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The Revolution will NOT be Motorized! You will not be able to super glide, mybrother. You will not be able to gas up, burn out or cop out. You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip, Skip out for gas fueled beer runs, Because the revolution will not be Motorized. window.fbAsyncInit [...]

There’s a burgeoning GL(o)b{aL} bike race audience and as thin as the density of spectatorship has been in the U.S. there is a new force of curiosity and interest, long weary of standard sanctioned venues, jacking-out around a young American Promoter {David Tremble} who has cauterized the path to underground racing and is setting {a} [...]

Over 28 bike related businesses have opened in Long Beach during the last 18 months.  myBicycle is a new shop on Orange Ave just off Broadway.  Cameron has created an artful space out of slim inventory.   If he was a junk yard proprietor the goods would have the appearance of lost treasure. Visit the website: [...]

Ahhhhhhhhhh! It’s off-season training; everybody’s doing it. Lawn Jockey and Bubbles are jack’n out the Cross-Fit looking for a sly advantage to strike on the peloton. The Tortuga is in over his head (singing his “Song to the Siren”) riding the bike, going to spin class like a dizzy love-struck dervish, lifting weights; it’s like [...]

New York Times 12/2011: Floyd Landis was sighted at a roller race in the Parkside Lounge (a bar in the Lower East Side, NYC). According to the article “he is now training to become a Nascar driver. But he declined to discuss his new car-racing career or his part in the Tour de France scandals.” [...]

MOLEs [Men of Leisure] arrange their personal schedules by whim; like spontaneous combustion.  When a MOLE is out and about town it’s essential to carry a shoulder bag complemented with a front rack of minimum presence but yet one that enhances and adds accent to an otherwise cool city ride. Guero recently acquired a Nitto [...]

All his life this kid has been exposed to cycling as a thread in the fabric of one’s existence and now his personal involvement is taking on an independent life and he’s jack’n out the culture on his own terms.  Henry (my son) designed and illustrated this poster for a new club he’s started at [...]