Twenty years ago I purchased my first road bike. It was a 1994 Specialized Allez. Now about that time, the bike industry had hit the…
March 2014
The Best of Austin isn’t At SXSW
One of the wonderful things about bikes is that having one can unlock treasures. Take SXSW for example, where the world’s geek-elite class converge to…
Building Bikes to Ride with Friends
Terns staging Just updated our schedule for SXSW and the first thing we’re doing when we get in town Thursday is building up a fleet…
SRAM Introduces 7sp and 10sp Downhill Drivetrains
That’s right, a whole 7 speeds SRAM introduces new X01 drivetrain components for the downhill set, including an innovative 7sp drivetrain. That’s right, I used…
A Heavy Rain Fell on Me and My Mind
Would periodically wipe off the computer, to see how long I’d been out there Rain fell on me like a junk drawer pulled from a…
And the Giraffe On a Bike
Indie-rock band from Nashville And the Giraffe strapped a film camera to the front of a bicycle with some spare rigging equipment found in their…
Riding Across a Prodigy Cover
Breathe with me Yesterday I posted about Southby bikes and our animal-encounter origin story. That’s how Bike Hugger started, after I saw a lamb being…