People, Places & Things - Cycling News & Tips

Meet Pactimo's CEO - Frank Kim

CEO Frank Kim and Pactimo's industry-leading catalog of cycling jerseys, bibs, shorts, and outerwear has even outfitted Olympians and National Champions as well as a wide group of professional athletes. "We're a cycling apparel brand," says Kim. "We're focused on what has to do with apparel on the bike."

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InTandem - Means Together

InTandem, a NYC-based group enables blind, low vision, or otherwise disabled people to experience cycling for the first time or to get back on the road by pairing them as stokers with trained volunteer captains on tandem bicycles.

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Riding With Family

"Cyclists are a tight bunch. My friends and associates are, like my social feeds, filled with people I know or have met through cycling. We look out for one another; care about what's going on in each other's lives; we congratulate, commiserate, and compete."

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2,408 miles in 12 days - TCRN06

Perhaps I’d set my sights a little high but I’d now targeted TCR as my first real venture into endurance racing. The rules are simple, the clock starts at 2200hr in Geraardsbergen, Belgium, and stops when you cross the finish line in Meteora, Greece, some 4,000km later having visited the four checkpoints.

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Learning to Suffer Saved My Life

"I finished 9,000 miles having to ride at night, in blizzard conditions and in some insane winter winds, but I succeeded and set the next goal to ride the trip of a lifetime; a 7 day bike adventure in Italy with my brother. Throughout it all I noticed I could not sustain the power I was used to easily producing, and began to get dropped on some group rides that I easily was able to handle before."

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What Happened at Big Frog 65

The weekend before Big Frog I was covering an attack in a road race when I had an exercise-induced asthma attack (thanks, allergies). One minute I'm doing my job, the next it felt like someone was squeezing my lungs and taking my breath away.

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A Cycling Adventure Around the World

An Austrian cycle tourist named Florian set off with a heavily loaded bike and his guitar with the aim of cycling round the world.

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The Pactimo Ambassador Experience

As a rider, I’m picky [my friends say tweaky] about my kit. If we dress sharp, we feel good…If we feel good, we go well. The proper cycling shoe color is white, because it’s Euro, and because the European continent is the Mothership of all cycling. Life is way too short to bother with bargain kit.

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