http://bikingtolive.com Developing a healthy lifestyle through bicycling Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:23:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en bikingtolive/iSVDhttp://feedburner.google.com As I continue my search for potential new bicycle candidates, I find my self coming back to a common question. Am I too heavy for a carbon fiber rig? I've ridden aluminum (including fork) for the last 15 years and have had no problems with the frame. While riding the last ... http://bikingtolive.com/heavy-loads-and-carbon-fiber/ I've gone to several shops now just looking at what they have while paying specific attention to price-points and what you get at those points. Like I said, I've been concentrating on getting something with at least 105 components all the way around and that's relatively easy to do at ... http://bikingtolive.com/another-bike-store-trip/ Everything I've heard about buying an ex-pros bike is bad. They ride them thousands of miles a year and stress them to the limit. It would be like buying a used car with over 100,000 miles on it with no warranty. That was driven by Nascar driver. As his personal ... http://bikingtolive.com/used-pro-bikes-for-the-super-poseur-or-you-can-just-call-me-magnus/ The age old question of supporting your local bike shop or ordering online has raged for a while and is still a very hot topic. I don't want to banter the pros and cons of doing so but would rather discuss why local bike shops aren't taking advantage of social ... http://bikingtolive.com/local-bike-shops-and-socia-media/ I had a bunch of time to kill yesterday afternoon so I went to a local bike shop and looked at some bikes. I've gone in several times up until now to casually look at bikes but since I'm kinda in the market for one I went in looking ... http://bikingtolive.com/looked-at-bikes-yesterday/ Today I managed to head down to the local bike shop to talk with them about my busted bike. In truth, I had been putting this off because I just had a feeling it wouldn't be good news and I was right. [caption id="attachment_1477" align="alignright" width="180" caption="Photo Courtesy of fenlandsnapper"][/caption]I ... http://bikingtolive.com/status-of-my-bike/ The subject says it all. I found out yesterday and I'm feeling crushed right now. Not exactly sure what I'm going to do now. http://bikingtolive.com/the-phone-call-isnt-coming/ I drove up to my mom's house for the holiday weekend and as I always do when I'm up there I use my dad's shop to give my bike a thorough cleaning and tune up. It's been a month since I've done it and I could really tell on ... http://bikingtolive.com/the-bike-is-ooc/ For my regular readers you'll notice that I haven't posted in about a week and have been scarce on Twitter (@farsided). I had a really rough week last week dealing with the family separation and the job search, and felt really tired of being on the bike so much. I ... http://bikingtolive.com/had-to-take-a-break-back-now/ Day 44 - 4x6 Intervals at RPE9 All my interval sessions up to this point had been 4x8 (four intervals at 8 minute duration) so I was looking forward to something new and to see just how hard I could push for 6 minutes. It was hot when I started ... http://bikingtolive.com/century-training-series-days-44-45-and-46/