"no mud, no lotus"

After a few years of having a hard time riding across the Peace Bridge and onto the nice paved parkways of Canada, the bicycle path/pedestrian lane has reopened. All the info you need is on the Peace Bridge Authority website. The Busti entrance is not quite yet open due to construction under the bridge there, so on my recent trip across, I had to improvise and cut across the US Plaza and have a Bridge Authority worker help me through the gate and onto the bridge. The usual pa

A few weeks back, Audew reached out to see if I was interested in reviewing their new line of small bike pumps. I agreed to review the pump in exchange for being able to keep or give the product away. They agreed. I am a fan of mini pumps and really like my Lezyne mini, so I decided to give their mini pump a shot. My initial reaction upon opening the package which came via Amazon was that it had quite a few things inside. Not only did the pump come with a frame mount, but it

(Clockwise from right: Summer Lite, and two regular weight pairs) “I don’t always wear gloves, but when I do I prefer Handup Gloves.” Handup Gloves are my favorite gloves, and I find myself coming back to them over and over again, until the weather gets warm and I go to bare hands or finger-less gloves for racing. That is until now. Handup Gloves just released (or I haven't been paying attention), their new lightweight warm weather gloves, the Summer Lite. I saw that Campus n

Cycling shoes don’t last forever, especially when you ride and sweat lots. Over time, they just collect sweat, road spray, and dirt and need to be replaced. I got a solid two seasons out of my Giro road shoes, and I headed to the shop to see if they had anything that would work. I have a hard time finding shoes that are a good fit, as I have really odd feet. They are not the same length at all, which I am told is common. They are really wide at the balls of my feet and reall

The Continental Gran Prix 500 TL Tubeless tires have been getting amazing reviews, and my tubeless Sector 28s are about to give up the ghost. So, I decided to buy a pair of these and finally install the Bontrager TLR rim strips on my Aeolus 3 Pros. These are probably the hardest tires I have ever had to put on a wheelset, and so I had to pull out all the stops. Some of those tricks were: wear gloves for grip use hand sanitizer to help slide the bead on the rim (it will evapor

Check out the Whoop Podcast this week for everything you every needed to know about heart rate variability. The Whoop 3.0 that I ordered should be here by the time this post hits, and I am excited to report back on it in a few weeks after getting to know it inside and out. Enjoy the podcast until then. No matter how you track HRV, I think this will be full of useful information. I wrote that and then went to the website and saw that was exactly what they said! LOL! "In this e