Specialized Wind Tunnel

I think it is cool that Specialized has built their own wind tunnel. 

I Am Specialized

I Am Specialized

Tour Champ

Cadel Evans will make a great 2011 Tour Champ. Couldn't go to a nicer guy. With the bad luck over that last few years, he deserves a break.

Le Tour Stage 2

Exciting, except for the poor smuck who crashed within 25 meters of the start. The course seemed too tight...eschalon couldn't really form. Who is that new commentator with the glasses? I'd rather have Kirsten Gum.

Le Tour

Let the games begin. Can Contador repeat? Will Andy Schleck dominate? Who gets busted for doping?

very bizarre...very random...something fishy...doesn't add up

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Two gunshot wounds, gun powder and a trail of blood on Fort Caroline Road near St. Johns Bluff Road in East Arlington is the result of what happened to one bicyclist who does not want to be identified.
The men responsible for the random attack have not been caught.
"I noticed a green SUV go flying past me," said the victim, who was riding home from work. "They pulled over in the bike lane probably about 1,000 yards away. They had their flashers on. I kept riding my bike and kept noticing no one is getting out of the car."
The man said he tried to pedal as fast as he could past the car.
"I got like five or 10 feet from them," he said. "Three of them jumped out of the car. One of them run up on the sidewalk, pulled a gun out. I hit the gun with my elbow. It shot through my left bicep and went through my right forearm."


The man said he was terrified he was going to get shot again, so he tried once more to pedal away, but he was losing too much blood.
"I saw the blood flowing, and I was realizing I was starting to feel weak," he said. "So there was a guardrail, and I happened to see a group of palm trees, so I jumped the guardrail and hid and watched them speed off."
The man said he thought quick, took off his shirt and tied it around his arm to stop the bleeding. Then he called police.
The victim described his attackers. He said the first man was about 5 feet 7 inches tall and was wearing a dark hat and dark clothes.
The second man was described as 5 feet 10 inches tall and was wearing a white shirt and dark pants. The third man was about 5 feet 9 inches tall and was wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt and dark pants.
All of the men are believed to be in their 20s.
If you know anything about this crime or those involved, call Crime Stoppers at 866-845-TIPS 866-845-TIPS .

Awesome, awesome and more awesome

This is one of the coolest bikes I have ever seen. 2011 Specialized Venge.

Both commuter bikes are ready to roll

I bought both of these old Specialized mountain bikes off Craigslist (one for $25 and the other for $40). I cleaned them up and added new Specialized Nimbus tires, BG Grips, BG Saddles, fenders and racks. Both bikes are in great shape and ride exceptionally because they had seen significant garage time. For me and my wife, these are the ultimate commuter bikes. I probably have $200 in parts and labor for each bike. So for around $500 I now have two really awesome commuter bikes. If you can find a good quality, older bike on line for a good price, it is little effort converting it from a old mountain bike to a awesome commuter bike.

Since I live in Florida, we can ride them almost all the time. While it is impractical to ride them to work every day, we do ride them to work occasionally. We get the most satisfaction out of riding them in the evenings and on weekends for leisurely rides and errands. We look forward to taking them on vacation this year summer.

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What a great idea!!!

From the good folks at Bikerumor.com. Imagine the situation. You park your beloved bicycle outside your work, locking it securely. Unbeknown to you a thief starts to cut your lock, however the vibrations trigger the cunning alarm you have hidden in your bike which sends you a SMS to let you know there is a problem. Despite rushing downstairs immediately you are just too late and see the thief cycling away. Undaunted, you run back to your computer, log on to a special website and follow the movements of the thief until the vibrations stop, thus revealing your bikes location so you can go round, or call the police, to retrieve it. Sound far fetched? Then read on to hear more about this great new security device.

This unique GPS tracker is cunningly concealed inside a fully functional rear bike light. Designed by

GPSTrackThis, once the Spylamp is activated a vibration sensor detects any movement of the bike, notifies the owner via SMS that the bike is in motion and uploads its position to the GPSTrackThis website. So long as motion is detected the device continues to upload its position every 20 seconds allowing the owner to plot the course of the bike and it’s current location. It is also possible to set the device to transmit it’s position either upon demand or at set intervals. It is worth noting that the motion sensor needs a few seconds of continual motion to activate, so an accidental bump or passing car shouldn’t trigger the alarm.

The device works with any mobile network in the world and the user only has to buy a pay-as-you-go SIM with each GPS upload being charged at a fraction of a cent.
GPSTrackThishas sold the Spylamp online for the past few months, however the firm has now ceased online sales and is looking for a distribution partner or interested retailers to get in contact. They are also working on a new tracker which can be hidden inside the bicycle frame, getting around the one obvious disadvantage of the Spylamp system.

Here's a bad idea

Cyclists should always be prepared for problems on the road. Some of us carry CO2 cartridges or frame pumps for when we have a flat tire. Now there is a new "technology". The guys at Lifehacker.com had this idea for "evilweek". Here's how it works.


Need air, no problem. Pony up next to any automobile and you have instant air. All it takes is 2 1/2 feet of air hose and two chucks, one for each end of the hose. Attach the first chuck to the car tire then the second to your bike tire. Open the value to the car tire then slowly open the value on the bike tire.


Lots of problems here. Car tires have less pressure than bike tires...pressure issues. Getting caught might be a painful if the car you are getting the air from is owned by the incredible hulk. Let's say someone saw you and took a picture with their phone....the car you took the air from had an accident with a fatality because an under inflated tire separated and caused the accident. Then the person with a picture of you taking the air posted it to the local TV station website. How many friends you think would rat you out? Jail time, dude...and lots of it.


While this is a modestly creative idea, it is a bad idea and not worth the ill will for the entire cycling community. Good ideas with only positive outcomes is what the cycling community needs.


Another thing...I could just see this on Jackass...some genius stops beside an 18 wheeler and gets blown into many pieces. Opps...not so good of an idea.

Specialized on top of their game!!!

Three major road teams will use Specialized’s equipment in 2011, following the announcement it will supply bikes for Team HTC-Highroad’s men’s and women’s teams from next season. Specialized will replace Scott as the bike supplier at Bob Stapleton’s ProTour squad, with Scott already announced as the supplier for ProTour hopeful Pegasus Racing.

Specialized renewed its deal with the Astana squad last week and will also supply Bjarne Riis’ Saxo Ban-SunGuard outfit again in 2011. The pairing with Team HTC-Highroad was described as a “multi-year partnership beginning in 2011”, but no set period for the deal has been announced.

Ok...so now Specialized may have the Yellow, Green and Polka Dot Jersey for the the Podium. Roughly 18% of the riders in the Tour next year will ride Specialized. Likely that Cancellara will also win the opening time trial. Nothing shabby about that, Specialized!!!!

How many World Championships? Kona, Time Trial, Tour de France, ITU Women's Sprint, and countless mountain bike championships. Not to mention they make a dang good bike too!!

Finishing the MS Century Ride

My wife and I finished the MS Cycle to the Shore Century on October 2 along with good friend Dianne. It was awesome. We all finished strong. Then on Sunday morning we rode back to Jacksonville 67 miles.

cool stuff..courtesy of Bike Rumor

You’ve seen touchscreen, and mapping computers have been around. Now we’ve seen the future.
Cerevellum, a South Carolina based company whose founder also helps design for Blue Competition Cycles has developed a cycling computer with an integrated video camera that displays the footage on the screen as you ride.
The Hindsight 60 is what’s shown here, and it also records footage from the rear facing camera, however it’s only recording eight :30 loops (4 minutes total) and starts rewriting the earliest segment once the memory is full. There’s an accelerometer in it that senses an impact and will stop recording just afterward, so you’ll have the video proof of what led up to any rearward accident.
The cycling computer has all the basic functions (speed, max/avg speed, ride time, distance, odometer, time) and uses GPS to determine speed, so there’s no separate speed sensor. You can, however add an ANT+ cadence sensor to show cadence, or it can pick up cadence from any power measuring cranks that also determine cadence.
If you have a power meter, it graphs power in real time, allowing you view your power output as a graph on the screen, giving you a better visual indication of how long you’re able to sustain a certain output and/or keep yourself at a certain threshold.

OUCH!!!!!!

What else can you say? Double Ouch!!

People of Walmart fodder

Check out peopleofwalmart.com. This guy has got to be headed for a photo session for People of Walmart.

Two Wrongs Make...

Two Wrongs Make...

How to Open A Wine Bottle With A Bicycle Pump

How to Open A Wine Bottle With A Bicycle Pump

Any surprises here?

Below are the first lines of the top articles in almost all cycling publications. Are there any surprises among them?

Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of Spain has signed a two-year contract with the Saxo Bank-Sungard team managed by Bjarne Riis.

A former teammate of Lance Armstrong has reportedly backed claims by disgraced cycling champion Floyd Landis that Armstrong took part in and encouraged doping within the US Postal team.

A former team manager of cycling star Levi Leipheimer has claimed the American narrowly escaped a positive test for blood doping during the 2005 Tour de France.

I hope something (one way or the other) will come of all this investigating for doping. It seems like every year we have many unresolved allegations of doping. Let's get to the bottom of it and move on. This continual and perpetual investigating and media hype is not good for cycling.

Steelrider2

Tour de France head butt???

This afternoon in Bourg-lès-Valence, it was lucky for Mark Cavendish as he took his 13th win and went into the history books - he has now won the most Tour de France stages of any current sprinter. The stage was overshadowed when Cavendish's teammate, Mark Renshaw, was thrown out of the race for head-butting Julian Dean (Garmin-Transitions).

In my opinion, Rensahw's disqualification was the right thing.

What happened to the Globe Vienna Deluxe?