First Annual Southbay Bicycle Music Festival

February 22, 2008

Posted by Wild Johnny Time: 07/19/2008 – 20:21 Impressed with the success of the first Bicycle Music Festival put on by Fossil Fool and the San Francisco Cruisers last year, the Southbay Cruisers of Hermosa Beach, CA will be hosting the First Southbay Bicycle Music Festival in Hermosa Beach,CA on July 19th, 2008. What will happen […]

Specialized President Mike Sinyard pedals water-purifying Aquaduct trike in Tour of California prologue.

February 20, 2008

From our Flickr friend MacPaulster’s account: “Hats off to Mike Sinyard, CEO at Specialized Bicycles, for riding the winning “Innovate or Die” contest entry, Aqueduct, in the charity Prologue of the Tour of California 2008. The pedaling of this rig powers both the drivetrain of the tricycle and the pumps that purify water. The machine […]

New article in the LA Times 2/18/08

February 18, 2008

Fewer Drivers Over a Barrel by Ron White LA Times 2/18/08 Believe it or not, more of us in LA ride more and drive less… http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gasdemand18feb18,0,794487.story

Jacquie Phelan gives the low down on women and bicycling at Velosport in Berkeley

February 16, 2008

Geoffrey and I headed to Velosport after work to hear Jacquie Phelan, the former women’s mountain bike champion, discussing her experiences as a woman in the world of mountain bike racing. Here are a few highlights: At 15:35: “I am a racer… I’m intensely competitive. I’m more motivated when I can tell the person next […]

Sound System Bike

February 13, 2008

Nice three wheeled system from Germany.

Sheldon Brown made me feel proud to be from Newton, Mass

I heard the sad news that Sheldon Brown, one of the Internet’s enthusiastic purveyors of cycling knowledge, has died. If you’ve ever tried to figure out the difference between 7-speed and 8-speed chain, V-brakes and cantilevers, chances are you ended up in encyclopedic pages of www.sheldonbrown.com . And if you were a kid growing up […]

Sheldon Brown Memorial Ride in Austin

Southwest Cycling News’ Bob Farr, a.k.a. RudeBoyRobbo, shot some beautiful images of a ride in Austin in memory of Sheldon Brown. I think San Francisco needs to host one. I’ll send out an invite to the SF Cruisers, and put it out there on Craigslist for Friday at Sunset. Meeting point: The Rev: a cafe […]

Three different varieties of B17 Brooks Saddles now in stock

February 8, 2008

Snapped this shot of the Special Edition Honey B17 on my way home last night. The ‘Special Edition’ refers to the large hammered copper rivets that hold the leather to the saddle’s steel sub structure. Rock the Bike has been selling Brooks Saddles since 2006, and we had the honor of being the second winner […]

SF Cruisers on Clif Bar home page

Clif Bar has posted a groovy 4-minute video of the SF Cruisers in action, shot last September. Look for “Soul Ride” on their home page. Clif has been working on bringing everyday cycling into their bicycle advocacy work. Their 2-Mile Challenge Tour promotes the concept of biking and walking within one’s ‘2-Mile Radius’. Here’s the […]

Defining Bike Culture

February 5, 2008

A friend told me he had used the Rock The Bike web site to help a co-worker understand what bike culture is. That got me thinking, what is bike culture? I looked on Wikipedia and was unsatisfied by the old Bike Culture entry, so I wrote a description and updated the Wikipedia entry. What do […]

That’s like 8 bags I didn’t bring into existence.

February 3, 2008

Lately I’ve been carrying sturdy plastic bags with me to waterproof my Xtracycle. So when I headed to the market to buy supplies for Bike Blended Smoothies on a rainy night in SF this past weekend, I just grabbed the bag I had with me. As I went through the produce section, I started putting […]

Murray Neil’s combined passions: Bikes, Kites, Community

February 1, 2008

One of our Flickr friends, Murray Neil, a New Zealand bike culture head and Xtracycle rider, combines his love of photography, kites, and biking in his crystal clear aerial shots. He fabricated his own kite-based aerial photography rig and uses the photographs to document, among other things, which bike lanes he finds effective and which […]

Bike Commuter from Seattle posts an extremely safe rig on Flickr

January 25, 2008

Click the photo to see his notes on the various safety products RJL20 is one of our Flickr friends. I saw his picture of his Xtracycle commuter rig this morning.

Cruise to Malamana Show at El Rincon Saturday Night

Posted by fossilfool Time: 01/26/2008 – 02:52 Malamana shredded it tonight with Afrolicious at the Elbo Room. Weather permitting — Let’s gather at my place at 9 and ride to the show together. 935 York St. is the starting point.  

The last tandem I’d ever think to build

January 23, 2008

In the back to back tandem, riders face away from each other for an aero position. It’s pretty much the opposite of social biking

If only they got that excited over actual bicycles

OK, so apparently there’s a little YouTube trend called the Human Bicycle. Here’s one of the more humorous ones:

‘Bike Around the Clock’ Fabulous 50’s Ride

January 22, 2008

Posted by Wild Johnny Time: 02/15/2008 – 20:15 “Bike Around the Clock” Fabulous 50’s Ride – Feb 15th, 2008 w/the Southbay Cruisers We are excited to announce this 10 – 12 mile ride over mostly flat terrain which will start and end in front of: The Lighthouse Cafe 30 Pier Avenue Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 […]

Fourth or Fifth Annual Superbowl AlternaRide

Posted by fossilfool Time: 02/03/2008 – 09:30 I must preface this by saying that I’m from Boston, and I learned from my mother recently that the Patriots were having a record-setting perfect season, and I still have just about zero desire to sit in front of a TV for 4 hours on Superbowl Sunday. If you’re with […]

Planned Obselescence

January 19, 2008

After seeing The Story of Stuff on a couple of my friends’ gmail status messages, I saw the 20-minute online movie and got motivated to take myself out of the loop of planned obselescence. Then a week later I made the mistake of putting my iPod in my pocket next to a magnetic toy. The […]

Victim of thwarted bike jacking keeps riding

January 18, 2008

I did a double take when I saw it too. I think someone tried to lift this bike over the parking meter.   Fortunately, it’s still rideable. I saw the bike locked at the same meter a few weeks later. Unsuccessful bike jacking