Bike Hugger 

Cargo Cut

That’s Guy Browne on a trip to Mattick’s Farm. 22 miles of bakfiets fun and we noticed how cut his calves are, even when the bro is riding cargo.

Cargo cut.

More segments than miles

When there are more segments on a route than miles, Strava is played out. A UI that brilliantly renders ride data is lost to the gamification of cycling. Segments are self-quantified expression in a virtual race, a prosthetic cultural happening updated with each upload. Simon Masters was out riding and introduced himself to others on the route. The response

I know you, you’re the KOM of….

He is? Here’s a new game, find a route that hasn’t been strava’d, ride it, and commit it to memory. If in a sharing mood upload the KML to Google, like this or this. And remember, at stoplights, the Garmins shut off.

Biggest lens wins, right?

Strava is like tourists with DSLRs. Who’s got the biggest one or really the best shot?

Photo: Ren Ren.

Emma Way in song.

The most aero dog is?

As you’ve likely read by now, Spesh built their own wind tunnel in Morgan Hill. Having been on campus a few times, we know they crew that works there has a sense of humor. In the off hours expect they’ve either tested kegs v. cases of beer OR dogs. And it’s dogs!

Continuing to joke around, made this graphic earlier in the week…Yes, Smithers, #aeroiseverything

and think that little Frenchie we met there would be most aero with a ball diffusing air around a bulky head.

Frenchie aero

Next, test my working theory please

Hey #AEROISEVERYTHING is it true that a small beer belly on a Masters Racer is the most aero thing ever?

— byron@bikehugger (@bikehugger) May 23, 2013

Photos: Aero dog John Friedrich; Frenchie David Schloss

From The Bike Show Podcast, a story about Eileen Sheridan

Land’s End to John O’Groats is a classic cycle touring route. But it was also the blue riband distance among the long distance record-breaking heyday of the 1930s to the 1960s. In 1954 Eileen Sheridan, a diminutive cyclist from Coventry sponsored by the huge Hercules Bicycle Company, set a new record that stood for decades. Now 89, Eileen recounts a truly epic journey and tells the story of how she became one of the best-known, and best-paid, cyclists in Britain.