Bike Hugger 

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Mario E sends his regards from somewhere in New Mexico on this big-wheeled bike.

Living large on a bike with big wheels

The marketing of these bikes is so convoluted, I don’t know what they’re calling them now, but that’s a Surly Pugsley. It’s used for snow, dunes, trails, and whatever else you want to roll over.

Also see this bamboo cargo bike spotted at Sea Otter with Surly’s clown shoe rims.

Clown shoes on a bamboo bike

Surly are the stoners in the bike industry that keep their shit together just enough to release something as ridiculous and cool as that.

Keirin training 1994, image from Numerius’ flickr page.

Back in the day, Gingerbread men paid attention to the road and heard someone yell, “RIDER BACK.”

Now it’s all about them.

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Oh and that’s a custom spec Redline. I’ll race on it this Fall when Cross season starts.

The film spins a visual ballad between the two cyclists experiencing the city in their own unique ways. Both cyclists are city dwellers who amidst the chaos of the concrete jungle have created a private and peaceful psychological space as they traverse the streets. They are both alone and yet they are both very much aware of each others presence. The film speaks to the harmony with one’s environment that can be found while riding a bicycle in a city and the synchronistic connection we can have with those we have not even met.

Built at NXNEi 12 poster

A poster announcing our trip to Toronto and the next stop for Built. See you there. We’re talking about the web, making things, the bike, and riding all over.

If you’re there too and got something you want to share, we’re still accepting talks.

Thanks to Dahn for the artwork.

A street person asleep in the bike lane under 99, along the Seattle waterfront

Seen many street people in my rides, but one asleep in the middle of the lane was different. Like a human sharrow.

A risk analyst likely has a formula to determine the rate of failures based on amount of bikes ridden and for how long – we’ve got a fleet of bikes at Hugga HQ and ride them almost daily.

What I know is after two ride-stopping failures in a week, I’m even more diligent about checking my equipment before a ride. Like a pilot of a plane; especially when I’m heading out for a long ride or race. Both of these failures are unusual, but they happen. In the past year, I’ve been in two races where I rode through the shrapnel of an exploded tire.

First a fork cracked at the tip.

Crack starts middle of the fork at the tip

Maybe it was from stresses induced by the roof-top rack or something else happened either when riding it or when it was manufactured. Heard it snap and carbon makes a very distinctive crackling sound when it goes.

Then this tire sidewall ripped apart. Never seen that happen before.

Did a snake bite that?

We were just riding along and POP! That fork is out of warranty and Reynolds doesn’t make them anymore. I’ve shared the tire photo with the manufacture and remembered the “tubeless incident” from last year.

Seems like some investors noticed too how car companies we’re selling bikes and attached an infamous car brand to a bike, in this instance DeLorean. I didn’t see 1.21 gigawatts mentioned anywhere in the marketing copy, but they are road bikes with hydraulic disc brakes. With the 11-speed, electronic shifting, and the right training, you can probably hit 88 miles and hour.

Aside from the name, the story here is stainless steel from Sarto. Not an easy material to work with and probably 1/2 the cost of that build in Italian labor and $5,500.00 price tag.

Note: a bike like this, or an over-the-top Cross bike, a good local builder can make you.

The DeLoreans were shown earlier this year at NAHBS. If these sell, maybe another investor group could make a Tucker bike that was a cruiser shaped like a torpedo and had a crazy, directional headlamp on it.