My friend Sam left today for his sweet week long tour of Illinois and he should be rolling in to town Tuesday evening should be a cool hangout. wish i could have been going with him. I need some mileage therapy.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Track the Messenger.
A super cool video of a plotting machine showing the daily grind of a messenger in Bern, Switzerland equipped with GPS unit.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Independent Fabrication NAHBS Preview
Independent Fabrications always push the envelope every year for the NAHBS. This is one of the many bikes they will be showing this year. A cool single speed coming in at 13lbs with carbon belt drive system. I really wish i could make it to the show this year. It seems like a lot more activates and people at the show this year. I will be posting a lot more on the show and things arise. For now here is more on the Independent Fab. Build
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Transient Messenger Bag Release
Transient has been making some killer hip pouches and u lock holsters for a while now. March 8th they will be releasing their messenger bag line. The bags are nice looking and made by a small business.
Orange 20 Cycles has a few prototype bags and they put some pictures in their Flickr set.
Prolly posted what alex from Transient had to say about the release.
Just wanted to give all of you an update on our upcoming release. We've been crazy-busy trying to juggle a million things at once, in preparation, so please excuse us for leaving you all in the dark. We have been getting flooded with questions and feedback regarding the photo's of our new bags that have been floating around the web. At the moment, we are reaching the final stage of our product research. Our 4, courier "bag-beaters", are reaching the finishing point of their 6-week trial period. We are happy to say (going off what they have been telling us) the bags are holding up great!
We are also happy to announce that we have finally landed on a release date. March 8th we will be having a retail release through our site, where the bags will be available to the public. Shortly after they will be available to our wholesale dealers.
To kick things off, we will be releasing our first model of courier bag in 3 sizes (Small, Medium Large) falling into a retail price range of $130-$170 (with a 20% discount to you working couriers out there). Full Product specs will coincide with the launch, but let us just say that we are quite happy the end result of these bags.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Cycle Tour Sundays!
Now introducing the new cycle tour sundays. Every sunday i will be posting something having to do with cycle touring.
This week an awesome picture from a tour of Scotland.
Saturday, February 6, 2010
How it's made bicycle chain campy 11 speed chain
A pretty cool look at how campy makes there 11 speed chains.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Midwest Mayhem every thing you wanted to know
Here it is the total MWM recap all the photos, videos, and reviews.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Tom LaMarche rips in Milwaukee
All the fixed free style big dogs are in Milwaukee this weekend for the Midwest Mayhem the first official trick comp. Im excited to see what this bring picture and video wise should be some cool stuff soon.
Friday, January 22, 2010
A couple pictures from the Park Tool Summit
The summit was super cool I really learned a lot not just about the new products that are coming out but also about how to service and work on things that i will be seeing everyday in the shop. I didn't get to snap a lot of pictures because the classes were so packed with information and hand on procedures but i did get a couple.
Scored these today
A guy brought in his ridiculous looking 90,s cad 3(ill snaps some pics if its still there tomorrow) with miss matched shifters on it witch were real cruddy and not shifting right so he wanted a new set so everything matched and didn't want the old ones so i snagged these took the grips of and soaked them in some degreaser for a long while then cleaned them up and every thing worked great. I also got some gatorskins with some life still left in them.
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Cat Eye Velo 5 cycle computer
I recently picked up the cat eye velo 5 cycle computer for my commuter bike so i didn't want to get a real fancy computer. I really like this computer its cheap and easy to set up and use i like the simple one button operation you can go through all of the functions with the one button. The computer is removable from the docking base for security reasons.And for $25 it is one of the best deals out there. So if you are looking for a basic computer i would defiantly recommend the velo 5.
- simple to set up
- simple to use
- one button operation
- removable
- waterproof
- $25
Tommarow
I will be waking up at 3:00 am to drive to chicago to attend the Park tool summit to learn the latest in bicycle technology i will be taking classes by
- Campagnolo® with Dan Large, Campagnolo Service Center Manager Ultrashift Ergopower rebuild, Campagnolo and Fulcrum hub overhaul, spoke replacement, crank bearing service, Chain service, and tuning Campagnolo.
- Fox® with Nick DeLauder, Outside Technical Representative Bleeding & servicing 32 FIT dampers, Servicing Remote RL and Talas III, Air Sleeve maintenance
- Hayes Group® with Andy Paradowski Hayes Brake and Manitou® fork service
- Mavic® with Nate Field ITS-4 Hub overhaul, Servicing rim to rim spoke wheels
- Park Tool® with Calvin Jones, Director of Education Wheels – Theory, repair, tension balancing,
- Rock Shox® with Dave Meadows SID Team service including air spring and damper, Monarch rear shock total service
- Shimano® with Dave Arnauckas, Shimano Multi-Service Supervisor Servicing and maintaining disc brakes and road shifters
- SRAM/Avid® with Chuck Perryman Avid XX brake service, XX X-loc service and drive-train setup
Brooks x Vans best colabo ever
Very excited about this happening ill have to get 10 pairs so i could wear/ride them for the rest of my life!
More info to come.
Monday, January 11, 2010
My buddy jarrod
This is my buddy Jarrod Adcock killing it at the christmas classic and getting on espn.com
Check out all of the christmas classic pics here
MIKE VALLELY – The Brooklyn Banks 2010
Pretty epic video also real crappy that the banks will be closed down for 5 years and no one even knows if it will be saketable after that.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Hello
Im starting up this blog to talk about all the things im doing ,seeing,using, and thinking. I will be doing product reviews. I will also be showing all the things that i am doing to get my custom hand-built bicycle company. Lost Boy Cycle Co.
Zach