There’s a camaraderie in the race caravan. It’s collegiate and a certain flow to the fast chaos, like sharing water with Motos. Pam shot this and Frank commented that the photo looks like a Mentos commercial or one for water.
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That’s Sweet Rob and a mountain biker we nicknamed Mr. Hematoma. Ouch. He got that in a local race.
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Feed Zone Guy is armed and at the ready with feed bags — if it weren’t for great volunteers like him, it wouldn’t be possible to have domestic road races.
We’re behind the scenes with Mavic at the USPro race in Greenville SC, live blogging in the caravan, and hanging out. Attempted to trade a Bike Hugger jersey for this belt buckle. No go.
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Greenville SC is working hard at becoming a bike town, including new bike paths named after George Hincapie.
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Stevil Kinevil, a Minister of Misinformation, and oddball blogger behind Guys Who Cut Their Own Hair and How To Avoid The Bummer Life has left the Swobo building and is now in another building (or cardboard box) publishing All Hail the Blackmarket.
What does that mean? Has Swobo dicked the blogosphere? Returned to their way old ways of ship whenever or backorder and sucked the life out a good blog? Has the man shut Stevil down?
Don’t know, just hadn’t said
SWOBO: ship whenever or backorder
in an long time. Cause see, back before Swobo was urban and street, they didn’t do so good on the fulfillment part of retail. Now they’re into protesting water bottles and, as shown here, do have goods in bike shops. Pam likes packing sandwiches in her Swobo jersey.
We’ve invited Stevil to MC the Mobile Social Interbike — seems fitting and let’s see if he’ll do it. We also invited Style Man because he dissed Bicycling in an article and they ran it, which was awesome (they didn’t know they ran it), but then they replaced Style Man with Bike Snob, an anon blogger who “skewers” the industry. We don’t need to get into that yin and yang — let the bike universe balance itself.
Stevil we love you because you do it for the chicks and gave us Fat Guy Spandex, who becomes even more internet famous by the minute.
BTW, later today, we’ll hang out with Jennifer from Hincapie Sportswear who shot that photo.
From Jonathan Winstone's Lubitel 166 set on Flickr, Freddy & Magdar with their bikes.
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The Bright tradeshow has established itself to a constant venue for streetwear, sneaker, fashion and boardsport in Europe and includes fixed.
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Lance Armstrong’s ride in Dublin continues to make news
I think the essence is very simple. You have a man, a bicycle, a public park and an open road. I would go and do that anyway. Cycling is a sport of the people, and as you’ve probably watched the tour, sometimes a little too close to the people.
he told the Irish Independent. 1200 people showed up to ride with him after he posted an invitation on Twitter.
Photo: AP
(fingers crossed he makes a Mobile Social) one day).
Vegas isn't really known as a bike town. Well it is. We've ridden all over and it's tame compared to riding in Beijing or LA. Just like any other city, Vegas has bike shops, a scene, fixed, and Critical Mass too.
Just down the street from our hotel last year was Sexxpresso where we'd ride on up each morning last year during Mix 08.
This bike was just waiting on a corner to be restored and sold. Next to it was an equally rusty lawnmower. That's the second Sears bike we've spotted. The first was much like the bike I rode when Evel Knievel was my hero.
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Later this week, we'll pull focus on the town of Greenville SC for the USPRO weekend. We'll live blog from the caravan, behind the scenes, at the meetup, and from the Hincapie Sportswear fashion show.
Check the photos from and posts from last year. Greenville is a bike town. We asked these cyclists and they told us so.
While in town we'll also ride with George Hincapie on the road race course, eat with the familila, feel fat next to Boyd and race with Nicole at the SC State Road Race.
A cycling-themed mural at Dupont and Dundas, in West Toronto by Art Starts.
Photo by Vic Gedris, 2009-08-17. Full story.
42 cyclists rode across the country to raise money and awareness for the Alliance for Biking and Walking. Their ride concluded this weekend at Orange 20 Bikes in LA. They raised 42K.
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This poster spotted by cyclelicious reminded us of the heart-warming Bike Lost Bike Found story. Also see Bike Thief Caught and Surly Mustache.
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KK+ photo of me talking about geeking out on bikes, Cargonistas, and more @Ignite Gnomedex 2009.
Posted slides from BIke Hugger's session this weekend.
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Yes! YoXo tweeted about a human-powered monorail fun ride ...
That looks like more fun than the Skycycle in Japan.
NYT profiles Hambone Designs. They make bicycle bags for keys, wallets, and cellphones. The owner Mrs Grillos started the business after her contract position at Willams-sonoma was not renewed.
In Seattle, Bike So Good recently opened as repair shop. The shops we're talking to have adjusted and doing ok. That's not great, like years past, but ok.
Included in our coverage of Interbike next month (the bike industry's big trade show), we want to focus on the small business. Tell us what you're doing. Did you get laid of from some big corp and are making something interesting our bikes must have?
See the $4.99 MessengerMirror as an example of what we want to blog about.
The fashion blogs lit up like blinky lights this Spring when Fendi featured the Abici Amante Donna bike in their Craft Punk event and later at a in-store cocktail party.
Like I was saying during my Bike Culture preso @gnomedex, that's a whole other thing: velocouture. The Fendi bike was featured in Vogue, Womens Wear Daily and again this week when they released more photos.
Where some would be quick to diss a 9K bike, we're all for it because bikes transcend sharrows, alley cats, parking lot crits, and are smack dab in the middle of pop culture. Chanel has offered a bike, DKNY, and earlier this year there was a FIT fashion contest.
From the Fail Blog
and more likely he's a student moving out or into an apartment and wearing a mesh garbage can on his head for convenience instead of protection. While we were in Madsion, I spotted a bike with fan attached.
Now fashioning a helmet into a cigarette with an ashtray bike, that's a win! Besides making a statement, there's a considerable crush zone.
Photo: Getty. Spotted in the Daylife stream.
These bars have been outside the REI in Chatsworth for ages. They are the most secure handlebars in America. The bike they were attached to? Location unknown.
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Bike Hugger's Guide to Bike Culture was presented during the Best of Ignite Seattle session @Gnomedex 09. Complied with Mark V, Frank Steele, Jason Swihart, and David Schloss. Thank you to Brady Forrest for inviting me to present it.
Note the guide isn't complete. The Ignite format is 20 slides, every 15 seconds, for a total of 5 minutes. The extended, remix version would include slides like
and so on. Also note to avoid sexism at male-dominated geek conferences, we left out slides featuring well-heeled, attractive European women riding around Denmark or Seattle or Austin.
The intent of the guide is humorous and we kept it tame for the fun of it. Wide-ranging, Cultural Snark is in Bike Snob's kitchen, and his seal of disapproval.
SXSW Panels you should pick because Bike Hugger is on them or will be on them, if enough of you pick them!
Turn Off, Tune Out, Drop Weight -- Twittering at the computer all day doesn't keep you in shape.
Brandemonium: How Google Made Your Brand Irrelevant -- Brand in the Google economy.
The Blog is Dead, Long Live the Blog! -- Blog staying power.
Bicycles in Film: From Silver Screen to iPhone -- From Edison to talkies to iPhones with video.
How Cycling Embraced Social Media and then Reinvented It -- The Lance Factor in Social Media.
On 8/31, another Bike Hugger-related panel is available on the Panel Picker.
We're already planning our Mobile Social 2010 @ SXSW and it's huggier than ever.
Toronto is a bike town too. We'll ride there soon enough and look for bikes like this with copper bells and rusty seats.
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Chris Clinton, Bontrager Hard Goods Brand Manager, shows us updated Bontrager wheels. New hubs, skewers, and aerodyanmics without twin-paired spokes. Like Hed's C2 platform, Bontrager has increased the width of the rim and no longer needs the twin-pair. Twin-pair was problematic for several reasons and this change will undoubtedly rekindle decades-old debates about Rolf Wheels, spoke patterns, and tension. We heard, but do not have it confirmed, that Shimano and Zip have also increased rim width in their new wheels.
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Ever had one of those days where you felt like you were riding around with an old diving bell on your head?
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Core77, a industrial design magazine and resource, launched their limited edition Dutch Master last month. The Worksman cruiser should start arriving in cyclists' garages about now.
Core77 deserves props, but we'd also like to see a bike of the future with a nod to the past. Rather than just another nod to the Dutch.
New date! Destination unknown!
We're hard at work on the latest Mobile Social Interbike. Like last year, we'll ride from the Sands, down the Strip, to a destination unknown.
Vegas is offering unheard of deals and we're working right now on the best one for us and fun for you. All you need to do is show up outside the Sands Convention Center (near the Bike Locking entrance) with your bike and we'll do the rest.
Photo: carltonreid
It's our hope that the MoSo Interbike turns out like this Scopitone video: kooky, big-hair dancing in merlino wool jerseys and bike shorts with high heels.
Stay tuned and please RSVP now so we can get a bike count.
From Suburban Assault's photostream.
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Eric Bjorling, Trek's Lifestyle Marketing Guy, shows us the new District Carbon. Prototypes of this bike had been seen at Sea Otter and in Lance's twitterstream. It's a belt-drive, all carbon, free/fixed urban bike. Eccentric dropouts accomodate the belt. MSRP $3,359.00.
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Seen in the Bike Hugger Urban group on Flickr.
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Months ago, I was smack talking Brady Forrest of Ignite Seattle and now presenting on bike culture at the Best of Ignite session during Gnomedex Seattle this Friday.
So what's funny and geeky about cyclists? A lot! Like those of us into fixed, cargo, roadies, and so on. From the Surly Shop Monkey to Mr. Millimeter, who stops during rides to adjust their cleats every 10 miles.
Suggestions for the preso?
Trek's Industrial Designers -- Hans Eckholm and David Bloom -- show us a Madone prototype and Fisher Cronos. MSRP is Cronus $2629.99, Cronus Pro $3569.99, Cronus Ultimate $6299.99.
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For the next Mobile Social, a Camper Bike! Inside are one hundred folding bikes at the ready. Snacks and drinks too . . .
Built by Kevin Cyr, the Camper Bike is a functioning sculptural piece and the subject of a series of paintings.
Eric Bjorling, Trek's Lifestyle Marketing Guy, introduces the Belleville and Trek's new Eco Design line.
Eco Design features low-impact steel frames and components; recycled rubber tires, and generator lights. MSRP is $659.00.
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Reader schrammalama tipped us to this bike he spotted. It was decaled Donkey Show and if you squint at the wheels, you can see the spokes are twisted. Looks like an urban cruiser, like the Merlin Newsboy updated with disc brakes, internal gearing, and lights.
Now I'm not going to Google Donkey Show and share the results. I recommend you don't either; especially if you're at work.
CW&T wrote to tell us about their Blockhead stem. It's a big, chunky CNC, stem of boldness that'd take a chunk right out of your knee.
Most interesting is it's open source. They've licensed the design under Creative Commons for personal use. That means you can mill it yourself, make a version of it to mount an iPhone or espresso, but not sell it. We didn't think about open-sourcing the big block of aluminum we milled for the Stokemonkey but hey!
If mill-your-own stem becomes popular, expect an aftemarket on Etsy for padded stem cozies that'll protect you from those sharp edges.
What is cool is that the got this too market (sold two so far). Every few weeks, a cad drawing from an industrial design student makes the rounds of the design blogs, and is usually never seen again.
Open Sourcing a design isn't a first in the bike industry. QBP did it with Xtracycle. Of course that meant, you'd have to deal with QBP and that's a bit of a challenge for their competitors who make their own proprietary longtails or eventually will.
Eric Bjorling, Trek's Lifestyle Marketing Guy shows us the Valencia +, an ebike, and introduces the term, "sweat-free commuting."
MSRP for the Valencia is $2500 with Trek's version of Bionx and 350 watts of power. See our Electric Innovation post for more on Trek's eBikes and the Trek Electric Huggacast.
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Jenna and others rode naked during Hempfest this weekend in Seattle
Why were there naked cyclists at Hempfest? As we posted earlier, those naked riders ride naked whenever!
Photo: Joshua Trujillo/seattlepi.com
Rode around downtown Madison and commuted to Trek HQ in Waterloo during TrekWorld. Jessica Braun is seen in the video with us on the bike path.
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Hey everybody tell Trek,"make these shoes with SPDs!" We'll wear them.
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Matt McGaughey photos from the 2nd most important bike race in the world.
But wait there's more:
Mark V was particulary interested in Travis Brown's drop-bar MTB, as seen on Velonews. He's written at length about that topic.
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A few weeks ago, I wrote a post challenging the industry to innovate with electric bikes. Not just power a comfort bike, but develop a performance bike. Well, Trek did that and also powered a comfort/fitness bike.
The day before the demos, Jessica Braun hinted we'd see something electric and cool. We saw three bikes actually: Phase, Bishop, and Valencia+. The Bishop is a steampunky concept while the Phase looks like a modern-art Madone with a battery pack and integrated electronics.
Taking on all Commuter Challengers, with electric power.
Ridden best with Tweed and leather -- so badass comes with its own shoes.
Neither of those concepts will ship, but the thinking and creativity is there. If Trek's Ride+ (electric line) does well, expect something more like the Phase, a powered Madone.
... Read more »At TrekWorld 2010 we experienced the Trek Electric.
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With over thirty thousands items in their catalog, there's much product to see at TrekWorld and we saw a lot of it. In this post, I'll highlight what we thought was the best in show and relevant to our readers. We'll continue our coverage in follow-on posts, including video for our Huggacasts. As we've previously discussed in the comments, TrekWorld is a preview of the 2010 line and all of the details with pricing were not made available to us at the time.
20 years ago, Trek decided to forego other tradeshows and do their own thing. The event is mainly for Trek's dealers with media being invited to meet with product managers, the CEO, get a factory tour, ride bikes, and so on.
Joining us in Madison, Wisconsin were the traditional media, including Zap from Road Bike Action. As that hostage-style photo indicates, we attempted to coerce Zap into blogging and he wasn't having any of it, holding up the NYTimes to say, "old Media rules!" (or if I don't come back, here's the date and where I was last seen with Hugga).
At times during the event, I was whisked away by Jessica Braun to meet with Trek's Industrial Designers and talk about social media. Madison's Edge/3G network has some issues, our connection was spotty, but uploaded and live blogged as much as possible.
I also spent time riding Madison's bike paths, including commuting to Waterloo where Trek's HQ is located.
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Spotted at the demo tents -- we requested Time pedals, circa 2007. Wondered if you could stump the mechanic with an obscure pedal request like a Diadora. Or the non-mud clearing, didn't work well at all, 1st gen-SPDs for your shitty shoes.
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We're at Trek World 2010 blogging live from the demos and later meeting with the design team. The focus for us is on their Pavement line with attention to the new eco_design, Ride+ (electic assist), and concept bikes.
We're also talking with Trek about social media and sharing input from our readers.
What are your questions for their designers, engineers, and product managers? We're here and they're listening. They had lots of questions for us at dinner last night and we're excited to show camera phone photos of The Bishop steampunk bike. Also kept trying to scare us with The Vortex of Terror -- looks more the vortex of puketo us . . .
Zannestar tipped us to the Buddha to Buddha Studio Raar fixie with leather, sterling silver, funky-chunky-monkey stem, and mirror-finished disc wheel. Will the future owner of this bike please ride it through downtown Pittsburgh to a bike polo championship. Then look up the Urban Velo guys and tell 'em we sent you.
We expect more fashion bikes once other retailers realize Urban Outfitters is selling a fixie to the city-dwelling masses. We've also had a butterfly bike and a leather bike with steampunk-style, bespoke craftsmanship.
Those convinced that fixed has jumped the shark, it's worldwide yes, we're all for the growth and popularity of cycling. Where minimalism and simplicity of a fixed gear gets turned into fashion bling, we'll leave that to the pop culture critics to decide if it's cool.
Just this week, Pam returned from vacation in Sitka with news that she spotted two fixies. Sitka is an Alaskan Archipelago with 13 miles of road.
In this Tinto Brass movie, Lola (Monella) tries to force her boyfriend to have sex with her by attracting other men. She does this by riding around the Italian countryside on a bike showing off her butt (when does that happen in the States?, we wondered).
A NSFW trailer is available on YouTube. For our fair and balanced blogging, see the man sexy bike episode of The Dimitr Show.
Quick purge that from your mind with Elastine Bicycle.
Fitting that this Spinaci sticker was spotted on a time clock at a bike shop -- representin' ya know, "the man" and "fight the power." A reader on our Flickr photostream asked us "what do they do" and we replied, "Spinacis are bar extenders that were banned by the UCI (bike racing's international governing body) -- that lead to a battle between Cinelli and the UCI and the popular belief that the UCI is political and ridiculous."
This was in the 90s, when Italian bike racer's hair looked like Cipos (and never moved!) and before anyone was popularizing "city bikes." We also only had 8 speeds, not eleven and a $450 dollar Shimano chain ring that lasts two thousand miles was unheard of. Would've been laughed out of the bike shop, actually.
A world away in local races, racers were being told they had to take their Spinacis off by uptight officials and the racer's response was that's ridiculous. The same argument with officials, without the public fight from the manufacturer, happened later with Spinergy Rev-X Wheels. A 4 spoke large carbon wheel that, according to urban legend, would julienne body parts in crashes. The bigger reason was that when they failed, they failed massively.
... Read more »Spotted this motorized bicycle with dog in West Seattle. Stopped, chatted for a while. 25CC motor, bored to 50 -- 100 miles on a 1/2 gal tank. 50 mph top speed.
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Todd Herriott explains motorpacing.
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Earlier this year, we visited the Microsoft Campus Bike Shop during Bike To Work Day.
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Rode up on two chains in the road on Western Ave, near Pioneer Square, downtown Seattle. Is that a Dead Baby mechanical aftermath? Chain x 2 and busted? Who would leave chains behind, unless in a hurry or a litterer?
If indeed a chain break, where are the dude's balls; maybe the seagull got those?
BTW, that's not something you see everyday. Maybe a chain with the recalled SRAM Power Lock?
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Championship bike polo is on now at Magnuson Park, 10 AM to 7PM, free -- more details.
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Our Fall Project -- convert a road bike to single/fixed with Eric's Eccentric ENO hub from White Industries.
Posts to follow.
The first event of the Big Bike Weekend was last night at the Dead Baby Bike race.
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Reader Ryan filed a complaint:
I would like to post a formal complaint for the removal of the "mark V" tags. I would tune in regularly and read each and every last one of his posts. now my link to his posts does not work. miffed, i have not returned to the site since. here's one vote to revive mark v tags. or, if by chance you can send me a link to such posts, i would appreciate it. ryan.
That complaint reminded us we hadn't talked or posted much about our new site features that replaced Mark's personal tag. Ryan sent us the first complaint ever, so we didn't just delete it immediately (that excludes Cargonistas complaining that we didn't cover some obscure cargo bike setup).
Our blog now has
You can find and subscribe to all of those options by clicking on the Author Profile link on each post and see our authors on the People page.
If you've signed up and joined Bike Hugger via Movable Type as a user/commenter, you also have a profile page, like Champs, and can follow other Bike Hugger members.
These features are the easter eggs of our blog and we've been remiss in posting about them.
Thanks for the complaint, while we took away Mark V's tag, we replaced it with much richer Mark options. Subscribe and read him everyday. Then you won't miss his latest shoe choice or opinions on light setups.
Kristina Halvorson's book is out in two weeks. I spoke with Kristina on the Try Making Yourself More Interesting Panel at SXSW earlier this year. As we talked about then, interestingness is key to web charm, to awesomeness online, and we recommend you Do Epic Shit.
Anything epic requires a strategy, lots of work, and Kristina will teach you how to create meaningful content in Content Strategy for the Web.
Travel Oregon recently published Ride Oregon Ride, a new site for cyclists that dream of riding in Oregon. We've ridden and raced all over Oregon ourselves -- beautiful country and good riding.
Our Austin peeps tipped us to Breaking Away with Mellow Johnnys
The event came about as a brainstorm between Rapha and Mellow Johnny's GM's Slate Olson and Craig Staley as their effort to pay tribute to the 1979 Academy Award winning film Breaking Away.
And The trials and tribulations of being a bike thief...
I'm retired and I don't have nothing else to do so I am going to find you, if you bought this bike, you best burn it, there are over 30 uncles, dads, cousins looking for your sick ass and her bike
Spotted posters in a bike shop yesterday. All for this weekend. Updated after the jump.
Saturday, August 8th, starts at 10:00 am, Gas Works Park -- more details
Saturday, August 8th, Magnuson Park, 10 AM to 7PM, free -- more details.
Saturday, August 8th, Seattle Musical Theatre, Building #47, Magnuson Park, 9 and 11pm, $7 includes live performance -- more details
Streets of Kirkland, starting at 5 PM -- more details.
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A custom wall mount display for high-end track frames for No Brakes ATL.
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Note: cross-posted from TechFlash.
At a summer cocktail party last week, a developer of Windows Mobile applications asked me which apps I use on my iPhone. His company was considering getting into the iPhone business. Actually, not that many, I explained, because so many of them are just not that good. I work on my iPhone -- tweeting, blogging, emailing and organizing -- and don't have time for every new "there's an app for that."
The developer was a cyclist, as well, and eventually asked me which bikes apps I use. My phone is in my jersey pocket on rides and I've got other computers on board for my miles, speed, and power. They work very well. I had installed REI's recently released Bike Your Drive on my iPhone, even though I hadn't used it yet. The app lets cyclist track, view, and share their bicycling experiences. I pulled out my phone and demoed the app for the developer. Together we discovered it's also not that good.
Seattle's World Naked Bike Ride was in the news again for a ride they did through Greenlake and the Waterfront, offending some parents. A week ago we heard about naked bike riders in Belltown and then they rode on July 10th.
We usually only heard about the nakedness during the Fremont Fair, it's as predictable a story as the Blue Angels flying overhead or bad weather. This year though, it's more nakedness than ever. In Portland this year, they set a naked record.
Spotted at Mellow Johnny's in Austin Texas. We heard they roll the Madsen out each night at closing, just like that. We'll see the Bucket Bike again next March @ SXSW 2010.
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We've been kicking around something intelligent to say about Cash for Clunkers. We're suspect of the label "best stimulus ever." But getting old cars off the road is good right? Well it just doesn't sound right.
What do you think of Cash for Clunkers?
Other thoughts from the blogs:
The numbers just don't seem to add up.
The absolute insanity of this is just staggering.
Cash for Clunkers provides Americans with the chance to do the right thing: Reduce our dependence on oil and curb global warming.
LA Times reporter Susan Spano tours for 4 days in Denmark.
My 50-mile trip was hardly as long or as arduous as the Tour. I never tried to go fast because I wasn't competing for the yellow jersey. I went riding for the fine food and beautiful scenery, both of which I found on the island of Funen.
Photos: Susan Spano, Reporting from Copenhagen
She rode a self-guided bike tour route provided by the Funen Island tourist bureau website. More photos. We haven't toured Denmark yet, but it's on the list. Our next trip is to Prague.
Custom made for us by Ibex Wear, our Summer Wool T is lightweight Merino wool and screened with our logo. The Summer Wool T is best used for apres cycling, everyday wear, and layering. On sale for $59.00, the Ts are shipping directly from Hugga HQ. We have limited quanities. Pricing is good while supplies last.
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