Month: August 2008
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Old or new
Take a look at this bike. With its lugged steel frame, downtube shifters, threaded headset and quill stem, it looks like a 15 or 20 year old road bike, right? Actually it is a brand new 2009 model bike from Fuji (see a better picture here). A couple of people forwarded this to me after…
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Way ahead of his time
If you have any interest in mountain bikes, you should know the name John Finley Scott. Though he is not as well known as some of the other pioneers of the sport, J.F. Scott really was the first person to create a purpose built mountain bike. He built the “Woodsie” bike that you see pictured…
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Friday links
I started this week off with a solid design related post, but the last couple, about my track bike on eBay and the US Pro races, have ventured slightly off topic. To make up for the lack of design content, I will do one of those posts where I just throw out a bunch of…
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The US Pro races are coming soon
I can’t believe that it is already the end of August, but the US Pro Championship races are right around the corner. Just as I have for the past two years, I will be photographing both the time trial and road race and will post the shots to my Flickr account soon after the races.…
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Back on the block
I mentioned a while back that my Pinarello track bike was for sale. The price ended up going pretty high, but unfortunately the sale didn’t go though. The winning (zero feedback) bidder backed out and the top two bidders were international anyway. Oh well, that was my first experience with an ebay sale not going…
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Gary Fisher on the El Ranchero
I was in a rush last week when I posted those photos from Trek World. I didn’t have time to elaborate on any of the bikes, but I was glad to see some good discussion about them in the comments. For those of you who don’t read the comments section (you should), I want to…
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Designs from Trek World 09
Posting twice in one day is rare for me, but a friend who was at the “backstage” event at Trek World 09 the last couple days sent me these photos of the Trek District (top), Fisher El Ranchero (middle), and new Trek Soho (bottom). The El Ranchero is just a design study, but the others…
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Third Eye Mirrors
I mentioned in the comments section of an earlier post that I tried a helmet mirror in the past and didn’t really like it. I’ll admit though, the one I tried was old and the Velcro that attached it was worn out. The result of that loose connection was that the mirror vibrated slightly and…
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Track bikes from BMX brands
The Olympics are underway and I have been glued to the TV since the opening ceremony. I watched the men’s and women’s road races over the weekend along with pretty much every other sport that was covered. Yeah, I really get into it and I will watch all I can, but obviously I have a…
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More reader submitted designs
I mentioned in my last post that I had more reader submitted designs to share. It has been an extremely busy week, and today is no different, but I still want to quickly pass along a few more. I still have a lot of email related to the blog that I haven’t had the chance…
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Reader submitted designs
Wow, I really have received a lot of design submissions for the blog recently. I haven’t been able to respond to all of the emails, but I do appreciate them. Since I am pressed for time today and have a backlog of interesting concepts to post, I will quickly pass along a few today and…