The City Paper has posted the fixed gear article on their website. Enjoy my crumbs of wisdom.

Posted on June 23rd, 2005 by admin
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A week or so ago, I was contacted by a reported from the Pittsburgh City Paper to talk about fixed gear riding here in the ‘burgh (the paper was running a series of articles about bicycles to coordinate with Bike Pittsburgh‘s Bike-Fest). She asked the usual round of questions (“Why do you do this? Do […]

Posted on June 22nd, 2005 by admin
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Velo News analyzes why the powerhouse European cycling squad can’t seem to generate big wins from its star cyclists. Case in point is this year’s Giro d’Italia winner, Discovery rider Paolo Savoldelli, who was a great disappointment with T-Mobile, but proved his mettle by coming back to take maglia rosa this year. Further fueling speculation […]

Posted on June 9th, 2005 by admin
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This is what I’m talking about: More info here.

Posted on May 25th, 2005 by admin
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Two professional cycling items hit the major newswires yesterday…. Lance Armstrong to retire after 2005 Tour de France. I wasn’t particularly surprised or saddened by the news. Armstrong had been hinting at this since early spring. Most talking heads outside of the cycling community are lamenting the loss of American’s great cycling hope, but those […]

Posted on April 19th, 2005 by admin
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The air is uncharacteristically calm. I’m spinning quickly past the Sunoco fuel storage facility and out of the industrial wasteland and into Lawrenceville. After a fall and winter of dingy grays and browns, I notice the long parade of now-white dogwood trees lining Butler Street. They stretch on beyond the corner at 50th, on beyond […]

Posted on April 15th, 2005 by admin
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Via Matt Chester: NPR’s All Things Considered took a look at scorchers way back in 1998. The interview deals mostly with off-road scorchin’ (a la Matt himself), but it’s an interesting listen regardless of where or what you ride.

Posted on April 4th, 2005 by admin
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Today was the Tour of Flanders, one of European cycling’s spring classics, and one of the season’s first true tests. This year’s race was won by Tom Boonen, and American hopeful George Hincapie could manage no better than winning the group sprint for seventh. Lance Armstrong finished with the peleton in 28th, and while this […]

Posted on April 3rd, 2005 by admin
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The first alleycat of the year is coming up April 17. Springdandy Alleycat.

Posted on April 2nd, 2005 by admin
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There are days on the bike when things converge into a single point of perfect motion — legs pumping like pistons, cranks spinning effortlessly, the current of traffic seemingly standing still as I pick and weave my way through it. There are, of course, also days when these feelings are fleeting, and lines are skewed. […]

Posted on April 1st, 2005 by admin
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