Mountain Biking Has Come A Long Way, Baby
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Category: Mountain Biking
Update: Gold Country Classic Postponed Due To High Fire Danger
August 29, 2024: Sorry to hear that the first-ever Gold Country Classic has been pushed back a year due to extreme fire danger in the Calaveras County area. A message on the event's website reads,…
Cyclist Endos Into Fallen Tree
A number of news outlets titled this video "Falling tree almost hits cyclist during Milwaukee storm" but a much better title would be "Cyclist finds bike's wet V-stop brakes don't work very well and endos…
Pee Wee Herman Schwinn Replica Up For Grabs
If you are a fan of Tim Burton's "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" movie or you are a Pee Wee Herman fan or a Paul Reubens fan or you are a 1949 Schwinn DX bicycle fan,…
Nina Dobrev Injured On A Motorcycle, Not A Bicycle
Nina Dobrev’s crash and hospitalization after a “bike” accident made international news. The headlines universally claimed that the Canadian actress had been riding either a “bike” or “e-bike.” The fact, supplied by the actress in…
Please Peter Sagan, Hang Up The Number Plates
Just learned that Peter Sagan needs to undergo a second heart procedure after undergoing an initial heart surgery just weeks ago. Dude, you got nothing left to prove to your legion of devoted fans and…
Latest Newton-Rider Helmet “Update” Does Little To Calm Customers’ Nerves (Or Protect Their Heads)
Checked back for the March update from Newton-Rider on their foldable helmet and it is a doozy. No mention of helmet standard certification. No mention of production dates. No guess of an estimated shipping date.…
Garmin InReach Mini Hack Can Save You $130 – UPDATED
UPDATED 3/12/24: I’ve been notified by Garmin tech experts that my hack doesn’t, can’t and won’t work. Even though the unit boots up fine, doesn’t throw an error code and sends messages, it is still…
Crowd-Funded Newton-Rider Foldable Bicycle Helmet Issues Troubling News
Learned of the Indiegogo crowd-funded foldable bicycle helmet a few weeks ago (click here to read my first article). Checking back in on Newton-Rider today, I read their recently released progress report. I worked for…
Another Helmet Unicorn Spotted on Indiegogo
I spent years covering the Park & Diamond helmet fiasco and left off in September of 2022 with a story titled “Lessons Learned From The Park & Diamond’s Bicycle Helmet Debacle.” It appears there are…