Surly unveiled a long tail bike designed for hauling cargo at Interbike this year. They designed the back of the bike’s frame to accept Xtracycle accessories for people who want to mod their bikes for long tours. The good news is that you can also use it to haul around kegs in the afternoon and [ more... ]

Let the kid who can’t stand yet take your dog for a walk. This ski trailer is made to be towed behind a human, but as shown here you could just hook it up to Rover. Start teaching your dog a course to run when your wife’s pregnant and you might not have to ever [ more... ]

Calfee Design’s Bamboo Bike is made with heat treated bamboo tubes and lugs. They use a young bamboo fiber to form the lugs so the frame’s entirely wooden. In this picture the bike has Boss-Hog-style bullhorn handlebars and wooden rims, too. Now you have to worry about flat tires and your bike catching fire. Calfee [ more... ]

Tacx virtual reality puts you on a magnetic-resistance trainer plugged into a computer that adjusts resistance when you climb, descend, and turn through your course. The Dance Revolution of cycling, Tacx lets you choose among a Velodrome with raging fans, an eXtreme mountain bike course, or several stages of famous bike tours—basically places you’d never [ more... ]

Quality Bike Parts has an odd presence at Interbike. The Minnesota-based company is the largest bike part distributor in the US. They buy parts from every bike accessory company and then mark everything up about 10% and gray market it to bike shops. Shops then only need to deal with one company and can fill [ more... ]

Vanilla Bicycles lent their kid’s trike which was made for the Handmade Builders Show to Interbike as a display piece. This handmade wonder has more craftsmanship than any American car—they’re also more profitable and probably more coveted.

I actually felt a little guilty taking a picture of this lonely guy knowing that I would make fun of him later. He looked up when the flash went off so I pretended I was trying to figure out how to use my camera. I thought the Interbike booth with swimming goggles was the most [ more... ]

Crumpton’s 7.4lbs complete track bike might be a little on the sickly side of skinny but there’s no denying it’s an amazing bike. They even save weight by making the water bottle cage out of that stiff yellow stuff you use to wrap packages. The seat’s probably not too comfy since it’s just a piece [ more... ]

Las Vegas, a city beyond excess that indulges in every kind of environmental waste hosts the largest bicycle tradeshow in the US tomorrow. Las Vegas is everything that’s wrong with America packed onto to one street. Energy and water gluttons in the middle of the desert, these dream mongers break the back of America’s spirit [ more... ]

The Western Mountaineering Flash Vest might make you look like a sailor that just jumped ship, but this life-jacket-styled insulator is an ideal choice for anywhere you might need some more core warmth. At 3.5 ounces this thing is made from an ultralight shell lined with reflective trim and stuffed with 850 fill goose down. [ more... ]