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...

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BPC-157 and Healing Peptides: Can They Really Fix a Cyclist’s Tendon?
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...

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Connecticut's E-Bike Law: What Every Rider Needs to Know
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...

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How to Buy a Used Bike and Not Get Burned
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...
