Welcome to Start Cycling!

Thousands of stores, hundreds of clubs, you could spend all day searching the web. Start Cycling has it all on one site. I started this site to keep track of the local shops in my neighborhood. Then I started branching out first capturing the bicycle stores in California, only to keep moving east, this is constanly a work in progress. Don't see your bicycle shop or club listed, send your information.

For the last eight years I have had the privilege to be the Web Developer of the San Jose Bicycle Club. It was time to get back on the bike and put the time into this cycling site.

Pro Cycling News

Pro Cycling March Races

06 Paris-Nice Start
09 Tirreno-Adriatico
13 Paris-Nice Finish
19 Milan-San Remo
21 Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
27 Gent - Wevelgem
30 Redlands Bicycle Classic

Cycling Terminology

Brain Bucket: helmet. Whenever you are riding your bike, you should have one on your head.

Criterium: a massed start, high-speed bicycle race events in which riders race around a closed circuit racecourse to compete for order of finish.

Lead Out: a rider intentionally sacrificing his chances of winning a sprint, so that a teammate can ride in his draft until ready to begin the final sprint.

Peloton: the large, aerodynamicly efficient, and extremely fast pack of riders near the front in a road race, also known as the field.