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Category Archives: Bike Racing
Bike Safety Lessons from the UK
Tweet Recent News It’s flashed across all the major media this week, especially in the UK. Olympic medalist and Tour de France winner Bradley “Wiggo” Wiggins was struck by a van. Then, not 15 hours later, in a separate incident, Olympic team trainer, Shane Sutton was involved in an accident with a automobile. Both men [...]
Also posted in Activism, Commute, Events Tagged bike accident prevention, bike commute, bike safety, Sutton, The Times UK, UK, Wiggins, Wiggo 2 Comments
Bicycles Changing Lives
Tweet On the Radio Next week Montague Bikes will be on the radio. To be specific we’ll be guests on The Extreme Truckers Show, along with Siphiwe Baleka, Driver Fitness Coach for Prime, Inc and founder of Fitness Trucking. Mr. Baleka has been at the vanguard of changing the way the trucking industry looks [...]
Also posted in Activism, Lifestyle Tagged Fitness Trucking, health, Prime Inc, Siphiwe Baleka, trucking industry 1 Comment
Changing Shape
Tweet Starting in late summer 2012, Montague Bikes and Prime, Inc. Trucking, based out of Springfield, MO, will be partnering to pioneer an advancement in the trucking industry, a sea change in health. America relies on its trucking industry for economic success, but hundreds of hours behind the wheel add up; as a result long [...]
Also posted in Activism, Adventure, Events, Lifestyle Tagged Fitness, Fitness Trucking, health, Prime Inc, triathlons, trucking 4 Comments
Gearing: Cyclocross attributes for Commuting
Tweet Part 4 in the “CX First Timer Custom Build Experiment” What’s in a gear? When doing a build it’s a very important question to ask. Just what is this bicycle going to be doing, where is it going? My regular bicycle is a fixed gear – it is used for urban transport and for [...]
Tour de Suisse Recap
Tweet It was an exciting finish to the 76th edition of the Tour de Suisse on Sunday. The race leader, Rui Costa (a Portugese rider for the Spanish team, Movistar) had a 14 second lead over Luxembourger rider Frank Schleck. The 9th and final stage featured two HC climbs, and on the first one, Scheck [...]
Climb Every Mountain: The Tour de Suisse Starts Tomorrow
Tweet Who knew there were so many bike races? Here in the U.S., we only get coverage of the Tour de France and, more recently, the Tour of California. In Olympic years (like this one) we might get coverage of the road race, if an American medals in it. But even then it’s usually just [...]
Also posted in Travel Tagged bicycle racing, bike racing, categorized climbs, Tour de Suisse Leave a comment
A Truck Driver Triathlete and his Montague Folding Bike
Tweet From time to time, we’ve done stories on the blog about Montague riders on the road with their bikes. For people who have to travel for and with their work, such as roadies and truckers, having a bike that’s easy to transport is important, since there’s not always space in the back of a [...]
Also posted in Lifestyle Tagged Fitness, Fitness Trucking, folding bike, Ironman, Montague Paratrooper, travel bike, trucker 1 Comment
Amgen Tour of California Wrap-Up
Tweet Well, another Tour of California has come and gone. And it sure was an exciting one. In case you missed it (and unless you get NBC SportsNet or are an avid cycling fan and found internet coverage, you did miss it), it was definitely one of the more exciting races in recent memory. Why, [...]
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