I’m hardly a trackstanding expert, so I’ll point you to this video of Jiro Nakamura from Bikeskills.

Update: I made a little diagram of what I had in mind. Thanks to the commenters for their ideas and suggestions!

Update 2: The fact that this is dangerous, possibly deadly, and probably illegal is blindingly obvious, but several of my friends felt obliged to tell me so anyway. Don’t try this at home, kids.

I was joking around with somebody about using one of these on a bicycle or skateboard to pull myself uphill using the San Francisco cable car cables.

The cable is 28 inches below the street surface and moves constantly at 9 mph. What’s to keep somebody from hitching a ride by reaching down with something like this and grabbing the cable?

San Francisco being what it is, I’m sure somebody has already tried something like this.

Happy Friday, all!

Curtis responded to a Speedvest discussion on BikeForums.net with his own photoshopped Speedvest. He tells me he met the Speed Vest people at Maker Faire and they loved his version.

Steephill has all the latest on the 2010 Tour of California.

Speaking of which, a lot of people (including myself) liked how AEG used Twitter to announce the 2010 host cities. During the press conference yesterday morning, Michael Ross of AEG sports said, “Twitter is the social network most preferred by cyclists.” I don’t know how true that is, a lot of us like Facebook as well. The Santa Cruz Local Organizing Committee also recognizes the importance of social media in getting attention for an event and has appointed my friend Karen Kefauver as Social Media Director. Teh Santa Cruz stage has a Facebook page and lives on Twitter @TOCSantaCruz.

Minneapolis Cycling Examiner talks studded bike tires for winter (and uses one of my photos woo hoo!).

Dude! Via.

Masi Guy is recruiting.

Brooklyn By Bike: Video Guide to NYC Bike Lanes.

I haven’t mentioned Jill in Alaska in a long time.

Somebody stole his fixie har har har Gwadzilla.

Umm, the Go Girl. Via Industry Outsider who uses words like “relieve” and “whiz” in punny ways.

Have a great weekend.

David aka Fred, Mark aka “Thighs”, Tim aka Uncle Giant, Rich aka Mr Interbike, Chris aka Belgian Head Case, Scott aka Sleepy, and I talked about cycling on issue #45 of the Spokesmen.

I think we talked about Interbike (more filling, tastes great!), Taiwan (food and fun in the tropical sun), the future of Team Astana and Alberto Contador, the Tour of California vs the Giro d’Italia, helmets on kids (as illustrated below), and important tips for cycling.