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A-D Racing Race Report: Florida State Time Trial Championship 2025
The Florida State Time Trial Championship is a 40 kilometer out and back course in St. Cloud, Florida. It features sightlines that extend almost two miles, totally flat terrain and smooth, fast roads. It is always warm and windy.
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What tariffs mean for A-D Bikes and the US Bicycle Industry
The long term objective of these tariffs is to incentivize domestic and foreign companies to manufacture their products in the United States. This is a noble ambition and one that A-D Bikes has always harbored.
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A-D Racing Race Report: Chain of Lakes Cycling Classic
The other thing I like to say is “It’s not that they can’t chase, it’s that they don’t.” This great event proved all my pithy aphorisms to be true.
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A-D Racing Miami Masters Rosewood Series race number two
Cesar, Mamito and Popo, in addition to being really strong riders and fast sprinters, were very friendly. With gesticulations and smiles, we were able to congratulate each other on a great race, but that was about it. My sprint needs some work (it’s getting there), but not as much as my Spanish. Corro my bicicleta con Cesar, Mamito y Popo!
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A-D Racing Race Report: Auburn Cycling Classic 2025
Racing in the southeast is great. The fields are big, the bikes are cool, the competition is strong and it is unheard of for me to get in this much racing so early in the season. It is also great to see parts of the region I would never see otherwise.
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A-D Racing Miami Masters Rosewood Series Race number one
The first race of the series was held at Vista View Park in Davie, Florida. This park has the distinction of having the only hills in all of Broward County if not all of South Florida.
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A-D Racing Race Report: Swamp Classic 2025
The Swamp Classic is a two day omnium held in Micanopy, Florida (just outside of Gainesville) in early February. It is among the first USA Cycling road events of the season. It features a road race, a time trial and a criterium.
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The Rise of the Reseller
Frame and Wheel does the same thing as ThredUP except with bicycles and related accessories. What started out trying to be the Pro’s Closet has evolved into something closer to LKQ. The only difference is that the deproduction operations of Frame and Wheel (a production line that runs on reverse) are integrated with a bicycle brand, A-D Bikes. -
How to introduce Sustainability into your cycling life
N+1 is the path of least resistance for industry leaders, but it insults the intelligence of cyclists and it is dissonant at a time when there clearly needs to be a serious change to how resources are used and managed to produce bicycles. Despite all the platitudes and “impact” reports, the bicycle industry knows only the dollar and will only change its ways once consumers change theirs. Earth Day is a good time to think about all of this and start making those changes. -
The significance of Earth Day
The next time you notice the fresh air on a morning ride, the clear water on an afternoon swim or the impressive sight of an Osprey or a Bald Eagle, recognize that the activism of Earth Day is a big reason why you are enjoying those experiences. -
A-D Racing Race Report: Florida State Time Trial Championships
The Florida State Time Trial Championship is a 40km out and back course held this year outside of St.Cloud, Florida. The course is utterly flat and mostly straight, windswept and fast. It is one of the few, regularly scheduled full length time trials that also offers Eddy Merckx and junior categories and a team trial. -
There has never been a better time for a Reformation of the bicycle industry.
What is frustrating to me is that the industry is so profoundly out of touch with its own surroundings. Very few companies are doing anything different or original except of course complaining or pontificating about why the industry is suffering from all of its obvious problems. It seems the only thing most bike companies have done is to offer consumer financing on their websites.
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