A friend of ours sent over this video of Chris Akrigg ripping up the streets of Barcelona on his Mongoose Maurice fixie. Chris has taken his Mongoose Maurice fixed gear bike to the streets of Barcelona to see what the Spanish city streets has to offer in terms of a challenge. This is the second [...]
We all know that dicing through over 100 road racers on a short criterium track is insane enough at 30+ miles an hour, but one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time was actually a different animal all together. During the historical Roswell crit in Georgia yesterday, there was a fixie [...]
For many people, the scariest part of bike commuting is riding with cars. Four thousand pounds of metal and plastic hurtling past you at twenty five miles per hour is enough to make most people a little nervous. However, like hills, weather, and distance there are skills and techniques to make commuting safer and less [...]
That’s right…Google Maps is now offering biking directions with their online version. Now, you have a drop down menu option to select bicycling as your route of choice. Once you put in your two destinations, Google Maps gives you several different route options that would be good to take by bike as you can see [...]
I first saw this video months ago actually. In this short put on by Cinecycle Productions funded by Hutchinson tires, we follow two very unique riders through the city. Other than being a complete sucker for a Masi fixie, this video illustrates how much cycling can mean to two completely different individuals. As a rider [...]
Republished on Urban.Bike198.com with permission from Pieter Parmentier Lamstedt, 7-12-2009 7,5 hours cycling, 162 km, arrival 17.00 During the second day the Dutch radio called on my mobile phone. If I would like to participate in a radio programme on the climate summit? Of course I did not mind, for some extra publicity could mean [...]
Sometimes there is nothing better than sitting back and watching other riders achieve the impossible. Trials and urban bikers are some of the best riders in terms of technical ability and overall bike control. They amaze us with tricks and acrobatics around the city, but…in all reality…they are incredibly skilled riders as they take to [...]
Republished on Urban.Bike198.com with permission from Pieter Parmentier English summary Cycling to Copenhagen in December, 700 km in five days and all alone? This seems to be quite an unusual plan and so it is, but for a very good reason. I explained it like this in one of my mails to friends abroad: “I [...]
Much like buying your first car buying your first bike for commuting can be a confusing often scary experience. Should you ride a recumbent? A single speed? Will your mountain bike do the job? Considering the amount of time you will be spending on this bike to and from work you want to know you [...]
I hear a lot of talk in the bike commuting industry on ways to get more people to commute by bike to work and for leisure. On paper, it sounds like a great idea. There is less footprint on the world, cleaner air, more exercise, healthier population, obvious monetary savings… But…what it really boils down [...]
Yesterday afternoon, I received an email from a reader who was unsubscribing from this blog. Normally, I would not post up these kinds of rant emails (its actually the first I have received…so we must be doing something right!), but I just had to share this one with you guys. Adam writes: I am unsubscribing [...]
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