The right equipment is very important in cycling. We all know that.
Stated below is what I found when I compared the best of what Mattel has to offer against the best of what Specialized has to offer.
Technical Specifications
Big Wheel                                                     S-Works

Cost $38               [...]

The discovery of the stop watch function opened the door for a study I had wanted to do for sometime. This study would be a test of aerodynamics that would determine just how much faster BR’s less than aerodynamic 5’10” 170lb body mounted on a zippy road bike would go down a hill tucked in the drops as opposed to sitting upright in the hoods.

The fun continued until a neighbor let us know that we were all being just a bit too loud. C’est la vie. We were about to wrap up anyway. Like a good party…it’s not a good spinning session until the neighbors complain.

I bet $10 that none of us had heard of St. Vincent Park. I bet $100 that, after today, none of us will ever forget it. Hats off to Mike Weiss for spinning such a web of sadistic bliss.
The course started off  innocently enough. A few tight turns and some  moderate grades that led to [...]

Bike handling is something that I will have to learn sans Natty Light if I am ever going to be a respectable cross-cyclist. Nonetheless, I had a lot of fun conducting this study and I hope that I was able to provide some entertainment for the Velodrama readers along the way.

As I rode my bike up Elm Ave. Wednesday evening, I turned a lot of heads. No. It was not because of my good looks. I’d have to say heads were turning to try to figure out why a 38 year old woman was riding a Scott carbon racing bike and wearing a vintage 1985 St. [...]

Yesterday’s cyclocross(cx) race lasted about an hour.  For about an hour, I felt like I had Luciano Pavorati sitting squarely on my chest.  For about an hour, I hoped that someone that I had upset in the past would be at the race with a gun and put me out of my misery. My hour [...]

Hats off to the Pride folks. They were as friendly as could be. If I heard “Thanks for coming” once, I heard it a dozen times. The course was a lot of fun. It wasn’t their fault that I am a ditz.

Here’s another one. Something about driving across the desert makes me want to blog.

When I played back the emotions that I experienced during yesterday’s 15.6 mile hike down to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and back,  I noticed that there appeared to be a common pattern of emotions that one goes through during endurance events such as my hike, marathons, and century rides.
As we approached the trail [...]