A local fair-trade coffee shop, Caffe Ladro has this nice little 12oz. travel mug. It’s exactly the size for a latte from my Nespresso machine. This morning I thought I’d be clever and save myself the $5 at the office and “pack my own” for the ride. Well it made it for the hour ride without spilling…but it was cold when I got to the office. Back to the drawing board.
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We were out riding during the Superbowl, and missed this, but hey cool that Lance was in a commercial.
It’s called Little Bumps and is about active lifestyles and lite beer. Just posted a behind-the-scenes video from the commercial to our community.
Almost a decade ago Frank Kirk, an aeronautical engineer, had the bright idea that a magnesium bicycle frame could be made lighter and stronger than conventional aluminium or steel tube frames. He found he could make a magnesium frame only two-thirds the weight of an aluminium frame and one-fifth that of a frame made of steel — the Independent UK
and we spotted a Kirk this weekend. The initial response was, “whoa” and a nod to how this must’ve been the shit back in 1988. While Kirk didn’t own the 80s with this awesome, die-cast magnesium wonder of CAD, for a weekend or a month, somewhere on a group ride, this bike got talked about. Sort of like Trek’s Y-Foil bike or Softride’s “dinosaur-tongue” beam bike.
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We’re in Vancouver this weekend to blog the Winter Olympics, hang out with Kris Krug, and the girls from Momentum Magazine.
There’s a Tweed ride on Saturday afternoon and a we’re planning a meetup for that night. See you there?
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This is pretty cool. I use the Cyclops Training DVDs because they combine road riding footage with a “toolbar” of what power the coach is putting out. I really like format because it’s not just “go harder,” or “go easy” like most of the other offerings.
If you read the article, dpouncy found software that lets you time-sync your helmet camera with your power data and have it displayed on the screen. It’s be real interesting to see something like this from the view-point of a Tour sprinter in the last 5k. I bet the numbers would be amazing.
We now have a Tour de France narrative that isn’t just Pistolero Contador v. Lance; it’s @lancearmstrong v. #whatatool (that’s a hash tag, it’s like a bookmark on Twitter) @vaughters — Lance tweeted that he wouldn’t be forgetting this comment anytime soon:
In 2009, the tactics worked in his favour and Astana were soft-pedalling a bit to not embarrass Lance [Armstrong].
The quote from Vaughters appeared in a TimesOnline article about Wiggins leaving Vaughter’s team for Sky, a new British-based team. If you’re unfamiliar with the intricacies of cycling, Vaughters just called Lance weak, which is like questioning his manhood. More accurately it’s like calling John Wayne a Communist or calling him a pussy or calling Reagan a Democrat — you get the idea.
Last year in our commentary, we asked what young, champion bicycle rider wasn’t a Pistolero, including Lance who stole the win in a surprise move, at the Worlds back in the day …
... Read more »Into fixed or not, few could argue about how bad ass this bike is. Looks like a cousin of the pimp Scott Addict SL we’ve got at Hugga HQ.
Roll up on that, throw down some smack, and proudly tell everyone that Bike Snob hates this bike.
Nablis uploaded it to Flickr and titled it Fhai’alchemy.
Multi-modal with a tall bike and train in Portland.
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Photo: Douglas Friedman.
That’s a custom-built Fast Boy single-speed bike next to the model and featured in the NY Times.
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