Bike Helmet Consumer Reports Testing
The customer advocacy folks at Consumer Reports ran 13 bike helmets through the ringer to some interesting results. They did an impact test measuring how bad your head would get take the knock, and...
View ArticleManhattan Cyclist Scofflaws Sent to Remedial Biking Class
At least one judge in Manhattan is court-ordering bike etiquette classes for cyclists who break the law during their morning commutes. The class comes after a day of community service picking up spent...
View ArticleICE Sensor Contacts Your Loved Ones After a Bike Crash
An ingenious little company called ICEdot is going to release a bike helmet sensor that contacts your loved ones through your smartphone after you get into an accident. While the setup could be ripe...
View ArticleRiding a $16k Road Bike Like a Madman
This pretty much destroys my meek claims that I have the wrong mountain bike to ride a certain section of trail. Martyn Ashton takes the $16k road bike used by Team Sky’s Bradley Wiggins & Mark...
View ArticleBMX 16ft Full Pipe
I’d tell you what time to jump for the full pipe ride, but then you’d miss all the insane riding before it. Insane. Red Bull’s Full Circle is a BMX situation that sends a handful of their athlestes...
View ArticleJay Petervary Tour Divide Record Ride
The Tour Divide race runs from Banff to New Mexico covering about 2700 miles with over 2000ft of elevation gain. Jay Petervary sets the world record for the ride in his final run on the race at just...
View ArticleMountain Biking Ice-Covered Bobsled Track
This very German bike company is promoting their new bike with a very German YouTube video of two guys riding down an icy bobsled track. Their video is called “The new Radon Slide 130 29″ is chasing...
View ArticlePortland Art Museum Bike Exhibit
Geek out on bikes for four minutes in this video featuring some of Michael Embacher 210 weird bikes. He’s loaned several of them to the Portland Art Museum (where else?) for an exhibit called...
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