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It’s coming.. arriving Thursday.  Maybe all this snow/ice will be gone by the weekend?

Where should you start with saving weight on your bike?

#1 Rotating Weight

Wheels go first, doable look your tire setup then cranks.

#2 Base Components

Handlebar, stem, seat post

#3 Lastly

Replace wear items last, I try to save weight where I can but don’t put on the lightest headset and bottom bracket if I’m going to wear through them twice as fast.

RT @LKNTweetup Snowball Fight high noon @ Jetton Park followed by lunch at Brooklyn South! #snOMG #LKNtweetup

Tomorrow, 12pm at Jetton park.  I’ll be riding my bike down there I hope!

Working/practicing my video podcast skills (they are very limited right now.)  Arsbars may become the landing pad for these things until I feel confident and more experienced. More at CommuteByBike.com and BikeShopGirl.com

You are reading from the latest freelance writer with Versus.com. I’ll be running their bike commuting blog, as well as another project we are still discussing the details.

Check out Verus new “beta” site & I’ll keep you in the loop of what else is going on.

*This is a side project.  I’m still managing Cool Breeze Cyclery and running my other three websites.

I was approached by G of Lab Gear to go through the order process of designing and processing clothing especially made for me, by me!  Lab Gear, all natural clothing based out of Australia, is doing clothing a bit differently it seems.  I’ve been following the main guy, G, on twitter now for awhile.  We talk back and forth, he gives feedback about various Bike Shop Girl articles, and shop happenings.

They’ve been working on this women’s line “99“ for a while and I was excited to be a tester for  not only the product, but the whole order process of designing the shirts to fit my personality and body type.  Because of this, the order has to be custom cut and built for me, plus the shipping from Australia may take a week by itself.  For now I’m a kid waiting for christmas and one of those little packages to show up at my door.

Meeting Monday will be an on going series of meeting various women in the cycling industry. Learn about their experiences, history and what they are doing to make cycling better for all women. If you are interested in being apart of this or have an idol that you think fits the bill, please let me know!

1st in our series is a very inspirational person to me, Elly Blue. Elly is the managing editor of BikePortland.org, a Portland, OR based website that follows all things cycling around the city. Originally this site was started by Jonathon Maus back in 2005, it now is a power house in the cycling blogging community.

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My first sprint triathlon is this coming Sunday.  If un-prepared is part of the training regimen I am right on course for an awesome first tri!  Sure I had goals and plans of doing the whole 8 weeks to your first sprint tri but life, work and excuses got in the way.  The one small advantage I have is the fact I work with 3 elite-level triathlon who have a bounty of knowledge.

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