SteelRider2: October 2010

Monday, October 18, 2010

Specialized on top of their game!!!

Three major road teams will use Specialized’s equipment in 2011, following the announcement it will supply bikes for Team HTC-Highroad’s men’s and women’s teams from next season. Specialized will replace Scott as the bike supplier at Bob Stapleton’s ProTour squad, with Scott already announced as the supplier for ProTour hopeful Pegasus Racing.

Specialized renewed its deal with the Astana squad last week and will also supply Bjarne Riis’ Saxo Ban-SunGuard outfit again in 2011. The pairing with Team HTC-Highroad was described as a “multi-year partnership beginning in 2011”, but no set period for the deal has been announced.

Ok...so now Specialized may have the Yellow, Green and Polka Dot Jersey for the the Podium. Roughly 18% of the riders in the Tour next year will ride Specialized. Likely that Cancellara will also win the opening time trial. Nothing shabby about that, Specialized!!!!

How many World Championships? Kona, Time Trial, Tour de France, ITU Women's Sprint, and countless mountain bike championships. Not to mention they make a dang good bike too!!

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Finishing the MS Century Ride

My wife and I finished the MS Cycle to the Shore Century on October 2 along with good friend Dianne. It was awesome. We all finished strong. Then on Sunday morning we rode back to Jacksonville 67 miles.

cool stuff..courtesy of Bike Rumor

You’ve seen touchscreen, and mapping computers have been around. Now we’ve seen the future.
Cerevellum, a South Carolina based company whose founder also helps design for Blue Competition Cycles has developed a cycling computer with an integrated video camera that displays the footage on the screen as you ride.
The Hindsight 60 is what’s shown here, and it also records footage from the rear facing camera, however it’s only recording eight :30 loops (4 minutes total) and starts rewriting the earliest segment once the memory is full. There’s an accelerometer in it that senses an impact and will stop recording just afterward, so you’ll have the video proof of what led up to any rearward accident.
The cycling computer has all the basic functions (speed, max/avg speed, ride time, distance, odometer, time) and uses GPS to determine speed, so there’s no separate speed sensor. You can, however add an ANT+ cadence sensor to show cadence, or it can pick up cadence from any power measuring cranks that also determine cadence.
If you have a power meter, it graphs power in real time, allowing you view your power output as a graph on the screen, giving you a better visual indication of how long you’re able to sustain a certain output and/or keep yourself at a certain threshold.