What:  July 3rd Alley Kat Where:  The bell tower in Baker Park, Frederick City MD.  Afterparty at Krugs Place, on east street. When: 6:30 PM How much?  8 dollars. Prizes?  Hell yes.  Crappy Prizes?  only for the losers. What to bring:  A cell phone, a blinky light, a messenger bag. Last November’s Alley Cat brought [...]

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the what what: frederick city alley cat, w/ checkpoints, contests, challenges, scavenger hunting, and rad urban cyclist prizes. Where: meet at the big bell tower in baker park downtown frederick.  you know it.  MAP HERE all the normal crap too: skid competion, track stand comp, rapping comp. do we all know what an alley cat [...]

sand videos, originally uploaded by scott_clark. Scott Clark on Flickr posted some shots of a cross race that had two interesting alternatives to mud that I liked (I mean ideally cross races should be rainy, muddy, perhaps icey, and generally awful, but baring that, alteratives need to be found. racing on grass is not super [...]

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 [...]

Lugs look lovely.  Let us not overlook this basic truth.  Even the crudest lug has character to it, a statement of purpose defining the form and lending a degree of individuality to even the most mass produced joint.  What is truth in art?  By calling something beautiful rather than as Kant put it, visually agreeable, [...]

I am reposting this from the forum, because frankly, it doesn’t involve me writing anything new. thanks to brewer, who found this in the first place. Bike for sale What kind of bike? I don’t know, I’m not a bike scientist. What I am though is a manly guy looking to sell his bike. This [...]

I think this is the ugliest bike hack I’ve ever seen. Even hippies with a welder and a shopping cart can produce something that doesn’t make me wretch.

. . . . . 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 [...]

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 [...]