This killer little brake lever from Dia-Compe is tailored to fixed-gear bikers who like to add a little safety. You can operate it from either hand, though it won’t work in suicide mode where you grab both sides in a panic. One side pulls the cable and the other shortens the housing. The Dia-Compe Shot [ more... ]

A 29-year-old British woman will attempt to break the crazy record by skydiving over Mount Everest. She’ll throw herself out of a plane about 465 feet above the summit (29,035ft) and fall alongside it until landing in a meadow at the elevation 12,350 feet. She has to carry supplemental oxygen and use a Queen-size parachute [ more... ]

This guy I went to high school with would wear his childhood Batman costume to class on picture day. He was years ahead of his time; I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that he’d been the head writer on Arrested Development. I still laugh when I think of seeing him drive by on his [ more... ]

I want to get one of these waterproof backpacks to carry a towel around that I’ll use only for drying my back off after getting done with bike rides. There’s something about the combination of the words “dry” and “bagger that doesn’t quite roll off the tongue; they should have just called it the peak—too [ more... ]

Some jackass in a suit and black BMW 328i thought he’d send me a signal about staying on my side of the road by passing close enough to smell my Irish Spring soap. Kind of pissed me off, but it’s not so bad compared to this homeless man in Boulder who was hit by a [ more... ]

People will get out of your way when you run through the airport with the Samsonite OBAG Suitcase. When feet are run over they’ll be mending with trips to the hospital—not mumbled apologies. You could actually probably skip doing any laundry while you’re on vacation, and then just fill the bag with warm water, detergent, [ more... ]

The bamboo bike magician Craig Calfee is experimenting with a new design idea that would improve the strength of his bikes and make them even better suited to crunchy white people. He’s growing bamboo through forms that bend it into shapes he can use for couplings and joints.  Calfee said he’s experimenting with a [ more... ]

Stick these metal plates in your carry-on and wait for hilarity to ensue while your bag’s running through the x-ray machine at the airport. Artist Evan Roth came up with this ingenious way to get a free plane ticket to Cuba and the sunny beaches of Guantanamo Bay. Those guys working for the TSA really [ more... ]

I’ll finally be able to stop spraying my friends’ disc brakes with motor oil if this stuff works. The brake manufacturers at Swiss Stop have rolled out a Disc Brake Silencer that you spray on annoying brakes and then hope it does like it says. I’m not sure what this miracle juice in a spray [ more... ]

Modular outsoles are popular on highend bowling shoes, and now Patagonia’s taking the concept to eco levels. On bowling shoes you’d swap out the type of leather sole depending on what kind of slide you want or how many bowling alley martinis (beer with olives) you knock back per game. Patagonia uses these strap-on rubber [ more... ]