01 May
This just in, and making us very very happy…Outside Magazine-that little monthly out of Santa Fe with a combined circulation of more than all the magazines in the bike industry combined-just awarded us with mountain…
25 Apr
How can the Industrial Designers Society of America’s 2008 Western District Conference help improve biking in Portland?Well, like many events that happen here (whether they’re directly related to bikes or not), our…
24 Apr
It’s my birthday! Yeah, it’s been a pretty big week. I rode my bike to renew my driving license today. Get this.there isn’t a bike rack outside the DMV.I notice on this very page, in the past few posts I’ve favorable m…
22 Apr
Ok, where did I leave off? Oh yeah, I had just decided that I was going to finish the race.even if I had to pedal with one leg.Once I actually crossed the bridge, the course entered into more singletrack with a few c…
21 Apr
As we all know the infamous Battenkill Roubiax took place this weekend. While I’ve been training for this race since January (as I suspect most of you have too) I felt strong and confident going into Saturday’s contest.…
As Jesse would say “I done some bike practice over the weekend” was all good. First race of the year finally coming up.I’m not ready too race but plenty ready to ride:) Not much to talk about.couple projects.one done.…
Okay, we covered the bike-as-fashion-accessory story last year. But it looks like it may be more than a passing fad, at least for those who consider J. Crew to be fashionable. The Jorg&Olif Scout CityBike is featured…
For those of you who have busy lives and would like to skip all the gibberish, 9:45 (something close to that anyway) was my time for the 100. I felt pretty good the entire time and never hit the dirt.FridayIn all…
20 Apr
4 Counties6 Cities2:20:00 Swimming5:00:00 Cycling3:20:00 Running10 Gu’s4 Clif Bars3 Gallons of water5 Nuun tablets1 lost chapstick4 limbs of sunburns1 bird (as in being flipped off)1 flat tire (the back one)+30 mph…
After a year in the planning, I am proud to announce that the Sussex Muddy@rse MTB Club Jersey is now here and for sale.A germ of an idea has been turned into a really cool design by regular Muddy@rser, Guy, who has so…
Three cheers for all the bicycle policies in the new transport policy paper?Hmm. Maybe one-and-a-bit cheers. But with some reasons for optimism.The good news? The recently released land transport policy paper, k…
As some of you may know, I am a librarian by day…and that’s a good thing, because I love to read!So, I figured I’d share the bicycling books I read with the rest of you — call it my “public outreach”, one of…
19 Apr
I finished the series of active transportation articles that I’ve been mentioning off and on, and they’re posted at Orillia Gets Active if anyone wants to check them out.Article 1 covers how North America came to be an…
Monterey, Calif.- When Evan Oliphant of Plowman Craven looked back as he was about to cross the finish line, he had nothing to worry about. He crossed the line in first place with a 30 second gap between second place…
18 Apr
We’ve been collecting surveys for our Safer Routes to School program and the data are pointing toward very fascinating and exciting results. Of course, we can’t yet comment on those results since they’re not finalized…
16 Apr
Probably one of the main causes of problems between the nations of the world is a failure to understand the difference in each other’s beliefs, customs, and general way of life.When I wrote an article last September…
14 Apr
I biked to Cobble Hill the other day. Has it been that long since I’ve been that way? There are minor but significant changes everywhere. New buildings. New pavement. New painted bikes on streets. Maybe I should leave…
Slow moving weekend this last one. The weather wasn’t the best, though I did get some riding in.Friday evening started at 9 PM when I met some of the boys down at Monk’s House of Ale Repute. It’s always good to catch…
Damn. I hate it when a perfectly good photographic opportunity is ruined by the absence of a bicycle. I mean, seriously, wouldn’t this shot have made a great banner for the blog if only it had a fat bike rolling through…
The 24-year-old Dutch rider Martijn Maaskant (left) hung with the world’s best cyclists today to finish a fabulous 4th - and just off the podium - in his Paris-Roubaix debut. Sticking to the front of the race as the…
13 Apr
What else would get GeWilli on a computer at 10 freaking thirty at night on a sunday?The chance to bid on a rare beauty of a bike. And, nabbed by a freaking sniper. Three of them it looks like. But I pushed well past my…
Today was the day. The studded tires came off the Cross Check. And the Shimano Nexus 8 internally geared drivetrain was replaced with the Dingle Cog fixed gear (or fixed wheel) drivetrain.It took me a good part of the…
09 Apr
An interesting picture showed up on the Pixdaus blog. Check it out. The probability of dying in a bicycling accident is more than going down in an airplane.1 in 4919 is a probability that means that every 4919 times…
08 Apr
Bicycle Anatomy for Beginners from Quickrelease.tv on Vimeo.This great bicycle anatomical tour Courtesy of C.Y.C.L.EThis is not my work but I thought, if you’re into fixing stuff or even asking for the shop to fix…
Shortly after writing Musketloader report, my ass was handed to me by the worst cold I have gotten in years. Slept 22 of 24 hours on Monday and my body feels like Gumby today. Maybe I have finally found my true…
Retrovelo is a small bicycle company in Leipzig, Germany, who in 2003 introduced a new style of bike: the Balloon Racer. These bikes are part city bike, part zero-generation mountain bike, and part, well, a whole lot of…
White is black. Up is down. West is east. Good is bad. Insanity is sanity. Got it?Omerta is holy. True virtue is to be a skilled liar. Loyalty is to lie repeatedly and well. Intelligence is never to get your lies mixed…
Here is an interview with Dirk Friel who is a co-founder of TrainingPeaks.com. One of his jobs is to help professional riders and coaches to analyze data from power meters. Since one of the biggest topics here on…
First off, if I was really smart, I’d figure out some way to get a kickback from Dahon. I’m not that smart.My friends have figured out that I really like my Dahon D3. I think the fact that I ride so many places on this…
I want to start today’s post by stating that I do not report to Alex, a coworker of mine. He does not affect my salary, and he does not have the ability to fire me. He doesn’t have any sway over whether I ever get a…
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