The week of the Boulder 2014 Cyclocross National Championships was amped. Juniors grinned ear to ear or scoped the course seriously with their headphones blocking distractions. Masters over 70 sharpened their elbows to contend for stars and stripes. I took it all in with pleasure and the pride of getting to show off something you love at its best.
At the Colorado Cyclocross SW3 State Championships the past weekend Emily Zinn got narrowly outsprinted for second place on her custom magnesium Zinn cyclocross bike.
Emily Zinn
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.