SUMMER 2021 CYCLINGWEST.COM 1 COMMUNITY CYCLING FREE SUMMER 2021 CYCLING WEST UTAH • IDAHO • WYOMING • NEVADA • COLORADO • NEW MEXICO • ARIZONA • MONTANA • CALIFORNIA 2021 EVENT CALENDARS INSIDE! IN THIS ISSUE •RACING FOR ALL •2021 EVENT CALENDARS! •IDAHO’S TATER TOT •BICYCLE ART •A CASE FOR RECUMBENTS •BIKE ADVOCACY •YELLOWSTONE TOUR •SPORTS NUTRITION •HOT LOCAL TOURS •STRETCHING •MEXICO CITY CYCLING ROAD • MOUNTAIN • TRIATHLON • TOURING • RACING • COMMUTING • ADVOCACY 2 CYCLINGWEST.COM SUMMER 2021 Is Your State Safe for Cycling? Tax Deductions for Bike Commuting? So how do you rank states in Administration’s Fatality Analysis trum, Utah ranked the fifth safest The benefit would include terms of which are safest to cycle? Reporting System. state. StreetLight didn’t list all the If you bike to work, would you eBikes and bikeshare. The bills StreetLight Data, a mobility data By StreetLight’s new criteria, states; only the top and bottom 10. like to take a tax deduction for it? collection company, decided the best you’re safer riding out West that East. Massachusetts proved safest. were referred to the Senate Finance way involves crashes per miles rid- The eight most dangerous states are You can download the report at Of course you would. Legislation Committee and House Ways and den, as opposed to its old way of in the eastern half of the country, learn.streetlightdata.com/bike-safe- has been introduced in both houses Means Committee. They had to be crashes per capita, using data from with Arizona 9th and California 10th. ty-shift-special-report of Congress to restore the lost cred- kept separate from the major trans- the National Highway Traffic Safety On the other end of the spec- -Charles Pekow it. Under the Bicycle Commuter portation legislation because they Act of 2021 (S. 1892, H.R. 384), involve taxes and have to go to the it would be possible to take credit tax-writing committees, as opposed for the cost of repair and storage of your bike if you use it regularly to transportation committees. to get to and work or to connect to Read the bill at https://www. mass transit on the way, starting congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/ next year. Your employer would house-bill/384/text have to offer the credit. -Charles Pekow SUMMER 2021 CYCLINGWEST.COM 3 Printing: Transcript Bulletin Publishing ROAD RACING Cycling West / Cycling Utah is published eight times a year beginning in March and More Winners than Just Those on the Podium continuing monthly through October. a heavier, older cyclist and East Canyon has a lot of climbing, which Annual Membership rate (includes doesn’t play to my strengths. 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Photo by Bri Hoopes Blinziner, Erik Moen, Kelly McPherson, Cycling Utah or Cycling West still doing the best they can, those at your favorite bike shop Martin Neunzert, Bri Hoopes, Julie Kirby this sport for all? Yes!!! Cycling is who are racing for the first time and Photography, John Summerson, Michael in 8 Western states! By Kelly McPherson not just for those who have a chance are so scared they are ready to puke. Finch, Cameron Scott, Janet Buckwalter, at getting on the podium. The real winners are those who keep Trenton Higley Cover Photo: Tahoe Area Mountain Bike racing is a challenging sport A friend of mine snapped this trying. Bike Association (TAMBA) Vice that highly favors the young, light, picture of me (above) at the East Want to be a winner? Come sign President Nils Miller, and Over the up for a race! You may get a pic- Distribution: Reliable Distribution, and Edge Tahoe employee Jonah Teetsel, and athletic. If you get dropped off Canyon Road Race this last week- descending towards Lake Tahoe on ture of yourself with your hands up, others the back of the peloton, are you even end and I am really glad she did. the Van Sickle Trail. medal around your neck, standing (To add your business to our free distri- still racing? The nature of the sport This moment, this exact moment, is Photo by John Shafer, photo-john. does not lend well to newbies and when I won this race. No, I did not on a podium. You may not. It really bution list, give us a call) net the cost to entry is much steeper than get onto the podium. Let me explain. Continued on page 5 most other sports. Is there a place in You probably can tell that I am 4 CYCLINGWEST.COM SUMMER 2021 RECUMBENTS Back in the Saddle Again: An Argument for Recumbents By Martin Neunzert Remember Stage 21 of the 1992 Tour de France, undeniably the most exciting stage ever? Leonard “The Lion” LaRue battling Martino “the Hammer” Martello on the Col de la Mort. Liggett: …The approach grade again, too, his face in agony. He just and water goes in one end and, well, to the pass is known locally as can’t sustain the attack. various things come out the other end. Montagne Némésis because of its Engineers frequently use the con- unrelenting nature and it has both cept of a “control volume” to sim- rider sweating buckets. Liggett: Wait! there’s Müller, just spinning along and closing! plify the understanding of an energy system. Figure 1 shows a concep- denominator, the time element. For to rip up Little Cottonwood Canyon, Sherwin: Yes, they are both at What an upset! No one could have tual spherical surface around a climb- very brief periods, you can physi- for example, unbolt your saddle at their physiological limit after so predicted this! ing cyclist. We can keep track of ologically produce more power, yes. the bottom and stash it in the weeds many hard days of cycling. Sherwin: The roar of the crowd things which cross that boundary. But not for long. Only so much water (nobody’ll touch it and you can pick Measurable things like calories, of comes out of that nozzle after all, no it up later on the way down). Do you Liggett: And the final section to alerts both Martello and LaRue, now course, but also less tangible things matter how many ZowerBars® you know any cyclists wouldn’t want to the pass is the steepest ever in the neck and neck. They’re both out of like heat, sound, moisture, and meth- eat or how many neutrino treatments smash their personal best record with history of the Tour. the saddle and giving it everything! ane. And power. you’ve undergone. 250 grams less weight? Just observe But high torque is not the pri- how far you get standing on your Liggett: Oh, wait, they’re do in A totally inaccurate but intui- Sherwin: I think the Lion’s mass mary reason recumbents will always pedals compared to others passing and back in their saddles again. tive analogy is shown in Figure 2. is hurting him a bit.