You know you’ll never get all the air out of this hood after the first time you blow it up. You’ll have to walk around in the awkwardly named Never Stop a Rolling Stone Hoody with the limp inflatable wrapped around your neck until the day if finally gets snagged on a branch and a hole renders it even more useless. The hoody also comes with a sleep mask and ear plugs, which is mostly so you won’t have to see or hear people making fun of you.

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Chain whips are awkward, bizarre-looking tools that would be more at home in an S&M dungeon than on a bike shop wall. Thing is, they work just like they’re supposed to, and besides switching from a cassette to a freewheel, there hasn’t been much in the way of alternatives. But now Pedros will be selling this Vise-Grip-looking monster tool that replaces your chain whip. It amounts to a massive Vise Grip, so it should be good for tearing the tops off of cans of beer, too.

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A local Wisconsin man was accused of cheating in an ice fishing tournament after questions were raised about his soaking wet sweatshirt and excessive bottle water purchases from the concessions stand. The man, who stood to win a Chevy truck, told the local news affiliate that he would, “Drive it like it’s stolen,” before declining to take a lie detector test that would have put the truck in his possession. The truck then went to a local woman who pulled a much smaller fish out of her hole in the ice. Either way, it’s still a cooler sport than ice climbing.

Well, this is a bit baffling. How do you go into the Hardees to get a hamburger after riding there? They won’t let you in without shoes, and your kid’s BMX bike isn’t heavy enough to setoff the sensor in the drive-thru. And even if the bike was heavy enough, you’d have to take your foot out of the sandal/pedal and rest it on the melted tar in the blacktop cracks while waiting in line. Also, who wants the pedal’s axel right under the middle of their foot? The Carefree Signature Pedals are odd, but I wouldn’t mind getting a pair. Of course, I wouldn’t put them on my bike, but I’d wear them around like normal sandals just so everyone would know how much I love biking.

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Peel the duct tape off your Nalgene to fix a burn hole in your puffy jacket and your Nalgene feels nasty. That stickiness never goes away, and you can’t complain because you’ll look like a special breed of Martha Stewart’s own outdoors Nancy-boy. At least you can pretend like you’re using this new brand of 3M’s duct tape because it’s rated for nuclear use and not because it pulls free cleanly. Not sure that it’s good for patching 25-year-old nuclear heaters, but it peels off within 6 months of sticking and is rated at temps up to 200F.

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