You use equipment every day for your job, home or entertainment. It could be a bicycle you use to get to work or a tractor you use to collect the autumn’s crop. Buying new equipment is expensive, so the best way you can save money is to make your machinery and electronics last as long [...]
PARK CHAIN CLEANING TOOL
January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
You know how there’s always some guy who seems to have a sparkling drive chain for every ride? Think he pops the chain and soaks it in gas each night? Nah. Here’s Mr. Clean’s dirty little secret. reviewed by John Henderson My Finish Line chain cleaner finally cracked and became unusable after about five years [...]
John Kaehny, Director of Transportation Alternatives
January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Name: John Kaehny Occupation: Executive director of Transportation Alternatives Cycling in the New World Two weeks after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, Bicyclewire.COM went to talk with John Kaehny, the executive director of Transportation Alternatives, New York City’s bicycle and pedestrian advocacy group. They have an office in midtown not far from [...]
Taliah Lempert, Painter of Bicycles
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Name: Taliah Lempert Occupation: Artist; proprietor of www.bicyclepaintings.com Williamsburg is only one stop from Manhattan on the L train, but you know you’ve left the island of skyscrapers behind as soon as you emerge from the subway onto Bedford Avenue. The buildings out here in the flatlands of Brooklyn are squat, like a frontier town. [...]
SUPERCUP MAN
January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
by J.P. Partland In the middle of a blinding snowstorm, while watching the 1995 Cyclocross National Championships in Leicester, Massachusetts, Lyle Fulkerson decided that if he were having a blast, so would others like him. Since that ephiphany, he has been the man behind the SuperCup, a national cyclocross series which is arguably behind the [...]
PRETTY IN PINK
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USA Cycling and Cannondale created a new elite women’s road racing team–in pink. Team Cannondale USA will sport a feminine look, racing in flower print, two-tone, pink jerseys and matching pink bikes. —Bicycleretailer.com If there is a topic of discussion the Scorcher religiously avoids more even than politics, it’s gender politics. Especially with ladies present. [...]
Head Games Part II
January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Do Helmets Help Or Hurt_ by Charles Komanoff “I never wear a helmet for the same reason I never wear Lycra. I think the idea that you have got to dress up like a bloody spaceman in order to ride a bike is just completely potty.” The words of an aging retro-grouch_ Nope. That was [...]