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Huck N Roll December Giveaway

It is the season for giving, so Bike198 and Huck N Roll teamed up to give away a $250 gift card to Huck N Roll! For those of you that don’t know, Huck N Roll is an awesome online retailer of bikes, parts and accessories. You are sure to find something you need and $250.00 [...]

Review: Nocturn W660 and N230 LED Bike Lights

Nocturn LED Bike Lights

Over the past couple of months, we have been putting the Nocturn W660 and N230 LED lights from Global Gear through the ringer. Let’s take a look at what we found with these two inexpensive LED bike lights. For the purposes of this review, Global Gear provided two models out of their lineup: the W660 [...]

Video: Flatland Freestyle BMX with Matti Hemmings

freestyle

This video brings me back. Freestyle flantland BMX used to be a big part of the industry. With demo’s at almost every cycling event and riders drooling after the latest pigs and gyros, flatland freestyle was as big a part of the industry as sections of mountain biking is today. Over the years, we have [...]

Keep On Keepin’ It On: Fixie Riding in Seattle, WA

fixie

I found this video on Vimeo by morehartfilms recently and it captured my attention. Some of the fixie riding in this short sequence is fantastic.

Pack The Little Bikers: Involve The Kids With A Bike Trailer

The Snowball Effect and Blogging

You know how much you love riding your bike. But is it really true that you’ll have to put riding aside once a kid enters the family?  Kids can ride their own bikes, of course, and come along with you on rides, but that can be a long way down the road.  After all, there’s [...]

Garrett Reynolds Props 75 Bio: Urban BMX Video

This is a sick video of Garrett Reynolds ripping up some urban BMX. Hit tricks and moves are so fluid through transitions. It’s a really cool video to watch even if he does the entire thing with no helmet and his hat flying off most of the time.

Video: Trials Fixie Riding by Chris Akrigg

Prologo Vertigo Max

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 [...]

Racing Fixies At The Roswell Crit

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 [...]

Commuting by Bike Around Cars

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 [...]

Google Maps Goes Biking – Bicycling Directions

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 [...]

Commuting By Bike In New York City

Over the weekend, I took a trip with my wife up to New York City for a mini-vacation. While I was up there, I snapped a couple of shots of bike commuters and bikes up in NYC. Surly Commuter Bike Fuji Commuter Bike O.S.C.H. Fixie Commuter Bike Schwinn Fixie In NYC Bike Shop Jenn Helping [...]

It’s Your Ride – Cinecycle Productions Urban Biking Video

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 [...]