The ladies of Momentum Magazine put on the Urban Legends Fashion and Art Show last night at Interbike. DJ Miss Dust spun her urban tunes as models rode show bikes around the runway. The readers of Commute By Bike are naturally more interested in the bikes than the models. They rode bikes like this pretty [...]

I’m at the first day of Interbike 2008 in Las Vegas with others in the Crooked Cog crew. Here are a few things I’ve seen:

Attendance is incredible — the show floor is absolutely packed with a record number of booths and attendees.

Everybody is offering single speed and fixed gear bikes. The companies that already offered [...]

Commuter bikes were front and center at last weekend’s Trek World 2008 dealer show in Madison, with the singlespeed District stealing the show. This flat bar urban screamer features the Gates carbon belt drive that shaves nearly 280 grams from the weight of the bike, according to Trek. No lubrication is required for belt drives, [...]

Hayes Bicycle Group has received four reports of the SunRingl Hollow Quick Release Device breaking. No injuries have been reported. According to the press release:
“The quick release devices can unexpectedly fail or break when locked in position on the bicycle, causing the rider to lose control, which poses a serious fall hazard.
This recall involves [...]

First this: Obama meets with Bikes Belong board of directors and pledges funding for cycling
Then this: 27″ tire sales up — those are the kinds of tires that go on old 10 speeds from the 70s.
And this: are bike shops selling the bikes that new bikers want?
And finally an anecdote: One of my bus riding [...]

U.S. folding bike maker Dahon reports record bike sales in 2007, with 348,000 folding bicycles sold in 2007 compared with 290,000 in 2006, representing a 20% increase in unit sales and 36% increase in revenue.
Dahon’s increased sales in the U.S. and worldwide are part of a larger trend of increased sales of commuter bikes. In [...]