Blow “bad luck” on vacation Experts state that you can control 80% of the factors that can ruin all your efforts and illusions. In racing it seems like Murphy is always lurking, an unforeseen event is something you can’t anticipate, but there are a lot of things you can anticipate and prevent before it happens. …
Gravel is here to stay and bikepacking is increasingly becoming a unique way to experience new destinations. Here’s how to manage your cycling skills if you want to combine both. When you load your bike with bags or panniers and fill them up, the steering changes quite a bit compared to that of the weightless bike. …
Join a group or cycle solo? Cycling in a group has a myriad of virtues: conversations while pedaling, support when you climb a mountain pass that you can’t quite get over, the cake binges that you indulge in because others do the same… However, no less virtues can come from cycling solo. Even if you …
Are you an MTBer or a road biker? Fancy to mix both? Barça or Madrid, left or right, Spanish omelette with or without onion. MTB or road cycling. We like the sense of a group, and maybe that’s why we end up polarizing everything we have around us. It seems that we have to choose …
Many who experience it become addicted to nighttime bike rides. Cycling under a blanket of bright stars, with the moon in the background and with deep silence around you, you create a special connection with the cosmos. We may have encouraged cyclists that biking at night is a lot of fun, but it’s definitely worth experiencing at …
The profiles and behaviors of certain cyclists on the road deserve an anthropological study. We could classify them as urban subcultures, each with its own way and quirks. All special and focused on their bicycle. Since we cannot describe them all in this article, we have selected the ones that we find most unbearable. With love. …
The big question: Should we hire a bike or take our own on holiday? As always, our final decision depends on some questions we should ask ourselves when planning our next cycling vacation. What can be expected is that the bicycle rental services will include more and more services and a better catalog, making it …
Avoid hand pain! A problem for cyclists, but with a solution. It’s said that learning to ride a bike is easy, but sometimes we acquire vices over the years that we didn’t even know could be fixed. One of the most common are painful hands from taking the wheel tightly, more tense than Ed Sheeran at …
Wind resistance is by far the main factor in losing speed on a bike, but there are other ones that will help you become a pedal lightning bolt as well. Being more aerodynamic means increasing speed without making a great effort, a good deal, right?… well, follow these tips and you will get the pedal …
Mental health, good posture, comfortable development, and lightening certain areas of your bike can be essential for successful climbs. Slopes are all the rage, and the steeper the better. This tendency to climb hellish slopes has been seen a lot in the cycling challenges of recent times. Climbs have become an essential part of cycling, …
