Bicycle street Fair and WOOP

A fantastic day out filled with laughter, celebrating all things bike! I sold some caps, chatted to lots of friends, made some new friends, ate some cake pops and had a fabulous time!

Great work by The Spokespeople and WOOP

Street Fair of Cycling Goodness this Saturday!

This weekend kicks off Sydney’s Annual Bike Festival but this year it’s bigger and better than ever!

Starting with the Street Fair of Cycling Goodness this Saturday.

Up and down Bourke st the Woop Festival will be on with stalls, bands, swap meets, photo booths and all kinds of fun stuff to do.

Rocket Fuel will be there and for every cap purchased you will receive a FREE musette.

So grab your bike and come say hi! and for all the other cycling fun take a look at The Spokes People site.

D.I.Y Tuesday – it’s a bag for your bike!

It’s a flag that’s also a bag! Think this would be super cute for a kids bike. Check out the how to over on Instructables.

Rocket Fuel in training – cooking with Dr Lim

More on the cooking theme this week with these great videos from Dr Lim on the food prepared for racers.

Rocket Fuel in training – the food of a Tour de France rider

I’m so fascinated by what a tour rider eats each day. How do they get the energy to race and recover day after day and is it really exciting to get your lunch handed to you each day in a musette?

These are the things I think about while watching the tour. So I was super excited to find this article which is what Thor ate one day during the tour.

A Day in the Stomach of Thor Hushovd

Breakfast:

Oatmeal

Toast with ham

2-egg omelet

Cereal

Rice

On the bike:

4-6 CLIF bars

2 packs CLIF shot blocks

2-3 CLIF gels

6-8 bottles of team race drink

Rice cake

Small panini sandwich

On the bus after the stage:

Rice

Curry chicken or tortilla la patata

2 bottles of team recovery protein drink

Dinner:

Stuffed tomatoes and zucchini with curry rice

Beet salad

Avocados

Spaghetti

Stewed turkey with prunes

Dessert:

Sorbet

It sounds pretty good really (except for the gels am not a fan of them, they are a weird texture for me).

Then I found this article on what his almost vegan team mate Dave Zabriskie is eating in a day

Breakfast:

Oatmeal with black strap molasses; whole food optimizer; cacao nibs; nuts; cinnamon; two tablespoons of coconut butter; an apple; hemp seeds and flax seeds

On-the-Bike Snacks:

Six Clif Bar Z bars (vegan); two Clif Bar shot blocks (vegan); two Clif Bar gels (vegan); dates; six to eight bottles of special team race drink

On the Bus, Post-Race:

White rice with maple syrup and cinnamon; vegan protein shake;

two bottles of special team recovery protein drink; goji berries

Before Dinner:

Vegan protein shake

Dinner:

White rice or pasta; salad with leafy greens; vegetables —including broccoli, spinach, carrots and beets.

Dessert:

Fresh fruit and a vegan protein shake before bed

Some of that sounds really yummy and certainly gives me ideas of what to take on my future long rides.

SALE! SALE! SALE! cycling caps, bunting, musettes all on SALE!

It’s SALE time! Prices on the Rocket Fuel site have been cut for a limited time so get in quick.

Cotton caps (adult sizes) were $25.00 now $15.00

Musette prices have been cut by $10.00

flag bunting was $25.00 now just $15.00

Bicycle baskets plus covers down to a rock bottom $15.00

Custom musette for Smudge!

Cycling is filled with characters and that’s just a small part of what makes it so much fun. One of the characters from Adelaide is Smudge. I first met Smudge via twitter when after I had tweeted that I was going to ride the Fat Cyclist 100 miles of nowhere he decided he would too. Not only did he smash the 100 miles required I think he also managed to con a large number of other Adelaide cyclists into coming along and riding with him but also got freebies from nearly everyplace in Adelaide to help sustain them while they rode their trainers and helped to raise money. Amazing stuff.

He’s also a big part of the World Champs posse and Tour Down Under posse and generally an all round nice guy.

So when I was contacted by a friend of his to make him a custom musette I jumped at the chance. Armed with the inside knowledge of the colours and style of his custom Smudge cap I knew just what his musette should look like.

I really hope you like your musette Smudge and was so happy to help make a gift to you from your friends. Keep riding and who knows maybe one day we’ll actually meet in person.

Motivational musettes?

As part of our goal to provide you with an amazing array of cycle related products we are expanding our range of musettes. Fantastic on the bike to carry your extra food and gear and equally fantastic off the bike to carry keys, wallet, phone, some groceries and whatever else you need.

At some point in every race, training ride or everyday life do you ask yourself “What would Jens do?” if the answer is “ride harder” your probably right.

Inspired by everyone’s favourite LolCats and well, a musette is built to carry your food and there would be quite a lot of om nom noming after a food station.

The pro peloton has many unwritten codes of conduct. However a sneaky attack while going through a feeding station is one of long standing tradition. Perhaps you’ll get this bag from your team and know that it’s time for you to put the hammer down?

You could of course always join the coolest cycling posse around as well?

TDUposse musettes

With the Tour Down Under happening in Adelaide the TDUposse have been making me incredibly jealous with their photos, tweets, rides and general fun and games.

It’s not too late for you to join the Posse with caps and musettes still available for purchase here

If you are in Australia don’t forget orders get sent via express post so you could order today and have your musette by tomorrow.

To all the Posse have fun in Adelaide and thanks for all the awesome updates!

 

TDU Posse musettes now available!

This morning the TDU Posse caps were released, this afternoon on twitter there was a lot of chat about TDU Posse musettes. You asked for it so we designed it!

Now available here

For those of you who have already purchased your caps today and wish to also purchase musettes you will be refunded one of your postage costs. So even though you place 2 orders only one set of postage will be charged.