite a while. Just a twisted knee and a bruised shoulder but major embarrassment. As I was riding across a bridge, suddenly I was on the ground and a little dazed. The diamond frame rider behind me asked if I was OK and then added “Nice ride”.
What [...]