There’s been a lot of talk of Jens Voigt’s crash today during Stage 16 of the Tour de France. He took a really nasty spill during a high speed descent and hit the ground at 40+ mph. I’m not posting some of the more gruesome photos that are available (you can find them elsewhere if […]
Who’s coming to visit my town for the Santa Cruz Mountain Challenge this weekend? Are you doing the 100 mile or the Metric? The last day to register is Wednesday, so do it quickly if you haven’t signed up yet.
Say hello to Caltrain Conductor Dangerous Bob Widin. Mr. Widin is a super positive guy. Widin was a set property master and got the nickname from Steven Spielburg during his work on “Back To the Future.” He’s writing a book on his Hollywood fun — he even has a publisher and editor — and he’s […]
The California Governator is known to ride his bicycle along the American River Trail in Sacramento with his posse of bodyguards. Like many of us, Schwarzenegger also loads bikes on the back of his Hummer to transport his bikes to the trails.
I’ve never been to Bicycle Shop Santa Cruz aka “Fixed Gear Freak” before last weekend. There are a couple of other shops that are closer and more convenient to me, but half the kids I talk to in the South Bay with fixed gear bikes tell me they got their conversions from this shop, so […]
This is cool: WIRED lists five iPhone apps that replace bike hardware. I think the most clever is a Cyclocomputer that measures your bike’s speed by counting the sound of a plastic tab on the spokes. Another clever app is a brake light that uses the built in accelerometer. The creation of a carbon fiber […]