Kissena Cycling Club

back in the day, everyone thought you needed to race on 700x20 tires. Now that the must-use size is 700x23, the leading edge is talking about 700x25.  For bigger riders this makes great sense. 

Here’s a story from VeloNews velonews.competitor.com/2010/03/bikes-tech/technical-faq-of-tires-chains-and-tricks-of-the-trade_108936

An interesting document docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:1YKdKUg0GgYJ:www.vintagebicyclepress.com/images/TireDrop.pdf+vintagebicyclepres.com+tire+drop&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShJfFKmzKoUmGJssDOkUMuv0bLdMQSYfN-OqNhaTInnW33er2ZABEGjdUOqYW7GZdeq9BcbMEKV-kZPtBcyAd90vPKoheS45rVgDN4Jr3BqiPWZ-tjP8FMPTwuf80kUrdSt-c2X&sig=AHIEtbSLBc9zV6e9ztjGy2P4u65bbJGVYg

A Review www.competitivecyclist.com/road-bikes/review-tire/Michelin-Pro-3-Race-700x25-Clincher-Tire.1526.html

In the Princeton and New Hope Areas. 

Here’s the PDF for the event

www.njbikeracing.com/files/2009/RollerFlyer.pdf

Dirk Friel and Wes Hobson have a book of indoor cycling workouts in a binder.  Called “Workouts in a Binder: for Indoor Cycling,” they have, apparently, all sorts of things.  If you want to sample their fare, you can download five workouts for free.

www.velogear.com/prodinfo.asp?number=201WBIC

The Laura Van Guilder Supporters Club is at it again.  Another race for her to hone her skills and help pay for her trip to the Cyclocross Worlds.

www.bikereg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=9848

She probably needs to be thrown in to a huge field of aggressive racers who aren’t going to give her an inch of room to get ready for worlds.  If you can get there easily, seems like a reason to go.  But, if it takes effort, like renting a car, or filling a whole tank of gas, it might be better just to donate that money straightaway.

Here’s some good “common-sense” advice (there is so little common sense) on appetite and eating from John Verheul of JBVCoaching.  Easy reading, thought provoking, might even give you an excuse to bliss out on your favorite junk foods.

www.jbvcoaching.com/Nutrition.asp

The Cyclocosm site has an amusing graph that allows you to determine the “Jens Factor” of every ride.  Named in honor of Jens Voigt, the X-axis is temperature and the Y-axis wind speed.  by inputting your ride temp and the wind speed, you can see your Jens factor.

We like it.  The problem for us is the chart needs to be a bit more sophisticated.  There needs to be a way to control for kilometers, climbing, ambient moisture, and pace. 

cyclocosm.com/2010/01/calculate-your-jens-factor/

Frank Overton of FasCat Coaching has a good article on Velonews.com on planning out your racing year.

velonews.competitor.com/2009/12/coaches-panel/designing-your-own-training-plan-for-2009_86341

Follow the link to his website and download the calendar.  Make it your own.

One of the “secrets” of USA Cycling is that they generally do not cover travel expenses to the world cyclocross championships for the riders they select (come to think of it, they might not cover expenses to the road world’s, either).  Laura Van Gilder was selected to go to the cx worlds for the second time.  once again, she’s expected to pay her own way.

Some of Laura’s friends have created a fund-raising page on BikeReg.  Information is below.

JP

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Happy New Year All!

Undoubtedly many of you know/have heard that Laura Van Gilder (Cresco, PA ^ C3-Sollay/Athletes Serving Athletes) has been nominated to the US Elite Women’s squad for the 2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic, Jan. 30-31.

www.usacycling.org/news/user/story.php?id=4586

What we’re sure a lot don’t know is that financing the trip to Worlds is the athlete’s responsibility.  And a trip to the Czech Republic to represent your country at the absolute pinnacle of your sport is not the most OEinexpensive, endeavor.  So, a few us, shall we say, “less gifted athletes/cohort”, “hacks and instigators” have cobbled together a home-grown fund raising effort to send LVG over to Tabor for round 2.  Yes; round 2.

For those keeping score at home: LVG was representing the stars and stripes last season in Hoogerheide, Netherlands for a very respectable 19th place in her first Cyclocross campaign.

www.usacycling.org/news/user/story.php?id=4017)

Now, riding as a privateer this season has put LVG in very different position, financially, and we (Bill and Ray) are doing what LVG has too much class and pride to do asking the brotherhood and sisterhood to come through for one of our own by making a donation to her fund: 

www.BikeReg.com/events/register.asp?eventid=9848 , coming up to race/help keep her sharp at one of our pre-World Championships CX races (16 & 23 Jan, more details to come shortly)

So please, spread the word so that we can help LVG reduce her expenses as much as possible.

Happy Holidays and on behalf of LVG: thanks in advance!

Sincerely,

Bill Elliston & Ray Ignosh

We definitely need more bike racks in NYC.  One of the great things about commuting in the city or riding for errands is scoring the rockstar spot.  The only problem is I’ve had some doormen threaten to have my lock broken and bike taken; no one should have to put up with that just to ride their bike.

Here’s an interesting project to get more racks in the city fixcity.org/

Or you can go to the city directly.  www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bikerack.shtml

In our own crowdsourcing effort, one Kissena member reported that it just took diligence to pester the city to get a rack.  Another says there could be up to a 1.5 year backlog.

So says Allen Lim:

www.saris.com/athletes/PermaLink,guid,5272bd75-5f51-437d-a1ad-0f275aa7b2f4.aspx

Traditionally, the Sunday after Thanksgiving is a terrible time to travel.  Skip the car, and ride to the Staten Island Ferry, and then ride to Wolfe’s Pond and witness this great racing discipline in all its glory.  It is possibly the most spectator-friendly bike racing.  Lots to see, lots to love.  Fit people in spandex.  GO.

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