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Specialized Bicycles builts a wind tunnel

Mike Sinyard said “Aero Is Everything” a few times in the last couple of weeks and everybody anticipated a new product launch. Instead, his company launched something a little more interesting — their brand new wind tunnel to test bicycles, accessories and apparel in Morgan Hill, California. Specialized engineers will hold a live, online Q&A read more »

Bike sharing jobs and much more

Hi everyone! My apologies for not posting about bicycle jobs in a while. I’ve been super busy with a major design project at Plano Cycling & Fitness. Did you know we sell every Brooks saddle at prices that beat Amazon? We think that’s pretty cool. Okay, now that my shameless promotion is out of the way, read more »

A bike demo, hill sprints, and oh my aching legs

Whatever doesn’t kill me only makes me cry “Uncle!”: I overdid things with an extended demo on Specialized’s latest Roubaix bike and then hill sprints on a fixed gear bike. I’m in some real pain today. Ow.

Driving is a get out of jail for murder card in the Bay Area

The Center for Investigative Journalism confirms something many of us already suspect. The Berkeley based non-profit news agency analyzed five years worth of data from 434 pedestrian fatalities in Alameda, Contra Costa, Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Francisco counties. Sixty percent of the 238 motorists found to be at fault or suspected of a read more »

Free bikes, Earth Day, and more

Happy Earth Day, you bike riding hippies. Did you know today is also the birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (pictured to the left with a bicycle)? He was an enthusiastic cyclist and photographer, combining both of these hobbies while traveling before beginning his second career as architect of the Red Terror. More bicycle news Free read more »

Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival 2013 recap

Do you know that truism that if you want something done, give it to the guy that already has too much on his plate? Sometimes that’s me.