The digital display on my bike showed 82 degrees and it was not yet 6:30 AM.
As my pants tore, I practically flew off my bike, which would not have been pretty.
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But after that it was entirely up to me, riding my bike, to get there.
"Will be riding my bike in other countries and out of contact for 4 months!"
Head uphill a few blocks to the transition area where my bike is waiting.
Now I wish my bike was in good working order to help conserve gas.
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My bike is far from new, but it elicits complements from strangers nearly every time I ride it.
When I got my bike made by Seven Cycles, there were over 100 different questions and measurements involved.
Last week, after parking my bike on the street, I found something dangling from the lock: a hang tag advertising bicycle repairs.
I've done some riding around New York City, I've commuted intermittently to work on my bike, done some running and played soccer.
Now I get my self-confidence by being able to go out and run a marathon or riding my bike for 100 miles.
But on the weekends on my bike, I can be a bad boy, leave the moneymaking system and be free at 90 kilometers an hour.
I'd rather get around on my bike than in a BMW. But to my lasting embarrassment, in my junior year, I traded my friends for a less eccentric crowd.
On the other hand, I (net worth: wonderful wife, three lovely children) would probably let my 2001 Mazda Protege sit in the garage while riding my bike (2003 Haro V2).
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"It's a great thing to start the weekend in such a strong way and I've had a good sensation and feeling with my bike from the first moment today, " Lorenzo said on www.motogp.com.
For not much more money, it was argued, I'd establish a relationship with a local dealer who would also service my bike and hook me up with equipment and accessories over the life of the bike.
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So when I got my custom bike, I told Seven Cycles this and they built in an oversized seat tube to add rigidity for my standing pedal stroke, an efficiency increase.
Now I'm on my own bike team, the first paracycle team in the country.
Wouldn't it be great if my local bike shop could use digital media to connect me with other consumers to share information about safer routes?
Combine this with a deliberate forgetfulness and you end up with what I saw on Fox TV the other day as I was trundling through my stationary bike exercise: Ollie North interviewing Rupert Murdoch on some history program.
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It's time to reclaim my trusted pedal bike and face the long slog into work.
My last road bike dates to the Greg LeMond era--the 1980s--and I gave it away 15 years ago.
"It all started when Lance's first book came out, " Connie Roddy said, referring to the 2001 publication of "It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life, " which details Armstrong's bout with testicular cancer.
The day after New Year's I broke my pelvic ring in a bike crash.
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