Velosurance Blog

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...

Somewhere in your riding group there is someone injecting BPC-157 near a knee that has hurt since March. Here is what is in the vial, what the research says it...

Connecticut rewrote its e-bike rules in Public Act 25-159 and Public Act 25-65, effective October 1, 2025. Class 1, Class 2, and Class 3 e-bikes stay bicycles: no license, no...

The pandemic bike boom is aging into the best used-bike market in memory, and the easiest one in which to buy somebody else's problem. Here is how to price a...

Illinois signed Public Act 104-0854, effective January 1, 2027. Class 1, Class 2, and Class 3 e-bikes stay bicycles: no license, no registration, no insurance mandate. Anything over 750 watts...

Mountain bikers visit the emergency room twice as often, but road cyclists suffer the more severe injuries, the worse head trauma, and nearly all the fatalities. A 2025 trauma study...

Good climbers are made, not born. The research points to a handful of trainable levers: power-to-weight ratio, VO2max intervals, threshold work, heavy strength training, cadence, and pacing. Here is what...

The old warning that lifting makes cyclists slow and bulky has not survived the research. Two heavy gym sessions a week improve pedaling economy, sprint power, and fatigue resistance, and...

Bike commuters in a 263,450-person BMJ study had a 41 percent lower risk of dying from any cause. Here is what the longevity research actually says about cycling: the heart,...

Chain lube is the cheapest performance and durability product in cycling, and most riders use the wrong one. Here is how wet lube, dry lube, drip wax, and hot melt...