Sinyard: Specialized could buy GM, but won’t

Published November 20, 2008 / by Richard Masoner / 14 Comments on Sinyard: Specialized could buy GM, but won’t

[Parody News Service] During a lunch time press conference at Specialized’s Morgan Hill, CA headquarters, Specialized CEO Mike Sinyard announced that his company “could buy General Motors, but we don’t want to.” “We sold nearly two million Langster road bicycles so far in 2008,” said Sinyard, referring to his company’s high margin “fixed gear” bicycles […]

Fixed and broken

Published November 20, 2008 / by Richard Masoner / 40 Comments on Fixed and broken

I normally zip through congested downtown traffic on my fixed gear bike with confidence, but last night my bicycle felt oddly non-responsive, as if I was sailing with a missing dagger board. I figured I either drank too much coffee or I didn’t get enough sleep. It was an uncharacteristically non-zen feeling for a fixed […]

Guitar Hero + Bicycle Mashup

Published November 19, 2008 / by Richard Masoner / 6 Comments on Guitar Hero + Bicycle Mashup

Via Bike Radar. This is way too cool. I suspect these folks had a ton of fun putting this together.

Trek belt drive bicycle on CNN

Published November 19, 2008 / by Richard Masoner / 48 Comments on Trek belt drive bicycle on CNN

Trek’s belt drive bikes that were unveiled last August at Trek World are getting quite a bit of press this week in an AP story. The Trek Soho and District city bikes come in a belt drive version that’s getting a lot of interest from consumers and the story is now at CNN: Trek Bicycle […]

What Measure B means for South Bay transit?

Published November 19, 2008 / by Richard Masoner / 8 Comments on What Measure B means for South Bay transit?

The Santa Clara County Registar reports Measure B is now (as I write this) at the required 66.67% approval required to pass by just eight votes as of Monday’s tally. With thousands of ballots left to go, the VTA sales tax to fund BART to Fremont is too close to call. Here’s my prediction if […]

Cyclelicious for mobile devices

Published November 19, 2008 / by Richard Masoner / 16 Comments on Cyclelicious for mobile devices

I’ve modified Cyclelicious a little bit to present simplified content when a mobile device is detected. The sidebars are eliminated along with some of the ads. I’ll probably make a smaller header banner with my woefully meager graphics editing skills. Right now, the full content of the last six articles is still presented for mobile […]