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Monthly Archive for August, 2008
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 page from the surf industry where riders of factory-made products imported from China feel great shame. via Urban Velo
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 who would prefer to leave that garbage back in civilization. Hopefully they won’t complain too much since it’s not like you’re required to pack a laptop for your backpacking trip. via Backpacker
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 from trash—and the trash it came from had a much cooler first life. The Nixon Rotolog Reply is cut from old skate decks. The true greenness of the product is questionable since hardly any wood is used in these watches and the carbon cost in terms of transportation and energy used to cut up old skate decks is likely high—but hey, it’s a step in the right direction. via NOTCOT
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 water and let the shakes takeover. A pack of six SuperFly Orange Squeeze Energy Drink Tabs sells for $5. via Teton AT 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 July, alleging that he and other inmates produce bikes for LeMond under the Federal Prison Industry Unicor Program for 12 cents an hour, a violation of minimum wage laws. The inmate also claimed LeMond bicycle are shipped to Iranian troops for training purposes, violating the “Training with Enemy†Act. Perhaps a cyclist who went roadrage on a motorist is trying to find something to do. I don’t recall ever hearing anything about a Trek company in Wisconsin using prison labor in South Carolina. I mean, it’s not like they’re Omega Pacific. via Interbike |
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