Cycling Passion

Top 10 tips to climb better and faster

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date September 11, 2012
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Top 10 tips to climb better and faster: Climbing is not fun, for most of the cyclists. It is slow, painful and sometimes you feel beaten up, especially you’re out of form and overweight. To make things worse, climbing ability is the key to win most of the races. But you can climb better following these tips.

The tips below do not have magical effects. You cannot be a better climber from today to tomorrow. And if you want to climb faster and better, you must be ready to suffer, especially in the beginning. It is impossible to write a guide like “5 minutes a day, and you’ll climb better. You won’t even sweat.” The real world doesn’t work like that.

Tags Jan Ullrich, Pierre Rolland

Cycling and Music, Cinema, Art Cyclists and Teams History and Legends

35 Best Cycling Quotes

Albert Einstein, riding a bike — "Life is like riding a bicycle. In order to keep your balance, you must keep moving." --Albert Einstein

Cycling is perhaps the most inspiring sport in the world. It’s not only inspiring, but also brutal, punishing, filled with pain and suffering, yet still beautiful. It inspired many writers and poets. Here are the best cycling quotes below (ordered by owners’ surname):

Reviews Bicycles and Equipment

Veloflex Master Clincher Tires (700x23c) Review

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date September 4, 2012
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Veloflex Master 700x23c clincher tires - Handmade in Italy — Many people don't know Veloflex as a bicycle tire producer; and few that do, will know them well. Veloflex is a small scale Italian operation built from the remains of Vittoria after that firm shifted production to Taiwan a few years ago. In fact, the staff at Veloflex have so much experience and talent, gained from their years of tyre manufacture at Vittoria before Veloflex existed. The company is very soon to hit the big time now that a certain Sir Bradley Wiggins won the Tour de France riding on a pair of Veloflex (with Veloflex Sprinter and Record tubular tires).

I am trying a pair of Veloflex Master Clincher Tires (700x23c) for a while. Frankly, Continental GP4000s is my favorite tire. Or might I say it “was”?

Tags Vittoria

Training and Nutrition

How to prepare homemade isotonic sports drink

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date August 31, 2012
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Homemade sports drink — Homemade isotonic drink recipes (for 1 liter)

For exercises two hours or less
Prepare a cup of green tea (or another herbal tea, what taste you prefer). Dissolve 30-40 grams of sugar into it. Add a pinch of salt. Complete it to a liter with water. Cool it down in the refrigerator and drink within 24 hours. You can replace tea+sugar with 50 cl of fruit juice and complete to a liter with water.
For exercises more than two hours
Prepare a cup of green tea (or another herbal tea, what taste you prefer). Dissolve 30-40 grams of sugar and 30-40 grams of maltodextrin⁽¹⁾ into it. Add a pinch of salt. Complete it to a liter with water. Cool it down in the refrigerator and drink within 24 hours. You can also replace tea+sugar with 50 cl of fruit juice and complete to a liter with water. If you use fresh fruit juice, filter it. Otherwise, it will be hard to drink from your bicycle bottle.

You can easily prepare your own isotonic drink at home. All you need is some green tea (or herbal tea, or fruit juice), some sugar, salt, and if your exercise will continue for more than two hours, maltodextrin. Here are two different homemade isotonic sports drink recipes.

Cycling Climbs Races Vuelta a España

Mirador de Ézaro, the steepest climb in bicycle racing history

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date August 31, 2012
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Mirador de Ézaro - 30% sign — A hundred meters from the beach of Ézaro, where the Galician coast at its best, there is an ominous sign with the red warning triangle: thirty percent (30%) warns the board, then you directly ride against uphill over a huge rock.

A hundred meters from the beach of Ézaro, where the Galician coast is at its best, there is an ominous sign with the red warning triangle: thirty percent (30%) warns the board, then you directly ride against uphill over a huge rock. Welcome to the Mirador de Ézaro, the steepest climb in bicycle racing history.

Bicycles and Equipment

Cycling technology is on Mars

Post author By M. Özgür Nevres
Post date August 16, 2012
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Ramp Drive Test for NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover — NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, drives up a ramp during a test at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., on September 10, 2010. The rover, like its smaller predecessors already on Mars, uses a rocker bogie suspension system to drive over uneven ground. Technicians and engineers in clean room garb watch the test drive carefully inside JPL's Spacecraft Assembly Facility. The wheels on Curiosity are half a meter (20 inches) in diameter, twice the height of the wheels on earlier Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Curiosity has landed successfully on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, at 05:17 UTC. Image: NASA

On August 6, 2012, at 05:17 UTC, NASA’s Curiosity rover has landed successfully on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on Mars. The U.S. bicycle manufacturer Litespeed has been a contractor and consultant to NASA for projects that require titanium-intensive sub-assemblies including the landing gear on the Curiosity.

Classic/Retro bicycles Bicycles and Equipment

Verona and Chesini

Chesini Classic. Steel lugged frame, Campagnolo components with a special Chesini crankset. A real classic and a beauty. Chesini is founded in 1925 by Gelmino Chesini.

Verona is a beautiful city in Northern Italy, it is the city of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” and “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”. Verona is also home to Chesini bikes.

Homemade isotonic drink recipes (for 1 liter)

For exercises two hours or less

For exercises more than two hours