Cycling, FAQ

There are a couple of rules to cycling across the Golden Gate Bridge, and to be frank I was a bit confused at first too when I was going across my first couple of times. The first question is Can I cycle across the Golden Gate Bridge? The answer is yes, though you should understand…

There are many questions around the intake of caffeine and the cycling community. With it being 1 of only 2 active drugs being found naturally in foods, its affects, legality, and on-ride consumption continue to circulate in the cycling community. Some swear by caffeine and will take a double shot espresso before a peak climb….

Yes, though it depends. The market for cycling socks is large, and there are plenty of people that wear cycling socks for different reasons. So, in general do you wear sock with cycling shoes? It is entirely up to you.  They could be trying to stay warm in lower temperature rides. They could be looking…

Cycling shoes tend to last longer than 10 years if the right attention and care is given to them. This may sound surprising to someone coming from long distance running as running shoes tend to have a life of 400 miles until shoe-born injuries begin to occur. This is good news to the avid cyclist…

If you’re biking in northern California, not many conversations about turning your wheels will pass without discussing elevation gain. Hopefully those rides with a ton of elevation gain will include just as much loss, where you’re climbing up to Four Corners to begin a descent into Muir or Stinson Beach. Either way, if you’re trying…

If you look in your grandfathers’ closet, you will absolutely see an old school cycling cap. It’ll be there along besides the large flannels, box cut jeans and a college logo crewneck sweaters. So what’s the deal with these things and why are we seeing them less often? In the 1950’s going into the late…

I remember getting my first cycling jersey and thinking that I could not believe that people wear this at this as the sport. As my closet has built out, I have found myself with different jersey’s that have different fits and for different weather. When I want to have more of a tighter feel, I…