It seems that the Bicycle Gear Calculator on the iTunes App Store is making a bit of money. This is a little scary. Why? Because everything it calculates you can do either: quickly in your head or on a sheet of notebook paper or even with the calculator already in your phone. Has the US [...]
Usually I’d wax poetic about a burly chromoly fixed gear bike designed for tricks or some childhood experience riding my Haro along the Prarie Path, winding around Fermi Lab. Well, I’m going to diverge from the old-is-new again convergence of fixed gears and old skate culture and talk about a mountain bike…
When you first see [...]
This has nothing to do with corruption in Tammany Hall, but I was really stoked to see pictures of the “Tweed Run” in London. Tweed is fantastic stuff, wool, thick, nearly windproof, and the real stuff is quite water resistant (definitely not waterproof, however). I still have an old school Harris Tweed blazer that my [...]
Time lapse footage of the construction of the Boulder Velodrome. I’ve heard… mixed things, but at least CO has another velodrome closer to Denver and it’s indoors! (Unlike the Olympic track in the Springs.)
The problem with anything that is “good” or “good to you” is that there is bound to be more of it. Perhaps too much… that is really the problem with many things: literature, food, beer, movies, bikes, clothing… and music!
There are very few bands (either broken up or still playing) that would get me quite [...]
I went to a party last night, what sick things I saw. Makeout sessions, bicycle messengers, punks, and high school dropouts. Speaking of dropouts, I’d like to take a minute just to clear the air, let me tell you a little story about dropouts and general bike care.
Ahem. Ahem.
If you are new to the (what [...]
Fucked Up is one of my favorite, current hardcore bands. Some reviewers have likened their new album “The Chemistry of Common Life” to the next “Shape of Punk to Come” (Refused). That is a pretty big claim (huge… Refused’s last album is/was/is monumental), one that I don’t totally agree with… however, it is a damn [...]
Like many bicycle commuters, I was greeted this morning with brown, slushy roads and a bitter, bitter wind burning my cheeks as I rode down 16th Ave. Through the muck and mire, with a fleece lined bandanna over most of my face, I churned through the sludge, skidding down the hill across Lincoln, and into [...]
From hell’s heart I stab at thee! (Both a play off of Melville and a little tribute to the late, great Ricardo Montalban)
Nemesis Project is a little bike parts company that specializes in (primarily) dirt jumping, street riding, downhill, and freeride mountain bikes. They are branching out into the fixed gear freestyle scene (there are [...]
There’s an old saying, “if it weren’t for lack of context, there would be no news” an adage that certainly keeps the post-Network 24-hour news channels filled with fodder.
As President Obama has been busy signing numerous executive orders, in a first pass at cleaning up from the last eight years, the wonderful, non-biased folks at [...]