Bicycle Industry News

Urban Legends fashion show video

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

The folks of Momentum Magazine posted the Interbike Urban Legends Art & Fashion show video with help from Masi Bikes. You also see details about the bikes, accessories and clothing at Momentum Planet.

Videography by David Niddrie and Gwendal Castellan. Photography by Wendell Challenger, Richard Masoner (aka Yours Truly), Carlton Reid, Joe Sales.
Edit by Tim Grahl:
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Bobike child carrier

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Seen at Interibike at the Koolstop booth.

This is one of Bobike’s child carriers. Koolstop distributes them in the United States, so any bike shop that carries Koolstop products should be able to order this for you.
Photo by me.

Xtracycle open source specs now online

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

As promised, Xtracycle put their longtail bike frame specifications online as part of their project to open source their longtail frame design. They’ve created a Longtail Standard and logoing to allow vendors to design their products to fit in the Xtracycle Free Radical ecosystem. The Longtail Logo can be used on bikes, accessories or [...]

Lake winter boots

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Although Lake markets their clipless winter compatible cycling boots for competition mountain bike and cyclocross use, the venerable Lake MXZ/CXZ has been a favorite among year round commuters for about the past ten years, mostly because they’ve usually been the only cycling shoes available that’s appropriate for winter use. Lakes are very pricey, with the [...]

Fixie Inc bikes to be sold in USA

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

The German Fixie Inc bike builder got some attention when they won the Best Design award at Eurobike three weeks ago for their belt drive show bike. Paul Ferguson of Bionicon USA tells me they will be the exclusive distributor of these boutique fixed gear bikes in the United States.

Bionicon reports quite a bit of [...]

Mark Sanders folding bike

Friday, September 26th, 2008

I got to try out the new Pacific Cycles Integrated Folding (IF) bike designed by Mark Sanders.

This bike is something like a full sized version of the Strida folding bike. Like the Strida, it folds in half quickly, with unique uni-”forks” so the wheels lay flat against each other. James at Bicycle Design is a [...]

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