Angelo and Roberto are the brothers who make up the band Rotage, and they’re taking their musical act on the road. But not in the traditional sense: In December of 2012, while discussing our own childhood and [lifelong] journey, we began to realize how fortunate we have been. Our reflection led us to see a…
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30 Days of Biking
30 Days of Biking
ScatoLOCK: Automatic Bike Lock with Hidden Smart Key
UPDATE: If you are discovering this article after April Fools Day 2013, now you know what’s going on here. In 2010 Jay Bourque was mugged on his way home from a doctors appointment in Brighton, Michigan. The thief not only took his bike — a Batavus Ouverture worth $1700 — but also the key to the Batavus’…
Mountain to Mountain on MoveShake
Mountain to Mountain on MoveShake
Jim's Racktime Topit Praises
Another rave review from another amazing customer. Aren’t we lucky: I want to thank you for the rack (a Racktime Topit Front Rack), and let you know that this finally ends my search for a front rack to fit my bike and the lights I use. I asked for the dimensions, so that I would…
How to start an argument: Say, 'Roads Were Not Built For Cars'
How to win the argument: Read Roads Were Not Built For Cars Here’s a risk free Kickstarter project: Carlton Reid has raised and exceeded his £4,000 ($6073 US) goal for his forthcoming book. So, if you pledge now, it’s too late to say “I pledged before it was cool to pledge,” but you will be betting…
BikeSpike: The Best Idea Yet for Recovering Stolen Bikes
A LoJack-style device for a bike. The best idea yet? I bet you agree, because I bet you thought of it yourself — just like I did. And just like me, you didn’t have the wherewithal to make it yourself. And like me, you Googled for it, and found some unsatisfying attempts to create such a…
Mr. Rogers Rode a Bike
Fred Rogers of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood would have turned 85 today. Somehow I think I appreciate him more as an adult than I ever did as a kid. As a child, I thought his show was really boring. If I ever watched it, it was by process of elimination. And when Trolley went to The…
YardStash II – A Bike Crash Pad
When we started remodeling our house last year we moved some walls around, and we have had to resort to temporarily storing some household goods in BluesCat World Headquarters, resulting in reduced square footage available for bike parking. One day, I made the mistake of grumbling about having all the bikes jammed together now, and…
Anne Marie's Housecalls with Wandertec
We’re thrilled to start the week off by humbly showing off our own equipment – the Wandertec Bongo. Working together with local metals craftsmen, Stuart Henderson, we launched the Bongo that has become the foundation of Wandertecs new direction.Anne Marie modified the always versatile Bongo to suit her needs as a bike commuting massage therapist….
More National Bike Summit
More National Bike Summit
The Axis of Dirtbags and Yuppies
I’m very happy that there is a good network of mountain biking trails where I live, though I rarely use them. But here’s how stupid I am: I’ve always thought that bike infrastructure for daily life (getting around town, running errands, biking to work) was it’s own thing, and not related to recreation. I live…
JSK: 'What's good for Trek is good for America'
Janette Sadik-Khan is the rock star of transportation bureaucrats, not just because she is the current Commissioner of the Department of Transportation in America’s largest city. But that has something to do with it. Embarrassing confession: I’ve passed up the opportunity to see Sadik-Khan two previous times. I mean, how exciting could a transportation bureaucrat…
Troubleshooting Bionx Kits
Via BikeTechShop.com e-mail: My BionX Li-Mn 36v power system seems to be dead. I cannot get it charged by either the plug-in charger or pedal action. Please advise. It was resourceful of you to try to charge your battery using regeneration, but BionX warns that you should “not attempt to ride the bicycle to revive…
Rick's Ortlieb-Assisted Epic Tour
Rick, of feather plumage fame, has updated photos of his journey bike touring (a portion of) “America the Beautiful.” Cut it down to 9000 miles, the track from April to November was (roughly): Portland, Oregon – Death Valley – Mount Rushmore – Central Texas – St. Augustine, Florida – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – New Orleans. My…
Your Biased Brain and the Real Risk of Not Riding Your Bike
Wouldn’t you think that if some smart folks had solved a problem more than 300 years ago, that the problem would have gone away? In the 1650s a gambler asked his smart guy friend, Blaise Pascal for help with gambling. Pascal was intrigued, and struck up a correspondence with another smart guy Pierre de Fermat…
Women's Cycling on the Rise
Women’s Cycling on the Rise
Loko: One Rack to Rule Them All
I haven’t been in the cycling industry too many years, but I’ve already seen some proprietary systems for racks and accessories that attempt to lure you into a particular brand’s inbred family. These are racks and bags that work best with sibling products. Racktime has it’s Snapit system, and Thule has it’s Pack n Pedal…
Seth's Pugsley BOB-Sled
While we’re getting a taste of Spring this week in Flagstaff, apparently it’s still snowing in some parts of the country. According to Seth in Maine: I pedaled a Surly Pugsley into the northern end of Baxter State Park in Maine hauling a converted BOB trailer. Where the trailer wheel goes, I mounted an old…
Balms Away! I'm off to Congress for Bikes
I’m heading to DC again to attend, participate, live Tweet, and blogify the National Bike Summit hosted by The League of American Bicyclists. The event culminates with a day of lobbying Congress for cycling programs. I wasn’t certain if I’d be able to go this year. I put off even thinking about it. But something…
Cyclovia Tucson on Kickstarter
Cyclovia is a fun, family-friendly event in which city streets get closed down to cars for a day and opened up to pedestrians, cyclists, skateboarders, and other non-motorized forms of transportation. It’s an opportunity to build community and get to know your city in a different way.In Tucson, we were fortunate to have a great…
ESGE Kickstand: Two Legs Work Better Than One
As a long-time cyclist, I cannot think back to a time I was not using kickstands on my bikes, and in this article, I will be offering my thoughts on the ESGE Double Kickstand, a Swiss-made heavy-duty twin kickstand that is great for touring bicycles loaded with racks and panniers and has been providing me…
Bike Socks at the Oscars: Joseph Gordon‑Levitt
The first time I saw Joseph Gordon-Levitt was a in movie called Brick: a weird homage to film noir set in a modern day high school. Instead of a private detective, Gordon-Levitt’s character is a high school student investigating the disappearance of his girlfriend into the underworld of stoners. Instead of a corrupt district attorney,…