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I suspect Dahon heard our insistence that they lighten up their bikes, cause they built a super light one, and equipped it with SRAM Red components.
I first rode the Mu Ex during SXSW and took it with me to Portland. A pleasure to ride, the bike is responsive, fast, and performs.
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It's been a mystery to me why weight hasn't been on the minds of product managers of folding or urban bikes. It's not just roadies that can appreciate a 20 pound bike; especially on the steep climbs when it's loaded up for the commute. Taking 5 pounds of a bike makes an enormous difference in the travel load and overall performance. In its category, the Mu Ex is hard to beat.
Next refinement we'd like to see is a mechanism to better hold the bike together when it's folded.
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Nuun brings the banana flava to the Mobile Social Portland.
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She was just at Rontoms (didn't ride with us or know what we were doing) and saw us with that wheel and likes wheels, so she came over, and liked the wheel even more. Spinning it, demoing it for us, all part of the bike fun at the MoSo.
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Just back from the Mobile Social in Portland. More pics and stories to come, but a great turnout, a beautiful ride along the water and a great group of folks.
And special thanks to the sponsors, including Breezer, HED, Princeton Tec, and Smarty Pig for such a great night. Also Nuun.
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See you in Portland. We've got Crumpler bags just like these all packed up and ready to handup.
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Regardless, we'll be in Portland tomorrow, having good times rolling around like the pied piper, gathering cyclists to foamy pint at Rontoms. We'll be giving away another load of goodies from companies who believe in the Hugga way, like Breezer, Princeton Tec, Smarty Pig and HedCycling.
Something bizarre always happens when I go to Portland. This year I wonder if I'll have a weirder story than the drunk guy who randomly walked up to us in the hotel lobby before last year's Mobile Social Portland, started speaking German and then gave us a Hitler salute before walking back out into the street. It was one of those events where Byron and I were speechlessly confused. Just trippy weird
"We're exploring the future of the web and riding bikes at WebVisions 2009 in Portland Oregon. We'll urban ride, party at a local pub, and then put the "blog" in blogtastic at the conference."
Meet at the Oregon Convention Center at 6:00 PM (MLK side near the bike racks) and urban ride to Rontoms. Bike Portland is leading the ride. It's a relaxed, no-drop pace with Podcast Hotel bussing us back.
Ride with us during the MoSo and when we arrive at Rontoms, we'll hand you a raffle ticket. Hold onto it with all your hope, like Dorothy wishing to go home, clicking your bike cleats together. If we call the number, boom, you're riding a Breezer 8 around town. We're also giving away Hed Wheels, Princeton Tec lights, SmartyPig gift certificates, and more.
If your attending WebVisions, along with all the other great content, I'm talking about interestingess. I'll go over how we built Bike Hugger, what's next for us, and more.
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Props to Jay Allen of Endevver Consulting, Benish, and Steve Axthelm for the work. I'll talk more about our design and what we're doing during my talk at WebVisions 2009.
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A photo from the 2008 Mobile Social in Portland. Robo Bob is Crumpler's bagbot and he occupied that spot on the bar for most of the evening.
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Bike Hugger is bringing the Mobile Social back to Portland Oregon and exploring the future of the web at Webvisions 2009.
We'll urban ride, party at a local pub, and put the "blog" in blogtastic at the conference.
Of course that means we'll have schwag and giveaways as well.
We're also hanging out in a Hugga Booth at the conference expo with special guests and events planned.
I'm talking about Being Interesting and doing epic shit.
Check the Mobile Social Webvisions page for the details.
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Early bird pricing is still in effect and we've got a group discount for our readers. Enter BIKEWV09 when you register.
From the outside, the Mobile Social looked like this last year.
