Want to get faster going uphill on your bike? Here are some tips I’ve learned, many of them the hard way: First off, lose some weight, lard-ass. Yeah, I’m talking to you, “nobody noticed I had a second donut.” In particular, men of a certain...
I broke a chain once, in the middle of nowhere. Worse, it was in the middle of a Summit Mountain Challenge mountain-bike race. A friend and rival of mine, Todd Rankin, came by a couple of moments later, stopped to check on my welfare, then pulled out a chain tool...