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Fitness bikes go high tech
The S2 fitness bike explores an unusual route to get you fit – “virtual reality.” There is a display mounted at the top of the fitness bike which lets you experience different types of riding...
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Cycling Concept: LightLanes
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an average of 600 cyclists are killed each year in motor vehicle-related accidents in the US. While more and more people are trading gas...
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Cierra Smith – Mountain Bike
Sport: Mountain Biking Home: Nevada Age: 13 Other Sports/Accomplishments: volleyball, soccer, and I get good grades. (or I cant race) Favorite Athletes: Steve Peat, Racheal Atherton Favorite College...
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A Pretty Tough Pole Vaulter
(Editors Note: Pretty Tough Team member Hannah Trimble is a multi-sport athlete. Here’s her account of a recent collegiate track meet:) I attend Lees-McRae College, a small liberal arts college located...
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Bike sharing – the new public transportation
Bike culture goes big as bike sharing takes hold. An affordable, clean and simple way to get around town, bike sharing promotes cleaner air, land, and water, while encouraging people to meet their...
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On the Right Track: Bike to Work Day
It’s not a revolution, not yet anyway, but clearly more people are commuting by bicycle. Friday is national Bike-to-Work Day, drawing even more attention to the trend. There are more bicycles on the...
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E-Bikes: Green with a boost
Bike-to-Work Day just passed, and it’s possible you never actually got on your bike. No doubt you wanted to. You probably thought about it but maybe you were worried about traffic or you live in a...
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Florida State Championship race report
The 2009 Florida State Championship was hosted on May 16th in the City of Sarasota. The track was fast and somewhat technical, making for some great racing! The Championship race is the biggest state...
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BFF: Bicycle Film Festival
What do you get when you combine the worldwide cycling community (and some devoted sponsors) with movies, parties, musical performances and art exhibits ? You get The Bicycle Film Festival – an annual...
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BMX Worlds are going LIVE on the internet!
The IMBXFF World Championships 2009, aka the BMX Worlds presented by Rockstar, will be coming to you LIVE for the first time in it’s 25 year history, courtesy of Freecaster.tv. Freecaster.tv and their...
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Riding High in the Sierras
For skiers, Mammoth Mountain’s deep winter snows mean another season of fab skiing in California’s Eastern Sierras. But when the snow melts after one of the nation’s longest ski seasons, many sports...
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Athlete Blog: Cierra Smith
(Editors Note: Fourteen year old Cierra Smith is a Pretty Tough mountain biker. On July 16-19, 2009 Cierra joined thousands of professional and amateur racers who came to battle it out on world-class...
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Cincinnati Cyclocross Festival offers $10,000 women’s prize
It’s tough to make a living as a professional athlete. Even tougher when you’re female. So it comes as good news that organizers of Cincinnati UCI3 Cyclocross Festival are offering an unprecedented...
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Cyclists keep coming back for more
(Ed. Note: Cyclist Kim Geist is a member of the Pretty Tough Team) I think cyclists are one of the most interesting types of athletes in the world. This is because not only is skill very important to...
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Spin Cycle: The newest bike trends
Bike culture has become more and more pervasive. Now that commuting via bike and fixed gear cycling have become practically mainstream, what’s next in the two-wheeled world? Synchronized Cycling:...
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Mississippi River Project: Out and back
(Ed. Note: Artist (and good friend) Eve Beglarian is paddling, biking and hiking the length of the Mississippi River in search of musical inspiration. This is one in a series of journal entries.) After...
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Recap: Cyclocross Season and Nationals
Well the cyclocross season is over and I miss it tremendously. I never would’ve thought that after three months, I would have become so attached to the sport and want to continue so bad. The...
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BMX Basics
It is commonly accepted that BMX (bicycle motocross) began with kids in California. For those with the desire to participate in motocross but not the means, BMX offered similar action at low cost. BMX...
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Go out and play
Today – Saturday June 12, 2010 – is National Get Outdoors Day What’s that mean? It means it’s time to get off your butt, step away from the computer, and go outside! National Get Outdoors Day (GO Day)...
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Wheel Action: May is National Bike Month
National Bike Month is not really a Hallmark event. And for those of us that are cyclists, that’s too bad. If oil prices continue to climb, however, every month might become Bike Month. Despite what...
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