Snowboard Magazine has a look at the full line of Scott’s goggles for 2008/09, and the standout is their Alibi, though I don’t think it comes with this fruity lens. You’d have one brown eye and one blue—like those people with an extra a chromosome that lends their eyes two sharp colors. You know who I’m talking about, there’s something odd the first time you meet them, then when you figure it out you have to tell them immediately—they’re never impressed. Anyway, I think that lens would be a nice upgrade option for the green wood grain or rainbow-plaid frame.

A Japanese company has developed a backpack add-on that promises to hold interest for the mountaineering community if the technology improves. Hell, I’m sure that all 10 people who make their living climbing mountains will be interested in this Ymup (pronounced ?) Oxygen-generating pack. The 6×9in unit weighs 2.86 pounds and puts out air with 30% oxygen concentration for about three hours on a full charge. The Ymup is available from Japan and costs about $1000. Get one for your neighbor who’s always out burning smokes with her oxygen tank still on full blast.

via Gizmodo

These 10 tips to make your bike ugly might fool your average meth addict looking for some thing to drop at the pawn shop or Play-It-Again Sports, but bike thieves that know what to look for will still steal your aero-tube Cervelo. If you follow these tips, you’ll need to paint your bike hideous colors and scratch the hell out of it, and frankly if you don’t mind doing that to your sweet, sweet ride, then you’re probably on something that’s a piece of crap anyway. People who make a little space in their heart for a bike shouldn’t have a hard time making a little space in their bedroom to store it at night. Now you just need to lobby for place to lock your bike at work.

via Treehugger

Just watch this NYPD cop cherry pick the guy at the very end of the line to take down. It’s a pretty impressive tackle, and you have to feel sorry for the biker who got crushed because he’s probably still in jail since his buddies can’t raise enough money to bail him out on that obstruction of justice charge. An outrageous video.

via Wend

A Portland start-up will begin selling a line of sustainable shoes this August called END. The Environmentally Neutral Design shoes will be a new option for people who want to run without going barefoot or punching holes in the ozone layer. END has a lot of information up on their site, but they don’t have much stuff on their products. Kind of reminds me of how Nau launched the Thought Kitchen months in advance of showing product…whatever happened to those guys anyway?

via Outside

An Italian SCUBA and cycling enthusiast set the world record for underwater riding in distance when he pedaled his bike 360 feet along the seabed. Call me crazy, but riding your bike underwater for 10 minutes doesn’t seem like something that should blow people’s minds. Guinness even sent someone there so that they could verify the ride for the next World Record book. That record should stay intact until the first person who wants to beat it takes their first SCUBA lesson.

Bolle must be doing something right since they’ve managed to stay in business this long—I just can’t figure out what it is. The company that will forever be linked in my mind with big, white frame sunglasses and middle-aged women is kicking out a new goggle. The Bolle Fathom Goggle has the spherical lens, triple-fat foam, and anti-fog coating you see in every goggle, and I’m sure it has a fine fit for people with small faces, but that ThuderCats paint job won’t look good on anyone—especially not the old men who’ll be in the market for a new set of Bolle’s this year.

This engineering student that I used to work with at the bike shop would always talk about how Shimano’s BioPace asymmetric chain rings from the late 80s had been a good idea. Of course we made fun of him to no end when he tried putting one on a fixed gear bike, and the story doesn’t end well because his girlfriend broke up with him and he dropped out of college.  But he should have stuck it out, because if he’d stayed at the bike shop all these years then we’d all have to go back now and admit that he’d been right. Some of the Agritubel Team are rocking these O.symetric Harmonic Rings. If you weren’t alive or were too bent on drugs during the 80s to remember Shimano’s BioPace chain rings, they were exactly the same. The design is supposed to give you more consistent power—just don’t use them on single speeds.

via Cycling News

The leader of Britain’s conservative opposition had is bike stolen while he was in the grocery store the other day. If that doesn’t give you an idea of how backwards our county is, then I feel a little sorry of you. I mean, I could understand you blowing it off if Canada’s most outspoken conservative had his bike stolen on his way home from work, but Britain went to war with us to keep the separatists in check only a couple hundred years ago. Now their conservative leader is championing riding a bike instead of running people over in farmers’ markets with an SUV on your way to work. I know Prez Bush likes to ride, but he’s definitely missed a lot of the charm that comes being a cyclist.