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  1. How to Prepare for a Fat Tire Bike Race Meet Josh. He's one of the software developers here at Saris and to say that he loves to bike would be an understatement. Josh commutes to work every. single. day – no matter the conditions. He's a two-time Ironman finisher, competitive road racer and bicycle enthusiast. Last winter Josh added fat bike racing to his calendar of competitive events, and with the uptick in fat bike popularity, we asked him to share a few words of wisdom to help others prepare for a race in the snow. K...
  2. The 5th Honor Ride Madison, By the Numbers Twenty sixteen marked the 5th year that we partnered up with Ride 2 Recovery (R2R) to host the Honor Ride Madison. Ride 2 Recovery's mission is to provide a way for life by organizing 7- to 10-day bike rides for our nation's veterans to help them heal both mentally and physically. The Honor Ride Madison helps gain awareness for their cause, as well as raise funds to support the incredible work done by R2R at the national level, as well as local programs such as Madison's own Proje...
  3. Ted's Talk: Gravel's New Paradigm By Ted King: The King of Gravel If you’re a baseball player, you play the game with a pitching mound, home plate, three bases, and a handful of players on the field. A tennis court has a net in the middle of a couple rectangles and a hockey game consists of two goals on a sheet of ice. These venues can be as formal as a 100,000 person, $1 billion stadium or they can be as rinky-dink as a couple of cones and lines dug in the dirt. However, the general format of every sport is formalized with...
  4. The Benefits of Biking to School National Bike Month is officially underway, and one of the first big events on the calendar is Bike to School Day. The 4th annual Bike to School day is scheduled for Wednesday, May 4th, and is the perfect opportunity to raise awareness about the benefits of riding a bike to school. According to a Danish study from 2012, kids who walked or biked to school performed better on tasks requiring concentration than those who were driven to school or took public transit. On top of that incredible ben...
  5. Saris – Proudly Made in the USA 70,000 square feet of manufacturing space (18,000 of which was just built and opened this year). 180 employees. 60 countries distribute Saris racks across the globe. 42 years of local manufacturing, 27 of which under the Saris name. 1 global headquarters built right here in Madison, Wisconsin. All these numbers boil down to one thing: A passionate, long-held commitment to American manufacturing.Anyone who steps foot in this converted Civil War era farmhouse and chicken coop is reminded that o...
  6. The Future is Now: Recap of 1st Annual PlacesForBikes Conference If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, cyclists in North America have been heaping praise on our cross-pond European neighbors for decades. We have a long and successful history of importing European bike infrastructure design and advocacy from protected bike lanes and traffic calming to Vision Zero. And based on two themes that were prevalent at this year's inaugural PlacesForBikes Conference, the trend will continue.The first annual conference, held in Madison, Wisconsin from J...
  7. Fietsenstraat By: Tommy Everson, Inside Sales & Customer Service Belgium. Land of one million biers and an equal number of fietsen, Dutch for bicycles. I spent 12 days there recently, traveling across the pond to take in “Holy Week,” the moniker given to the back-to-back weekends of the vaunted spring classic races Ronde Van Vlanderen (Tour of Flanders) and the Paris-Roubaix. Professional cyclists are exalted like true heroes with regional fan clubs supporting their favorite rider(s). But the ...
  8. An Innovative Partnership Helps Seattleites (and Their Bikes) Get Around Last week we launched a partnership with Uber Seattle called UberPEDAL, where customers can select an Uber car equipped with a Saris bike rack. If you are in need of a ride, be it due to weather, due to need of bike maintenance, due to sobriety (or lack thereof), your Uber driver can take you AND your bike to your destination. We are excited about this partnership for what it brings to the people of Seattle — two innovative companies partnering together to further push transportat...
  9. Seeing is Believing Part 1 in a two-part mini-series focused on Scandinavia by Jereme Noffke, Parking Sales ManagerRecently I had the opportunity to participate in a transportation study tour of Copenhagen, Denmark. I have been working with bicycle parking and transportation infrastructure for 10 years and have had the opportunity to visit, see, and work with some of the top multimodal transit systems in the US. This was an opportunity to see one of, if not the best multimodal transportation systems in the world...
  10. All Torque and No Action On virtually any group ride, it's easy to pick out the experienced riders. They're the ones who sit relaxed in the saddle while pedaling in smooth, quick circles, seemingly without effort. They have an economy of motion borne out of years learning to be as efficient as possible. These riders have mastered one of the keys to cycling efficiency – cadence. Much fuss has been made about cadence in recent years and, upon examination, it's easy to see why. In cycling, power is tor...
  11. Epilogue: An Update on How Everything Turned Out By: Lindsay Goldman, professional cyclist for Hagens Berman | Supermint. It’s been five months since I had a baby, and just under three months since I returned to racing professionally. A year ago I was mired in the miserable swamp of the first trimester, unable to imagine a day in which I’d actually want to leave the bed or smell food. Six months ago, I had been pregnant for roughly ten years (or so it felt) and was pushing through trainer rides in hopes of staying as fit as possible until ...
  12. 11 Reasons to Ride a Bike Trainer (That Do Not Include Snow) (Photo Credit: Snowy Mountain Photography) By: Lindsay Goldman, professional cyclist for Hagens Berman | Supermint. Nobody prefers to ride a bike trainer, right? When the suggestion of riding indoors comes up, most people recoil in horror and declare they can’t stomach more than a few minutes of trainer time. And I used to feel that way too, until I made the trainer a regular part of my routine and found a lot of reasons for why it’s actually worthwhile to suffer through an indoor ride. 1...
  13. 10 Months on 10 Wheels: Life on the Road with Jacki and Eric I vividly remember the day Jacki jokingly said to me, “Let’s just live in a van and travel the country for the year.” At the time it all seemed like a far-fetched bucket list idea, but here we are - five months into our 10-month road trip across the country. Let me back up a bit. It actually all started back in 2016 at IRONMAN Wisconsin. Jacki won her age group at IRONMAN Wisconsin and had qualified for her first IRONMAN World Championships. Having qualified myself, I was standing in line beh...
  14. 10 Training Mistakes You Are Probably Making Photo Credit: Snowy Mountain Photography By: Lindsay Goldman, professional cyclist for Hagens Berman | Supermint. As a seasoned pro racer and GM for the Hagens Berman | Supermint professional women’s road team, Lindsay Goldman has seen her share of training hours. With the race calendar on the wheel of spring training, we asked her to share the 10 common mistakes she sees in the trenches. 1. Not Eating Enough on Rides. For a long time, I’d ration food on rides, only allowing myself to eat ce...
  15. Why Train with a Bike Trainer: 4 Golden Rules of Indoor Riding By Matt Dixon, coach and founder of purplepatch FitnessIn triathlon and riding circles, there is an ever-ongoing debate about the value of riding on an indoor bike trainer versus riding outside. I have seen elaborate equations to try to equate a set time on a trainer, and its relative duration on a road. How often I hear "60 minutes on a bike trainer is like 90 minutes on the road." As much as I appreciate the sentiment, I cannot think in those terms. An hour on the trainer is an hour...
  16. Instant Hatch Access for All: The Saris Glide Hanging Hitch Bike Rack We’ve got a riddle for you: how do you access the rear of your vehicle when there’s a bike rack installed on your car? In the bike transport world, possible solutions to this puzzle have included words such as, “tilt”, “swing” or “remove.” We've added a new word to the mix: “glide.” See the Glide 4-Bike See the Glide 5-Bike Even better, our glide-action provides instant, one-step access to the rear of a car – with bikes or without. Simply press the trigger to release the rack and boom...