Riding Skills

The hoods are the padded tops of your brake levers, where your palms rest while you sit fairly upright. The drops are the curved … Read more

Riding relaxed means carrying your weight through the three contact points — saddle, bars and pedals — instead of holding yourself up with your … Read more

A good pre-hard-ride warm-up takes 15 to 20 minutes: three to five minutes of easy spinning to get blood moving, a steady build from … Read more

Yoga for cyclists is a targeted mobility practice that counteracts the posture of riding: it lengthens the hip flexors, hamstrings and calves that hours … Read more

If you want the short version: sit on the brake hoods to start, move up to the tops when you climb, and drop down … Read more