The Boulder Cup is the biggest cyclocross race of the season in Boulder each year, and it's held at our Valmont Park venue that will host the cyclocross national championships in January. Lennard had a great ride and got third place behind winner Karl Kiester and runner-up Russell Thorstrom.
Big riders are often very familiar with wearing out and breaking bike equipment. You go through tires much faster than lighter riders, your rear rim develops cracks at the spoke holes, and maybe you’ve broken spokes, chains, hub flanges, seatposts, saddle rails, saddle shells, crank arms, and even frames. To avoid breakage in use, big riders need to understand what the impact of metal fatigue is and replace their weight-bearing bicycle parts more frequently than a smaller rider would.
"As soon as the sun came out and the snow started turning to mud I knew I could do well in Frisco. The slicker the better for me, because it's all about trusting your equipment and letting your bike take you for a ride. The brilliant golden of turning aspens with the fresh snow could not have been a more idyllic setting to suffer and feel the cold air freeze your lungs and fingers." Emily Zinn
Have done a couple of long rides recently on my old BZ (Before Zinn) bike. Was an interesting excercise.
I've got a bike in my garage that illustrates the proportional length crank philosophy that is one of the cornerstones of the design philosophy of Zinn Cycles. It's not a Zinn bike - but even so - it's still pretty cool...
If you’ve ever done squats in the weights room – you’ll know that you can cheat by not squatting all the way. You can seemingly lift more weight – but it’s a false economy as you don’t get the full strength gains that a deep squat can give.
This year - as a Team Zinn member - I'm going to regularly post short blogs about me and my Dolomite Ti's advances towards my goals for this year.
I got my first win at Valmont Bike Park on Saturday Nov. 17 in the 55+ cyclocross race. Click here to see more. It was very satisfying to finally win on that course, especially since the course was set way differently than it has been in the past, and it didn't have much in the way of power sections where you could pass other riders, so it did not suit my strengths. I also don't think I had ever beaten Gary Thacker before, the guy who has been dominating this category for the past few years in Colorado and is a former national cyclocross champion. All in all, a very good day in what has been a great season for me. I have four wins and four second places out of ten race starts this season. And in US Gran Prix of Cyclocross races I have two wins (in Ft. Collins, CO) and a 3rd and a 4th place (in Louisville, KY).