Team Boardman Cycling Plus ? Alan Thew

Tam Boardman Cycling Plus� will be updating you each week with the highs and lows of their training as part of the team. This week Alan gets tells us about clubbing? Alan Thew Lives: Yapton, Sussex Age: 46 Height: 1.77m Weight: 87kg Rides: Custom built 16-speed bike shop special Goals: Complete Dragon and La Marmotte [...]

Source: http://magazine.bikeradar.com/2011/08/04/team-boardman-cycling-plus-alan-thew-5/

Jacob P Limon Amber P Billiot Adam J Rector Scott J Gonzalez Eric B Penaflor

Keep in trim ? eight steps to trimming your handlebars

Justin Loretz shows you the simple steps to trimming your bars Ride before you cut Before you trim any bar work out if it?s the right thing to do. Consider long ride comfort, possible fitting of bar ends or other bar furniture and remember that wider, shoulder width bars are more comfortable and offer more [...]

Source: http://magazine.bikeradar.com/2011/07/12/keep-in-trim-eight-steps-to-trimming-your-handlebars/

Julia M Wyss Gloria E Hight Lewis T Hammons Justin E Brock Patrick S Stjohn

Tech walkthrough ? cable flushing

Justin Loretz shows you seven simple steps to cable flushing Get set You need to access the whole length of gear cable so the first step is to make some slack in the gear cable in order to unhitch it from the frame without undoing the cable pinch bolt. Shift the chain to the biggest [...]

Source: http://magazine.bikeradar.com/2011/07/06/tech-walkthrough-cable-flushing/

Mary C Lopez William J Jones Nicholas L Maria James B Rohde Theo C Alcantara

Team Boardman Cycling Plus ? Lindy Edwards

Team Boardman Cycling Plus� will be updating you each week with the highs and lows of their training as part of the team. This week Lindy gets in some final training before her big challenge?. Lindy Edwards Lives: Newcastle upon Tyne Age: 46 Height: 1.6m Weight: 55kg Reasons to ride: Get fitter and faster, and [...]

Source: http://magazine.bikeradar.com/2011/08/25/team-boardman-cycling-plus-lindy-edwards-6/

Jamie P Salazar Josephine W Hassett David B Clark Alex C Vanhouten Curtis T Harris

Win The Animal Bike Tour!

Have Martyn Ashton, Blake Samson and crew perform for you for the day? We?re big fans of the Animal Bike Tour here at MBUK. Now in its ninth year we still love to watch Martyn Ashton?s incredible ability to balance and hop around at great heights in all manners of weather and Blake Samson?s awesome [...]

Source: http://magazine.bikeradar.com/2011/08/08/win-the-animal-bike-tour/

Jean M. Stokes Clementine D. Davidson Carl J. Buckman William B. Cox Manuel K. Bauer

Louis Garneau Mondo bib short review

Louis Garneau builds its Mondo Bib shorts with a highly compressive fit that felt just about right on longer road rides. While tight, the cut doesn't impede movement at all, instead feeling appropriately snug and supportive. The flatlocked stitching didn't dig into our skin, either, and the wide-band leg openings stayed in place despite having no grippers on the inner surfaces.

Even the mesh bib straps are well thought out with a high yoke on the upper back to help keep the straps in place plus a small pocket up top for a music player or radio. Breathability is very good, too, with paper-thin materials throughout that do an excellent job of pulling moisture off of your skin and never felt too bulky, even on super hot days in roasting sunlight. The multi-density, multi-thickness stretch chamois is also infused with mesh panels around the rear center and front sides. While we couldn't actually feel cooling air coming through down there, longer rides on non-cutout saddles left us feeling noticeably less stuffy nonetheless.

Durability has proven to be very high with no noticeable wear after several months of regular machine washing and wearing, aside from some minor peeling on the small 'Garneau' logo on the upper right thigh. Nighttime visibility is pretty good, too, with reflective bits on the back of each leg and an additional reflective logo just above the rear edge of the chamois.

Faults are few in number but unfortunately crop up in a couple of critical areas that keep the Mondo Bibs from being flawless. The chamois was comfortable but we found the placement to be too far back, thus wasting some valuable padding and leaving less cushioning than we ideally would have wanted further forward. Likewise, the laser-cut, wide-band leg openings were comfortable on the bike but riders with bigger quads will notice that they're not as elastic as the adjoining material.

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Christy S Fleming Jacquelyn A Capp Timothy K Chambers Kitty L Broderick Armando M Darrow

Animal Bike Tour goes Olympic

Martyn, Blake and the crew head to the Hadleigh Farm Olympic Cross Country course? The Animal Bike Tour put on shows at many varied locations throughout the year and recently they were invited to the Hadleigh Farm Olympic Cross Country venue as part of the London Prepares event. �Among a field of national and World [...]

Source: http://magazine.bikeradar.com/2011/08/15/animal-bike-tour-goes-olympic/

Debbie S Shortridge Ellen M Castor James C Savage Paula F Tims Reginald M Dabney