More and more adrenalin sports and experiences are offered to us every day and it is getting harder and harder to choose among them. Outdoor sports have become a massive hit in the last decades and people are thus searching for better places for their leisure activities. Over the years, certain places with particularly good access to rivers, mountains, surf, and other natural features have cultivated entire communities based on outdoor recreation. Matador Trips have come with a chart of the world’s most adrenaline cities. Where can you find them? Tourism-review.com knows the answer… Details
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In a world in which we have come to expect our gadgets to be small and compact yet deliver the benefits of the full size model, Pacific Cycles’ IF Mode fold-up bike is unlikely to disappoint. The IF MODE combines a number of features to optimize fast folding into a compact footprint including a single sided fork and rear stay (on opposite sides of the frame), folding handlebars, integrated stem and front fork and even folding pedals. The clever twist – literally – is the patented, single-action, automatic folding mechanism that requires no tools or removal of parts and automatically guides the wheels together. Once folded, MODE becomes a wheelable package complete with in-built handle so that you don’t have a dead weight to lug around when you swap pedalling for perambulation.
Designed and created by Mark Sanders, the IF MODE achieves the main part of its swift transformation via a quick release lever which …Â Details
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That’s what the women of Sturdy Girl Cycling endeavor to share with others. Co-founders Sally Poliwoda and Dana Hanchin started the club in the Spring of 2003 with the goal of providing women with a supportive cycling experience in the Philadelphia region.
Beginning in April, the club offers a women’s only road ride that departs from the Italian Fountain behind the Art Museum Mondays at 6:00 pm and meanders for 24 miles to Conshohocken and back at a 14 mph pace. No one gets dropped and the gentle pace offers race weary legs a chance to recover and novices the opportunity to develop pack riding skills… Details Â
Charles Brigham was 28 when he straddled his bike to embark on an ecological tour of the world but could be 33 by the time he returns home to Madison, in Wisconsin.
“I love bikes and wanted to travel,” he told AFP during a Paris stopover. “I don’t think it’s natural to fly in a plane or even travel by car. People weren’t meant to travel so quickly.”
So Brigham, who studied electrical and computer engineering but hates technology and wound up working in a bike shop, set off in September 2007 with a good bike, 3,000 dollars, a pair of trousers and 30 kilos (66 pounds) of camping, cooking and first aid gear.
“I packed a bunch of stuff, threw a party and rode out of town.”…Â Details