B Cycle Austin Coming December 21! I spend a lot of time in Austin, TX for work each month and I even lived there for 3 months this past summer. I am an avid cyclist and will ride just about anywhere. It definitely beats walking and especially when the temps sore in Austin, which is…
Back in late August, BikePark Wales opened it’s doors or rather trails to the mountain bike community. This park has something for everyone, from tikes to pro riders. They even have “Vehicle-Assisted Uplift,” which is British for a van or truck that takes you to the top of the mountain to enjoy over 20 trails,…
It was only 4 years ago when I first had disc brakes on my mountain bike. That bike was a GT Marathon Pro and it was awesome. The first variety I had were Shimano XT brakes which to this day are still considered some of the best mountain bike brakes alongside the likes of the…
From June until late October it’s commonplace for temps to soar into the triple digits for many days on end in Texas. It’s certainly not the most comfortable place to ride in the summer and I don’t recommend riding for more than an hour once the temps are above 100, but I did learn to…
Boulder County is home to hundreds of miles of picturesque dirt roads. These roads are very lightly traveled and are proving to be exceptionally safe for cycling. I know that I prefer getting a little dirty on these roads over a lot if the far more traveled cycling routes like highway 36 to Lions. Check…
If you grew up in New England and raced bikes in the mid to late 90s, then you know Spooky Bikes. They were all over the place on the mountain bike circuit and seemed to fade into nothing as quickly as they made it big time. So being that today is Halloween, I did some…
So a big theme at Interbike this year was the introduction of a new breed of bikes called Gravel Grinders. While this has been nothing new for companies like Salsa Cycles out of Minnesota, but for many other brands, this was completely new territory. A gravel grinder in short is a modified geometry cyclocross or…
I still think of BASF as the company that made VHS tapes so that I could record episodes of the Cosby Show, but they actually have been around since 1865. As a tribute to the era in which they were founded, they decided to recreate a penny-farthing using today’s technology including a smartwatch for enhanced…
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