The call from my co-worker came at 10:09 a.m. "Do you think you'd have time for four extra pages today?" he asked.

"Wait, what?" I replied, still a little groggy from waking up late and lingering way too long over breakfast and blogs.

"If I told you Ted Stevens was indicted today, and we were going to create a whole big package to cover it, would you be able to do a few extra pages?"  read more »

Sky Yaeger is the designer behind the bikes at Swobo. Before going to Swobo, Sky worked for Bianchi USA for 17 years where we she the product manager responsible for bikes like San Jose.

Forbes of Cycloculture, "a journal for real world cyclists," interviewed Sky and asked about her design influences. See the interview here. He kindly used one of my photos of Sky, which is a sure way of getting a link from me.
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What happened to Christopher Long in last Friday's critical mass is by no mean an isolated incident.

Here is a video showing two other assaults of critical mass participants in Time's Square.

Animal Magazine has done some good investigation to find out more about the motivations of NYPD Patrick Pogan featured in the hot new youtube video of cyclist brutality, which now has 583,692 views. "The video of rookie cop Patrick E. Pogan (shield #28957) violently body checking cyclist Christopher Long during a Critical Mass group ride has a lot of people wondering what motivated him to act with such a blatantly egregious manner. Contrary to the video evidence and universal common sense, the cop (deponent) claimedin a sworn statementthat Long swerved and then ran into him, "causing deponent to fall to the ground and causing deponent to suffer lacerations on deponent's forearms" (PDF doc here). However, as the clip demonstrates, that's not the case and the attack was unprovoked.  read more »

Last week's sales meeting was great- the overall energy was higher than I have felt in the past few years. Haro MTB, Haro BMX, Premium Products and Masi all seemed to be received well by the sales reps and the consensus is that things are looking good for the next group of products coming out this Fall.

Something romantic to set the mood...  read more »

This is Matt Hemmingson, a 9 year old BMXer from Vancouver, who just about a year ago was diagnostic with a brain tumor. Jay, Wade, Dave Osato and I went and hung out with Matt and his family a few weeks back and we had a great time. The whole family is amazing and while [...]

My stance on cycle helmets can be summarised thus: pro-helmet, anti-compulsion.
The longer version can be found on Cykelhjelm.org, a new Danish website aiming to keep the lid on lid legislation.
This site is another in the growing website empire of Mikhael Colville-Anderson, the photographer behind cycle advocacy blogs Copenhagenize.com and CopenhagenCycleChic.com, two sites I can’t recommend [...]

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