Whoever has had a beloved bicycle stolen from them will know what anger and anguish it can cause. Woe betide those who perform the unspeakable act of bicycle theft, especially when the bicycle they steal is the custom Geekhouse Woodville tourer of John ‘Prolly’ Watson, author of the Necronomicog and one of the world’s most [...]
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Carbon fiber has a lot going for it, but nothing compares with the confidence and reliability that a steel frame offers, especially over a long distance. That’s why Rapha’s Continental team riders prefer steel frames by the world’s best builders, like Germany’sUlrich Vogel. The Vogel Fahrradrahmenbau workshop is located in Bavaria’s Upper Franconia region which, [...]
Certain female mountain bikers will smile when they hear the name “Juliana” — first name of legendary XC pioneer Juli Furtado and, not coincidentally, the bike that transformed lots of women shredders from sometime riders into real mountain bikers. The Santa Cruz model was raced by pros and turned many women on to the sport because [...]
This Memorial day, as we remember all who sacrificed for us, let us cyclists also remember the 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps at Fort Missoula, Montana, back in 1896. Those are the Buffalo Soldiers you see up there, at Yellowstone. This infantry was established to see if bikes could work for military purposes in mountainous terrain. [...]
The first round of the 2013 Enduro World Series took place in Italy this past weekend and it was pretty epic. Enduro is an evolving format with bits of XC, downhill, and even street riding mashed together. In the first race of the year — formats will all differ — it required more than 4,500 [...]
Now, this is our kind of race day: The 15th stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia was held in sporting conditions that prompted organizers to move the finish from the top of Col du Galibier four kilometers lower, to the Marco Pantani memorial. It still made for big fat wet flakes that plastered shades and [...]
Mike McFarlane likes to live hard. Which is good, because outdoor photographers don’t often have it easy. The spherical panoramas here are just a few of the 12,000 frames he shot during a year of work for a massive series of 92 panoramic 360° virtual tours (which you can only see in their true immersive [...]
Photographer Todd McLellan has shot chickens, cars, and burned stuff, but his coolest project is Things Come Apart. Like so many glaringly obvious titles, it doesn’t even begin to capture the magic of what he actually does: disassemble products whose complexity we take for granted — bikes, of course, but also chainsaws, fire extinguishers, SLR [...]
The best bike ad ever? Hurry before it’s gone: http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/bik/3778359479.html Note: at last check, Craigslist had taken it down. Here it is in full: Grab a paper bag, breathe into it, and calm your ass down. You’re hyperventilating because you ain’t never seen a deal like this before. Now collect yourself, then keep reading this [...]
Jenny Oh Hatfield is a bike-thief avenger. And as an interactive producer for San Francisco’s KQED public radio and TV station, she’s pretty uniquely equipped to understand the advantages as well as shortcomings of using social media to counteract a dirty business as lo-fi as stealing a bike. She starts with sharing info on Facebook, [...]
The 2013 Bespoked Bristol Show has finished for another year, after profiling a varied range of exhibitors intrinsic to the UK scene. There were some well-placed bets on a few of the award winners, while others were pleasant surprises, especially the award given for Best Off Road: a heavily modified version of Shand Cycles‘ ‘all-road’ bike, [...]
Barely legal might be one way for Specialized to market its Turbo electric-assist bike. That was the spin when we first spied the then Euro-only, $7,300 steed last year. The story was Specialized couldn’t offer it here because the 28 mph top speed exceeded what you could sell without a license. In reality, the law [...]
It’s illegal to ride a bike on Tanzania’s Mt. Kilimanjaro. But if you’re Doug Pitt, brother of Brad, and on speaking terms with Tanzania’s president, Jakaya Kikwete (who has the 19,341-foot peak as the wallpaper of his twitter page), you can pull strings. Pitt was part of the first team of riders to descend the [...]
Carson Leh has been producing some beautifully upholstered saddles. We first saw his work on his Deluxe TECH2, he’s since been refining his style with plenty of new saddles, profiled on hisnew website. The site is now live, under his new brand, LEH SPLY&MFG. Have a look at the news feed while you’re there, which presents an interesting [...]
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