I recently ordered my 2nd “real [tag]bike[/tag]“, a Surly Cross-Check built up for commuting and touring. I like the Cross-Check because it’s the “Swiss Army knife of bikes”: it’s capable of doing so much – single track/cyclocross, singlespeed/fixed-gear, touring, commuting – due to certain features of the [tag]frameset[/tag], namely clearance and the horizontal dropouts. To [...]
This driver won’t forget this incident too soon… originally from Nanfangdaily via Zoneuropa: At around 8:50am on October 20, 2006, on the road from the Zhaoyang East bridge towards the Blue Island Building, a funny episode occurred: a foreigner acted as traffic police and made a small sedan which had gone into the bicycle lane [...]
Most regular sports and commuter cyclists are very safety conscious. Some of us spend serious amounts of cash on lighting systems, reflective clothing and other types of high visibility gear. But sometimes there’s just nothing you can do – if it’s your day, it’s your day. Here’s a message for all of us cyclists from [...]
Summary: 9/10 Superb shoes for the price, especially for tourists or commuters Pros: look great, just like normal shoes off the bike, great value especially considering long lifetime Cons: sole may not be stiff enough for some When I got these shoes first, they looked something like what’s in that box to the left there. [...]
I have finally moved my sports related blog posts from my other blogs to their own home here on SportCrazy.net, where I shall rant away about referees, those dirty All Blacks and the state of pro-cycling to my hearts content!
Ray Cipollini writes, over at the Daily Peloton – Pro Cycling News, about the Anti-Doping Agencies and the presumption of guilt existing in the cycling world. Here’s some of what he has to say: Why do we have UNCONDITIONAL faith in the ADA, even when there is no way to verify their usually inflammatory and [...]