A touch screen on the frame's top tube lets you adjust the bike's performance and lock the rear wheel to prevent theft. If your bike does get stolen, you can track it down via the built-in GPS. ...Because the Stromer ST2's system can be accessed over a cellular network (as well as Bluetooth), all of these functions can be operated from afar using your smartphone: Lock or unlock your bike from anywhere, or even let Stromer's technicians run diagnostics on your ride remotely. At first glance, the integrated LED headlight and taillights that are built into the Trek Lync's lightweight aluminum frame may not seem so revolutionary. After all, for about $50 you can buy lights to screw onto your handle bar and seat post. But those lights' output of around 50 lumens is puny compared with the Lync's system. The Lync's 550-lumen headlight is comparable to high-end aftermarket bike lights costing $200 or more. Meanwhile, Fuji is working to debut a model next summer that's intended to take the place of a car entirely: the Denny. The bike's prototype design was the winner of the recent Oregon Manifest Bike-Design Project, a competition to create an "ultimate utility bike" that includes what are essentially carlike features, such as an antitheft system, lighting and more cargo capacity.
If your bike does get stolen, you can track it down via the built-in GPS. Because the Stromer ST2's system can be accessed over a cellular network (as well as Bluetooth), all of these functions can ...be operated from afar using your smartphone: Car-ify Your Ride // Four auto-inspired safety accessories for bikers A Concealed Cam Many cyclists attach GoPros or other mountable video cameras to their handlebars or helmets to document any run-ins they may have with aggressive drivers.
Post-stage on the team bus, which also has its own refrigerator, riders snack on white rice and eggs drizzled with olive oil and balsamic vinegar (which Mr. Lim says helps speed the rate the body is ...able to absorb precious energy stores) and also light, fresh dishes such as cantaloupe wrapped in prosciutto or mozzarella and tomato caprese salad.
In between, we'd use the extra days to hike the Boundary Waters' forests, explore the cliffs and beaches of the Apostle Islands, and wander the dunes and pancaked sandstone cliffs of Pictured Rocks ...National Lakeshore. Washington, kneeling next to the family dog on Hawkeye Point, posing with a 19-day-old baby on Sassafras Mountain, lying prone in mock exhaustion upon reaching for the summit sign of Cheaha Mountain. Marshall, a wiry railroad telegraph operator with a swept-back thatch of hair and peering eyes that made him look like he was perpetually facing a gust of wind, nabbed his last U.S. state highpoint in July 1936. Here are just a few of the checklist challenges around the country. 50 STATE HIGHPOINTS The Highpointers Club site has an online guide and store, and a blog with club news and membership info. highpointers.org COUNTY HIGHPOINTS Arguably the most obsessive peakbagging faction, the County Highpointers Association hosts an interactive map with established and debated county highpoints for each U.S. state, plus more peakbagging esotérica, cohp.org COLORADO14ERS In addition to the Fourteener records, the Colorado Mountain Club maintains an online register, MySummits, where you can log your progress on Colorado's top 100 peaks, cmc.org SOUTH OEYOND 6,000 The Carolina Mountain Club recognizes those who summit 40 peaks over 6,000 feet in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, carollnamountainclub.org NEW HAMPSHIRE HIGH PEAKS Since 1957, the Appalachian Mountain Club has charted hikers' progress on the 48 4,000-plus-foot peaks in the White Mountains, with special awards for those who climb in winter.
Mooney presents several double-duty gears for semi-adventurers. Among other things, the Swiss Softshell Jeans can pass for black denim in any casual restaurant. But their Schoeller Dryskin ...fabric--used most often in ski and rock-climbing pants--is the antithesis of cotton, making them water-repellent, abrasion-resistant, sweat-wicking, quick-drying, and super-stretchy.
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