The freeride crew from Transition Bikes is rolling out a new line of urban bikes under the name Traitor Cycles. It’s great to see new bike brands riding the wave of high gas prices, and it’s even better to see small bike companies growing up. It’s my dream to see the bike industry take a [ more... ]
Tags: Cycling
Four Idaho State Parks will be offering wifi service to campers who want to spend some time outdoors but still check work e-mails, schedule meetings, and check out their fantasy football teams. It’ll be nice for people who own GPS-equipped cell phones mashed up with Google Maps, but there are obviously a contingent of people [ more... ]
Tags: Camping, Kirkwood
Early on buying a green product meant that you were getting something made from things you’d rather not revisit. Your jacket may have been made from old milk jugs or your chalk bag was cut from hemp vestments of a Himalayan herbal healer. Nixon offers us a product that doesn’t look like it was made [ more... ]
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SuperFly Jimmy Snuka should call his legal team into the Octagon Ring to take care of these suckas. A knock-off of the energy drink tabs made by Nuun promises to deliver Red Bullesque performance without the syrupy consistency and liquid morphine cough medicine taste. Pack your gums full of this stuff if you’re out of [ more... ]
Tags: Food and Drinks
Not much to do and ready access to the legal system makes for some interesting lawsuits. Take this one brought by an inmate trying to tie up the Lemond vs. Trek suit. In an odd twist, an inmate at a federal prison in Williamsburg, South Carolina filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuit in [ more... ]
Tags: CyclingOnly watch this if you’re prepared to corrupt the pure vision you hold of oneness with the bike among fixed gear riders. Actually, the videos kind of funny once you get over all the giggling and male bonding.
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Tags: Cycling, Videos
The lightweight mavens of trail running are rolling out their lightest offering yet next spring with the Innov8 X-Talon 212. They weigh about 7.4 ounces, so it’s kind of like running on clouds—clouds that are made out of screen and open-cell foam. If the Vancouver Foot Monster takes your appendages in these things they’ll stay [ more... ]
Tags: Trail Running
You have to hand it to Kjus for not watering down their Euro style for consumption in America. And you also have to hand it to them for making their Cio down jacket in a color other than white since grease drips from the chairlift would leave you looking like a bad Mentos commercial. Good [ more... ]
Tags: Jackets, Skiing
Tree Yoga combines the fresh smell of trees with the atmosphere of an Old West cow rustler hanging. I’d like to see a first time user dance around in one of these glorified deer stands about 30 feet off the ground. They’d either end up inventing the Death Vrksasana or becoming a pioneer in Quadriplegic [ more... ]
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Eproze‘s bike tool looks pretty handy with all those slim wrenches wedged into one handle, but you know the 15mm will strip out the first time you try to get off your rear wheel. Maybe you can match it with your Park multi-tool with the bent chain pin and the Pedro’s with the stripped out [ more... ]
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