I hope I’m not the first to come up with that line: “HTC hitting the high road.” It’s too easy. And quite frankly, I’m really not that interested in what is going on at any level of cycling (or sport) with regards to sponsorship. Sponsorship is a very difficult thing to gauge in terms of […]
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I had originally planned a post similar to this one. Thought about it last week and was going to write it on Monday, the same day that other post came out. But after reading that post and the comments and receiving the latest “Bicycle Retailer and Industry News” that had a cover story titled “Surge […]
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I was perusing my usual morning web browsing of cycling sites with my coffee this morning when I had one of those moments that makes you go “huh?” and scratch your head. Now, honestly, I do know the reasons, but that still doesn’t make any difference. So here’s the deal. Reading bikerader.com’s story on Easton’s […]
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I tried. I really tried. I tried to not disparage or make fun of stuff like this. Some of my past comments were a bit childish. I thought I was over it. And I was. But then this! Oh, the horror one can imagine when I gazed upon the photo of the bike with that, […]
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Always thought “yelp” was something that a dog did when it got stung on the butt by a bee. It appears that Yelp is also some sort of forum that anyone can write a review of any business. Now, I’m not here complaining because someone wrote a bad review about my bike shop. Quite the […]
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The marketing of carbon framed bikes for some companies is interesting. In a recent bike magazine, I was reading an editor’s 250 words on getting the best bang for your buck. In it, it mentioned a certain company selling a complete bike for $2,600 that features the same frame that their $5,500 bike has. That’s […]
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“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction.” Albert Einstein. As I was watching a news segment on the recalls that Toyota is facing, the above quote by a pretty smart guy came to […]
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Recently a horse’s skeleton complete with riding tack was discovered off-trail in Samuel P. Taylor State Park by a mushroom hunter. The discovery of the horse’s skeleton has drawn some attention with not one, but two news reports on KWMR’s West Marin News. However, what has failed to make news are three key references in […]
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I don’t know what it is that makes people who are out on a ride think they can just stop into the shop ask me to fix something and then think they don’t need to pay for services rendered. Recently a racer-type in full team kit came into the shop with her bike while her […]
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Like I mentioned, when I have something to say, I’ll say it and after this mornings road ride there were two things that became clearly evident. One is riders of the pavement still don’t know how to ride in a paceline and 28s just flat out rule. I had reason to hit the road this […]
Last month, BRAIN reported that Best Buy would be selling “electric powered personal transportation products at some of our stores on the West Coast…” These electric powered personal transportation products (electric bikes for those lower on the IQ scale like me) will be available ranging from $499 to $2,000. So why is a company like […]
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Since I’m not “in” the bike industry any more, I rely on Bicycle Retailer & Industry News (BRAIN) to keep abreast of the latest happenings within the bike industry. My little slice of the world is too small to understand what is happening with the rest of the bike world. It’s also been a while […]
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