Why Ride Indoors? If your winter riding activities include a bike like this, this post might not be for you. As the winter season arrives, riding our bikes outside becomes more and more difficult. Warm enough clothing can be cumbersome. The rain becomes sleet and snow. Darkness is a much larger portion of our day…
A Pandemic Accelerated Divide The pandemic has accelerated a divide that has been developing for years now in the bike industry. Many of the biggest bike companies are aggressively pursuing factory owned stores and more online sales over independent bike dealer representation. In some cases this will mean a new “Trek Store” may move into your neighborhood. …
Ride Throughout the World from Home With the time change and colder temperatures, trainer time is here for many of us. While the CompuTrainer arguably started the smart trainer revolution decades ago, the current crop of options is like comparing a video game on the original Atari to a X Box Series X. The courses…
I am admittedly late to the virtual riding/training experience. This being said, I’ve used CompuTrainer products (the original “smart” trainer) at work for decades and I’ve worked with different smart trainers from TACX, Wahoo and Saris/Cycleops through the years. However, until last winter, I did not ride a smart trainer consistently and had not experienced…
Do your hands go numb when riding a bike? If so, you are not alone. While some instances of hand numbness on a bicycle have easy solutions, like redistributing weight from the hands to the saddle, other cases are not so simple. From exploring how bike fit can help alleviate numb hands to why numb…
Cycling coach Hunter Allen will be speaking at Fit Werx² in Peabody, MA on Tuesday, March 19th at 6:30 p.m.! Hunter will be discussing the new, 3rd-edition of the path-breaking Training and Racing with a Power Meter (TRWPM), which will be released this month. Autographed books will be available for purchase! Come learn from the guy that pioneered the power training principles and…
Fit Werx shop rides on Zwift will commence during the week of March 4, 2019. Initially, our ride leader will be Joe LoPorto, lead fitter and co-owner of our New Jersey location. Other ride leaders will likely be added soon. To participate, go to Zwift in either the Mac/Windows program or the Zwift companion app…
New or Curious about Zwift? Zwift is an interactive, social virtual ride community that offers courses and rides for riders of all levels. No single innovation to date has done more to make training more interactive and enjoyable for more riders. Zwift’s rise in popularity has by all accounts been meteoric. The virtual world Zwift…
There are so many potential reasons for chronic bike saddle discomfort that it would be overwhelming and confusing to try to cover them in a single article. For this reason, we are exploring potential riding technique and postural items (by far the biggest contributors to chronic saddle issues) one at a time so that you…
Getting a new mountain bike is exciting. However, setting up your MTB suspension properly is as crucial to getting the most out of your mountain bike as proper bike fit. You are better off with a mediocre bike with really well set-up suspension than a really good bike with poorly set-up suspension. In other words,…
What tempts us to defy laws of physics and nature by taking risks? What compels us to step out into the unknown and conquer new things? We crave the sense of adventure. We desire the thrill of exploration and discovery. Some of the most freeing feelings we can experience. Sometimes you just need to mount a…
Since the invention of the “safety bicycle” in 1885, there have been few times in history that have seen the types of monumental advances in road bike technology as we have seen in the past few years. The changes might not be quite as monumental as the advent of steering, gears and pneumatic tires in…