Getting old sucks, might as well have a nice bike
I was quite excited about the potential after stumbling across the Lezyne Tubeless Repair Kit. Price was right, and if it worked would have been just the thing to sit in the space between sealant-does-its-thing, and put-in-a-tube. Unfortunately, that turned out to not be the case.…
Every pedal needs to be serviced eventually. The XPEDO R-FORCE 6 is probably a bit higher on the frequency scale though because of its small size and minimal design. There’s really only one tricky bit, and it took me a little while to figure it out.…
Less than a month in, got a puncture. Sealant worked in the field, isn’t providing a long term fix. Annoying that I’ll probably have to write off such a new tire, for what isn’t that large of a hole, but it’s hard to argue with the massive convenience of tubeless even though it’s an all-the-eggs-in-one-basket solution.…
I’ll never be the fastest, or the strongest, so where I can find advantage I’m generally more than happy to run with it. I thought Vitamin C was an advantage; after all, if you get sick less often, you can train more. And for the most part this strategy worked for as long as I pursued it, but it was recently brought to my attention that it had a major flaw (thanks…
The Garmin EDGE 530 is one of their newest cycling computers. Promising advanced metrics, battery life improvements and a more responsive user experience it should be a nice upgrade from the aging EDGE 520/520+.…