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Prepare your bike for snow
Those who don’t stop mountain biking in Winter are sooner or later riding on snowy trails. Snow can make the most boring trail entertaining, and you can improve the riding pleasure with some simple tips. Let’s get this out of the way first: a fat bike (explained by Greg Kopecky at slowtwitch.com here) is the [...]
A new era in bicycle transmission?
We’re living in interesting years from the bicycle technology standpoint. Just look at the groupsets. For a while 2×10 speed for road and 3×9 speed for mountain bike was all we needed. In those years, due to the standardization of offering from Shimano and Sram, people were left with time to mix and match and [...]
Fight the winter blues, assemble a bike
When the cold weather arrives we all need incentives to go out and ride. During the good season, oncoming races, sun shining, training buddies calling… it’s so much easier to find a good reason to get on the bike. In Fall and Winter, grey sky, cold wind and deep mud on the trails seem to [...]
Virtual meet real…
We normally get the feeling that ‘what happens on the Internet stays on the Internet’, severed from our daily life. After all, it’s a virtual world made of pictures, “I like”, comments, search engines and bookmarks. When all this, somehow, gets into the ‘real world’ (and these events can only grow in number), astonishment is [...]
Effetto Mariposa at Bike Dealer Camp
Following what seemed to be a safe bet within the industry, Cantitoeroad.com and distributed brands (Cole wheels, Connex chains and Effetto Mariposa) decided to skip this year’s Interbike in favour of Bike Dealer Camp in Park City, Utah. Nice natural environment, beautiful trails and roads, a good number of exibitors: all the ingredients were there… [...]
IM France: finisher!
Eating breakfast at 4 A.M. in the hotel in Nice the day of Ironman France, I knew it would have been a very full day. The time zoomed forward, bike check inside the transition area, scent of sun-protection, vaseline, muscle warm-up cream… and I found myself on the beach, tight in my swimsuit, goggles on, [...]
Ironman France (Nice): all is ready
As all my training buddies, I’m at this point sick and tired of all the training hours, the energy bars/gels, the long distance sessions of running and cycling, the early wake-ups, the time stolen from work and family: I can’t wait to be in the water, 6:30 AM of the 26th and hear the “GO” [...]
On the way to Ironman Nice
The Italian Championship of Long Distance Triathlon in Candia, May 15th, was the right event to test myself before Ironman France (Nice, F). I covered the 4 km swimming leg taking it easy, then I headed for my 120 km of no-draft cycling. Side wind made the ride more adventurous than planned, with some stretches [...]
New Website!
Launching at the same the new 2011 products and the new website has proven more similar to a tornado than to the flap of a butterfly’s wings. That’s why we’re still fighting with the new site functions, and the navigation will be somehow ‘rough’ for a while: apologies! We will soon be feeding the new [...]
