Bike Hugger 

Mint Condition Rocky Mountain

With the continued rise in urban ridership, bikes like this get pulled out of garages or attics, tuned up, and ridden. Was this one never on the trail or put in a time capsule? Who knows, but it’s also a testimony to Tange steel. I’m sure the owner loves the ride and it’ll get handed down like a heirloom.

ARTCRANK SEA, June 29th

This week it’s the Bicycle Urbanism Symposium in Seattle and the next week ARTCRANK is in town for a show at the The Piranha Shop that’ll benefit Bike Works.

ARTCRANK SEA will feature hand-made, bike-inspired posters created by Seattle area artists. Limited edition, signed and numbered copies of all posters will be available for $40 each. Admission is free. June 29th at the Piranha Shop.

Here’s a time-lapse video from the 2012 shows.

A new pair of wheels, from Seattle-based Mad Fiber

Just announced all-new Madfiber wheels …

Based on Mad Fiber’s original wheel offerings, the Road.2 model builds on the company’s carbon-optimization philosophy through which the entire wheel design is re-envisioned to take maximum advantage of the properties of carbon fiber, yielding a wheelset that is at once among the lightest, most aerodynamic and strongest wheelsets on the market. As with its predecessor, the new wheels boast 60mm front/66mm rear rim heights, come with no rider weight restrictions, and tip the scales at a scant 1050g (tubular) and 1280g (clincher) per pair.

Incorporating the red vines weave

There’s a whole lotta new in these wheels, including

• Spoke positioning for the rear wheel
• Freehub body design:
• Axlesets
• Significantly improved finish quality/appearance:
• Custom graphics program

Rest of the story and reviews, as soon as we get to ride them. Noticed in the photos, they incorporated the red vines we saw last year at Interbike and shown in the feature I wrote for Wired. Read more on Mad Fiber’s site. Available now in Shimano/Sram or Campagnolo; Clincher or Tubular; and in your choice of graphic: Steel bearings $2999; Ceramic bearings $3199.

All kinda new

Also see our previous coverage of Mad Fibers.

Kid on a new bike

The kid was so excited about his new bike and the father beaming that he was riding it around, didn’t say anything about the front fork being backwards. In a few years, he’ll hold a wobbling kid on that bike without training wheels, then let him go (hope he fixes the fork by then)… To us, Father’s Day is about teaching a kid to ride a bike.

Why yes we’d like to go on a cycling excursion with a special train for it, like a holiday. Have lunch a few beers and ride. From this 1955 video, we see most of everything that’s going on with Urban Cycling. New materials, gear, drivetrains, but the same reason and result of a fine bike ride.