
How To Get Started in Bike Racing
By Mikael Hanson (first written for Curated's Expert Journal) The demographics of bike racing have changed dramatically from when I first started cycling a handful of decades ago. As a pudgy teenager, I was not into the traditional sports like baseball, football, or soccer and sort of stumbled into cycling after watching the movie Breaking Away—just you and your bike, riding solo on the back roads of Indiana while singing Italian songs. What’s not to like about that? Bang, I