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CommutebyBike.com

CommutebyBike.com

Are you interested in learning more about bike commuting? Want more news on commuting issues? Looking to read more from like-minded bike commuters? Commute by Bike.com is a site you should check on a regular basis. This site is loaded with useful content and news regarding commuting & living without a car. Since discovering the … Continue reading

Blue offers Lifetime Warranties on their Beautiful Carbon Bikes

Blue offers Lifetime Warranties on their Beautiful Carbon Bikes

BioWheels co-founder, Eric Krause, chose a BLUE RD1.2 for his road ride. In this video he discusses this great bicycle.  Starting at $1950, The RD series bikes from BLUE are perfect for that century ride, ripping the back roads, or credit card touring. Blue Competition Cycles offers a lifetime warranty on all their frames.  Check … Continue reading

Andy's Top-6 Winter Clothing Items

Winter is blowing in and BioWheels has a few items to help keep you outside in the weather without killing your budget. So, here are Andy Grabowski’s top-6 winter accessories. 1.  The BioWheels wool jersey. What’s there to say…highly desirable, classy, comfortable & shows your good taste.

Chain-Lube Creeping Toward $10,000 A Barrel

I just looked up at the TV and there was another story on CNN Headline News about how oil has reached another record high price per barrel.. Eeek! Which got me thinking…(double eek) I wonder how much a barrel of chain lube would cost?  Aren’t you glad you’re not haunted by these painful errant cycling … Continue reading

The Philosophical Underpinnings of BioWheels Group Rides

Riding a bicycle, regardless of whether you’re a serious road cyclist, commuter, trail rider, or weekend athlete, is done mainly for the FUN of riding. With this in mind, we would like to take this one step further and put purpose behind our riding. Along with the FUN why don’t we have an impact on … Continue reading

2008 Cannondale Synapse 3

I love all disciplines of cycling but when it comes down to it, I’m a mountain biker at heart. It’s easy to see why I was so drawn to BioWheels and it’s well known off road racing program when I first moved to Asheville almost two years ago. While my friends and I spend most … Continue reading

Dirt Ballin' – by Perry Johnson

Muscles tremble throughout my body, soon the quaking fibers will propel me, the anticipation will transform into adrenaline . Now my fingers attach the front wheel. An eager leg swings over the frame, foot meets pedal and I am hurled forward. The winding dirt road gives way to trailhead, a hallowed entrance into the deep … Continue reading

What’s Your Bicycle Identity?

It strikes me that in this day in age the unyielding pursuit of an identity is the catalyst behind the vast majority of our problems.  The individuals need for uniqueness is driving deep wedges into societies and groups where differences are fabricated for superficial purposes. Undoubtedly, evidence of such occurrences spread over the entire realm … Continue reading

Eating Crow, Not Poison Ivy

The Wednesday night ride was going so well – after an initial rainstorm we climbed north boundary at Bent Creek with a giant posse of about 15 riders.  The air was clean and the breeze was cool.  At 5 points Ben said “where to?” Facetiously I answered “that away” without pointing, or so I thought.  … Continue reading

Delicious Miso Soup Offers Unparalled Nutrition

Why does a cycling website have an article about miso soup? Really, Miso’s brothy goodness and solubility go hand in hand with cold weather athletics.-bw If you want a winter soup that is inexpensive, easy to make, fantastic and incredibly good for you, AND its nearly meatless. (miso w/o the fish flakes ain’t miso. no … Continue reading