Archive: April, 2012
Friday Morning Thursday Night Report. 4/27/12
Every Friday, we will attempt to give an accurate — or completely inaccurate — account of the PCC Thursday Night ride. All commentary is delivered with tongue firmly in cheek. With these reports, we are making a public commitment to talk trash and name names when appropriate — all trash talk is (mostly) of the [...]
Read moreCycling Term — On the Rivet
Good Friday 2012 was the first time this season that I found myself truly on the rivet. I had gone hard in training, sure, but this was different. Our tactical race plan had worked well until about 7 km to go when a solo rider attacked on the last climb of the day. The wind [...]
Read moreCommuting.
With all this talk about Commuter-focused-denim . . . and with the Shifting Gears Workplace Challenge right around the corner, what better time to share a few words about riding a bicycle to work . . . I ride my bicycle to work. To be sure, it is a short ride: 1.8km from my front [...]
Read moreLoving Levis
I am retailer. I sell things for a living. Among other things, I sell cycling kit for a living. I’m just sayin’. When we first started discussing the idea of ptborides.com people said, “Hey, you could do product reviews …blah, blah, blah”. On principle, I was determined that ptborides.com would not be about product promotion. [...]
Read moreFriday Morning Thursday Night Report. 04/20.
Every Friday, we will attempt to give an accurate — or completely inaccurate — account of the PCC Thursday Night ride. All commentary is delivered with tongue firmly in cheek. With these reports, we are making a public commitment to talk trash and name names when appropriate — all trash talk is (mostly) of the [...]
Read moreFriday …er, Afternoon Thursday Night Report
Well, it is after noon and nobody else seems to be writing so I may as well get on with it, no? Last night followed the first sunny, warm day we have seen in a while. The crowd was large, biggest group to date. Although the sun was still pretty high in the sky and [...]
Read moreBike Poetry
Many months ago, at Christmas to be exact, a good friend gave me …no, not a partridge in a pear tree. Although I thought this little nugget to be pretty awesome, I did not have an immediate use. As the cycling season has swung into stride and I find myself riding, thinking about riding, and [...]
Read moreThree Rides
Easter Weekend has come and gone. Like many of you miles of tarmac went under my tires over three days. The fourth was spent working so let’s not talk about that one. Really, nothing special happened, nothing blog-worthy. But that is where things get interesting. Bike riding, bike racing is so dynamic. Each ride means [...]
Read moreStrava. Get on it.
Hey you’re a cyclist. You like the latest and greatest. You like technology. Right. If that’s the case, you have heard of Strava. Right. Strava is a little thing that is spreading like wildfire in the cycling world. Says Strava Strava lets athletes all over the world experience social fitness – sharing, comparing and competing [...]
Read moreFriday Morning Thursday Night Report – Late Edition
Here we go again! Late Edition this time as Dave and Kieran are racing today – I’m currently posting this from the passenger seat of the car – Easter means travelling! This week the Thursday niter embarked on a new hilly route from the twisted mind of Scott M – here is his report! It [...]
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