I hope you weren't expecting a BIG editorial piece on kids in cycling because you're not getting one... not yet anyways. :-) I did want to share a great video made by Sam Ray. Sam recently posted a different video to the Women's Cycling Magazine facebook page and we dug it ...
It's about time I do another product review. To kick off November I thought I'd spread the 411 on a up and coming company called Ridge Medical. It was just over a month ago I met Mike Curry and his wife at Interbike in Vegas. I was passing by their ...
Don't miss Spooky Cross Night Race coming Saturday, 10.24 to Irvine, CA Bring your favorite costume and be prepared for the time of your life! Music, Halloween madness, costumes and beer will be the call as the 2009-10 Southern California Prestige Series of Cyclocross presented by Shimano brings you Spooky Cross ...
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 [...]
More and more riders are making the switch to wider bars these days. Widths in the 29-30+ range are becoming more and more common. Wider grip= additional leverage in turns, making for a highly rail-able experience. I tried my first pair of 29.5″ bars last year, when I got a bar in from Nemesis Project for [...]
For most of the year I have been digging and building trail while using my super fancy Specialized photochromic Chicane glasses. They are super sweet riding glasses, and my favorite riding glasses by far to date. However, at $140 retail, they are a bit pricey to abuse while I’m hacking away in the dirt. So [...]
Finding new spots to ride is always cool. One of the best things about being back in the northwest after a prolonged absence, is that a number of new places to ride have sprung up. We’ve lost some places too, but I’m all for celebrating the spots we have and working towards making the old [...]
NEW YORK, NY (BRAIN)—A New York judge has awarded cycling author Julie Harrell more than $65,000 in attorneys' fees stemming from a copyright lawsuit she won earlier this year against Cycle Publishing. On Tuesday, Robert Van der Plas and his company Cycle Publishing were ordered to pay Harrell $65,314 in attorneys’ fees—taking into account a reduction o […]
LAGUNA HILLS, CA (BRAIN)—The founder of the leading custom framebuilding resource "Frameforum" (www.frameforum.org) has launched a new Web site focusing on the custom and handmade bike sectors of the industry, which has seen something of a revival over the past few years. The site, Handmade Bikes (www.handmadebikes.net) (click on link), will focus […]
SAN RAFAEL, CA (BRAIN)—For the second year, Ellsworth Handcrafted Bicycles is sponsoring a trade-in program to help Trips for Kids (TFK) fund more mountain bike rides for disadvantaged youth around the world. Ellsworth customers who donate complete bicycles to TFK by December 31, 2009 are eligible for a $500 discount on an Ellsworth full-suspension bike or f […]