Pace line on RT 16

Pace line on RT 16
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Some pictures from Monday plus many others. THEY ARE NOT ALL NEW

Cozy Beehive

Ron's blog! Has great cycling info....and he is very active locally in OLEAN!!

Cozy Beehive:

"Every cyclist can be a chemist. And a dangerously accidental one at that. Even if you flunked high school chemistry.

Did you ever have that time when you threw a water bottle into the kitchen sink, without emptying that tad bit of fancy powdered drink you made eons ago?"

New Trails through Bob's Woods (SBU)

BonaResponds has build some new trails to the South and West of Campus. Not super far but when you add them to the trails through Bob's Woods BonaResponds helped make last year and the trail system is pretty nice!

Group ride this Thursday

We have having a group ride leaving from the Allegany River Park at 6 pm on Thursday. Ride leaves at 6 pm. Be ready and clipped in. Bathroom facilities and parking are available at the park. Hope to see you there.

Sometimes we can't see the forest for the trees

Part Behavioral finance, part cycling, and part a study in how the brain works, the following "Test" is eye opening at least.

We all get so caught up in seeing what we want to see that we sometimes miss the obvious. This effects us in many ways: In finance, if bullish (optimistic), we are more apt to see the good news, if bearish (pessimistic) you see only bad news.

That is one reason why big break throughs happen from those outside the field. It is one reason why sabbaticals and vacations are important. But it can also have important implications in many other ways.




Go ahead, take the test. It takes about a minute.

Cross posted on FinanceProfessor.com's blog, Olean Cycling club's blog (which is currently almost inactive :( ), and RandomTopics2.


thanks to the Tour of the Gila for pointing this one out.

Weekday rides

Bo sent the following:

Mondays- Mountain bike rides from Ellicottville Bike Shop 6pm start.

Tuesdays- Road rides from Just Riding Along, Bradford, PA 6pm start

Thursdays Mountain bike rides from Just Riding Along, Bradford, PA 6pm start

Ellicottville Bike Shop 699-2453 http://ellicottvillebikeshop.com/

Just Riding Along 1-814-363-9101 http://justridingalong.net/

Any group rides?

haven't heard of any group rides yet. Have they started?

Bless the Cyclist, on Your Left! - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

Bless the Cyclist, on Your Left! - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com:

"...more than 100 cyclists to the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine on Saturday morning for the Blessing of the Bikes, an event now in its 11th year.

The crowd — a conscientious-looking collection of helmeted riders and bikes with bells, reflectors and review mirrors — gathered in front of the Upper West Side cathedral and would soon enter to be sprinkled with Holy Water as a shield against the dangers of urban cycling."

Denver Cycling Examiner: Bonking (think Alberto Contador not Austin Powers)

Good article:

Denver Cycling Examiner: Bonking (think Alberto Contador not Austin Powers):

"Even uber-champion Lance Armstrong has had bonking experiences, mostly insignificant, but in one well-remembered instance in 2003, he blamed lack of adequate hydration on his less than stellar performance during the stage 12 time trial which he lost to Jan Ullrich by more than one and a half minutes. Dehydration is not the same thing as low blood sugar, but they are both considered to be a form of bonking.

What this all means to us recreational cyclists is this: if inadequate food and water can slow the world’s greatest cyclists to a crawl, that same condition can ruin our much more modest endeavors just as easily. There are clear differences amongst low blood sugar, dehydration and another condition known as hyponatremia. But every cyclist should have a basic understanding of each so symptoms can be recognized and dealt with quickly."

Lance on injury and on showergate

Lance in his own words:

Update on Lance's Injury, Response to Drug Testing Allegations -- powered by http://www.livestrong.com

www.cyclingnews.com - the world centre of cycling

www.cyclingnews.com - the world centre of cycling:

"Earlier this week, Armstrong responded to news that the AFLD had raised objections to the incident. He issued a statement saying that he and team manager Johan Bruyneel were attempting to verify the validity of the person requesting the samples and Armstrong was permitted to leave.

'We told the tester we wanted to check with the UCI to confirm who he was and to make sure he wasn't just some French guy with a backpack and some equipment to take my blood and urine.

'Johan stayed with him and in his presence called the UCI to find out what was going on. We asked if it was OK for me to run inside and shower while they made their calls and the tester said that was fine.'"

YouTube - 2009 Amgen Tour of California - Armstrong & Kimmage Skirmish

YouTube - 2009 Amgen Tour of California - Armstrong & Kimmage Skirmish: "Lance Armstrong & Irish journalist Paul Kimmage have a verbal exchange at the pre-race press conference for the 2009 Amgen Tour of California"