Month: June 2008

One of our riding buddies, Robert Plumb emailed me to let me know that he had a pretty bad crash… SO i will be side lined for a little from riding… here is my story I went riding with all the boys from the shop last Monday because we closed at 4 so we decided…

Tyte Rack carrying the Kona Hei Hei test bike I know that this rack has caused a bit of commotion here so I wanted to write a short update on how the rack is doing for me. I would like to think that I am objective since no money is changing hands. The full review…

In case you missed me, yeah, I’m still alive… I just haven’t been mountain biking much lately. Some of you may know that I’m a Bike Commuter, but I’m also a roadie, I’m curious to know what other type of riding do you do other than Mountain Biking. Please vote on our sidebar poll or…

Yesterday I was riding solo again. But I realized that any time I saw someone ahead, it motivated me to ride harder and eventually pass them up. Now keep in mind, I’m not the fastest person on the trail, but when I do see someone in front, I start playing the songs from The Collective…

I know I’m not the only one that checks out Craigslist.org every single day…I know you’re out there. I’m always on the look out for vintage bikes, I love those things! Plus it cracks me up to see some dumb ads where people think they can sell their 1995 mountain bike that is “barely ridden”……

This week’s Deal Day special, we are going to visit with some products that I’ve been using from Pricepoint.com . The first item I’d like to introduce is the Sette Reken frame that we used to build up a “Brother on a Budget” single speed. This frame is priced reasonably well, $99. I also used…

Gotta check out the DIYWBC 1.0 (Do It Yourself Wooden Bicycle version 1.0). As a product designer I work with a lot of limitations. The products should not be to experimental, not to conventional, they should be easy to massproduce yet hard to copy, the materials should be rational and low-cost yet have an exclusive…

The last time I reported about Lil’ Bryan, I mentioned that he was missing. Well I found him swimming in the washing machine…yeah I felt bad since I left him in my shorts pocket when I did laundry…So to make up for it, Lil’ Bryan and I spent some quality time this weekend. We started…