Bender sends news of progress (?) in Aberdeen. It ain't much, but it beats the alternative. And then there's this. Tempting target? Yeah, I admit when I first saw the treadmill bike I was shaking my head, but then I explored the website a bit and gave in after reading the story of their couchbike adventure. A snippet: I should never have let us go that fast to begin with, but we had reached the point of no return. Because of the inconsistent dirt surface, I feared that braking hard could cause us to spinout. As the couch hurdled closer…

Does a BOB trailer fit onto a Pugsley bike? No, unless you have friends in high places. Enter engineer/manufacturer/I've-got-a-machine-shop-in-the-family super friend Scott. He bent a one-off BOB trailer fork for our friend Nate out of aluminum that matches the 17.5mm offset wheel on the Pug. As you can see it has plenty of tire clearance and the trailer is perfectly centered. Nice work. -----

Now that the ass bruise from my close encounter of the vehicular kind has subsided into a hazy interpretation of Picasso's Guernica, it's time to move on to other things. Mostly riding bikes and tipping back warm beverages. Yes, it's that time of year when the single-speeders of the greater Minneapolis area migrate out onto a local lake and do stupid things for pride and the entertainment of lookers on. You guessed it - it's time for the Snowball's Chance in Hell Formula Ice Race and Snowy Dash for Cold Hard Cash. This time-honored tradition was started some 9 (or…

Hello droogs. The trails around here are fast. The snowpack makes them almost as fast as hardpacked dirt, with some ruts and ice patches doing the part mud would in summer. I rode a 20 minute loop at Wirth yesterday. My average summer loop time is 17 minutes. Not bad. Not that I keep track of that sort of thing. So I got an email today letting me know that MPLS protorocker Dale T. Nelson is once again having his birthday bash at The Entry. His band, Otto's Chemical Lounge, and a spate of to-be-determined loudbands will be playing there…

New In Stock Rox, out of Arizona, USA, has made us a new wide rimstrip out of their Super Dut-E material. This synthetic cloth tape is 50mm wide and will be perfect for Large Marge rims. The part number is RS0002 and they are now in stock. Sweet. -----