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Showing posts with label bicycle racing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bicycle racing. Show all posts
Sunday, June 30, 2024

In Terror of Ducatis on Sestriere: My First Climb in the Italian Alps

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In 2000, I made the first several climbs up to the Sestriere ski resort .  It was a beautiful September day as I toiled the seven-mile clim...
Friday, September 8, 2023

Rode Alpine Climbs Near Grenoble

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In 2014, a 197.5km stage of the Tour de France ended with  the climb from Grenoble to Chamrousse   This weekend, I achieved one of my bicyc...
Monday, May 9, 2022

Victory Day, May 9, Is Also the Day I Broke 13 of 40 Bones

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May 9 is the date Russia and several former Soviet countries celebrate victory over the Nazis.  Nazi Germany unconditionally surrendered ver...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

The Physics of Descending on a Bicycle

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When a solo rider or a group of riders descend any hill, particularly a steep hill, why are some of the riders so much faster than others?  ...
Monday, August 31, 2020

Bike Racing Embarrassment: “What a big one!”

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    At most bicycle races, we deal with pre-race nervousness by riding to a tree and facing away from the road or waiting in line at a Port-...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Racing in Two Hours

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In just over two hours I will be riding the first of two races at the National Senior Games  in Minneapolis, Minnesota.  As fart as I know...
Monday, June 27, 2011

Bike Update: Mike Zban Wins Brownstown

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My friend and former coworker at Godfrey Advertising, Mike Zban, won the Brownstown Road Race yesterday.  Mike and I have been friends and r...
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Monday, February 7, 2011

Sam Weaver the Parisian

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For the week I was in Paris, I rented a Cannondale road bike from Sam Weaver of  Rando Cycles (5 rue Fernand Foureau, near the Metro stop Po...
Sunday, May 9, 2010

Back to Racing--First Time Trial

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This morning I rode the first time trial race since before deployment.  The French call this race contre la montre , against the watch.  It ...
Friday, May 7, 2010

First Time Trial Coming up

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On Sunday morning I will ride my first Time Trial since 2006.  It is not my favorite event, I don't have a TT bike.  For this event, I d...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Nice Butt!

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Bike racers seen from a car window. To a car driving toward a bicyclist from behind (yes, I meant to say that) all male bicycle racers ...
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