Author: Richard Masoner

Almost famous

“High Five!” photo by Timothy J.

WIRED Blog linked to Cyclelicious over the weekend, which is always good for a few extra hits on the old website. Thank you to whoever forwarded that link to them.

I also really appreciate those who link to Cyclelicious. Over the past 10 days or so, you are:

Interbike is just three weeks away. I’ll be there on behalf of Tim Grahl’s Crooked Cog Network and Commute By Bike, but I’ll post plenty of yummy bike porn and updates on a daily basis here also. Watch this space for Interbike updates.

Eurobike report

A demo bike equipped with the NuVinci CVT hub was apparently a hit at the Eurobike outdoor demo.

A record 34,280 trade vistors made their way to Eurobike 2007, an impressive 8% more than last year. Velonews reports it it took an hour just to park. Carlton Reid @ Bike Biz also reports on the record crowds, with surveys showing the bike industry as “stable to rapidly improving.”

Velonews Eurobike report and photo gallery, with product intros from Schwinn, GT, Litespeed, Formula, Adidas bike shoes, Mavic, and Deda.

Cycling News can be counted on for plenty of good photos: Eco Consciousness, CNC machined stuff, tubeless CX, Rock Shox, and SRAM Red and Felt.

Pez Cycling News reports on Eurobike with plenty of yummy photos of carbon fiber mechs, wheels, cranks, and, of course, Pez’s famous Daily Distractions.

Lightest folding bike

Dahon introduced the lightest production folding bicycle at Eurobike 2007, the Mu XXV. 250 of these limited edition bikes will be built to commemorate Dahon’s 25th Anniversary in 2008.

Dahon Mu XXV

This 7.5 kg / 16.6 lb folding bike is built up with Shimano Dura Ace along with custom components designed just for Dahon from FSA, Shimano, Syntace, Schwalbe, Kinetix and Kore. See more photos — including a nice one of the sweet white FSA crankset with ceramnic bearings — and details at Bike Radar.

Bike Radar also reports on other Dahon bike products like the eye-catching Smooth Hound 6.0 mini-bike with stylish touches like a leather Brook’s saddle and leather handlebar tape on moustache bars with bar-end shifters. This mini-bike is not a folder, but it is packable for travel and storage.

The Dahon Cadenza 2008 “urban mountain bike” is equipped with the Alfine internal gearing hub and Shimano disk brakes. This 28 lb bike folds in about 10 seconds, according to Dahon.

Read more about these Dahon bikes at Bike Radar.

Eurobike Friday news

BRaIN: “Traffic clogged all roads leading to Eurobike Thursday as thousands of visitors poured into the exhibition center’s 13 halls to get a firsthand look at 2008 products.”

Bike Radar: Nice and new Crank Brothers kit likes very shiny and pretty: Integrated headsets, cranksets, wheels, and seatposts. Very interesting.

Bike Radar: Road bike showstoppers — lots of amazing yummy bike porn.

Michael Frank @ Bicycling Magazine: Eurobike report.

VeloNews show report and photo gallery.

Cyclingnews Eurobike coverage.

Bike Magic Eurobike bicycle porn.

Details on SRAM Red, SRAM’s new high end road group.

29er fans are happy to see some 29er interest at Eurobike.

Interesting Sunrace product announcement. Via.

Lots and lots of BMX vendors with their bikes: Snafu, Mirraco, Subrosa, Kuwahara, KHE, GT, Mongoose, Felt, Perv, HARO, Free Agent, Stolen, Shadow Conspiracy, KingKong, Eastern Bikes, wethepeople, Viper, Diamondback, Univega, Redline, MBK, Nicolai, Kink, Fit, 2-Hip and several parts brands.

You all have probably already heard about Shimano’s new carbon fiber Dura Ace crank.

There’s lots of interest in Garmin’s new EDGE GPS bike computers.

MTBTR Eurobike demo day photos.

MTBTR Eurobike bike porn.

Speaking of porn, a little Australian bike accessories company is getting some attention from their Eurobike presence. Knog’s website, though, just has some lesbo girl-on-girl action instead of any substantive product information. Kinda weird way to do marketing.

Do as I say, not as I do!

Warren stopped to take video of law abiding motorists at a stop sign. Unfortunately, he couldn’t find any law abiding motorists. Because of the great damage and carnage that can result when motorists don’t obey the law, motorists always obey traffic laws for the safety of everybody! That’s the myth, anyway.

Cannondale folder update: Bike Designer Guy James found some more information about the development and design of the Cannondale folding bike, dubbed the Cannondale ON. Cool stuff.

Another bike-ish fitness device. Via Bike Horn and others.

Most of my U.S. and Canadian readers have a three day weekend with Labor / Labour Day coming up. It’s also my 17th wedding anniversary. Other than a possible Eurobike update later today, posting will be sparse to non-existent. Enjoy the weekend, all!