Meet my new Gary Fisher Presidio! Holy smokes thats a sexy bike! You like? I love! Just shy of ten long years I finally paid off my college loan (insert a serious and embarassingly long happy dance right NOW!) and have met my personal goal/rule of “no more bikes until I pay off that bill!” (that I [...]
Halloween is a favorite holiday of mine, but I have a NERD REPORT: I have no plans to wear any costume anywhere this weekend. What the heck is up with that!? I do not know. However, I do plan to hang with my mom, bro and niece (for her 1st halloween! Awh!) and hand out [...]
IMBA just declared the Ape Canyon/ Plains of Abraham trail one of their epics. And while it is a trail everyone should do once, and is certainly a unique experience, it isn’t my favorite trail on the mountain. In fact, the descent back down Ape Canyon goes by so quickly it is sad. For anyone [...]
When I saw this clip, I had to repost it, as I have wanted to learn this trick for a long time- Transition Bike factory rider Mike Metzger breaks down the no footed can-can trick step by step, in possibly the best way I’ve seen it explained to date. Now I just have to get a [...]
Having ridden and owned a lot of bikes, not to mention the constant tech talk and smack talking I partake in with various indurstry friends it isn’t surprising to me when friends ask my opinion on what their next ride should be. The good news is that there are a lot of great bikes made [...]
SANTA BARBARA, CA (BRAIN)—Specialized wrapped up a three-day women’s product launch today in Santa Barbara, California, where it hosted a half-dozen writers and editors from women’s health, fitness, travel and outdoor magazines. Carmella Petitt, who handles public relations for Specialized, said the press launch is one of several ways the Morgan Hill, Califo […]
LAGUNA HILLS, CA (BRAIN)—Do you have bike related videos that you'd like to share with the BRAIN audience? If you do please email the web editor at jnorman@bicycleretailer.com for possible inclusion on the front page of the BRAIN Web site.
MONTREAL (BRAIN)—Third quarter revenue dropped 11 percent in Dorel Industries’ recreational and leisure segment, which includes its bike business, but for the year, the division remains up 1.4 percent. Revenue fell from $163.1 million in the third quarter of 2008 to $145.1 million for the same period this year. At $505.5 million, 2009 year-to-date revenue is […]