Sebastien Rosseler Wins Overall In De Panne

After riding pretty quietly for the first 3 stages, Team RadioShack?s Sebastien Rosseler (BEL) decided to put the hammer down and ate up the pavement in the afternoon?s individual time trail at the 3 Days of De Panne, beating the field by nearly 14 seconds on the 14.7-kilometer course with a time of 18:31.83. [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/sebastien-rosseler-wins-overall-in-de-panne/

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Capturing Sunsets

It has been a wet, damp, cloudy, colder-than-usual spring in Seattle. Perhaps that is why I'm longing for sunsets. Not that the sun doesn't set here in the Pacific Northwest. We simply haven't been able to observe that lovely orange orb.

I've lost count of the number of times I've jumped off my bicycle and raced to get that perfect sunset shot, only to be disappointed with the results. The images are usually washed out and boring. Nothing like the dramatic event I witnessed in person.

Then a photographer I met in Belize told me, "You are focusing on the sun when you should be focusing on what the sun is silhouetting."

It was great advice.

Now when I'm pedaling and the sun is getting low in the sky, I start looking for that object, person or tree that will make my sunset shot worthy of keeping.

As far as silhouettes go, you won't get many more dramatic than that of the Pohutukawa tree. This native tree of the North Island of New Zealand (also known as the New Zealand Christmas Tree) has limbs that reach out and appear to defy gravity.

This photo instantly takes me back to a glorious bike trip around one of the friendliest and most beautiful countries on earth.

Photo: New Zealand 1993 by Willie Weir

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SIGHTS AND SOUNDS appears on Friday afternoons. Willie Weir is a columnist for Adventure Cyclist magazine. His latest book Travels with Willie: Adventure Cyclist will inspire you to hit the road and just might change the way you approach bicycle travel. He lives in Seattle with his wife Kat. You can read about their local adventures and life without a car at http://YellowTentAdventures.com/.

Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2011/06/capturing-sunsets.html

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Ben King Profile

Ben King Profile
Benjamin King (born March 22, 1989 in North Garden, Virginia) is an American professional road-racing cyclist who moves up to Team RadioShack for the 2011 season. �Ben started racing at the age of 14 showing great promise and winning junior national titles before signing with Kelly Benefit Strategies. �He attended college at Virginia [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/ben-king-profile/

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Tribute to Wouter Weylandt (#108), 1984-2011

I’m sure many of you have heard the news regarding the tragic death of Wouter Weylandt of Leopard-Trek last week during the third stage of the Giro d?Italia, after he crashed during a mountain descent. The funeral was this week.
This horribly sad event has really given me pause, but also a deeper understanding and [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/tribute-to-wouter-weylandt-108-1984-2011/

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Rast Within Inches of Podium at Paris-Roubaix

Beautiful blue skies, unseasonably warm shirt-sleeve temperatures, knowledge crowds thickly lining the roads, hard to see how it could get much better for the 109th running of the 258-kilometer (160 mile) Hell of the North. It?s been named that mostly because of the 27 cobbled sectors (51.5 kms) that the riders bounce over on [...]

Source: http://www.teamradioshack.us/rast-within-inches-of-podium-at-paris-roubaix/

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Polar CS100 HRM Review

Polar CS100 Heart rate monitor is a fairly extensive cycle computer with cadence and heart rate monitor combined into one. For those who enjoy an extensive range of stats during and after a ride, this will be a tempting buy. After a while of not using a heart rate monitor I asked Polar for a heart rate monitor loan so I could review this model and also get back into using a heart rate. Firstly setting up should be relatively straightforward, though in my case it did require looking at a manual quite a few times (why does the iPad generation hate looking at manuals so much?). It took me about 15 minutes to get up and running. The magnet needs to be fairly close to the sensor and it didn’t seem to register very low speed when I was testing. But, I am notoriously incompetent at simple bike jobs. It looks fine on the handlebars and gives a nice easy display. Polar products tend to be quite stylish it fits in with the rest of bike design. The cadence measurer is really quite big, it’s a shame it can’t be a little smaller. I wouldn’t be too keen on [...]

Source: http://cyclinginfo.co.uk/blog/products/polar-cs100-hrm-review/

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Unlikely models for a cycling culture

Bicycling enthusiasts who are trying to build a cycling culture in their own cities — say, Fort Worth, where I live — tend to look for models in such bike-friendly places as Minneapolis, Portland, Ore., or Boulder, Colo. That’s all … Continue reading →

Source: http://jimsbikeblog.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/unlikely-models-for-a-cycling-culture/

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