Watch Hector Picard change a bike tire and you’ll never complain about another flat the rest of your life.
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A film by Fredrik Gertten.
Climate change and the daily stress of being locked up in a car frustrate people more than ever. People in cities around the world take on the bicycle as a Do It Yourself tool for change.
This should be good.
[Link: Bikes vs. Cars]
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Say what you will, this girl rips. At least we think it’s one girl. Is there a body double involved? We’ll never know because we never really see her face. . . maybe we’ll have to watch it again to be sure.
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Sometimes it seems those slow-to-change cyclocross traditionalists are being dragged into the future kicking and screaming. First it was disc brakes (oh, the horror) and now it is tubeless tires. You know, like the ones mountain bikes have been running for years and cars have been rolling for decades. WTB is backing this latest development pretty hard with their new ChrisCross i19 700c TCS rim and Cross Wolf 700 x 32c TCS tire.
“The ChrisCross is named after me because I wanted it on my bike,” stated WTB’s Product Manager Chris Feucht, matter-of-factly. “Cyclocross needs tubeless, so I walked this rim from concept all the way to production, hence ChrisCross. Plus, it pays homage to one of my heroes, Chris Chance, who had a bike called the Chris Cross back in the day.” When combined with the Cross Wolf 700 x 32c TCS tire, also UST standards-driven, riders now have a tubeless cyclocross system available from WTB.
It’s about time. For the official word from WTB follow the jump. [click to continue…]
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We got up early on Tuesday morning, September 17, 2013 so we could get a couple good bikes and hit Bootleg Canyon before the sun blazed the living life out of us at Interbike’s Outdoor Expo. Camera bike provided by Pivot (Mach429). Women bike provided by Juliana (Joplin). Camera provided by GoPro (Hero3). Slap together raw editing: GoPro Studio 2.
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We see no real purpose for the city bike. But even hardened as we are, we do admit to enjoying the smooth urban lines of the Pure Fix Cycles Bourbon. Like they say:
Our Bourbon is one smooth glass of class. Designed to effortlessly take you from Point A to Point B(ar), it’s ready to quench your thirst for riding, and give you a nice little buzzy feeling at the same time.
If we weren’t so dedicated to the segment, we might even take one of these little cruisers for a sip.
[Link: Pure Fix]
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As maybe one of you may know we have stricken the name of the BLOAT (Biggest Liar Of All Time) from our site because we don’t want to give or get any Google juice from the juicer, but here is a little clip that everyone will find compelling. And yes, we’re looking forward to seeing the BLOAT movie even though he has that ability to turn even the most awful crimes into building his now infamous legend. Guess there’s no way to get around it.
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There’s more to cycling than any of us know and Larry Smith aware of this more than most. Smith suffers from Parkinsons and is the star of a feature length documentary, Ride With Larry. In the film Smith rides his bike 300 miles across South Dakota to help educate people about Parkinsons and let them know that living is better than anything. It is the moving story of cycling keeping someone going when most others would stop. To see the official trailer for the film, follow the jump.
[Link: KPBS] [click to continue…]
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On the eve of the day that news of American cyclocross racer Amy Dombroski’s death spread through the cycling world Tim Blumenthal, the president of People For Bikes wrote this compelling piece for the organization’s website.
In the pre-digital age, I would have been described as a broken record. That’s because every day, at least a half dozen times, I repeat the phrase, “When people ride bikes, great things happen.” I say it in media interviews, sponsor pitches, and in pep talks during staff meetings here at PeopleForBikes headquarters. . . This simple sentence neatly summarizes all the health, air quality, road congestion, business, and money-saving benefits of riding bikes. It helps explain why our organization exists. It’s a pure reflection of the smile in our red, white and blue logo. . . But the truth is, not all outcomes of bicycling are positive. Far too many bike riders get injured (or worse) worldwide.
Do yourself a favor and read the rest (if you haven’t already). It presents the situation we’re all in and beautifully explains the challenges ahead and what we all can do to surmount them.
[Link: People For Bicycles]
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It’s Thursday, four whole days after the SoCalCross Prestige Series Opener in Donwtown Los Angeles’ Historic Park and there are still no official results posted anywhere. Organization was pathetic. They ran out of timing chips and race numbers and racers were forced to lobby for their finishing places, but don’t let that keep you from checking out this video from the first two laps of the open category posted by J. Weir. Yes, he went two laps before getting a flat, which was about par for the course on Sunday, September 29, 2013. Seems like nearly everyone flatted. If they ever post the results we’ll link them up.
[Link: SoCalCross]
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