Tag: cycling
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Of Hiking and Cycling Climbs and Descents
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen you’re young and your knees are intact it’s fun to head down a mountain. It’s fun to run down. As you get older the effort of going uphill gets more and more habitual, and more and more comfortable. I often find that hikers prefer the climb to the descent. While cycling…
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The Inconvenience of a Late Train With a Bike
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I went for an evening bike ride in Geneva and I chose to take the train home, rather than cycle. In the process I saw that trains are not that convenient later at night. The reason for this is that they’re smaller, so the space for bikes is restricted. A person…
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Strava July Cycling Elevation Challenge Success
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor seasons, or even years I saw the Strava Elevation Challenge and I thought "I won’t even try this challenge, because I will fail". This month I tried it, and I succeeded. Not only did I succeed to climb the 7000m suggested by the challenge but I got to 10,415m. I overshot…
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The bike Handlebar bag – ACTV 100
Reading Time: 2 minutesCyclists like to be lean and clean when they ride. They don’t like to ride with bags. They prefer to keep spares in the rear pockets of jerseys rather than carry a bag. As a hiker I don’t mind carrying a bag but I decided to try minimalism. Top Tube Bag and…
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From the Foot of the Jura to the Léman
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I tried route 473 which goes from the Morges Train Station towards Montricher and across, before heading back down to the lake side. This is a 57 or so kilometre loop along roads that were quite quiet. I don’t know whether that was because of the rain forecast or because people…
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The Tuesday Solo Ride
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I didn’t dress for cycling. My plan was to see if I could get the power meter to work and then go for a short ride. In the end I found that as one device failed to detect them I would try a second. The second worked after a few seconds.…
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How to Share the Strava Flyover
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYesterday I was playing with Strava Flyoveers and I tried to share the videos of flyovers but rather than sharing the video as I had wanted to do it shared a hyperlink to the activities that were already shared. I then tried to share via Instagram but the result was a…
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Cycling Uphill with a Combined Harvester Right Behind
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday we were cycling up towards Marchissy when a combine harvester began to follow us quite close. The experience of being followed, while cycling is quite something. These machines are large, with big tyres, and the driver is centred rather than to the left as with other vehicles. Luckily the gradient of…
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The Nyon LeCercle Ride with Thirty Two Achievements
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I went with a morning ride with TDC, which felt relaxed, before going for a ride with LeCercle in the evening. This group has a high level with many of the cyclists riding thousands of kilometres per year. Yesterday I wrote about how groups that are large enough can cater to…
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On Meetup and Strava Cycling Events
Reading Time: 3 minutesMeetup and Strava are two sites filling specific niches. Meetup is a dinosaur of the web. It dates back to 2005 when the web was still looking for a way to be sustainable, and thus, more fun. Meetup was good for people in big US cities, London and other metropolitain cities. If…