Category: Wisdom

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The Test That’s Never Graded Until You Fail.

JPPartland
locked bike

Locking a bike up is existential dread. Testing out bike locks and writing about them induced a fair amount of paranoia. What do I know about locks? What if my bikes get stolen? What if […]

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Bad Cyclists Are Irrelevant

JPPartland

You know about the bad cyclist. The one who doesn’t wear a helmet, ignores traffic signals, and flouts the rules of the road. And there’s more. They violate common decency and common sense and just […]

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The Long, Cold, Pleasant Ride

JPPartland

Once the mercury drops below freezing, I generally have little motivation to ride outside for an hour. Four hours: that’s another story. It’s probably part of cycling culture I’ve picked up over the years, on […]

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Information Deluge. Expertise Drought.

JPPartland

In our current consumption environment, we’re deluged with information, but are simultaneously experiencing an expertise drought. The information is great for people who have the time and inclination to geek out on deep dives into […]

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Filing Fork Tips

JPPartland

In the morning, I woke up and decided I wanted to ride my cyclocross bike on the rollers. So I swapped out the knobby sew-ups that dressed the frame for the slick clinchers of my […]

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The Scuba Jacket

JPPartland

When I started training in 1983, aka riding through the winter in bike clothing, it seemed like winter bike threads had barely gone past the 1950s, while summer bike clothing was starting to catch up […]

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Getting A Fit From Happy

JPPartland

Riding to Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) with a backpack filled with spare clothing and sneakers to my first fit session in more than a decade, there was some trepidation, a little insecurity about my […]

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Working Toward the Next Level of Bike Fit with Happy Freedman

JPPartland

Good bike fit seems like alchemy. When you think you have it, everything feels natural, normal, and the bike is an extension of the body; the only issue is how hard you can push yourself. […]

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Making Sense of Bicycle Geometry Part Four: Using Stack and Reach to find your next bike

JPPartland

Part One explained most of the frame dimensions. Part Two explained trail. Part Three explained how changing components can affect ride qualities.   Knowing the size bike you ride is pretty important when you want […]

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Making Sense of Bicycle Geometry Part 3: How Components Can Modify Ride

JPPartland

Part One explained most of the frame dimensions. Part Two explained trail. Frame materials, frame shaping, frame construction, and bicycle component selection can somewhat modify the ride qualities that the frame geometry is designed for. […]

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