Category: Commentary
US Bike Friendly Cities: Denver Makes the Cut
Submitted by 303cycling on November 30th, 2018Start planning your next active city break at one of these seven US cities that are best explored by bike. Read more
The 10 Commandments of Road Cycling
Submitted by 303cycling on November 29th, 2018Despite what some people may have you believe, nobody emerges from the womb knowing everything there is to know about road cycling. Read more
Detraining: The truth about losing fitness
Submitted by 303cycling on November 13th, 2018The fitness mantra, you must ‘use it or lose it!’ might be a bit of a cliché, but it turns out that this saying perfectly sums up one of the key principles of fitness and exercise – reversibility. Read more
General Motors to enter e-bike market, $10,000 prize on the line for naming the new bike line
Submitted by 303cycling on November 9th, 2018General Motors has announced plans to sell two e-bike models next year and there’s a contest with a $10,000 prize for the best name of their new bike line. Read more
Will Corporations Kill Endurance Racing—Or Save It?
Submitted by 303cycling on October 25th, 2018Life Time Fitness recently purchased the Dirty Kanza 200, the latest in a string of indie races to be scooped up by major corporations Read more
As Oregon tallies its first bike tax receipts, Hawaii and Colorado Springs are old hands
Submitted by 303cycling on September 28th, 2018Each time retailer Nick Ponsor looks out from his store’s new café, he sees a bike path that owes at least part of its existence to a bike tax his store and others here have been collecting since 1988. Read more
The New Rules of Cycling: AKA Philuminati
Submitted by 303cycling on July 31st, 2018The truth is that everyone crashes the first time they try clipless pedals and we’ve all gotten a big grease stain on our calf and walked around with it all day like a piece of spinach in our teeth. I don’t think these “rules” were meant to exclude. I think they were fun, tongue-in-cheek, maybe a reference, but they have been misapplied. Read more
Business on Bikes – Larissa Connors
Submitted by 303cycling on July 30th, 2018The energy in this episode is off the charts, thanks to Larissa Connors! She has to have tons of energy to ride as much as she does and teach teenagers to love math. Her passion is contagious and she’s also really, really good on two wheels! Read more
Why such Misplaced Hatred for Cyclists?
Submitted by 303cycling on July 14th, 2018Why do there seem to be so many folks that think like this? People who ride bikes are “self entitled road hogging arrogant bicyclists,” and that anyone who chooses to ride on narrow roads is “by definition a risk-taking fool.” Read more
Car Ticketed for Driving on Bike Path
Submitted by 303cycling on July 11th, 2018A Boulder County sheriff’s deputy ticketed a 58-year-old woman Monday after catching her driving her car on the paved bike path alongside the Boulder-bound lanes of U.S. 36 on Davidson Mesa. Read more