Fyx has such great ad pics for his stuffs.

http://www.fyxomatosis.com/index.php?op … &Itemid=93

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This e-shop, a companion to a London shop, offers fashionable cycling accessories, from bags to helmets to bike lights, targeting the fashion conscious rider. That sounds diminutive in these ‘hardcore urban fixie freestyle’ days… I mean, casual city riders, the exact people we WANT on bikes. Cute girls in their sunday dresses, guys on the way to a BBQ, whatever. Not bar spin people.

http://www.thebicyclemuse.com/content/i … e=about-us

Also, love it: Ankle spats in an old timey way. But reflective!

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I like this in concept, if not execution.
I personally don’t have much interest in a twin-rod cargo compartment in the front triangle. It’s a windsail, everything you have except for the tool case shown is going to be fatter than needed somewhere in it’s section, and I can think of better places to sandwich a clever cargo compartment. But I DO like that it exists at all, and that they put disc brakes on there, for when you’re mashing away from a bank heist with a case full of gold bars weighing 333 pounds and then have to stop at a crosswalk for a pedestrian.

http://gizmodo.com/5592507/a-bicycle-built-for-tools

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I’m a fan of the driver-toll concept for congested urban centers, which has proven viable in cities like London. The city raises revenues funneled into mass transit and pedestrian/bike projects, congestion and pollution go down, and more people explore alternative means of travel. It’s obviously very controversial, and never more than in difficult economic times when the city is trying to lure businesses downtown. But I’m glad the discussions are starting.

Interesting detail at the end of this article:

"One of the bigger conceits held by many San Franciscans, according to Chang, is that all the traffic in the city is from drivers who don’t live in the city. In fact, 70 percent of driving during rush hour to San Francisco’s downtown is done by San Franciscans.

"It’s one of the big dirty secrets," said Chang, who noted that 20 percent of the driving downtown comes from downtown drivers. "It’s easy to think it’s all the regional people, South Bay people. It’s not, it’s San Franciscans."

This is also part of the reason why Chang said the Southern Gateway option may not be as significant as the others.

Another huge misconception is the fallacy that congestion pricing would be a regressive tax on poor people who need to drive into the cordon area. According to SFCTA data, only 10 percent of drivers to, from and within the downtown area during the morning rush are from households making less than $50,000 annually. What’s more, only 3 percent of total trips to, from and within downtown are made by people in this demographic. The vast majority of low-income San Franciscans ride transit, walk or ride bicycles."

Now, anyone who rides, and frankly most who drive, know that you’re more often surrounded by luxury SUVs and luxury sedans than you are tourist minivans or modest commuter cars. So the economic demographic didn’t really surprise me. But the fact that the downtown commuter traffic is more San Franciscans than Bridge and Tunnel? That DID.

http://www.baycitizen.org/transportatio … -downtown/

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Worried about having your Cinelli cockpit stolen while picking up some PBR? Worry no more, says this concept bike! If it could talk. And it might!

http://gizmodo.com/5577209/the-bicycle- … pping-cart

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That’s not ‘break as in brake’ either.

Si I was in the bikeBasement last night and thought to myself: ‘self? The reason you’re having trouble with that front derailleur stringing is that you no longer have something to compare to…’ which was when I remembered wifebot(tm)s sweet, sweet Bianchi hanging back there, so off I went to study her set-up. It’s Campy, and therefore more awesome, but I saw the gist of what I was doing wrong: I was overcomplicating the threading. The pulley is a stop against the frame, not for the cable. So, I strung it and voila, had shift! Except fof where no matter how much tension I gave the cable, I couldn’t get the cage to set over the big ring. It’s two positions were inner ring of the double, and nothing. So, after some consideration, further exploration of limit screws and cable tension, and noting the fraying cables, I decided to err conservatively and bring it into my LBS, Tam Bikes.

Scott helped me see the error of my ways. Well, one of them. We determined that the physical positioning of the derailleur needed to be a bit higher by some 2mm or so (which is double what my book recommended) and then after some more flim-flam, and fresh cables, we, and by we I mean he, got the limits right. I took apart the Dura Ace ST-7700 brake/shifter ‘brifters’ (as per Sheldon) and rethreaded cable for him to use. All seemed well.

Here’s that left side brifter, exposed, rethreaded.

I had total lust for this tool. It’s called the THIRD ARM. It hasd a tension plate so you can hold against the part, while squeezing the plies to create tension against the part itself, freeing your other hand to tighten the allen bolt of the part itself. MAN do I want one.

Unfortunately, defeat was snatched from the jaws of victory. We were struggling to understand why the shifter could be shifted by the cable, manually by hand, but not by the brifter. As it turns out, the brifter is officially horfed. Check that photo out, and the 45 degree pivot of the shifting assembly. Nothing it holding it in place.

So, while the derailleur problem is solved, I have a NEW problem, perhaps more urgent. Replacing a 12-year old, top of the line Dura Ace brifter. So, that’s where we are. Worst case scenario? I’ll ride the Team Lope Tour de Lung with one ring. BOOM!

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supermodel kelly brook rode around on a bicycle. THAT is all.

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Nothing like toling the local news about your plan to wire dummy bikes with GPS to catch would-be thieves on the streets of SF.

http://cbs5.com/crime/bike.theft.sting.2.1777846.html via Urbanvelo

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i’ve been sitting on this for a while, just not making the time for it, but i couldn’t let it go any longer.

let’s say you break or lose or strip a crank bolt, and you don’t have any around in your small parts bin (FOR SHAME!). or let’s say you strip the BB’s spindle (highly unlikely), and you don’t have another BB around. well, you’re probably gonna need to find some way to get yourself home in one piece because i doubt you carry a rear skewer around in your toolkit, but once you’re in your shop, THIS is how you hold the shit together long enough to get to the LBS.

i’m duly impressed.

(prolly’s INSPIRATION.)

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I love this concept so much it hurts.
And the execution? Well, the edges look like they’d hurt, too, but otherwise, AWESOME. I’m really a sucker for punch-out extrusion type products.

http://trackosaurusrex.com/pblog/index. … 614-081500

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