Biking

Extreme adaptability to outside temperatures during the autumn, winter and spring cycling seasons is the Insolito Radiation Jacket’s primary claim to fame. Made by Castelli,…

Handlebar-mounted map holders are one of those esoteric outdoors items that only complete cartographic nerds and adventure racers can wax silly about. Since I fit…

I wrote about Vibram’s entry into bike saddles yesterday. Well, the company has also jumped into bike shoes, including clip-less and platform-pedal-compatible models from Gaerne,…

Vibram is a brand synonymous with the deep-rutted rubber tread of hiking boots. But this month the company announced its entry into the world of…

There are few things my two-year-old daughter loves more than a bike ride. So this summer I’ve been testing two child bike seats, the iBert…

Single-speed bikes are the cycling trend from left field, the impossibly illogical populist fad that has in the past couple years put hundreds of thousands…

Thule is calling its new Echelon bike rack “the ultimate in fork mounts,” proving that superlatives can be applied to just about anything. But enough…

A professional bike fitter can adjust a bicycle to match a rider’s precise body dimensions to the degree of millimeter increments. And this procedure is…

It’s a bike seat. It’s a pump. It’s the Biologic ZorinPump, a seat-post/bike-pump combo product from U.K.-based Dahon Incorporated. You stand while you pump and…

Sweet and single — single-speed, that is — the Kona Paddy Wagon is an affordable track-bike-like option for urban riding or mid-distance commuting where hills…

In today’s New York Times, I wrote about ice bike racing, a subgenre of the subgenre of winter cycling, which is a hybrid discipline where…

I am the proud owner of a 90-pound Weimaraner named Rodney, and Rodney is one tough bugger to wear down. We run three to five…

Maybe Castelli named its new Split Second Jersey—available late-winter/spring 2007—a bit too modestly. Fifty-Eight Second Jersey would be more accurate. Recent aerodynamic testing at the…

An hour into a long bike ride last week, I had an epiphany. Though I’d ridden through the city, on streets and sidewalks, and then…

Fine tuning a bike to fit a rider’s precise body dimensions — down to millimeter increments — is a regimen often associated with serious road…

There comes a time in the lifecycle of a bike when the cost to replace certain components becomes unjustifiable. New derailleurs, chainrings, cranks, bottom brackets,…

It was to be an art project, a labor of love, an aesthetic expression on two wheels. Exorbitant expenses and common sense be darned. This…

I ride roads and trails, pavement and dirt, mud and snow, and one good bike helmet is enough for me. So, this spring when it…

On the very periphery of the outdoors genus, there exists a group of bike heads and gear junkies who will not think twice about putting…