Velosurance Blog

Health plans cover less of a crash in 2027, New Jersey now requires liability insurance for throttle e-bikes, co-op boards ask for proof of coverage before an e-bike enters the...

Fat tires soak up potholes and float over snow and sand, which is why they now ship on everything from $999 folding bikes to $2,500 mid-drive commuters. On pavement they...

An airline's liability for a damaged bike is capped at $4,700 on US domestic flights and about $2,060 under the Montreal Convention, reporting windows can be as short as 6...

A driver hits you on your bike in New York and keeps going. No-fault insurance pays up to $50,000 of your medical bills and most of your lost wages no...

Half of your fitness lives in your leg muscles, in the mitochondria that burn fat, sugar and, late in a long ride, your own muscle protein. Here is how training...

Pro cycling teams stopped grinding out heavy sets to failure and started watching bar speed instead. Velocity-based training loads the bar at 60 to 70% of max, pushes every rep...

The old advice was pasta and a banana. The newest research in cyclists says 1.6 to 2.0 grams of protein per kilogram a day, double the RDA, with 30 to...

The skin-and-bones climber of the 2000s is gone. Today's pros are as lean as ever but carry more muscle, because durability, the power you still have after three hours, is...

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...

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,...