MAKE Magazine illustrator Tim Lillis created this “Tricks of the Trade” video to show how you can lock two bicycles up with a single U lock.
The city of brotherly love is now the city of bike theft in Kryptonite Lock’s latest ranking of top American bicycle theft cities, beating out New York City for the first time ever. “Our premier line [of bicycle locks] is the “New York” line because we know, in the US, that’s the bike theft capital,” read more
I make an appearance on this week’s edition of The Spokesmen cycling podcast. We talked about the local fatalities, the Tuscon Shootout, the baseball incident in Tuscon, the first prosecution using the new 3 foot law in Utah, Dave Zabriskie’s Yield To Life campaign, the mess with Perry Nees and ASO and UCI and Astana, read more
Jen in Chicago inspired me to audit the contents of my bag. I dumped everything out onto the kitchen floor and cataloged the contents like an archaeologist digging through the ruins of Pompeii. Man, I’m a pack rat. Main pocket contents: REI cycling jacketMSR Pocket Rocket instruction manuals. 7 of them.Assorted trash.Plastic bags in case read more
I think we’re all familiar with the Surly Pugsley and it’s well know that Moots custom builds snow bikes. Plenty of other options are available for fat tire bicycles for snow and sand riding. “FatBikes” is the trademark for the bicycles from Wildfire Cycles in Alaska. The frames and forks are specially built to take read more
It’s still raining in California and I’m still riding. Here’s the news for today. Brad Pitt on a Bianchi. 200 new electronic bike lockers at some BART stations in the East Bay. Amgen Tour of California organizers in Palo Alto are short on cash. Tour Down Under: Team Rabobank’s Michael Hayman seriously injured in head read more
