May 2010 Archives

As Joe said, “look at that, all the money is on the front line.”

And this is a Cat 4 race. 2 aluminum wheels in the front of the starting line, 3 in the second row, and mostly aluminum in the 3rd.

Checked in with Jacquie Phelan about women and cycling. She said her opinion was best expressed in this cartoon created by her and Greta Snider in 1993.

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Minimal chain maintenance and long chain life since it remains clean and lubricated for long periods. Clean clothes and no need to secure trouser legs are also plusses — WorkCycles

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Several captions apply to this photo, but the strongest conclusion is these guys were from out of town.

Because in the rain, without a rain bike, your bike and body are going to get soaked in about 3 seconds. Didn’t shoot video, but if I did, you’d see the plastic all flapping and tattered and sounding like, well, plastic bags flapping in the wind.

The topic of the week was women and cycling …

• Women as Outcasts In Cycling Industry
• It’s Women’s Fault
• Maybe the Industry Understands Women Just Fine?

Props to Lahood

Ray Lahood was honored in DC for his bike awesomeness. Note the faces in the crowd. Do the cyclist you ride with look like that?

Remember the other day when I was complaining about how the bike industry doesn’t understand women and how buying a bike is intimidating to some? Color me wrong. Just got a tweet about this and clearly everyone is now on the same page about the topic of women and cycling.

There’s a point in the season, even for us Pacific Northwest cyclists, when we’re done with riding in the rain. That time is now.

For the commuters that commuter, even when it’s not Bike to Work Day, they just put their rain shoes on and heads down. For racers, it’s especially unpleasant. It’s not that we’re pussies, or hard, or not determined. It’s that we’ve been doing it now since last October!

So what happened was

Andrew was sitting behind the articulation point on a bus, with a new rim in a wheelbag, and the bus took a right turn. The wheelbag was captured in the articulation point between the seats and the wheel was compressed as the bus turned.

Andrew nearly lost a finger trying to pull it free.

Likely made a horrific sound as well.

We spent a day at a local race. In its 15th year, the Mutual of Enumclaw Stage Race attracted record numbers and some nasty weather. Highlights include James Stangleand from the Keller Rohrback Cycling team explaining to us why he doesn’t like Mud Mountain.

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From the Hot Dudes on Bikes group pool.

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Another video of our ride with Globe BIkes in San Francisco. Later that day, we ended up at the Disposable Film Festival.

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After my post yesterday about cycling’s difficulty addressing the needs of the female cyclist we received a lot of great feedback. One of the tweets we got (from a female cyclist) really summed up the issue, and now I see that we’ve been looking at this all wrong.

“@specializedwmn @bikehugger a lot of women walk in not knowing what they want, they need to do research and ask the right questions”

Ah yes, it’s the fault of the women. They walk into bike stores without having done the research. Why, they should find out more about the products.

Where might they do that? Oh, how about at a retail establishment that sells the products they’re interested in, that has employees that surround themselves with the products (often going to take expensive classes in fit and selection) and that are in the business of selling bikes?

Nah, let them read a few years of Bicycling magazine and Road Bike Action, that’ll give them all the info they need. Then they can march into the store, demand exactly the frame and components they want, recite their measurements and build and fit the bike themselves.

Luckily, men never walk into stores without educating themselves first, imagine if we had to have a salesperson actually help us?

A couple weeks ago, rode with Globe in San Francisco. I tried out their new Daily, a simple bike for the city. As Garrett told me, “not so much dutchness.” The thing about Globe is the details and there are lots of them.

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The Ghost of Sheldon Brown commands you to spell it derailer!

One of the things I find most disappointing about the bike industry is how it just does not understand women.

For all the “women-specific” bikes (which are nothing more than men’s bikes with shorter stems and short-reach levers) there just isn’t enough of an understanding of a women’s cycling needs in the biz. Take any new-to-cycling woman or even an advanced amateur and throw them into a bike shop that carries a few women-specific frames and generally they come out more confused than satisfied.

There are two reasons for this. The first is that most of the local bike shops out there aren’t selling a custom fit, they’re selling a commodity. Carbon, steel, aluminum—the bikes on the rack are pre-ordered before a season starts and then they are offloaded before the end of the season. Women’s bikes just add to the SKUs that a bike store has to carry, which means that instead of being able to carry fewer models and then tweak the build for the customer shops buy the complete bikes and make fewer part swaps.

That adds an economy of scale to a bike shop but it removes the subtle configuration tweaks that individually address the needs of the customers. This is more like purchasing a car than a truly fit item. Imagine going into a store and picking your “size” for clothes and buying the complete wardrobe only in one size. Medium pants would mean medium shirts, size nine shoes and medium socks. What happens if you have big feet or a wide torso? Well you end up fitting your clothes like the Hulk fits his.

Sundress, flip flops, shades, and shopping bags.

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Maker Faire photos from Cyclelicious with more Steampunk

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It went like this, “you wanna ride? I think so … then, hey slow down!” Will post the video I was shooting in another post.

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As I said on Twitter

We’re covering local racing this weekend because we’re done with Pro racing and this era of dopers, bitterness, and controversy.

We love the sport itself and when Landis was first accused I wrote, “I don’t believe anything about professional cycling anymore. I just believe in the bike,” and enjoy how the sport is thriving at the local level.

I raced earlier in the week in Portland at PIR with 85 guys — we were there for the Mobile Social — and then onto the Mutual of Enumclaw Stage Race with over 500 racers.

Pro 1/2

The majority of those racers are spending their weekends racing because that’s what they love to do. Fitting in the training while working and sacrificing their free time for a prime in the crit or a good overall result.

Check those clean welds.

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We could be heroes, just for one day.

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Despite dodgy weather, Cascade Bicycle Club hosted another successful Bike To Work Day here in Seattle. Sponsored by Seattle-based F5, Cascade staff and volunteers manned numerous “commute stations” along popular cycling corridors and provided refreshments and mechanical help to enthusiastic cycling participants.

Today is the big push for two-wheeled transportation, but remember the whole of May is Bike To Work Month. Technically speaking, I might not have ever participated in BTW Day. The last several years my work schedule hasn’t included Friday, so I haven’t ridden to work. Of course, I don’t own a car, so for me it’s kinda been “bike to work decade”, but with BTW Month in the bloom of spring, hopefully more people can initiate a change to include cycling as part of their daily transportation.

Of course, once you ride “to” work, what are you gonna do after you punch out at the end of your work day? Why don’t you come to the Cascade BTW After Party in Ballard? There will be venders there to show off cycling products, pizza, and beer from New Belgium Brewery! Tonight 4-7PM !

Walking back to the office I caught this Seattle PD motorcycle cop pulling over a messenger. As best I can tell the cop was writing him up for take a left across a double yellow (?). The cyclist was on 3rd and took a left and hopped up on the curb on the opposite side of the road. I’m not really sure what the correct move is there or why it’s illegal - any ideas? Maybe it was a helmet ticket since he only had a hairnet on? Who knows - but Happy Bike to Work Day from the Seattle PD.

I’m a big proponent of following the laws while riding, but this one wasn’t an obvious violation that I saw - maybe I missed something.

Will from Boxcycles wrote to tell us that

After years of saying no to anyone asking if they could import the bikes to the the States, we are starting a joint venture to bring the legendary bikes to the American market. we are starting a joint venture to bring the legendary bikes to the American market.

A small test launch will take place this summer and you are welcome to participate. Check their blog for the details.

My Baron Outsider disk rain bike in its element - you can’t see from the Blackberry camera, but it was raining sheets and the wind was blowing up whitecaps on the lake.

Today is Bike to Work Day here in Seattle. Weather was mostly nice and I saw tons of people on the ride in. Earlier this week we had a day here in Seattle were it was sunny skies all day, but there was a “Severe Weather Warning” for the afternoon. It didn’t look possible when I started my 2:00 meeting, but when I got out at 3:00 it was threatening and by 4:30, as I was riding home a slight drizzle turned into a downpour. Thankfully I had the right gear and it wasn’t too bad, but I saw quite a few folks without fender and rain jackets that must have gotten soaked. Let’s hope it stays decent for the ride home tonight.

Not only was she happy about how great she looked in this, she got a good booth deal. These are on sale online now through the end of the month with the rest of our gear.

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We’re in Portland and Mark is in Seattle with posts to follow from Bike to Work Day 2010.

Also see posts from

• Seattle Likes Bikes
• Car Free Days
• Cascade Bike Club

Sadly, in pur neighborhood, there was a car/cyclist collision yesterday, as posted by the West Seattle Blog. We didn’t see it, but heard it looked terrible and reports are the cyclist is ok.

After WebVisions yesterday, Greg Raisman — Portland’s Traffic Safety Planner — took me on a bike geek tour and to a special workshop where they make crazy cargo bikes like this one.

Bike to Work Everyday

The trike is for biking to work everyday and is a prototype for B-Line.

Trucker Trike

More on that soon and for you Cargonistas, that’s like a Monster Truck built by Stites Design.

That’s a new bike in the background.

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Group hug from all the speakers after The (un)Wired Future of Bikes. We’ll wrap the event up in follow-on posts. As an attendee told me, bikes and technology generated a lot of ideas for him.

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Matt with his Desalvo Cross Bike in the Bike Hugger/Mac Create photo booth at Webvisions, powered by Aperture 3 in tethered shooting mode.

Here’s Abby with her Sweetpea.

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We’re at Webvisions for their 10th anniversary event and giving away this bike with an iPhone mount attached.

We’ve also got a Mac Create photobooth to Flickr setup and all of our gear is on sale.

This afternoon, it’s the The (un)Wired Future of Bikes …

To enter the Dahon giveaway, drop you business card in the Crumpler bag.

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In what is sure to be the biggest discussion amongst followers of pro cycling for, well probably forever, Floyd Landis has (according to the Wall Street Journal) admitted to doping in a series of letters to members of USA Cycling.

If that weren’t enough, Landis has detailed the doping procedures he says were taught to him by Armstrong and Bruyneel and were de-rigeur with other teammates.

Rather than list all the details of this doping admission and accusation, we’re going to recommend you go read the Wall Street Journal article, and then see if you ever have faith in professional cycling again.

Wait … is it raining?

It is raining!

This couple is waiting for it to pass, under a bus shelter.

Amsterdam Protocol

What we do when this happens during a Mobile Social is enact the Amsterdam Protocol: ride to the nearest pub and drink beer.

The Amsterdam Protocol was developed by our friend Marc from Amsterdamized when we were in Amsterdam earlier this year. It was snowing and 31 degrees. We rode right to a pub, drank beer, and talked blogging and bikes.

See you at the Oregon Convention Center, 6 PM, MLK side, near the bike racks. We’ll take a vote on the nearest pub, ride there, have a beer. Then to the Webvisions Party at Lucky Lab in the Pearl.

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There’s nothing wrong with a good Crusade, especially when it’s the name of a new bike from Traitor Cycles. This single-speed ‘cross bike has sexy s-bend stays, super-hot Columbus tubing, internal brake cable routing and a steel fork. At $699 it’s got a nice price too.

In PDX today to get ready for Webvisions I ran into Julian with his prototype bike from his company Organic Bikes (organicbikes.com) outside Powell’s Books.

The bikes are made of aluminum lugs with bamboo tubing from a company in China that’s got a long history of making hockey sticks. By reducing the amount of metal used in the bikes they become more environmentally friendly.

Julian’s ridden this bike all over but honestly I think the rider’s just as interesting as the bike here. Where else but portland do you find a guy with blaze-orange hair, bright yellow hat and super-blue jacket riding on a bike made partially of bamboo?

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We’re in Portland later today for our Mobile Social Remix: party, ride, talks at Webvisions, blogger lounge, and lots of riding.

Last year, Bike Portland and others joined us.

We hope to see you there. We’ll meet tomorrow at the Oregon Convention Center at 6:00 PM (MLK side near the bike racks) on 5/19 and ride to Lucky Lab in the Pearl for Webvisions 10th Anniversary Party. Our urban rides or always a relaxed, no-drop pace. We ride rain or shine, but will cut it short if it’s pouring.

Yesterday was Seattle’s chance to get serious about some big wheels and beer at New Belgium Brewery’s Urban Assault Ride. For the Seattle date, the event was held in support of Bike Works. I wasn’t able to attend, but I did catch up with a few participants who had nothing but great things to say about the event.

Lisa Miller is one of the fine people that make cycling happen in Seattle. She and her Ragnarok Racing team put on some great cross races in the fall. Some serious folks in pink and baby blue - here’s what she had to say about the event:

“This was the first year that any of us Ragnarokers participated in the event and we really didn’t know what to expect. We were all pleasantly surprised by how much fun we had, what a great workout we got (this coming from bike racers - that’s huge), and simply how “cool” this event is. Ending the day with our favorite New Belgium beer was like frosting on the cake, what a treat! And adding the cause of BikeWorks, we couldn’t think of any better way to spend a day on our bikes. Our entire team will no doubt support this awesome event with great enthusiasm in 2011!”

And a couple other folks for the Ragnarok Squads:

“Would do that race again in an instant!”

“I was glad that I actually had to use my brain and not just my brawn.”

“Man, my legs are wasted.”

UPDATE: A friend of mine did a great write up here about his experience: Criminale Blog.

Sounds like a blast. I’ll be there next year for sure.

Photo’s from Lisa Miller of Ragnarok Racing

We first met Globe Bikes last year and were impressed then, but noticed the brand was a bit muddled — like a teenager in a prom dress. Pretty enough, but not that well put together yet. It needed a few years in college or several long bike rides to get sure of itself and where it fit in the world. It helps now that they’ve got a new Director and more freedom to be themselves. At the corporate level, Specialized is behind this brand and it shows. Globe Bikes has matured and added a new bike to their line.

Movement

Globe bikes are about moving people in all sorts of ways — from recreation, to errands, to utility. For 2010, there are incremental updates and a new bike — the Daily — that I rode around for an afternoon with the team and other media in San Francisco.

The Daily is do-everything bike that I labeled a cafe racer because I could just cruise around on it or throw down a commuter challenge (had an eye on Garrett, waiting for a move). I’ll cover the Daily more in a follow-on post and podcast. It has details like a bolt-on aluminum rack and front basket with an intergrated u-lock holder. It sells for $400.00 — $600.00

Someday, when we’re retired, we’ll patrol the bike paths to drop random roadies and show up with crazy velomobiles like this or this. This too.

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Three times a week I work out hard with a trainer at a gym. It’s like sex. I don’t mean it feels good. On the contrary, it hurts. And I don’t mean there’s cuddling after. What makes my hard workouts like sex is that they’re followed by a spacey bliss in which there is no atom of desire. When I’m lying on that post-workout stretching table, gazing vaguely at the ceiling, Christina Hendricks could sashay by wearing a G-string made of thousand dollar bills and carrying a plate of spaghetti, and there’s nothing I would want from her.

via www.zeldman.com

I started riding everywhere I traveled - to and from conferences - to stay in shape, clear the head, and I found my best thoughts and ideas came on the bike. I’m convinced us designers, developers, and content makers need to get active and away from the keyboard. Various ideas about “geeks getting fit” have been discussed over the years and I never wanted to get preachy about it or accuse our industry of being fat. Just ride, set up some events, and hope others would join me. Ya know, lead by example sort of thing

Eventually and incidentally, at An Event Apart, we started the Mobile Socials . That’s our venue to ride a bike and connect with colleagues outside of the office and in person. @zeldman writes about what motivates him in his Web Design and Fitness post and I give it a very enthusiastic like-button click.

Right on Zeldman Bro. Let’s ride soon and we’ll get you more gear. While you’re in Boston, we’re in Portland riding with our web colleagues.

This is my wife’s new custom Sweetpea frame, a bike that we can call truly custom because not only did we get the dimensions tailored exactly right but because I designed the paint job.

Abby, my wife, has Scottish ancestry and her own family tartan. The paint scheme I designed is inspired by the colors of that tartan, with varying width bars that represent the frequency of the colors in the tartan.

I’ve designed as number of bike jerseys before but this is my first bike, and I’m damn pleased at how it came out.

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In anytown USA, there are parking lot warm ups

races around city blocks

and recovery drinks.

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Brought this bag of Bicycle Coffee back from SFO and have been making ‘spresso with it since.

Great coffee and delivered by bike. For more on bikes and coffee, see Bicycle Coffee Systems.

This is Tyler Johnson at the monthly fixed gear gathering in Seattle known as Future Tense. It’s generally acknowledged that he’s one of the best fixed gear riders around.

Future Tense happens every 2nd Friday of the month.

As a gear test, Pam bought these ridiculous glasses from Bonktown for $26.00.

“Take them off quick!,” was the response from me. She didn’t and eventually complained how sweaty her face got behind them and the weight was hurting her nose.

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Globe Bikes SF

Rode with Globe Bikes in SF. For 2010, their bikes received incremental updates and there’s a new Cafe Racer called the Daily. More photos and video on Monday next week.

Tragedy

A tragedy on the road in Montreal with 3 cyclists killed and 3 injured.

Dining

Spoke and Food is a new cycling and dining event in Seattle on June 29th with 12 restaurants.

Ride with The Ethicist

Streetfilms rides around with “The Ethicist.”

MoSo PDX Remix

Next week we’re in Portland for a Mobile Social Remix.

Urban

Continued the urban riding after San Francisco in Seattle and took photos along the way, including Tom from Amazon.com and Brady from Ignite Seattle.

I was always suspicious that bikes would get moved around the garage whenever I’m traveling — come back and they maybe weren’t in the same place. Was someone riding them or what?

Well Pam couldn’t help but take this photo and prove she takes demo bikes out!

That’s the Raleigh Rush Hour with flatbar on Alki, looking at Seattle in the background.

Bikes “parked” at the office. We get more bikes showing up this time of year - and it’s a good thing! Looking forward to riding in the Seattle sun this afternoon. No need for fenders on these sorts of days.

When the tune-ups, repairs, and bike assemblies stack up, I have to have my corner of the bike shop a certain way. That’s not to say “clean”; actually my mechanic’s corner typically looks like a garbage truck horrifically collided with a critical mass ride. I gotta have my favourite tools somewhere on my bench, my iPod hooked up to the stereo, and a cup of ice-chilled Diet Pepsi. And when I need to really motor, I get a can of Rockstar and chase it with the Diet Pepsi. Strangely, one of the tools I rely on the most is a spoke that I’ve sharpened on the belt-sander to create a pick. Terribly useful for clearing the plastic liner of freshly cut cable housing and a myriad of other uses that escapes my mind at the moment. All I know is that I use that spoke all the time. Every so often someone else loses it or destroys it, and I have to make a new one. My construction technique is now highly refined. Note the square handle by which it can hang. Also, I leave just a little bit of the spoke thread on where I grind the point, so I can use it as a bore or a file as well.

Besides all that fur, Kitty is adorned with grapes, bells

and a nice, long tail (with light).

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First Public Bikes we’ve seen and spotted it last night at the Disposable Film Festival bike-in movie. Note how low the seat is set up

the scrimping cable-guides

and a head tube badge on the down tube, just being different apparently.

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I’ll have more to post back in Seattle, but the highlight of the day with Globe Bikes and their 2010 line, was the new Daily, a cafe-racer style bike.

Rear Rack

Front Rack

Butted aluminum, choice of racks, and drivetrains — all nicely equipped. This single speed I rode sells for $400.00.

More photos in our photostream … videos and podcast to follow.

There’s a new campaign about bike security in London. People don’t know how to lock their bikes :(

Here’s one video that has been produced to support it:

Photo: AP via Daylife

“Loving it that we don’t do motorcades in this country. PM’s Jaguar just gave way to several bicyclists on its way to Downing Street.”
— @thebikeshow

Steven Vance has a website about Nishiki and it includes a 1987 catalog with photos like this …

Sweatsuit badass on his bike

Climb your MTB to the top of a scenic ridge and let your body air out.

Tilting windmills

Fly past the windmill farm on Altamont Pass.

There’s a thing that I’ve noticed in some web journalism of late—the article without a conclusion, balancing of facts or a real point. I’m not sure if it’s an attempt of the mainstream media to preset a “balanced” article without injecting a bias, but it’s odd for someone with a background in journalism. The problem is, it’s only really visible when the content is about something you’re familiar with.

This cropped up today in this CNN article titled “Drivers, bicyclists clash on road sharing.” and while it’s a pretty good look at some of the bike-car conflicts in the world, it utterly lacks any verification of facts or balance.

For example, the article cites a radio DJ who said

“The roads were made for cars,” KTAR-FM radio guest host John Hook said in Phoenix, Arizona, last month. “And bicyclists share the road, but sometimes they think they own the road.”

Without mentioning the fact that roads were made for bikes. Okay that’s a historical issue so sure let that slide, but then it follows up with a citation of the $730 million in stimulus funding for bike and pedestrian projects with this:

Before we talked about who had the best carbon layup, where bikes were actually made, and dope in the sport, it was bikes like this with rims like that.

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Where is this place? It’s like a Mentos commercial …

with nice gloves.

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The bikes we write about all do something. They travel, commute, race, and carry cargo. Spotted this cruiser on Alki this weekend

The San Jose Mercury News profiles Alex LaRiviere, a bicycle accident investigator.

Photo: Pauline Lubens, Mercury News

“This bike is a little snapshot of time,” says LaRiviere, 52, a self-taught, self-described “bike nut” who has built a national reputation reconstructing bicycle accidents in legal cases. Through a prism of scrapes, nicks and tire bruises, he sees this particular tragedy on instant replay: “The cyclist saw the semi-truck turning in front of him. He had three-quarters of a second to turn the bike to the right. The truck driver didn’t see him.”

Interesting article that also looks at LaRiviere’s work on manufacturing defects and cyclist error. While no lawsuits we’re involved, we’d sure like to know what caused this.

I’ve ridden this path, hundreds and maybe a thousand times. It’s so familiar I noticed subtle changes, like the family of geese that was concerned I stopped to take this photo.

You can see more of the path in this video and the route it’s on.

It’s part of the Green River trail system, along the Duwamish.

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The cargo bike they didn’t make for you again, which would have likely sold well, when gas prices were more than $3.00.

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A head badge from a Hercules Maestro, circa 1950.

These were made in England and marketed for the Quality and Strength.

Starting next week, the Museum of Arts and Design will displays bikes from Mike Flanigan, Jeff Jones, Dario Pegoretti, Richard Sachs, J. Peter Weigle, and Sacha White. Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle is

“organized by Michael Maharam, owner of the eponymous textile company and an avid bicycle collector, along with master builder Sacha White of Vanilla Bicycles in Portland, Oregon, this survey is presented as part of the MADProjects exhibition series, which explores emerging trends and innovations in the design world.”

Spotted this shaft-drive Biomega today during an afternoon ride. The owner was proud and loved it. The shaft is connected to Nexus. We weren’t fans of that drivetrain, but she was and added that the Dutch Bikes we get here in the States are old and not modern with advanced features.

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From Surplace.

We’re back in Portland for Webvisions and to celebrate their 10th anniversary, we’re mixing it up with a week of bike-related events.

Events

5/18 Show and Tell PDX — Presentations From the Future.

5/19 Mobile Social — Ride the bridges downtown arriving at Webvision’s Party.

5/20 The (un)Wired Future of Bikes — Join an eclectic lineup of bike builders, geeks, gearheads and inventors for a series of short presentations. It’s like convergence on wheels.

5/21 Expo Booth — visit our booth in the Webvisions Exhibit Hall. We’ll have gear, specials, and schwag.

We’ll look for more bikes like this when we’re back in Portland later this month for another Mobile Social.

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The ride or the women? For us, I’d said both.

From Forget Foo’s pic of the day.

It seems Alex Pong’s Magic Motorcycle is destined for re-engineering again and again, since Cannodale never made it. This was posted a couple months ago on Reddit and also picked up by Gizmodo.

but they didn’t make the connection to Pong’s bike and this time it’s updated by Yale Engineering students.

Reader Hugh told us about Ann Freeley over the weekend

Anne was diagnosed with the most deadly form of brain cancer, a glioblastoma multiforme tumor, and told to say her goodbyes. Today she’s in remission and making an improbable 3,700-mile bike journey to raise awareness and funding for brain cancer research and patient support. Anne coped with surgeries and chemotherapy treatments over the last few years with a rigorous program of diet, yoga, running, climbing and cycling. Today Anne, with her friend Gundy Hennig, is now making her way through Utah and connecting others who have been touched by the disease online and on the road.

Here story has been on CNN and she’s writing about it on a blog.

Now that’s handbuilt … steel with Rohloff drivetrain, Paragon dropouts, S&S couplings, and custom barrel adjustors too. We’ll have high-rez photos next week.

Chain Guard

Complete with a chain guard.

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Enjoy the bike photo and the retro website about Mr. Nagasawa, a Japanese builder.

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