Recent content by bicycles_rule

okay, if you studied it...you can explain it. so back up your claims. I know i have never seen any conclusive scientific studies on it and i've seen a few. if you don't, well the environment as well as animals are suffering daily because of ignorant meat eaters giving us the same bull**** over...

alps are great, but i've never seen pyrenees. Alpe d'Huez is really worth it, you can actually get some cheers from spectators who are already present if you do it a few days before the tour comes by, which is awesome (get in some shape for that, they're picky :P). it's also a nice smooth climb...

sure, i like cycling and enjoy company on my rides.

they are usually right. that's called progress. i'm proud to be a lazy, disrespectful punk. but bjarne is about 100 years ahead of his time :p

@Tapeworm 200 reps in the gym is also a largely aerobic exercise. this is what I recommend for legpress (because it worked for me). @Fergie Since you are extremely strong, you might be better off trying to improve your spinning by doing drills. Since you are a sprinty type (most likely), you...

I don't want to defend anything, because it basically does not make much logical sense. It's just a training plan, that worked great for me, independent of distance (from 2 hours to five hours). I suppose, if you want reasons, it could be that strength-endurance exercises help you turn a hard...

In the winter, do strength-endurance leg exercises in the gym (as in 50+ reps). ou can use a hometrainer to warm up. do this as much as you can. in the summer, keep doing that but susbstitute two sessions a week for road miles so you have the endurance. if you go training for three hours, but...

I have to do something with this. Well, I believe i'm kind of a cyclist and i'm kind of unhappy (though by no means clinically depressed, as that is another matter). I don't think cycling contributes to my dissatisfaction with my life. it's one of the few things that do not. I'm not a...

I hate my 105 gruppo. it has major trouble shifting into the big ring when going uphill. I'd say you'd go with something better, or some other manufacturer (which will mean campa, token or sram).

when was this? the only time I heard of this guy was in the book racing weight (bought it when I dreamed of outclimbing my buddies) where it said what he ate during the day, kind of so that the readers could look at what a good diet is for a cyclist. but if this happened before 2010 then the...

I once heard some lab guy say that from the samples he got, he estimated about 50% doped. but this was a few years ago. I do not know how the figure has changed since then.

hello...the amstel gold race may be a glorified criterium, but it's still the best classic there is. there is always suspense, nobody knows who is going to win, etc. No, it shouldn't be the fifth monument. I believe all monuments should be in early spring. so cut lombardy of the list. it's...

this is awesome :P I thought indians spoke english? I mean, not that I do, at least not often, but still... if you want an online coach, I will volunteer as long as I can post about it on my blog. I´m not qualified but you won´t find anything cheaper ;). send me a pm or reply here with an...

right. so we have cervelo behaving like some china copiers by reverse engineering on canyon bicycles (which is of course only speculation, but I suspect those two frames were not because Vroomen and White wanted a real bike to ride on). I'm sorry, it may be common business practise, but I...

well, I know myself that I'd be riding a lot more, and have better equipment to boot, if I were not stressing up all the time about the next exam. I know some find it to be easy to study. Me, not so much. I have a very high IQ, but it's always difficult, I'm constantly under pressure. and I...