superbbicycle:

That’s a heavy duty “patch kit”.

18milesperhour:

CHRISTIAN VANDE VELDE’S (and now our) FAVORITE BARS

We at 18milesperhour are fans of eating real food as fuel for cycling. Our preferred method of refueling is the old reliable, food-of-the-gods PB&J. But if we have to eat anything in bar form, we’re liking these lately.

Created by Christian’s wife, Leah, to be a nice shot of energy that’s easy on the digestive system.

Most, if not all, of the ingredients can be found at any grocery store and they’re as easy to make as rice krispy treats. In fact, they have that same feel.

Most store-bought bars aren’t so pleasant out there in real-world conditions. Admit it, when you’re out of breath and sweaty at the top of a climb, it sucks to be chewing for all eternity on taffy-like PowerBars or grinding away at any of the other oaty bars. Then there are these things.

All natural, simple and, best of all, easy to eat. They’re delicious and almost dissolve in your mouth. We’ve tested them on our training rides and they do the job well. So here’s the recipe:

4 cups puffed rice cereal

1 ½ cups dried cranberries

½ cup sunflower seeds

½ cup pumpkin seeds

¼ cup wheat germ

½ cup tahini (sesame seed paste)

½ cup packed brown sugar

½ cup honey

1 teaspoon vanilla

In a large bowl, combine the dry stuff – the cereal, cranberries, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds and wheat germ and set aside.

Combine tahini, brown sugar and honey in a saucepan and cook over medium heat until bubbling, stirring constantly so it won’t burn. Add vanilla until blended.

Pour the tahini mixture over the dry ingredients and stir until coated. Transfer the mixture to a 9X13 inch baking dish coated with cooking spray. Press down firmly, like when you’re making rice krispy treats. Cool for one hour. Cut into 12 bars.

Per Bar: Calories, 273; fat, 11.5 grams; protein, 7g; carbs, 41g

Photo is just a serving suggestion. The Wedgewood Crown Gold plate is kind of cumbersome in a bike jersey pocket.

sundancecycles:

‘nuff said

Instant reblog.

This is awesome, but those numbers would wear off in less than a year for me :(

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Ugh. Wanna go bike touring bad.

Current wishlist:

• Freeload F&R racks, touring upgrade for both.
• Revelate Designs frame bag for the bike specific goodies.
• If I can get away with it, just SealLine bags for gear. I tend to pack very light & use the extra space for water and food. If the bags are not enough, throw in some Axiom gear too.
• Coleman Sundome 2 person tent or some equivalent from REI; tents change so frequently that it’s not worth investigating until I’m actually going to ride. Also, this particular tent is available on my credit card points.
• A nice sleeping bag, although as above for the reason why I haven’t selected one as yet.
• Got the Edge 800 already, but I always bring paper maps for where I’m going. And after STPTS, printout of towns with the food locations marked on them and opening hours :P.
• Generator hub front wheel w/ Schmidt Edelux Headlight and Busch & Müller E-Werk adapter connected in parallel with easy access but weather protected cables that clip in, rather than are soldered in. Obviously I’d use my brain and not run the two at the same time unless it was safe.

To be continued…

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cantbuyathrill:

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It’s not often you see a great photo of a half-link chain.  Instead of each link being 1/2”, each link is now 1/4”.

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Oooooh SNAP.

cranktastic:

I don’t want to hit the heart button on this one. My reaction was a grimace. Where is the Grimace button? 

thepaceline:

That pile of carbon used to be a bike.

cranktastic:

This shot rules hard.

ecosnobberysucks:

Cyclocross: The best bike you’ve never heard of

If you’re looking for one bike to rule them all, you should be looking at a cyclocross bicycle. “A what?”, you say. That’s right a cyclocross bicycle (commonly CX or just “cross”, for short) is the do-all, be-all bicycle if all you can afford (or all you want to have) is just one two-wheeled steed. But what is a cyclocross bicycle and why is it the best all-around bike? Read on…