I was coming back from a training ride with teammates when we spotted the most pimped out Skuut we’d ever seen about to head out across the Golden Gate Bridge. We had to stop the 3yr old rider and his father to check it out. Custom modified into a fully functional single speed bike…
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Okay, I couldn’t resist. But I do love Gazelle/Yepp’s marketing and I promised to check them out. (the bikes and products that is)
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I love checking out TT bikes and this one caught my eye with its shear beauty. Ridley’s Dean is what you’d come to expect from a TT bike these days: smooth aero front end, downtube, seat tube with extended mass, aero fork, recessed/hidden brake calipers, etc. (man we are snobby!) But taking a closer look, [...]
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Bummer days in San Francisco as a rash of bike thefts have hit. It started in the Richmond but has seemed to spread like a plague in to other neighborhoods. My friend had his Ridley Excalibur stolen from his single family home garage the Thursday before last. In it, my cross bike. Yep, I had [...]
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Here’s something we didn’t see at Interbike last September (and somehow my mom manage to see it before i did!) It’s a foldable electric powered bike conceived by successful New Zealand entrepreneur Grant Ryan. Looks like a fun ride for commuters or going around town. At 25kph (15mph) max speed it’s probably not fast enough [...]
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A bicycle company as one of the most viewed ad videos? Crazy to think with major corporations like Verizon, T-Mobile, Microsoft and likes occupying the rest of top spots on Ad Age’s Viral Video Chart. But Inspired Bicycles has done it sitting #7 for the week of October 5th. How you ask? It’s basically a [...]
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When I saw the video for this I LMFAO! I thought this octopus looking “bike” was a joke until I visited the website and found the seven seater ConferenceBike is for real, conceived by Dutch “Urban UFO” inventor Eric Staller. It has actually been put to use for things like city tours, amusement park riding, [...]
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When my friend San Diego-based pro triathlete Caue Suplicy first told me he was starting a bike company, I figured he was just simply sourcing materials and carbon tubing and putting them together with his own geometry and specs. In the beginning, that was mostly true. I actually got to see a some of his [...]
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