Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Shop to ride this XMAS

Its unheard of that we advocate anything but riding your bike. However it is the festive (shopping) season so you need to get with it. But don't get sucked into those overcrowded malls and dodgy discount stores. Rather go online and get it done quick and easy so that you can get out and ride your bike while the rest of the plebs stand in cues.

As far as mountain biking goes we have got you covered with a shopping list to make you smile

Mountain bike books on trails, skills, training and maintenance
MTB Sunglasses from Oakley and Adidas
Garmin GPS for your bike
Olympus Tough Camera to take on rides
Ipod Nano for tunes

Have a great festive season and remember if you eat and drink lots its ok, just means that you need to ride more.

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Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Ride your bike and loose the behind

Just five minutes of riding a bicycle each day can help a younger woman keep the pounds off, the team at the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston reported.

"Small daily increments in bicycling helped women control their weight. But the more time women spent bicycling, the better," said Harvard's Rania Mekary, who worked on the study.

Mekary's team studied 18,414 healthy women who had not yet gone through menopause taking part in the Brigham and Women's Hospital-based Nurses' Health Study, an ongoing study of women's health over time.

On average, the nurses gained about 20 pounds (9.3 kilograms) over the 16-year period.

The women who did not bicycle in 1989 who had started by 2005 were a quarter less likely to have gained weight, even if they rode for just five minutes a day, the researchers said.

"Unlike discretionary gym time, bicycling could replace time spent in a car for necessary travel of some distance to work, shops or school as activities of daily living," the researchers wrote.

"Bicycling could then be an unconscious form of exercise because the trip's destination, and not the exercise, could be the goal." - Reuters


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Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Track your rides online for free

I recently came across this really cool and free online GPS tracking software called Endomondo. What is great about this system is that all you need is to register on the site to download the app to your GPS mobile device and off you go, its really as easy as that.

Endomondo is a sports community based on free real-time GPS tracking of running, cycling, etc. It has live tracking so your loved ones and friends can track your progress in events or when you are out on that monster ride in the middle of nowhere. 

It works with all the major phone brands and operating systems as well as Garmin and Polar wear link. You can share your rides and routes with others through facebook, twitter etc and build your own ride network and set up your privacy settings. If you are using it or want to share routes then drop us a line at our Facebook page

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