$20,000 is on the line. The third stop of the 2009 Freeskiing World Tour is Kirkwood, Cali and what’s going down is the 12th Annual Subaru North American Freeskiing Championships. Well, what’s going down, really, is badass skier after badass skier, battling it out for the title… and, like I said, $20,000. I have to [ more... ]

Converting your mountain bike into a cyclocross rig with real 700c wheels can be accomplished with the help of a little-known part called the Mavic Caliper Adjuster. Its lack of noteworthiness, potentially stemming from the long name, means we’ll just call it the Brake Booster, in honor of the mid-90s brake add-on that prevented powerful [ more... ]

Swiss Army shoes should all come with a knife blade embedded in the toe like that scene in the movie Roadhouse where the guy walks into the Double Deuce with a knife sticking out of his boot and Pat Swayze kicks his ass anyway. Then the Wenger Swiss Army shoes could also have toothpick in [ more... ]

Burton’s high-end CO2 Snowboard Binding favored by loads of pros happens to share a lot of design elements in common with a very exciting office chair. And why shouldn’t it? Both are dialed for ergonomics, and you can break your neck riding down steep hills on either of them. Burton’s $350 CO2 bindings look like [ more... ]

Bicycle production, along with booze and gambling, appears to be recession proof. I’m no financial analyst, but I think it might have something to do with the high price of Hummers. If they could only get us those things a little cheaper now that gas is finally getting to reasonable prices again, our problems would [ more... ]

It looks like Vans is reaching back to the days before skateboards for inspiration on their latest bike project. These Supercorsa Vans are a big improvement on styling over their fixed-gear specific saddle shoes, and they bear a striking resemblance to cycling shoes before the days of clipless pedals. These will be the dressiest shoes [ more... ]

If this Flashpoint handheld microwave turns out to be a real product it’s going to cause some problems when you forget to turn it off before stuffing it in your backpack. Not to mention that there will be issues when it’s the only thing you can find at night when looking for a light to [ more... ]

This reminds me of high school when I super into mountain biking and thought “roadies” were about as cool as my math teachers. Of course, it turned out that my math teach was fired when some of the student-teachers complained he was creeping them out, and now I almost exclusively ride on the road, so [ more... ]

 Load up your Collapsed World Financial Market Survival Kit with one of these Sparky Firestarter Knives and you’ll be able to cook your food on piles of rubble instead of eating squirrels and looted meat while it’s still raw. You can actually hear jets flying overhead during this extra long video on how to [ more... ]

Over the weekend The New York Times rolled out this field guide to NYC cyclists. They nailed it with the Pista and dock shoes, but I’m not sure they adequately covered the massive umbrella of the yuppie category with the woman on the $13k Pinarello Price. And what’s with only four categories of cyclists in [ more... ]