Tips & Reviews
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Fitness and Training / Tips & Reviews
Tips to prepare for your bicycling trip
Interview with Joeann Gutowski We visited with Joeann Gutowski in our Fort Collins office before she heads to our Bicycling Through the Best of Provence tour this fall to ask about her routine and tips to prepare for her cycling… Read full article
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Part 2: In Praise of Bicycling and Women
Part 2: In Praise of Bicycling and Women by Nineteenth-Century American Women: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Frances Willard Part 1 Of this two part series can be found here. As she addresses young people who may not… Read full article
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Food and Culture in Europe, Part I
Food and Culture in Europe, Part I My first meal with Paola’s family in Italy was memorable. When Paola leaned over to me and said, “the more you eat, the more they’ll like you,” I had no worries. I was… Read full article
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Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby
Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby There is no scarcity of personal memoirs of World War II. Yet Eric Newby’s narrative of war, escape, love, and peasant farmers in Italy’s Apennine mountains in 1944 has lasted thirty… Read full article
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Al Young, Shifting Gears, My Global Bike Odyssey (including an interview with the author)
Al Young, Shifting Gears, My Global Bike Odyssey (including an interview with the author) Shifting Gears: My Global Bike Odyssey by Al Young Trafford Publishing, Victoria, 2005 (See the end of the review for details on how to purchase… Read full article
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Are you a Bicycle or Walking Advocate?
Are you a Bicycle or Walking Advocate? Our friend, Verdiana Vandini, still bicycles to the gelateria for gelato (Italian ice cream) at age 75! Shown here in February 2005 in Italy Variables in your local bike and pedestrian advocacy program:… Read full article
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In Praise of Bicycling and Women by Nineteenth-Century American Women: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Frances Willard
In Praise of Bicycling and Women by Nineteenth-Century American Women: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Robins Pennell and Frances Willard “The world is our great book of beauty and romance, and on your cycle you can gradually master it, chapter by chapter, volume by… Read full article
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Too Much Tuscan Sun (Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide) by Dario Castagno
Too Much Tuscan Sun (Confessions of a Chianti Tour Guide) by Dario Castagno Anyone with a foot in two cultures and fluency in two languages is a lucky person. This describes Dario Castagno, author of “Too Much Tuscan Sun.” Born… Read full article
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Provence by Lawrence Durrell
Provence by Lawrence Durrell Lawrence Durrell belongs to a group of travel writers who go back to the British expatriates of the early and mid-20th century. He lived most of his life in the Mediterranean region and has left a… Read full article
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Read Any Good Books Lately?
Read Any Good Books Lately? We usually try to make sure our book reviews have at least something to do with cycling, or hiking, or the places we visit and their history. But that’s not all we read! At a… Read full article
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An Interview with Mountain Bike Legend Joe Breeze
An Interview with Mountain Bike Legend Joe Breeze Mountain bike pioneer Joe Breeze recently came through Fort Collins to promote the more utilitarian side of cycling. In a heavily attended presentation on “Healthy Transportation Choices Now” at the Fort Collins… Read full article
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Fitness and Training / Tips & Reviews
Spring Training in Europe’s Stunning Countryside
Spring Train in Europe’s Countryside Pedal up Mount Venoux or through the beautiful hills of Assisi Long winters welcome active springs and there is no better motivation for staying in shape during the cold months than planning a spring… Read full article
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War in Val d’Orcia by Iris Origo
War in Val d’Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944 by Iris Origo Reviewed by Rick Price, Ph.D. In southern Tuscany, just south of Siena, is the Valley of the Orcia River, the “Val d’Orcia” in Italian. The photo… Read full article
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Beyond Lance
Beyond Lance Though I may not be Lance Armstrong’s number one fan, I’m up there. I’ve followed his career since 1990, and I knew of him as a promising young US cyclist before he was diagnosed with testicular cancer.… Read full article
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Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves (An American Naturalist …
Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves (An American Naturalist in Italy) by Gary Paul Nabhan Colin Fletcher, one of the great walkers of the 20th century (The Man Who Walked Through Time and The Complete Walker) advised his readers to find something… Read full article
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Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180 by Mike Magnuson
Heft on Wheels: A Field Guide to Doing a 180 by Mike Magnuson Heft on Wheels makes no secret of its subject matter. On the front, we have a photo of author Mike Magnuson, naked, obese and miserable riding his… Read full article
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Fort Collins Keeps Silver Medal as Bike Friendly Community
Fort Collins Keeps Silver Medal as Bike Friendly Community In a press release from LAB headquarters in Washington, D.C. May 16 the League wrote: “Sixteen cities across the United States can celebrate the start of national Bike to Work Week… Read full article
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Fitness and Training / Tips & Reviews
Fluids and Endurance Exercise
It wasn’t too long ago that we were told that as endurance athletes we could not drink enough water during exercise. Drink all you can get in was the common hydration guide for long distance events. The reasoning was that… Read full article