The RAIN ride occurs mid-July every year and runs 160 mile (162 this year, due to construction) from Terre Haute, on Indiana’s western border, to Richmond, on the eastern border. This was my first RAIN and I trained hard (and wrong). Central Indiana, you see, is where the glaciers stopped. Imagine a wrinkled shirt, half-ironed….
Tag: velomobile
Let’s talk tires and tubes
The Bülk came, from the factory, with Schwalbe One tires up front, with butyl tubes and a tubeless Conti Grand Prix 5000 on the back. I wanted something faster for the time trial on the Indianapolis 500 racetrack, so I made two changes. I went with GreenSpeed Scorchers and RevoLoop Ultra tubes. Most people are…
Indianapolis 500 (well, 6)
A couple of weeks ago I participated in the Indianapolis Corporate Challenge, a sports competition pitting employees of different local companies against each other. I won’t tell you who sponsored it or who ran it, for reasons that will become obvious. The event started with a Cycling Time Trial on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. A…
