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Potatoes and Salt

how to go the distance in a 100-mile bike ride: lessons from a lake tahoe century

Susi // travel
Ten tips from Lake Tahoe to help you nail a century ride: A 100-mile bike ride at altitude and on hills yields lessons about how to go the distance while still enjoying the view.
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Passenger Jet Landing

lessons from shipping a road bike cross-country for the first time

Susi // travel
velojoy presents a primer on shipping a carbon-fiber road bike crosscountry by commercial airline -- including a couple of lessons learned the hard way. video links and threads about packing a bike are included.
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Vista from Lake Tahoe's eastern shore.

a bike frame holds and ambbr is in the books

Susi // travel
Wheeee! That’s the sound of velojoy on a fast 5-mile descent from Spooner Summit, the aforementioned really bigĀ hill of America’s Most Beautiful Bike Ride around Lake Tahoe on Sunday. The Big Blue vistas are not merely beautiful. They are toss-you-against-a-wall and smack-your-senses-around breathtaking. And [...]
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AMBBR Road Sign

a cracked (carbon) frame: would you say goodbye, or would you let it ride?

Susi // travel
A bicycle mechanic discovers a crack in the frame of the author's carbon-fiber bike frame on the eve of a 100-mile ride. Will it be a go or no-go?
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Lower Eagle Falls at Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, CA

velojoy scouts the ambbr route by car, humbly

Susi // travel
Drizzle and slick roads nix a planned warm-up spin in Truckee, CA. Time for some drive-by reconnaissance of the nearest leg of Americas’s Most Beautiful Bike Ride around Lake Tahoe. The scouting mission by car, south along Route 89 from Tahoe City, gives me a [...]
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View of Lake Tahoe from Tahoe City, CA

velojoy alights at lake tahoe, breathlessly

Susi // travel
My bike box and I have landed in Tahoe City, CA to gear up for Sunday’s 19th annual America’s Most Beautiful Bike Ride around Lake Tahoe. What better way to pop the cork on velojoy than with a century ride at America’s largest alpine lake, [...]
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