Category: road cycling
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Cartagena Cycling – Not for the Feint of Heart
Colombia Cycling Colombia is a cycling country. The mountains in the center of the country around Bogota and Medellin offer some of the best riding in the entire world and produce some of the premier cyclists in the pro peloton. Fresh off of a Colombia cycling adventure in December (that I discuss here.) I was…
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Cycling Sinaloa – Research Your Routes
A critical lesson recently taught to me by the School of Hard Knocks on a recent trip to Sinaloa, Mexico. Poor route research and planning combined is a lackadaisical complacency built up over years of riding safe cycling-friendly areas of the globe landed me in a frightening situation and taught me this all to important…
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The Longest Climb in The World, Alto de Letras
alright, alright… technically the third longest climb in the world behind an extended Mauna Kea route (#1) and Wuling Pass (#2), but those nitty gritty details failed to make it to the sign at the top of Letras proudly proclaiming it as having the coveted “est” qualifier. Letras does still get the consolation prize for…
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The Land of Flowers, Coffee, and Epic Cycling Routes
….as well as arepas, culture, extreme landscapes, complicated history, art, music, and kind people to name a few others, but this would have resulted in a garbled mouthful of a title. Colombia’s roads have provided the training grounds for cyclists such as Nairo Quintana, Egan Bernal, and Rigoberto Uran to excel into world class superstars.…
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Bontrager Aeolus RSL 62 TLR Wheelset Review
New Bike Day is the day that reigns supreme in every cyclists life. Going to pick up a brand new steed will always make any lyrca-clad aficionado giddy with excitement unrivaled by days usually reserved for this kind of glee by the “normal” population. A couple rungs down on stoke ladder is new wheel day.…
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