Mas de Panis

My bicycle has a voice.  It keeps on calling me:  Tony, Tony … where are you ? I have got in six rides in six days.  Five rides were the same 8.61 km route and the time improved by a few seconds on each ride. I have been towing my new 8 kg Bob Ibex [...]

I have been busy and the weather has been bad since I last cycled – on 15 October. I was going to do a repeat of my 12,77 km but at 7km my body said, “No!”. So I turned around at Les Boutiques and my total distance was 8.65km. I think that I should just [...]

Hunter Allen BS, Elite Coach Recently we reported that cyclists are usually more efficient on both hills and flat terrain when they pedal quickly (at about 80-85 rpm) rather than at slower cadences. Now, a new study suggests that the greater efficiency may be related to the rapid rate at which glycogen is depleted in [...]

By Melanie PINOLA If you’re a cyclist training for competition or just want to burn more fat during exercise when biking, it’s good to know whether you should pedal quickly or at slower cadences. Active.com explains why pedaling at fast rates is more efficient. The article recommends cyclists use fast pedaling rates of 80-85 rpm [...]

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On my first night I stayed at the Hôtel all seasons Bordeaux Saint Jean which is 200 metres away from Bordeaux Saint Jean SNCF Gare (Train Station).  It was previously called the Kyriad. On the second night, at La Réole, I stayed at a wonderful guest house called Les Galantes where owners Fréderique et Jean [...]

Hill cycling certainly has its ups and down but so too does canal cycling.  The one of the few ‘downs’ of canal cycling is that you have to pedal continuously to keep up – no downhills for one to make a ones average speed whilst having a breather.  Both hill cycling and canal cycling are [...]

Today I cycled the reverse of my normal 47 km route.  I expected to do it in 2 hours and 40 minutes (cycling time) which is what I did. You will see that the average en route temperature today was 30,1C.  Fairly hot but, fortunately, not humid.  And it was windy at places – particularly along [...]

This morning at 09h43 I led the Perth Pack – Johann Burger, Josh Kitchen and Matt Burgess – from Mas de Panis for 19km to Saint Antonin Noble Val .  They were continuing their 6,000 km / three-and-a-half month bicycle ride which started on 4 June 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey. To see their blog click [...]