Central Coast artist Kathleen King poses with her recently completed Bike Scribble mural at K-Man Cycle & Run in Atascadero, California. “K-Man” is Keith Schmidt, who commissioned Kathleen to paint the mural at his new shop. Keith does a lot to support the local community. Kathleen is looking for the next bike shop wall to […]
Here’s some handmade wooden bike loveliness that will be shown at the Japanese Handmade Bicycle Fair [2010 ハンドメイドバイシクルフェア] which begins this Friday. Shipbuilder Sueshiro Sano is the owner of a 200 year old business that handcrafts oceangoing wooden sailing ships for an international clientèle in Japan. In the fall of 2007, Sano began to experiment […]
The CPSC and Seattle Bike Supply (SBS) have announced a recall of the 2010 Redline Conquest Pro bicycles and framesets. This popular cyclocross bike was sold in pearl white/blue and have aluminum frames with carbon fiber forks and aluminum steerer tubes. The bicycle’s fork legs can separate from the fork crown and cause the rider […]
In his “I’m too sick to blog today” post, Bike Snob NYC mocks this photo I took at the SF Bike Expo last November. Woo hoo! The outfits from B. Spoke Tailor are described here by the designer, Nan Eastep. The dude is on a Renovo wooden bicycle.
Craigslist missed connections and guys with bikes… I mentioned it way back when but this classic best of CL is making the rounds again and it’s worth another mention: this guy is confused by women’s fascination with bicycles in CL missed connections. It seems you hardly even saw the dude, so transfixed as you were […]
After several minor quakes rattled the South Bay last week, a magnitude 6.5 earthquake about 20 miles off of the California coast shook coastal towns in Humboldt County Saturday afternoon. Damage mostly consisted of downed power lines, broken pipes, shattered glass and toppled shelves. Mark Ritz of Kinetic Koffee in Arcata momentarily lost power and […]