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Steve

Steve has written 43 posts for Highly Obsessed: The Snowboarding and Cycling Blog

Recently Featured - Snowboarding Gift Guide

‘Boarding -  The Snowboarding Holiday Gift Guide

Ontarians Receive Bicycle Tax Exemption

Four days ago Ontario began exempting sales tax on bicycles and safety related equipment. The exemption is applied towards new or used bikes that are less than $1000, and this will last until November 30, 2008.
Combine this new exemption with end-of-year prices and it might be time to finally pick up that road or [...]

Recently Featured - The Unofficial Guide to Whistler

‘Boarding - The Unofficial Guide to Whistler

New Season, New Gear

I’m starting this snowboarding season by bringing sexy back. My days of wearing four different colors and piecemeal gear are over. Yesterday, I upgraded my snowboarding jacket.
I ripped my old jacket last year in Blackcomb’s glades and then mended it by duct tape and 30 minutes in the dryer. Needless to say, [...]

The Sexiest Road Bikes of ‘08

The cold weather has arrived (it is snowing as I write this), and I haven’t been out on my bike in more than a week. With this cold weather has come the transition period that I’m calling the “TV season”, and the time off, so far, has been reduced to me looking at copious [...]

Recently Featured - Cervelo Soloist Team Review

Cycling - “Ride-along” Review of the Cervelo Team Soloist

Cycling Season One Comes To A Close

For a guy that has lived in Mississippi for most of his life, I’m surprised that I was able to cycle in Canada well in to November. Add arm & leg warmers and a base layer, and the weather isn’t all that bad…yet. The Weather Network soon calls for snow in Toronto, which [...]

Register Now for Tour for Kids!

Registration for the 2008 Tour for Kids is officially open!
If you aren’t familiar with it, the Tour for Kids is a 2 or 4 day charity bike ride in Ontario and Alberta aimed at helping cancer children. Riders get to chose daily between a 100km+ or 200km+ ride. The routes are well planned [...]

More changes on Highly Obsessed

In an effort to learn more about our readers, there is now a poll to the right of the content section. You do not have to have an account with us to take part in this poll, so we’d greatly appreciate your input. We are hoping to use polls to find out more [...]

Ride-along with Phil: Reviewing the Cervelo Soloist Team

When cycling around Toronto, there is a very good chance that you will encounter a Cervelo. The Cervelo R3 and Soloist Team, for example, are very popular among roadies, and you will see triathletes and time-trialists out practicing on their P2SLs and occasionally the P3C. Cervelos come highly recommended by their riders, often [...]