Category: Commentary
The Rescue of American Bicycle Racing
Submitted by 303cycling on January 25th, 2019From Medium.comBy Pete Hitzeman “Road is dead.” So goes the morose refrain from local coffee shops to pro team board meetings, all across the United States. People say it with the weighty resignation normally reserved for taxes, or political defeats, or the extinction of the northern white rhinoceros. Regrettable, tragic, but what could we do? TheRead More
The Gravel Lot Podcast with Katie Macarelli
Submitted by 303cycling on January 17th, 2019In Episode 52 of The Gravel Lot Podcast, local badass mom, cyclist, and year-round bike commuter Katie Macarelli talks about being a theatre major, the ever-changing landscape in the bike industry, and equality of opportunity. Check it out!
90 year old stripped of title, the rest of the story
Submitted by 303cycling on January 16th, 2019From Cycling Today 90-year-old cyclist hits back after failed drugs test: Testers are wasting their time His bike is his soapbox. As time caught up with many of his peers, the former United States Navy Band saxophonist , who played for U.S. presidents and visiting VIPs and who was born on his parents’ kitchen tableRead More
Rob DeMartini named CEO of USA Cycling
Submitted by 303cycling on January 11th, 2019From Bicycle Retailer USA Cycling has named Rob DeMartini as its president and chief executive officer. DeMartini joins the organization from New Balance Athletics Inc., where he spent the past 12 years as president and CEO. He will begin his new position in February. “Our entire board and management team enthusiastically welcome Rob as ourRead More
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