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Training, race sign-ups, getting crapped on, and new product odds and ends

I’ve got a triathlon bike, my commuter bike…and near unlimited access to the Velib bike rentals.

First look at Zwift, an ultra real graphics trainer app

Or, perhaps they’ll partner with the Parisian Velib bike share system and I can rock my Velib instead.

Week in Review–July 19th, 2014

7) 7 Years of Velib: This past weekend the Paris bike sharing system celebrated it’s 7-year birthday.

The Paris Color Run 2014 ‘Race’ Report

There were however a few Velib’s trying to swim upstream through the crowd occasionally.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

A short pedal away by Velib.

5 Random Things I Did This Past Weekend(ish)

While I almost daily ride the Velib (bike share) bike at night, it’s somewhat rare for me to get a workout in at night.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

Saturday we grabbed some Velib’s and hit up all sorts of places around town.

Paris Blog: An evening market cooking class

We attempted to Velib home (bike), but none of the Velib stations had any functional bikes, so it was back via Metro instead.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

Afterwards some of us biked homed via Velib.

Riding off French cheese and meat platters

Saturday we went out for a run up to the Bois (big central-park like park) and looped around it a few times before eventually taking the Velib (bike-share) home.

A long ride from Paris

Between those points, we had only either walked, or biked with Velibe (minus the short segment to return the bikes).

Photo of the day: The Riverside 100m dash

And just as we neared the marked finish line, a pair of cyclists on Velib’s (our big heavy bike-sharing program here) zoomed up it, with the winner raising his hands in victory as he crossed the line about a foot ahead of the other.

Week in Review–May 17th, 2015

5) London’s Boris Bike gets app that allows you to pay via app: Nice, would love to see pay via phone also come to the Paris Velib system as well (currently we can just search availability).

How to find & create awesome cycling routes in a smarter way

While there’s undoubtedly more cycling going on in Paris proper than outside, it’s more along the lines of bike-sharing (Velib) and commuter bikes.

The 2015 Swim/Bike/Run Gear I Use List

Though, I could also probably put the Paris Velib bike in this category too, I ride that more often actually.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

In warmer months we would have just found a Velib or taken the Metro, but it was pretty chilly that time of night and given we were soaked from sweat and rain the Autolib was a better choice.

Running into a Parade, Cycling in Circles, and Crushing Cardboard

5 Random Things I Did This Past Week in Paris

Fear not, we pedaled between these spots using the ‘new’ Velib.

Getting the Christmas Tree Home via Bike: 2020 Edition

It started when we lived in Paris, using a bike share Velib to make the trek from our favorite Christmas Tree vendor at the flower markets in the shadow of Notre Dame, to just across the river to our apartment.

Week in Review–December 13th, 2020

5) Meet the magnet bike fishers: These guys fish out old bikes, notably my older beloved Velib’s, from Parisian waterways.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

4) Late night stories on a Velib…

Outside Magazine DCR Article: A bit behind the scenes

And he got to have fun chasing around UPS, FedEx and La Poste around town on Velib bikes.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

Given it was a beautiful fall day out, I took the Velib:…

The $800 Bike Part IV: The final result!

Ironically, the shifting system/company is exactly the same in the massive Velib bike sharing program here in Paris: There are integrated front and rear LED lights, which operate based on the front wheel spinning.

5 Random Things I Did This Weekend

The only thing left was a quick 8-10 minute bike ride home on the Velib, my little suitcase and all:…