Remove the paint and stickers from 10 carbon fibre road bikes,priced between $3000 and $10,000,and very few riders would be able to put the bikes in order of price.
-briztreadley.com
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Get your address in ASAP,another round of stickers is going out this week!
And watch the vids/read the backstory. So fuggin rad and I’m NOT a roadie. And yes,this post sucks and is useless without video. Well here’s an unusual combination,Portland and bikes. Elly Blue is one half the Batman/Robin duo that put together this seen and has been known to espouse about the benefits of two wheels every now and then,so support what they are doing and pick up a few of these to comp to friends when they come to town. Don’t forget to check out their site and see all their PDX/bike related offerings because hey,it’s Friday,and you were looking for more ways to kill time at work anyways.
Word. Get your long weekend on y’all. FedEx Claus showed up earlier today to drop off my new wheels. Mavic Ksyrium Equipes. I think they are the 2008 model,not the latest and greatest. Yeah,they aren’t much relative to what some of you uberroadies are buying and using,but for someone who doesn’t race,doesn’t wear horrible team kit,doesn’t have a watercooler to brag about my latest purchase around,and doesn’t buy into all the bike industry marketing bullshit they’ll get the job done. Seriously these wheels cost about as much as the most expensive bike I own ($225 for wheels vs. $300 for bike). Oh when bikes weren’t the new golf!
Right now these are the same photos from ebay,but as they only have a 12 photo limit wanted to post here in case people ask for additional views.
Came across this today. Looks like a crazy and fairly effective take on bike lighting. Dunno that it would replace a good headlight,but anything that increases visibility at night is A-OK in my book –though I do wonder if cars are going to be MORE LIKELY to hit you while they are gawking! revolights. join the revolution. from revolights on Vimeo. Saw a flock of wild Yeti SB-66 up at Grand Targhee for the Wydaho Rendezvous. Broke in (and by broke in I mean went over the bars HARD) the black one on the far right on a short ~8 mile ride or so (not sure exact distance since my GPS app stopped…). One word,smooooth. I’d buy one in a heartbeat if I could get a deal on one (especially so if they release the SB-95…). They are going to sell a ton of these babies.  Click image to view larger I meant to take a ton of photos to share,but I got caught up in the fun and didn’t want to head back to the car and fire up the camera. Been seeing a lot of chatter around these jeans today. Not my thing because,well,they are skinny jeans and thus make me look like a marshmallow with two toothpicks stuck in the bottom (psssst,yo Levis,make these in a 514 with the 36 inseam and you’ve got a customer for life),but check out the features they are throwing in for SEVENTY EIGHT BUCKS. Check their press release for the full frontal marketing verb attack,but the highlights are in the image below.
My splitboard touring pants use that Schoeller Nanosphere technology and it’s insane the way the water beads off,and no matter how many trees I’ve bushwhacked through nothing has stuck to it –they honestly look new. Combine that with stretch,reflective AND antimicrobial and it seems you’ve got a well thought out pair of jeans with *GASP* value,something you don’t often see in cycling. You can almost get three pairs of the Levis for the price of ONE pair of the Rapha jeans,and two pairs for the price of Outlier’s (kind of) jeans with money left over for a few beers. Note that I’ve never tried any of the above (but yo,Levis,Rapha,Outlier if you send me a pair I’ll rock ‘em and report ‘em) so it could be that one of them is worth the money,but worth is subjective. So like every new cycling release the twitterblogoforumsphere is going (lady) ga-ga over the latest and greatest technology to drop from the heavens. This time though there’s an unexpected twist –it looks like it’s not just marketing bullshit to justify a $400 pair of spandex shorts! Yeti’s announced the new SB-66 yesterday. Apparently in production for 2 years,they somehow managed to keep it secret squirrel,even with Fox on board. That,in itself,is a feat. Using ‘Switch Technology’the SB-66
I’ve watched the videos a few times and it blows my mind (note:simple mind,easily blown). I imagine it’s what astronauts feel like when they are 100k miles from home an looking back onto the Earth. Rather than try to understand the physics behind it I’ve passed it off as magic,like all things designed by sasquatch and powered by unicorns –basically something the human mind can’t comprehend. Watch the vids below,check out the coverage by real bike media (Pinkbike,Mountainbike.com,Singletrack),then,if you’re like me,think back to when mountain biking was affordable.  Hawt |  |
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