From the charity rides, local races, and USPro, cycling is a big thing in Greenville — there’s some urban and commuting. Just got out of the Mavic Neutral Race Support Car. Full posts, podcasts to follow.
Also note that Bike Rumors posted on Hincapie Jeans. They’re real.
Cargo bike ride 16 — the tradition continues! The ride is all set for noon tomorrow, starting from 20/20 Cycles (at 2020 East Union on Capitol Hill). Destination is Ravenna Park in the U. District. The official flyer is here. These rides are always fun, with folks bringing all kinds of stuff to make the ride and destination more pleasant, including children. No cargo bike required of course, but you’ll see plenty there.
This sketch and others are from Christopher Koelle’s illustrated zine Sweet Ride. I spotted the zine at Hincapie HQ and also noticed how an urban aesthetic is influencing Hincapie’s 09 lifestyle, Après-ride line.
We met this urban cyclist who told us he was en route to Critical Mass. Curious, I asked if they were a friendly bunch of Massers or tended towards violence and angry, punk youth. That question puzzled him, as he didn’t understand how CM could be violent . . later we asked some locals who didn’t know that Critical Mass even existed in Greenville.
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There was quite a bit of speculation about how the Critical Mass ride after the Aloha Incident would go down. Would the police try to bust everybody not wearing a helmet? Would it be another case of When Cyclists Attack? Would drivers revolt and start mowing down the mass?
I’m happy to report that none of that happened, and that the ride went off very well. Personally, I’d love it if we can keep a police presence on the ride, al a Vancouver, who seem to have hit a good stride for handling mass rides. Photo from Bombnumber19
To match the new, technical wool offerings, Hincapie has sexy, new “Après ride” Jeans. A Bike Hugger in Butt Huggers, we joked …
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Bike Hugger was invited to Style in Motion, a dealer sales meeting, media event, fashion show, and to watch the USPro Race. We’re off to race with the locals today then back to Greenville. More posts to follow.
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Bike Hugger recently had the opportunity to visit the HQ of Hed Cycling in Shoreview Minnesota. This custom full disc wheel was made by Hed employees for fun. Several of these have started to show up at the office and now they’re considering a “Disc of the Week” program to auction off the one of a kind creations to a lucky sole. Just imagine the power of the force created rolling this dope Star Wars motif at the Velodrome.
Don’t know much about Hed Cycling? Steve Hed has been in the business for over 20 years, and his wheels have been ridden everywhere from the Tour de France, to the Hawaii Ironman. Each wheel is still handmade and assembled just outside the twin cities of Minneapolis / St. Paul. While poking around the shop, Andy kindly pointed out the custom machinery, technology, and people behind Hed Cycling. I’ll be posting a few of the cool things we stumbled across over the next week. If you want to take a virtual tour of the shop, you can see more after the jump.
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Epic video from artist Tom Sachs and the Neistat brothers. I love the dead pan delivery, and play between scientific/engineering approach and sheer ridiculousness. Ridiculous, that is, until the wafflepocoplyse is upon us. Then we’ll all be needing weaponized, waffle making cargo bikes (with chickens!). Via Scott at sweetbikeorg.
On a recent trip to the twin cities I dropped in with 200+ other riders on the Freeride. The beautiful weather, a stunning array of longtails, bike polo, bike cafes, and of course lots of Pabst made this a social ride I won’t soon forget. If there was any doubt, I’m now certain that Minneapolis’s thriving bike community, and cycling infrastructure make this a top notch two wheeled town. Now, if we could just figure out this winter thing… See more from Freeride after the jump.
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And thinking about Fall, travel, single-speeds, Nexus, and our next project bike.
This weekend we’re off to Hang out with Hincapie Sportswear and blog the USPro Cycling Championships.
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I found the joy of single speed cyclocross last year. So simple and so little to go wrong. This year I’ve got my single speed setup with easy-off fenders so I can run it as a rainy-day option.
The rain is coming, and I have a new bike on the way (November I’m told), but in the mean time I’ll be rolling slow and easy on my single speed. No derailleurs to rub, chain cleanliness is less important, and as long as I’m not in a big hurry I can keep a nice and easy 15mph pace all the way home. Can’t wait.
This maybe a stupid idea, but I’m thinking of racing cross with the Bettie. The passenger could dismount with me, pick the bike up and over the barriers, and then push up the hills. Additionally, we could carry beer, pretzels, and a change of clothes with us when we get tired, wet, and cold.
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In the back of a shop, in lonely corner of a mechanic’s bench, I spotted a framed Mustache Handlebar page from the 1992 Bridgestone Catalog.
“Bring Bridgestone back!,” is what I say.
One of these years, Bike Hugger will travel to Burning Man …
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With bikes from Redline, Bike Hugger is racing Cyclocross this year and blogging about Cross culture. Back in the day, way back in the formative years of Bike Hugger, I raced Cross for 2 seasons. At the time, the names were Norton, Grande, Undem, Rutledge, and others. Cross was just getting mainstreamed with a national series, a UCI race, and magazine coverage. Totally sucking at it — the Texas 2-step was my remount method — I eventually just focused on road.
In the Pacific Northwest, Cross is too big to ignore and we’ve got late season road racing this year at Interbike … so, here we go (cue Timerlake’s “bringing sexy back”) right into Cross season. Readers, please add your resouces, links, and thoughts in the comments.
Dialing the bikes in at Lincoln Park and watching the sunset.
... Read more »So want one of these! Rolling along the Mobile Social, all lit up … also noted that’s the first Chinese cyclist I’ve seen wearing a helmet and the Boing Boing blogger who was fascinated by the MonkeyLectric wheel light system, prolly just went, “whoa!”
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It was a beautiful end of Summer day and time to get ready for Cyclocross.
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When I was at Sycip Designs in Santa Rosa, Jeremy was in the midst of building up a bike with the Schlumpf internally-geared crankset. The Schlumpf has 2 speeds on a single chainring; you toggle from the 2 gear choices by tapping a button on the crankarm at the BB axis. This system is similar to the new SRAM/Truvativ crank for free-ride and downhill except the SRAM design uses a bar-mounted shifter and requires a specially designed frame.
Bike Hugger was there for the Green Bike Project debut. Participants meet at South Lake Union and rode to REI’s Flagship store for a press conference with dignitaries. We spotted the Green Bike a few months ago and “haven’t seen that much green in Seattle since Hempfest!”
The participants covet their bikes and we weren’t able to ride one, but it’s a Novara Transfer with a nice, updated spec.
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I’d just jump on one of these cruisers and ride it. Bring it back of course, but they’re just waiting their on the kickstands, ready to ride.
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I talked to Jeremy Sycip, a custom builder, and Rod Jewett, president of Bianchi USA, about the effects of rising petrol prices and the shakey economy on the bike industry.
We periodically blog about mobility, mobile tech, and devices and attend Intel Developer Forums — our Mobile Socials are an intersection of bike culture, mobile apps, and technology. We’re not at IDF San Francisco, but it’s all over the tech blogs and we’re following along.
It looks like a device between my iPhone and Macbook Pro will hit the market soon and it’s like those shown in this photo from UMPC Portal. It’s not a Macbook Air, because our bloggers need the space and power when traveling. I’d sure like to slip a thin, light, powerful computer into my Crumpler bag, ride to a meeting or a coffee shop, and get to work. Can’t do that now, but we’re getting there. I do work on the iPhone — the iPhone has blown open the mobile app market — but not for editing video, photos, or audio.
Last month I snuck into Bianchi USA HQ in Hayward, California. They have all of the new 2009 bikes tucked away in a room, but I didn’t have to drop in from a skylight to get to them. I saw some tasty items but I couldn’t ride them because A) No 49cm sizes and B) these are meant to be the show bikes for Interbike.
For 2009, the Mono-Q carbon road race bike compliments the more expensive T-Cube and SL (now called Superleggera) , the Gran Fondo-style 928 C2C carbon gets some sweet graphics, there’s a carbon CX bike, and strong offerings (particularly steel) below $2K for the everyman.
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Check this out Phelps! All my USCF bike racing medals combined. And they weighed so much around my neck, I had to take them off to prevent injury.
I brought them out because Pam was parading around Hugga HQ with her well-deserved Silver Medal. I should’ve written on them with a sharpie what they were for, as I can’t remember all of them; though, for one I was the only one that showed up, so I won Gold!
Also handy to to prove that I didn’t become a Cat 2 in some back-room deal with an official who wanted some hugga socks.
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Maybe this will run on TV, or I have to find it online somewhere, or something. But anyway, cool BMX is in the Olympics, let’s see CycloCross in the Winter Olympics next.
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Last weekend, at the Firehouse in North Portland, we enjoyed pilsner pints, roasted chicken, fire-brick oven salmon and this hearty bread with olive oil. With that good meal, we recovered from a very fast crit, we’re asleep by 9:00, and ready for another race day.
What’s your favorite post race or ride food?
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The nice folks from Clever Cycles (who make the stokemonkey electric assist — Sure wish I could get one) went camping and touring up to Breitenbush Hot Springs, racking up some impressive stats along the way: Family of 3; 7 day trip; 193 miles, 2 longtail cargo bikes @ 150 lbs each; 12,000 feet of climbing and almost 12 mph the whole way. Even more impressive: a car would have to get 2,206 MPG to match the energy spent on the electrical assist.
Most impressive? Long distance, car free travel for a family. It’s unlikely that my fam will be doing this any time soon, but just having come back from 5 hrs in the van to get to the Goat Rocks the appeal of a few days trip on an electric assist bike is pretty strong. What’s your best bike/camping story of the summer (so far)?
I was recently asked to put a top-ten bike blog list together for blogs.com and I pulled these from my feedreader
Readers, do you have bike blogs to add?
Note: It’s remarkable how many bike blogs there are and I’m talking about that on a Social Media Panel next month during Interbike.
Wow, just look at that. That’s a warehouse of Green Bikes ready to be deployed out into Seattle’s streets. Read more about Project Green Bike. We haven’t seen that much green since Hempfest!
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Listening to NPR Marketplace on the ride home tonight I heard Sean Cole interview Mike Flanigan of ANT bicycles. It was a refreshing viewpoint - hopefully the NPR masses will start heeding the call to two wheels! Read the transcript here or grab the podcast.
What’cha think? I got a few more rides in these shitty shoes? The cracked pleather, worn out Velcro — I think those shoes have seen better days. However, I’ve worn those since I first started riding and just can’t throw them away.
What gear are you attached to that maybe better to just retire? Do you have a pair of shitty shoes?
I didn’t go, but luckily the Interwebs are full of good pics. Photo Credit to Mark Stevenson by way of Richard Masoner
This sharp dressed man integrated a tandem into wedding day festivities. Find out more about Vélocouture after the jump.
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I spotted this photo on Tim Jackson’s blog (he works marketing for Masi). This is a mini velo-style bicycle meant for the Japanese market. Mini velo can describe any bike with small wheels (generally 20” or smaller) including folding bikes, but there is a subset that resemble road bikes with tiny wheels.
It’s like a Smartcar for cramped city riding….doesn’t take much space to park either. Mini velos are popular in Japan, but as of yet no one sells them in the states.
... Read more »The wave of press on RideCivil continues at the Seattle PI’s the Big Blog. There’s a shout-out to Bikehugger.com in there too.
Much of the post is about the differences (and similarities) between RideCivil and Critical Mass. Amazingly, the comment tide hasn’t yet turned, it’s about 50/50 between pro-cyclists and against. Hop on over and make your voice heard on the PI site, or on the RideCivil blog.
Behind the stacks you glimpse an axe The tension mounts you score an ounce Ole!
Granted quoting that line from Uncle Albert may make me further realize how old I am, like watching Tim on Project Runway explain to Blayne who Sergeant Pepper is. Anywho, it’s that time of year when the press releases, hype, party planning, leaks, and news starts to happen about Interbike. Of course, we’ll bring our coverage with more hugganess than ever. I’ll spare you the press releases here and post the better ones on our Interbike specific blog. Like this Macaframa video I just spotted … .
I asked our Hugga in CO about the cop “smashing” a cyclist’s face and he found this YouTube video and local news report.
The detectives admit they punched, kicked and choked Heaney during the arrest. In police reports, the officers say they used excessive force because Heaney punched Cordova in the nose. Heaney denies he hit the officers.
Last month Fort Collins was in the news for tensions between cops and cyclists.
Editorial note: interesting coincidence to have two cop-related posts today. We hope that’s not a trend.
Every 4 years, I’m reminded why I don’t watch much of NBC’s Olympic Coverage and that’s because they mostly just cover swimming, for some reason synchronized diving, more swimming, gymnastics, and this year 24 hours of Phelps. That being said, it was cool to see Tom Brokaw riding around Beijing on a Flying Pigeon earlier this week and today the NYT reports on a ride with Olympian Jason McCartney.
As our readers know, we rode all over Beijing, and for us it wasn’t scary at all. Millions of people do it everyday. But it ain’t no lazy bike path and you’ve really got to just go with the flow. Also, with the pollution controls in place and traffic limited, Olympic visitors are riding in less than 1/2 the traffic we did.
Coincidentally, Jason is riding the same bike our colleague Bryan bought and rode during our stay.
We haven’t heard much follow-up since the Critical Mass violence in Seattle, but we did get a reader tip that the Seattle Police Department was considering putting their officers on bikes like this 15-gun Sniper Bike for the next CM ride …
This wonder of police engineer would shoot in all directions and most likely end like a Wile E. Coyote cartoon. Also, only effective on the flats — you’re not getting that bad-boy up Yesler.
Note that I don’t know if a top tube has ever been designed with gun barrels since then. Better for plowshares.
Hugga hat tip to Douglas Planker. Photo credit: Tribune archive photo.
RideCivil.com is alive, baby! We’ve got our landing page up, as well as our blog. Check in there for our ride announcements, ride reports, the video of the 8/8/08 ride being swarmed by scooters, all your RideCivil needs.
What’s this report in my inbox … back the Portland bike love bus right on up! The Oregonian reports that the City is shifting gears on bike boxes and more.
After installing eight green bike boxes since March, the city is changing its approach at seven other intersections identified as potentially dangerous.
Photo credit: Bike Portland.
Last month we spotted the Green Bike frame and here’s the bike. The project launches next week. We’re attending the ceremony with posts to follow.
Green Bike is a collaboration between King County, Cascade, and REI to provide bikes to commuters that drive their cars less. It’s directed at large companies in the Pacific Northwest.
Fun little bicycle app for iphone. What does it do?
Evaluate current or potential Gearing Ratios, calculate Gain Ratios, Gear Inches, and Development. Use the Skid Patch Analyzer to visualize and minimize your fixed-gear’s tire wear. Explore equivalent gearing configurations that let you reuse parts you already have.
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Saw this motorscooter on Capitol Hill. Notice the “Schwinn” logo. I looked up the website and read the marketing schtick. It’s been the better part of two decades since a Schwinn family member had control over the Schwinn brand. It must suck for Richard Schwinn at Waterford Bicycles.
I want to believe that the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is fighting to make all sports better and clean, but every quote from some figure of WADA makes me crazy. Cyclingnews reports that John Fahey, the successor to infamous WADA chief and current IOC official Dick Pound, states that WADA may recommend that the International Olympic Committee remove weightlifting and cycling from the Olympics because of their history of rampant doping.
Yeah riiiight. Because those two sports are dirty compared to….I don’t know, track and field? I mean, there’s been no history of doping in track and field. And if there has been, it certainly hasn’t led to Olympic medals being reassigned or world records being invalidated.
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To many cyclists, their bicycles seem to take on a life of their own, they treat them like old friends. To me personally, I don’t think of my bikes as being living, sentient beings. But I while I will never think of a bike as being alive, I assure you that they can be dead.
Take the bike of 2008 Dead Baby Bike Race winner Jacob Dwyer. I ran into him as I was leaving the greatest video store on the planet, Scarecrow Video. He showed me his road bike which was broken clean through the seat tube.
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Honorthestop.org is making is personal. Wear the colors, get the card and take the pledge to obey all roadway laws and to respectfully encourage others to do the same. They were recently featured in the New York Times. The campaign isn’t just for cyclists, it’s for all roadway users.
Marc Evans started the campaign after an on-duty sherriff’s deputy killed Kristy Gough and Matt Peterson who were training for a triathlon.
Good to see these guys stepping up to the plate and making a personal commitment to riding safely and legally.
The NYT reports on road tension between cyclists, cars, and pedestrians
Cars, bikes and pedestrians all scramble for space in Manhattan.
with quotes from BikeSnobNYC
I’m taking photos of people who almost kill me.
The article recounts a handful of recent incidents, but doesn’t mention the Critical Mass violence in Seattle or deaths. I’ve been bookmarking cycling deaths in the news as I see them.
Seattle PI blogs about the story and there’s the predictable bike hate response.
With three Eno Freewheels floating around on various single speed wheelsets these days, I finally picked up a White Industries freewheel removal tool. I love the heft and precision of it. While it has a narrow and specific utility, I’m reminded that a well made tool can evoke the type of emotion one experiences when connecting with a piece of art. I scanned through old hugger posts and enjoyed reading about Mark’s obscure headset tool, and “Pro Tool Super,” and I thought I’d open this up to the forum again. What are your favorite tools, and why?
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We came, we rode, we smiled (and waved). August’s Ridecivil was a smash success — we had about 30 riders, news coverage by the major outlets, a ton of fun, and no traffic conflicts.
We also learned a ton about how to conduct a large ride like this. Before we left the park I asked the riders to take responsibility for their own riding, for keeping the group as a whole together, and to agree to a few basic principals and goals. I have to admit, my little speech didn’t instantly convert the crew into a synchronized cycling team, but we kept it together across many red lights, merges and turns. Big thanks to all the riders for this, especially the leads and sweeps.
... Read more »In case you’ve been living under a rock, there’s a form of velodrome racing in Japan known as keirin , and the bikes used in the professional ranks are made to very exact, high quality standards yet are almost anachronistically traditional in design.
But what you might not have known is that professional keirin exists in Korea as well. When I was in Korea a few years ago, I didn’t have enough time to find a track. I hadn’t thought much about Korean keirin until a customer came into the shop a few weeks ago with a keirin bike with distinctly Korean characters on it.
If you’re in the Seattle area, come on over to downtown Kirkland to support a new race. There are lots of restaurants and a couple pubs with seating only feet from the course. Criterium racing is fast and furious and great for spectators. Got kids? - bring them too and enter them in the kids’ race that starts at 6:10pm. Main event is 7:30 and will end just around sunset.
EBB, Hugga’s host shop and home to Davidson, is featured in Bicycling’s September issue. The Hugga jersey is shown in the photo — center right.
While photographing the Moto Totem, this tourist with a Panasonic PR 2000 passed by.
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Reminder: today is our monthly RideCivil event. We’ll gather between 5:30 and 6:15 at Westlake Center park, then have a socially paced, unscripted group ride through down town with a focus on fun, safety and civility between all road users.
We’ve received a lot of attention this month, including some help hosting our own site (the blog’s coming, I swear!), some artwork, and even some press on KUOW. Special thanks to the folks making it happen. Speaking of, come on down and make it happen this evening. Hope to see you there!
Finally! A quality US made steel rain bike with a high quality disc wheelset, pure road geometry, and still sub 20lbs! Lots more to come here.
Update - hit the extended story to get the build. I’m getting mine with the new PowerTap Disc Wireless hub!
... Read more »Cervelo SA, maker of Team CSC’s Tour de France conquering bicycles, launched a test-ride program this year across the states and Canada. Here Fletch Newland talks about e-Ride outside of Gregg’s Bellevue Cycles on August 3.
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A drawing from nemu nemu — weekly web comic — and their take on the Olympic characters.
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We’re following the Olympics here
Readers,
Do you have blogs to add to the list?
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Spotted on Flickr, a collection of Rim Art.
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After infiltrating Bianchi USA headquarters, I drove up to Santa Rosa to hang with Jeremy of Sycips Designs. He built my travel bike. Here he is in Huggacast 47.
... Read more »Huggacast 46 highlights the Zed one-piece crankset from LOOK Cycles. The crank fits the new LOOK 596 time trial frame.
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That’s a Civia built with Afline and Rohloff hub. Hugga spotted the bike at a shop last weekend — retails at about 3K. What’s remarkable about the bike is that there’s a market for a 3K commuter and the shop has sold a few. Those dollars could’ve gone to a high-end road, mountain, or custom bike. There was a lot of discussion about Civia when they first launched: was the US market finally ready (again) for Euro-style commuters, would anyone even buy a 1K commuter? Well, the answer is yes!
Talking with Civia a couple weeks ago, I learned that they’ve got another unique model coming in 09. We’ll post the details as soon as we get them. With Interbike coming up — the bike industry trade show — we’re also on the look out for more bikes like this.
Note: Alfine with Rohloff is one sweet set up.
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One of my favorite areas to ride is out in Southwest King County down by Black Diamond. The rolling hills, quiet roads, and all the different livestock (I once saw an emu) make for some interesting routes. This Labor Day weekend the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is hosting a ride of various lengths - up to a century. It’s a chance to do a supported ride that actually means something. Get out and ride!
Who needs a cargo bike when you can do this?
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USA Cycling Athletes arrived in Beijing wearing facemasks and causing controversy. Yes, they could’ve took those off for the greeting line and then back on, but there’s irony that a country obsessed with “face” (I wrote about that yesterday), has athletes covering theirs. I expect long commentary about the masks. One upside of the Beijing Olympics and air quality is the anticipation of new, breakthrough asthma medications for people like myself.
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While I was down in Hayward CA visiting Bianchi, I got a chance to fondle the new Campagnolo Ergopower for Veloce. I didn’t actually get to ride it, but I can tell straight off if I’m gonna like a handlebar or hood. I’m not a Campagnolo fan at heart, but I gotta tell ya…I kinda like the new lever. It felt good in my hands. However, I keep hearing a lot of unkind words about the aesthetics. What’s your judgement: enlightened functionality or just plain hideous?
Flickr contributor and resident of Denmark, Zakkaliciousness, posted this road view of tour riders as the peloton convoy passed through town. There is no fancy editing or camera work here. The focus is actually on the spectators as 700c wheels and support vehicles whip past the camera resting on cobble stone streets. I love the perspective in this little video, and catching a glimpse of European cycling culture is fun too.
A tip from a reader just came in with snaps of the 2009 Trek Madone. I have a 2008 Madone and love it - so what’s new on ‘09? Looks like the folks in Waterloo may have finally gone to a replaceable hanger. For the racing set - this is good news. There have been plenty of frames mangled from crashing on the right side just because the hanger got bent. To Trek’s credit thought I’ve bent my hanger on a couple of different frames and each time the integrated hanger was repareable (i.e. just bend it back straight).
Here’s my concern: Trek runs SRAM. SRAM is notoriously intolerant of mis-aligned hangers. Just being off a little tends to throw me all out of whack. I don’t think Shimano has this issue because their top pulley has float too it - at least that’s the best I could come up with. Anyway, in the case of a replaceable hanger, it’s been my experience that the hanger tends to have some play in it based on how tight the skewer is. Seems that getting it “just right” enough for my SRAM to be crisp may be a challenge. Time will tell!
What this Crazy Bike Inventions — from Gizmodo — video shows is how “what’s old is new” in the bike industry. Recumbents, mini recumbents, giant bike via the Devil, mini bike like the Japanese. Even a slingshot at 4:59!; I didn’t see any electronic shifting, but it’s probably there … What did you notice?
When visting a place that changes your worldview and resets how you think of life in general, it takes a while to process that and then even more time to best explain it with words that are more insightful than, “amazing, fascinating, interesting.” Bike Hugger has been to China 3 times and with the Olympics approaching, I wanted to share our previous coverage and some thoughts.
Before Surly and Soma, Bianchi’s Pista was and is the archetypal affordable fixed gear. For 2009 Bianchi introduces a flatbar version of their classic.
I don’t have a tandem; I’ve never thought about how to transport one on your car. I spotted this Rube Goldberg-esque contraption, and it inspired the question… How do you take your tandem if it isn’t taking you?
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I managed to make it out to the start of the Dead Baby Bike Race XII (thanks Peter!) and snapped a few photos. The Dead Babies are Seattle’s largest mutant bike gang club, filled to the brim w/ alternative bike culture. I don’t think I saw a single swatch of spandex on any of the racers or attendees, although I’m not sure they qualify as ‘plain clothes’ cyclists either.
More photos in the Bikehugger urban bikes group…
SXSW 09 published a great -looking new site and a quick note that we’ll represent again at their event with even more hugganess. Details TBA.
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RideCivil™ is a Bike Hugger gift to the cycling community — our response to recent Critical Mass violence in Seattle, NYC, and elsewhere. You are free to remix, re-use, and share the RideCivil artwork as a flyer, shirt, jerseys, socks, thong bikini, tattoo, or whatever works. Please blog and link love it. We hope other cyclists RideCivil in their communities. Watch for a related website and ride plans to follow.
The RideCivil mark and artwork are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.
The artwork was created by Drew Carlson and distributed by Bike Hugger.
A 300 DPI, PDF version is available for download here.
I am so excited to be the first cycling journalist to objectively evaluate the new Grand Central Sliced/Campagnolo. Grand Central Baking is not a name cyclists often associate with our beautiful sport, but if Grand Central wants to fly me to a foreign country for a product launch, I might be willing to change that. And I am here to tell you that the Sliced/Campagnolo is, in a word, amazing.
In a wildly innovative approach, Grand Central abandons current carbon fibre technology in favour of using hydrates of carbon atoms. These “carbon-hydrates†are similar to the cellulose fibre used in Calfee Bamboo frame bikes. Carbon-hydrates have the potential to be an even greater industry revolution and life-changing event than Nanotube technology. Why? Two reasons.
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