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All of the above, pretty much. It all depends on the ride and difficulty. Shop rides I use perpeteum and gels. One gel every hour or 45 minutes depending on how I'm performing. Club rides just water and usually a homemade oatmeal cookie.

Babay wipes work for me, I use them on the whole bike, usually takes three to clean entire bike.

This will be my 4th year of riding and I am seriously addicted. I already have three wheelsets, some cheap R500 shimano that came with a bike, RaceX Lites that came with my Madone and a set of DA 50mm clinchers. I will be able to set aside about $2500 and would rather buy from LBs so I can get...

to the op I see you have already dropped the weight so that is not an issue and I say this to defend some of the talk of going to gym. For two years I struggled at 235-240lbs, I could stay with the local fast rides but everytime a hill approached I woulsd have to be up front to just hang on the...

Last years Gold Medal was being able to ride with the top guys in my area, not hang with them but ride with them, I accomplished this by late July. That was at 235-240lbs. My gold this year will be riding by end of summer at 175-185lbs.

It's optional were I live but not an option for me. Has a helmet ever saved my life, nope but I still wear it. Did I wear one as a kid nope, still wear it, why? I have two sons and I don't want to fight with them to put one on plus I'm on the executive of my local club and we mandate everyone in...

I shave for vaious reasons, the road rash thing, to fit in with training partners(I don't race however) feels good, and the ladies seem to like it! Also if you have never had a massage on shaven legs you are seriously missing out of one of lifes little pleasures.

I love the feeling of myself and bike working together, the sound of rubber on road, chain on gears, my laboured breath, the sights, sounds and smells we sense when riding, the pain of hard work and the pleasure from said hard work, the feeling of complete exhaustion on the bike and the extreme...

I will first off say I'm a very happy owner of a 2009 5.5 Project One Madone so I'm biased. I still think the whole Trek hating thing comes down to, well it's the thing to do. I always said I'd never buy a Trek just because everyone said they hated them. When looking to buy a new bike last year...

I have three 5.5 Project1 Madone Opus Andante C'Dale F7 MTB