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• Commented on Get Your Footon - No, Wait, Don't.
  Here’s what I immediately thought of: Slim Goodbody on Flickr....
• Commented on Huggacast 118: Madison
  The guy in the orange hat at the beginning — is that a netbook that he’s carrying 70s-cop-show style, in case a blog post should break out at the next corner?...
• Commented on Trekworld: Electric Innovation
  It’s a shame that “hybrid” lost all its (bike industry) marketing power in service of crappy “fitness” bikes with 700c wheels. Otherwise, these could be marketed as the Prius of bikes, running even cleaner and better for the environment....
• Commented on Trek World 2010
  stupidspringer#4a99a said: “Just look at what you’re telling us to do - log on to BikeHugger, then look at your Flickr account, then read your Twitter feed, then look at your Youtube channel. That’s a lot of work.” There’s a...
• Commented on Blue Man Bike
  Photographer and tech writer James Duncan Davidson lives along the route, and got a nice overhead shot of the ride, posted here....
• Favorited Old's Cooler on Bike Hugger
• Commented on Cycling for Success with 7-Eleven
  Looks like Bobke at ~1:24 taking off his helmet, and I would guess the guy sprinting up through the field at ~2:14 might also be the wild one, but his face is about 20 pixels wide, so it’s hard to...
• Commented on Cycling for Success with 7-Eleven
  My favorite is the guy at 1:05 riding up from the boat dock — I guess he just rode across the bottom of the lake…....
• Commented on Velocouture in NYT
  Here’s another take on the article from Examiner.com: The New York Times hates cycling...
• Commented on How to Commit Attempted Murder During A Race
  And there’s no percentage in it for Bos — since it was in the last 3k (and even in the last kilometer, but the rule now is 3k), Impey gets the same time as the pack, and wins the overall....
• Commented on Power-Curved Cranks FTW!
  Byron and I were chatting about this back-channel. Obviously, these will have ZERO effect on your pedal stroke, because the distance from crank center to pedal spindle center will never change, and they’ll have ZERO effect on the effort going...
• Posted One is not like the other to Bike Hugger
  Ken Conley is getting ready for the 2009 Tour of California (and yes, I’m bursting with jealousy), and posted a couple of shots in preparation. Above is a beautiful shot of the Astana team training along the coast. It’s...
• Posted Consumer Reports: 58 percent don't wear helmets to Bike Hugger
  Reuters | More than half of U.S. cyclists forgo helmets: report Whenever we post anything at all about helmets, it tends to descend into a "You're nuts!"/"No, you're nuts!" kind of a thing. However you feel about helmet use, we're...
• Posted Beta testers sought to Bike Hugger
  If you're a Garmin GPS user with a Mac, and you're not happy with your existing software choices, there's a new option coming soon. The developers of Rubitrack are looking for beta testers of their app, which brings a polished...
• Posted USA Cycling Kids Race to Bike Hugger
  One of the spectator highlights of the Greenville championships is the Kids Race, where kids from 6-12 get a chance to race the final 200 meters of the pro course. They come on Big Wheels, BMX bikes, brand-new Treks, and...
• Posted Hugging the Tour, 2008 style to Bike Hugger
  I'll admit to sharing some of Byron's disappointment in this year's Tour de France. Organizers have disinvited last year's winner, Alberto Contador, and his entire Astana team, barring U.S. podium finisher Levi Leipheimer and former T-Mobile rider Andreas Klöden,...
• Posted Photo of the day to Bike Hugger
  Day at the Office, posted by Pseudothoughts...
• Posted Documenting the pelostache to Bike Hugger
  Getting maybe more attention than it deserved at the Tour de Georgia was Dave Zabriskie's Snidely Whiplash mustache: Here's Dave's blog post on the mustache, which I think debuted at the Tour of California. Byron and I started chatting about...
• Posted A little Friday afternoon bike music to Bike Hugger
  I noticed a couple of bike-related tracks in the music blogosphere this week. First, among the 763 South by Southwest sampler tracks was Be Your Own Pet’s Bicycle Bicycle You Are My Bicycle (Video - “Their bloodlust knew no equal!”)....
• Posted Gizmodo on the new Madone; US frames sweep jerseys to Bike Hugger
  Gizmodo | Trek Madone: The Bike That Owned the Tour De France Great Tour for Discovery Channel, taking 1st overall, 3rd overall, the team competition, the white jersey, and two stage wins. But it was an even better Tour for...
• Posted Just another reason to ride to Bike Hugger
  Splash News Online | Angelina Jolie and the Hitcher So James Ambler has been following Angelina Jolie around New York on a Trek mountain bike, taking her picture as she makes appearances to promote her new movie A Mighty Heart....
• Posted Remember: Lock your wheels to Bike Hugger
  YouTube user shankbone wrote a song to accompany this security camera footage of a guy ripping off his bike's wheels while his frame is locked to a fence in Brooklyn. Found on Metafilter, where one commenter also noted Bruce...
• Posted Friday afternoon read: Little 500 edition to Bike Hugger
  ESPN.com: Page 2 : Nothing little about IU's Little 500 ESPN's Jim Caple offers a feature story on Indiana University's Little 500, the race that features in 1979's Oscar-nominated Breaking Away.This year's edition went off April 21st, and was won...
• Posted 3 arrests, 47 tickets at NY Critical Mass to Bike Hugger
  Newsday | Critical Mass ride interrupted Three riders were arrested during Friday night's Critical Mass ride in New York City. Two were charged with disorderly conduct and “obstructing governmental administration.” Newsday was unable to discover charges against the third...
• Posted NYC police plan Critical Mass crackdown to Bike Hugger
  Newsday | Mass bikers facing arrest New York City police have declared any gathering greater than 50 people a parade, and are threatening to arrest riders at tonight's Critical Mass if they participate without a permit. Critical Mass is a...
• Posted Photo of the day to Bike Hugger
  DSC03075.jpg, by jmk19662006....
• Posted Latest Bike Hugger: LeBron James to Bike Hugger
  SI.com | LeBron James buys stake in cycling company LeBron James has acquired minority ownership of Cannondale, giving the US manufacturer a tremendous shot in the arm. James is one of the NBA's most visible players, with a $90 million...
• Posted Cage or cure? to Bike Hugger
  Veltop cyclist protection Originally uploaded by richardmasoner. So Fritz over at Cyclelicious found the Veltop, at right, and wonders whether his readers would ride with something like this. For me, it seems like a solution in search of a...
• Posted Swobo launches first bikes to Bike Hugger
  Swobo | Collection So, as promised, Swobo has launched a line of bicycles to join their clothing. The three models are available for order now, with delivery promised in April. The Folsom is a one-speed with coaster brakes, and PT-boat...
• Posted $65,000 in bicycles: Lotto winner is one of us to Bike Hugger
  Fortune | How a lottery winner spends his multi-million-dollar jackpot - Feb. 21, 2007 Fortune has a story about Brad Duke, a Gold's Gym manager from Idaho who won a $220 million Powerball jackpot in 2005. He retired his student...

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