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Skins Bio-accelleration Cycling Bib Shorts |
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
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 I have at least 20 pairs of cycling bib shorts lying around in various states of disrepair. Most don’t fit anymore (I keep shrinking); and all wear out after two or so seasons (whatever a season is when you ride every day of every year…). I mention this only to lay some claim to familiarity with cycling lycra gear. Shorts are astoundingly variable in terms of quality of fit. It’s like a lottery when I buy a new pair and they are always horrendously expensive. [...]
Via their saturation advertising all over major sporting events (like last year’s Le Tour, for example) all these claims about bio-accelleration technology sound, frankly, as sincere as the care and concern politicians are espousing these days for global warming. All more bling and spin than a genuine claim. [...]
But once I tried them, my investment and sanity were more assured. These things fit like nothing else. The compression fit is quite unique. You only know how much so when you revert to an old pair of knicks; once close fitting shorts now feel like they are falling off. OK, I’ll pay the rhetoric attached to these Skins. Don’t know about ‘bio-accelleration’ bit, but I guess that implies that the weave of these shorts is a bit like a sling shot for your legs. Not tight and not loose, they are more like a new layer of muscle to keep all your hard-earned power empowered for longer; just like water kept on the boil in a well-insulated hot water tank. It’s hard to describe, but when you take them off, it feels like you are removing some layers of muscle from your legs. I’m going back for a second pair.
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Push Yourself Just a Little Bit More |
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
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 Push Yourself Just a Little Bit More: Backstage at the Tour de France, by Johnny Green, Orion Books, 2005
Back in the days when Lance Armstrong ruled the court of Le Tour, big shaved-headed Serge Borlee had a real job to do. He was Lance Armstrong’s personal bodyguard; there to protect Big Tex from the always passionate camps of haters (usually the French) and acolytes (usually Americans, especially those from Texas), alike. Now poor old Serge just gets the job of protecting Cadel Evans; what a come down… Usually only rockstars and heavy-end politicians have body guards. But then again, Lance did kind of lean way into the rockstar camp. He played that role like a megastar. So, it might be kind of interesting to contemplate the glory days of the Lance Armstrong Le Tour era from the the rock & rolling vision of the former road manager of The Clash. And that is precisely the setting that Johnny Green applies to his own peculiar, spectacularly ideosyncratic and extraordinarily entertaining snapshot over a two year spread from 2003 to 2004. The story tells the tale of a quest; the search by bad man Johnny Green, his filmmaker son Earl and their mysterious companion, The Brief, for any - good or bad - ju-ju they could find through following Le Tour in a car they called ‘Black Magic’ under the banner of a much prized (and dubiously derived) Official Press Pass... read more |
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Bicyclism Review Centre Launched |
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
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One of the most popular components of Bicyclism.net has been our technology reviews. Reviews of bicycles and bicycle-related technology have been an irregular feature of this site over the two years since lanuch. Detailed reviews of bicycles like the Pinarello Prince have been read by literally hundreds of thousands of visitors. So now, Bicyclism.net is more than proud to launch a new, more regularised review component to the site. You will note a new Review Centre menu on the right hand side of the Bicyclism.net home page. Under that banner, you will find links to three general review categories: - General reviews (of cycling related parephanalia)
- Technology reviews (bicycles, bicycle components and related)
- Bicyclism book reviews (cycling books and related publications)
Click on any of these three headings and you will be directed to all the reviews posted under that category, in order of writing (the most recent posts are at the top of the list).
You can also subscribe to a RSS (syndicated) feed of all reviews posted to the Review Centre. Simply click on the RSS link at the foot of any of the review pages you are exploring and new additions to the Bicyclism Review Centre will appear on your RSS reader from then onwards. Or, you can simply click on this link to set up your RSS feed. |
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