Awesome bike puzzle: Trail riding

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Jul 15, 2011

Best cycling GPS solution ?

So you are an adventurous type. You like to roam the roads or the forest trail and you are eager to see what's on the other side of the mountain, you live for the unknown. Or you want to see how you can improve your cadence, and you're curious how many calories you've burned today. You can see and do all of those with the help form the blokes from "the kings of GPS recievers", Garmin.

They have in their arsenal of gizmo's the Garmin Edge 500 GPS-based cycling computer. This baby measures speed, distance, time, calories burned, altitude, climb and descent, and as if this wasn't enough - check it out - you can record your laps, put them on your laptop, replay them! Add an ANT+™ compatible heart rate monitor, speed/cadence sensor or compatible power meter and you can see even more data.

All of this for £199.99, or £249,99 if you want the heart and cadence sensor. Check out how Competitive Cyclist evaluates this product below.

Jun 10, 2011

Night rider

To the untrained eye, this might look like a suicidal attempt to recreate a shitty horror movie where teens are slayed in the woods while they are having fun. To the trained eye, this is a hell of a lot of fun. Why would you ride at night you ask? Very simple. The summer the days are scortching hot and the only time you can ride without melting is at night. Plus it's alot more exciting to do things in a different way right?

Of course there are some things that you need to remember in order to make this a pleasurable experience instead of a painfull date with metal rods in your bones.

First of all, you must know the trail well. Ride it in the day many times untill you've learned every groove, every root and every turn.
Second, make sure you have proper protection equipment (helmet, elbow and knee pads, spine guard and so on)
And third, invest in a powerfull and reliable lighting system.

Check out how it should look like.