Cycling into the summer sunset in Jyväskylä, Finland.

Before I start, I have to share this story: Dan Gertz of Los Angeles was found with three gallons of GHB during a traffic stop. Oops!

“Oficina Reloaded” photo by Yuri de Castro

These are the blogs which linked to Cyclelicious over the past week or so, so I’m returning the love. Thank you all!

• Roger Kramer rides his bike in St. Louis, MO.
• RocBike rides his bicycle in Rochester, New York.
• Squeaky has bicycle musings near San Diego, California.
• Graham mountain bikes near Reston, Virginia.
• TaxProf blogs about tax issues. Do you remember the Canadian bike messenger who was able to deduct the cost of eating as a transportation fuel cost?
• James rides a bicycle in Greenville, South Carolina.
• Noah bike commutes in a Kansas suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. So does Warren.
• Pedaleiro mountain bikes in Brazil. How cool is that?
• Tommy blogs about bikes from Bellevue, Washington.
• Dr. Logan is on his way to Oakland, California right now.
• Frank ruminates on Life and Cycling from Illinois.
• Cycling.Finial.Com in Boston.
• Phil in Australia.
• Fat Boy Biking.
• Bryan’s Cycling Space.
• Cyclosom Pro Cycling Blog.

In the For Whatever It’s Worth Department.

Sold as either a Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid or a GMC Yukon Hybrid, it’s a full-size sport-utility with as many as eight seats and the capability to tow a boat that also delivers a fuel-economy gain and can even run on pure electricity.

The hybrid (which uses a 6.0-liter V-8 for better low-end torque) ought to get 19 to 20 mpg in the city and 21 or 22 mpg on the highway.

The target customer? “It’s clearly going to be the customer who needs an SUV’s five-, six-, seven-, eight-passenger capability. They tow their boats. They go camping. They really have a need for this SUV,” says Micky Bly, GM’s director of hybrid powertrain integration. “But they also want to make sure they’re ecology-conscious, that it’s important to get the best fuel economy.”

Truvativ founder to start bike parts company

Truvativ founder Micki Kozuscheck, who sold Truvativ to SRAM, has joined up with some of his former management team to work on a new bike parts company that they’re calling Lezyne. Lezyne will manufacture and sell pumps, multitools, saddle bags, and hydration backpacks, according to Bike Europe.

John Burke: More advocacy from Trek

At the recent Trek World meeting for dealers at Trek headquarters in Madision, WI, Trek President Johne Burke introduced Trek’s “One World, Two Wheels” bicycling advocacy program.

Details: Bike Biz, Bike Europe, BRaIN.

Bicycle news

Brits spending vacation time on bicycles. “Britain is becoming a nation of cycling enthusiasts. Cycling has been given a new lease of life by recent environmental issues, such as sustainable transport, carbon emissions and eco travel,” commented Richard Cope, senior travel consultant at Mintel.

Nice mountain biking video with beautiful scenery from Rock Shox.

Bicycling Euroblog: Some cities treat bicyclists better than others.

VeloNews: The medical risks of doping.

Eurobike starts next week. I’ll find the Flickr pools for all kinds of wonderful bike porn.

Free lift rides for downhill riding at SolVista ski resort at Granby, Colorado. Granby is just to the west and south of Rocky Mountain National Park.

Everything I know about business I learned from Mountain Biking. Uh huh. “I caught some big air on that last leveraged buy out. It was pure nirvana, dood, but then I biffed and face shoveled into a horizontal trackstand after the SEC started nosing around. Bummer.”

Construction signs: Bikes are traffic, too.

MAKE: Pedal powered washing machine.

Velorution on Free bike schemes.

I searched on Google for “The wheels on the bike go round and round.” The very first hit is the Big Purple Dinosaur himself singing the song and riding a bike!

The wheels on the bike go round and round,
Round and round. Round and round,
The wheels on the bike go round and round,
All through the town.

The pedals on the bike make it go, go, go,
Go, go, go. Go, go, go.
The pedals on the bike make it go, go, go,
All through the town.

The horn on the bike goes honk, honk, honk,
Honk, honk, honk. Honk, honk, honk.
The horn on the bike goes honk, honk, honk,
All through the town.

The bars on the bike steer side to side,
Side to side. Side to side.
The bars on the bike steer side to side,
All through the town.

The wheels on the bike go round and round,
Round and round. Round and round,
The wheels on the bike go round and round,
All through the town.

RocBike posts his Bicycle Haiku, and nice little love poem about his Motobecane. Don’t forget also about Honku, the Zen Antidote to Road Rage.

Ouch! Maybe some road-raging motorists need the Zen Antidote: Motorist bites cyclist’s ear off! A motorist in Germany passed two cyclists very closely, although the entire roadway was clear. One of the cyclists waved his arm in protest (*ahem*), so Mr. Uptight Motorist stopped, jumped out, assaulted the cyclist and bit his ear off.

This photo is so not Zen. By Bike Portland dude Jonathan.

• Dave Moulton on John Boyd Dunlop, the improver of the pneumatic tire. It’s the air in the tires that contributes to the Zen-like smoothness of riding a bike.
• Design winning bicycle light designs from Denmark. Maybe staring at flashing lights can contribute to a Zen state of tranquil calm.
• Citizen Rider: Bike positioning was different back in ye olde days.
• Annie says I’m “hot” because I roll my pant leg up. Via 32 Spokes in London.