There is a contest going on over at MB (shortened for PG-13 readership) to win a Bowery Lane Bicycle..  The contest is simple, take a bike themed photo that MB can use for their header on their website.  If they pick you, you win a new bike! The contest is inspired by New York City’s [...]

In a perfect world, buying things would be like test driving a car.  You can put your salesman in the backseat and test the hell out of the product. Life isn’t like buying a car, thank god, but we can’t always test out things where we need to.  Take bikes.  You have to rely on [...]

With the talk of iPad, iPhone, iPod and my new Droid, it seems that mobile life is getting even more, well, mobile.  Often I am able to talk or interview leading commuters, brand managers or public officials in regards to commuting or bike utility.  I feel that sometimes the passion or thoughts are lost in [...]

The New Belgium Urban Assault Rides resemble Alley Cats that messengers put on, but maybe with more law abiding participants. You go between check points and do various task or obstacles across your city. In a nutshell, teams of 2 have to ride to various checkpoints around town. They can pick any route they like [...]

The magazine, Bicycling, publishes their own version of the Top 50 Bicycle Friendly Cities in the US.  Most of them aren’t a surprise, but what is surprising is that Portland, Oregon was bumped out of the top seed by Minneapolis, MN. Top 5 Cities #1 Minneapolis, Minnesota *I must note that Minneapolis most likely moved [...]

We’ve conducted 3rd party testing and have concluded that the problem we’re seeing is the fork was designe. to b. stiff so that under braking, the legs would not wander around creating a noodly fork feel.  An unanticipated by-product of this le. stiffness is that the fork legs aren’t moving at all during regular braking and in turn, [...]