So here it is: my girlfriend’s Kappa. It started out as a retro-style BMX frame with modern geometry and tubing diameters, and then with Jeremy…
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My Girlfriend’s Bike..pt 4
We just got my gf’s Kappa BMX frame(seen above before work was done) back from Sycip Designs. Jeremy Sycip fixed the headtube problem, added some…
Do the Test
A friend of mine sent this link to me. Great British humour, clever advertising campaign. And I totally fell for it: http://www.dothetest.co.uk/
Your 29er Is Now Hopelessly Inadequate
I was surfin’ around and I found this image from Blonde Fabrications. A 36-inch-wheeled mtb. Appropriately named the Amazon Blonde 36er, the builder apparently races…
Product Review: 3T ARX-Team stem & Doric-Team seatpost
Tecnologia del Tubo Torinese (vaguely translated as “Turin (Italy) technical tubing”) , otherwise known as 3T, was the number two stem and bar maker back…
Hyland by Civia
My shop has one of the new Hyland Civia bikes sitting in the window, and I have to say that it is one clever commuter.…
Tall bike at Austin during SxSW
I saw this guy the last day I was in Austin. This guy declined an “interview”, tossing a sorry-on-my-way-to-work our way as he searched his…
At the Austin Bike Racks
Everywhere I go, I try to bring my travel bike, specially made for me by Sycip Designs. I actually didn’t sleep the night before I…
Austin TX Bike Flavours
I’m always fascinated when I discover that a town has a discernible “flavour” of bicycle. When I think of my home town in Florida, I…
Bikehugger’s SxSW Ride and BBQ a success!
Thanks to local guides Mark and Kirk and the rider turnout from atxbs.com (thanks Jason!), yesterday’s ride was a total success. It was a beautiful…