Mark V

I’ve posted before about my own travel bike, a custom Sycip with S&S couplings. I designed the bike for maximum versatility. By changing out handlebars,…

Recently I went six months without shaving my legs, and it kinda feels good to be cleanly shaven again. I was shaving my legs before…

LOOK Cycles is famous for two things: bringing to market the first successful clipless pedal system and carbon bicycle frames. The French company continues that…

For some reason, my riding position has evolved to be lower and I now spend more time in the drops. Further, my preferences for drop…

Dynamic Bicycles is a company using technologies just a little left of the mainstream to appeal to cyclists. The bulk of their offerings feature shaft-driven,…

While at Frostbike, I got to see the production version of , called Porn Patches, that I saw at Interbike last September. I can’t enough…

I’ve got this thing against inappropriate use of the letter z. Like when people use it at the end of a word instead of an…

As a former mallrat, I feel a little hypocritical when I criticize Minneapolis’ Mall of America. But it is so bizarre. I mean, there’s a…

While visiting Hed Cycling’s headquarters in MN, I glimpsed what I thought might be a prototype for a new time trial base bar, based on…

There’s a new idea for fixed gear riders that’s just so devastatingly simple, I can’t figure out why this isn’t a standard already. Instead of…