Winter on the trainer is the one time of year you control every variable, so spend it fixing a specific weakness. Four of them, fading after 90 minutes, a low...

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Cross-Training for Cyclists: What Transfers to the Bike and What Doesn’t
Aerobic fitness carries over between sports, but unevenly: running and cross-country skiing transfer to the bike well, swimming barely at all. The real payoff is what cycling cannot give you,...

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Dirty 30s: The 30-Second Interval Workout That Teaches Your Legs to Recover at Speed
Dirty 30s are eight 30-second efforts at 120% to 150% of FTP with a minute easy between them, 26 minutes door to door. The Norwegian research behind short intervals, the...

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How to Become a Stronger Mountain Biker Over Winter
Winter is the only stretch of the year long enough to build real strength. Here is how mountain bikers should spend it: two heavy gym sessions a week, a minimal...

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Gels, Sports Drinks, and the Prediabetic Cyclist: How Much Sugar Is Too Much?
Pro riders eat 90 to 120 g of sugar an hour and amateurs copy them. Now lean, high-volume cyclists are turning up with prediabetic bloodwork. What the studies show, what...

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Washington's New E-Bike Law: What Every Rider Needs to Know
Washington rewrote its e-bike definition in ESSB 6110, effective June 11, 2026. Class 1, Class 2, and Class 3 e-bikes with pedals and 750 watts or less stay bicycles: no...

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Riding a Bike or E-Bike in New York City: The Rules, the Risks and Who Pays After a Crash
Every e-bike in New York City is capped at 15 mph, a red light on a bike is a traffic ticket again as of March 27, 2026, and no-fault pays...

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E-Bike vs. Car: What Switching Really Costs, and Why Riders Quit
A new car costs $12,863 a year, per AAA, which works out to roughly a workday of pay every week. An e-bike costs about $1,000. Yet riders who buy one...

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Bike Cargo Trailer Buying Guide: Best Trailers, Hitches and Uses
A bike cargo trailer costs $150 to $600, hooks to the bike you already own in about ten seconds, and hauls 100 lbs of groceries without changing how the bike...

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Overtraining Syndrome: When More Riding Makes You Slower
Push hard for long enough without recovering and training stops making you faster. Here is how normal fatigue turns into overreaching and then overtraining syndrome, why cyclists are unusually good...
