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How it Started
For the past dozen or so years, biking — whether on the road or on dirt — has has been essentially my one and only hobby/activity/obsession. The thing is, though, cyclists need to be light if they’re going to be fast. So, a few years ago, when I went on a nice long bike ride and noticed I was having to walk up hills I had easily ridden not many years before, I realized something had to be done.
And yes, I also noticed my knees pushed into my gut with each pedal stroke. Shaddup.
I had known I needed to lose weight, but hadn’t really done much about it. As I pushed my bike up the road, I realized I had not tried one very successful diet tactic: humiliation. I resolved to start a blog, embarrassing myself by proclaiming my weight on a daily basis, no matter how bad I was doing.
I didn’t want to just post my weight, though. So I also wrote stories. Sometimes these stories are about rides. Sometimes they’re fake news (especially around Tour de France time, when there’s usually lots of stuff in the bike industry that begs for satire). Sometimes they’re about whatever bike-related thing has popped into my head that morning (lunchtime, evening, whenever).
And lately the blog’s been about a little bit more.
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http://www.fatcyclist.com/
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 | Cars-R-Coffins
Bicycle. Punk Rock. Action.
Bikes+Punk Rock=Freedom.
I was raised on a steady diet of bicycles and punk rock. Bicycles gave me the freedom to explore outside my neighborhood. Music, and especially punk music, gave expression to the angst that a kid growing up in Reagan-era America tended to feel. By my youthful definition, punk meant anything loud, abrasive, and unlikely to be heard on the radio. Around the age of 12, I witnessed art-punk pioneers Devo performing on Saturday Night Live. At about the same time, a kid named Mark Halliwell moved to town from Liverpool. Halliwell brought with him his collection of Sex Pistols records and raced at the local BMX track. I knew right at that moment, that punk music, combined with bicycles, would always be a part of my life.
Now in America, if you ride a bicycle beyond the age of 14, you are considered an anomaly at best, a freak by most. But at an age when most American youths were worrying about their acne, and itching to get their driver's permits, I continued to race my BMX, and search out the subversive punk bands that I read about in Action Now magazine at the local library. X, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, The Clash, Flipper, The Damned, Gang of Four.
When I got to college, it became obvious that the status quo was all about chasing the carrot; getting a university degree in order to make enough money to live the "American Dream." The message seemed to be, "Sorry son, but play time is over. Put away the bicycle, put away the punk rock records. You've got work to do." Bollocks to that, I said.
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http://www.carsrcoffins.com/
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 | Ruhmlos Cycling Lounge
All about Cycling !
Road Bikes, Mountainbikes, Fixed Gear and all you can think of.
Blogs from professional cyclists like fabian wegmann, hubert schwab, christian grassman.
HITS: 6
http://www.ruhmlos.com
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 | Tazeworld
The #1 Bottecchia Blog in the World - allegedly. A sincere tribute to globalization, ailing Italian bike manufacturers,forgotten hockey players,and defunct Canadian department stores.
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http://tazeworld.wordpress.com/
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 | Ride Strong
Ride-Strong the blog for cycling. Specifically road bike cyclists, but mountain bikers are welcome. Ride-Strong covers anything that has to do with cycling.
HITS: 9
http://www.ride-strong.com/
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 | Ride for Get Ahead Project School
My name is Jamie MacRae and my personal mission statement is...to be of service and make a difference in the world through my act of contribution. This blog, entitled Ride for the Get Ahead Project School, is for you the reader to be able to follow my contribution to The Get Ahead Project School in Queenstown South Africa as I prepare and ride in the 2008 Tour d'Afrique.
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http://www.rideforgetaheadprojectschool.com/
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 | The Bike of Doom
Life on a $99 department store bike. I use a cheap bike for commuting. I bought it as an experiment. I thought it would fall apart after a few hundred kilometers, but i t keeps going. This is the story.
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http://www.bikeofdoom.com
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 | SPRFLS - Saving BMX from itself since 2008.
In a world where every new BMX "innovation" is met at best with praise and at worst with a shrug (silence implies consent), there needs to be a voice of dissent. SPRFLS (figure it out) is that voice. Make no mistake—we welcome progress, provided that it actually IS progress. You are not the width of your handlebars.
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http://sprfls.blogspot.com/
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 | Biking To Live
Biking To Live started out as one man's journal of his goal to lose 100 pounds by riding his bicycle. He continues on that journey today. In addition to journaling his bike rides, he also covers news in the cycling world and product reviews.
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http://bikingtolive.com
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 | Cycle Snack
This blog is about me riding my bikes, mostly mountain but I do get out on the roads from time to time, and when that happens it's only on a fixie or single speed
HITS: 8
http://ctmtblog.blogspot.com/
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 | Bike Diva
Informative blog for cycling enthusiasts. Mountain biking, road biking, charity bike rides, training, bike gear reviews and more are all covered on the Bike Diva site.
HITS: 11
http://bikediva.net
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