Tag Archives: Cycling

Professional Bicycle Fitting

By Nathan | March 4, 2009

Saturday afternoon I hauled my carbon bike, my non-carbon self, and $200 down to Harpeth Bicycles in Franklin, TN for a bike fitting by a certified Serotta International Cycling Institute fitter.
This fitting process has been fine-tuned over 20 years of analysis and testing. The basic idea behind the Serotta fitting process is that there is [...]

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Wants for this year’s cycling season

By Nathan | February 17, 2009

The cycling season is slowly getting underway. Weekend temperatures lately have been warm enough to get out and ride, but still cool enough to justify my growing fetish for long sleeve wool cycling jerseys. Here are a few things that I am considering adding to the expense list for this year’s cycling season.
A fitting from [...]

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Let the training begin

By Nathan | January 27, 2009

I logged into the Ragbrai (Des Moines Register’s Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa) registration site today and saw this:

All the paperwork is in, and my vacation time has been approved. The lottery is on May 1st. Now I have 172 days to train. The standing joke amongst Ragbrai riders is that training for Ragbrai involves [...]

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