http://www.sports.franzkelsch.com In the World of Sports Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:18:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://www.sports.franzkelsch.com/2012/01/training-log-and-bicycle-component-log/ I received the package from Rickey with their Break Away Frame/Fork. I bought the 52 cm Road version, steel frame and carbon fork.  It comes with a case, headset, inline adjusters for the derailleurs that are used with a connector on the frame (not a very good design by the way) and three inline disconnects [...]]]> http://www.sports.franzkelsch.com/2011/09/richey-break-away-road-bike/ Although the summer is almost over, with the first day of Fall coming tomorrow, the temperatures had turned much warmer than usual.  It was about 97 degrees when we headed out at 5:15 pm for our weekly mountain bike ride at Harvey Bear Ranch.  This is one of my favorite rides of the week because [...]]]> http://www.sports.franzkelsch.com/2011/09/mountain-biking-the-golden-state/ Two years ago I installed a mountain bike (MTB) derailleur (Shimano XTR) and cassette on Anne’s road bike at the time.  See the prior post. At that time all MTB setups were 9 speed but her road bike was a 10 speed.  Although there was a 3rd party 10 speed cassette with a wide range, [...]]]> http://www.sports.franzkelsch.com/2011/09/mountain-bike-gearing-on-a-road-bike/ I previously have been using my cycling oriented Garmin Edge 500 while running using a wrist strap that was really designed for the Garmin 310XT. See the prior post.  Although this worked reasonably well, it still was a bit awkward.  Not only did you see things in mph instead of minutes per mile pace, the [...]]]> http://www.sports.franzkelsch.com/2011/09/moving-on-up-to-the-garmin-forerunner-610/ http://www.sports.franzkelsch.com/2011/08/installing-duraace-7900-components/ http://www.sports.franzkelsch.com/2011/08/bike-club/ http://www.sports.franzkelsch.com/2011/08/hill-intervals-small-improvement/ http://www.sports.franzkelsch.com/2011/07/first-century-of-2011/ http://www.sports.franzkelsch.com/2011/07/almost-hit-by-car-and-lightning-on-one-ride/