bicycle design is hosting a design competition. a good one. one to design a better human powered commuting machine. so, be it a commuter bike, freakcumbant, or trike…it’s probably gonna have wheels and pedals, and is definitely gonna have a person on or in it. or under it. or next to it. my point is [...]

It’s actually a real product, and a dumb one at that! (if you have to ask why you will never know)  However, for the purposes of this post and all future posts, a Tri-bag is a douche bag who races and or purports to race tri.  I have a sneaking suspicion that many of these [...]

ok so hot chip is coming to rams head live.  don’t know em?  ya should, if you like nerdy english analog electronic dance music that you can sing along to.  anyway its 20 bucks a head, and it should be cool.  here’s a link to a youtube video of them playing live..  anyone who wants [...]

here is a preliminary link to what might be the coolest ride you’ve never been on.
looks like rolling hills, nothing too hard.  lots of dirt.  and i shortened it, due to popular demand.  only 71 miles!  that’s shorter than the distance my grandmother used to walk to get to school.   how about it nick?

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so we had a super good turn out for the scramble.  dave got points for driving the furthest to get here.  phil got points for riding a bike that would give a cory townie a run for its money (crappynesswise).  way to many people showed up on fixed gears and kicked ass on them.  joe, [...]

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So.  The scramble is just around the corner.  I’ve started to finalize the route, with tons of help from the dirt road database, and Joe over at single speed outlaw.  Joe even took me out on some of the trails he thought would work well.   Let’s just say that if you have a geared [...]

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So it’s coming up soon folks. Get your excuses into the wife/husband/employer. The date is set for the 31st, and the ride is gunna be a corker. No route details yet, except to say there is going to be some climbing, loads of dirt, and maybe a stream crossing or two. [...]

i want to hold a super strange frederick specific alley cat, followed by a skid comp and a freestyle comp.  all are welcome, even if you dont have a fixed gear.  course, i wont be racing, cause i’ll be organizing.  if you wanna race, you cant organize.  but maybe your spouse can.  we need people [...]

ok so, in an effort to keep people instantly informed about important stuff like when rides are gunna happen, and by rides i dont mean huge rambles and scrambles, but any ride, mtn, road, whatever, spur-o-the-moment stuff, sure, i threw up a google groups listserv thang to keep folks in the loop. i already [...]

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