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Category: Sports

  • Cycling stings

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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I was stung by a wasp while cycling and when I tried to remove the stinger I couldn’t. I was in pain and almost stopped cycling. I was in distress as a bus passed on a main road. I was on an agricultural path by some apple orchards. I stopped…

  • Second thoughts on E-bikes

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I rode an e-bike over 5km and played with the eco, touring, sport and turbo modes. I experimented with the gears and I experimented with a variety of gradients and surfaces. Through this trial I got to understand how e-bikes work.  Gaining momentum E-bikes are great for helping you get up…

  • Trying a single speed bike with belt drive.

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesAssembly It took me one hour this morning to assemble a single beltdrive bike. It was relatively simple, unbox it, assemble the saddle, add the handlebars, add the pedals, add the front wheel, inflate the tires and I think that was it. The part that took me longer was finding where the front…

  • Experimenting with a single speed bike in a mountaineous landscape

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesMy average time riding a bike over the last four weeks was seven and a half hours per week. When I’m not riding the bike I’m usually using the scooter but that’s mainly because I don’t want to leave the bike unattended. It is for this reason that I’ve been looking for…

  • Training with Zwift

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo days ago I started playing/training with Zwift. I tested it on my phone, the ipad and the laptop and it worked with each. Pairing both the apple watch with the iOS app on mobile phone and ipad worked well. Pairing between the bluetooth cadence and speed sensor as well as the…

  • A Return To Climbing

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night after about a year without climbing I finally returned to the sport and I saw a familiar face but I couldn’t remember why. Eventually, I remembered that it was Cedric Lachat. I remember him from some climbing videos I watched. I also saw many of my climbing friends.  On the first…

  • Replacing the scooter with an electric bike

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been thinking of replacing the scooter with an electric bike for a while now. I am discouraged by the cost of electric bikes. Electric bikes range in price from one thousand to four thousand francs or more and their range is from fourty to one hundred and eighty kilometres. They…

  • Summer without a car has taught me to live locally

    Summer without a car has taught me to live locally

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesThis summer I was thinking of buying a car until I found out that my contract break was for six months rather than three. As a result of this my ability to buy my own car vanished. I used the scooter, my feet and eventually the bike to travel thousands of kilometres. …

  • Cycling to the Vallée de Joux

    Cycling to the Vallée de Joux

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    Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I tried cycling to the Vallée de Joux and succeeded. A few weeks ago I cycled up to St George and I saw a sign that said that the Col De Marchairuz was less than 6km away so I decided to try it. When I succeeded that I saw that getting…

  • Cycling into the wind

    Cycling into the wind

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    Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I cycled my first 100km ride. It started as a simple ride towards Geneva and back but by the time I got back to Nyon I felt that I had enough energy to go further so I set the goal of getting to Rolle and after Rolle I set the goal…