First Brevard Gran Fondo attracts top riders

Bahati

Infinity Racing Organization, Inc., a newly formed cycling association focused on supporting the local community in Brevard County, Florida, announces the first annual Gran Fondo Brevard on Sunday, March 25, 2012. The “Fondo,” a special format charity bike ride event, will give riders the opportunity to compete in a timed course all throughout Brevard County [...]

Asheville bids for 2014-15 cyclo-cross nationals

Asheville bid organizer Will Black

Three cities are in the running to host the 2014 and 2015 cyclo-cross National Championships: Boulder, Colorado; Austin, Texas; and Asheville, North Carolina. To determine viability, USA Cycling examines the strength of each bid after reviewing the proposed course, venue location and available facilities. Additionally, USA Cycling meets with the local convention and visitors bureau [...]

Horizontal vs. Vertical bike fitness: your fitness in two dimensions

Jim Cunningham

Competitive cyclists most often worry about and try to increase their threshold power putting much stock in this number and less if any thought into the ability to repeat a given effort. Consider this… you’re in a race, attack 40K into it and stay off the front averaging 325 watts (103% of your threshold power) [...]

Winter Training

Marc Gustafson Cyclocross

I’m not sure how I even got here. It’s a weeknight in the middle of January and I’m standing in the parking lot of a non-descript strip mall in Charlotte, North Carolina with my bike in hand, staring at the fog-covered windows of a place called TotalCyclist. What I do know is that I was [...]

Southeast Bike Expo comes to Georgia

Southeast Bike Expo

The first southeast consumer cycling expo comes to Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers, Georgia, February 25 to 26th. The Southeast Bike Expo will include booths from Trek, Specialized, GT, Niner, Felt, SRAM, Colnago, Look, Scott, Jamis, Thomson, Cane Creek, Stan’s Notubes, Yakima, Camelbak, Saris/Cycleops, GoPro, Garmin and Timex. The Southeast Bike Expo will be [...]