If you want to keep up a focused training program on your indoor trainer, DVDs can help with that. You can mix and match the screen workouts with the schedule you got from your coach.
When you look at them, it’s hard to believe that the stiff, leather, narrow saddles could ever be more comfortable than the soft, plump, gel-padded saddles. But it’s true.
Like so many other things, what’s right for everyday life doesn’t apply to serious cycling.
Getting a proper bike fit is part science, part intuition. When it’s right, you’ll notice nothing. But when it’s wrong, it will hurt. And not in a good way. Use it.
The secret’s out: Shimano has just brought bikes into the 21st Century by giving them something cars have had for decades – an automatic transmission.