Sampson Relaunches Website

Sampson has relaunched their website with all 2009 offerings and a vastly improved layout. If you liked what you saw on our earlier posts about…

Tinker T-Bones Car Door at 22mph

Photo: Tinker’s blog Tinker Juarez nailed a car door at about 22mph last week, yet didn’t break anything other than his new road bike.  Despite…

Map My Ride iPhone App…Goodbye GPS

MapMyRide.com recently launched their iPhone App that lets you record your ride with distance and speed.  The best part?  It automatically syncs your ride to…

Derringer Retro Motorized Bicycle

The Derringer Cycles’ retro style motorized bicycle combines a gas engine with pedals, giving you the option to use your own power, some fossil fuels (albeit…

2009 Sampson Diablo SL

Sampson has refined their Diablo spec package to create the Diablo SL.  Weight as shown with pedals is 14.3 pounds!  What’s remarkable about this weight is that…

Sampson Stratics SL Road Brakes

Sampson’s new 2009 Stratics SL road brakes started shipping at the end of October.  Unlike the planned carbon brakes from ZG, these are available now…

2009 Brodie Bikes

Brodie has updated its extensive line of XC, DH/FR/AM, dirt jump, cyclocross, commuter, city and cruiser bikes for 2009, including the following changes:   Marathon…

Wheeltags – New Sizes Available

Wheeltags has two new sizes available, 60mm and Disc (shown), which joins their 16mm and 38mm sizes from Interbike.  Actually, they were showing these discs…

SRAM TT/Triathlon Bar End Shifters

SRAM unveiled their new “R2C” (Return 2 Center) at Ironman World Championships in Hawaii this year.  The bar-end shifters are intended for Time Trial and…

Interbike 2008 – Kona Bicycles

NOTE: This video is available in HD! Mouseover the video, click the “HD is Off” button, then click in the middle and a new Vimeo…

2009 Tour de France Route Announced

The 2009 Tour de France will pass through eight new towns, including Brignoles, Gérone (Espagne), Issoudun, Martigny (Suisse), Saint-Fargeau, Tonnerre, vatan, Verbier (Suisse), while passing over…

Interbike 2008 – Kenda Tires

Kenda had a few new tires, sizes and colors on display at Interbike, like the new all-black C2C “Tinker Juarez” signature edition road tire (center),…

Merckx to Sell Company, Retire

The Cannibal is getting ready to kick back with a fruity drink somewhere. Merckx will sell his shares and retire, reported the Sportwereld.be website on…

Interbike 2008 – Raleigh Bicycles

Raleigh had some really cool retro commuters, city bikes, single-speeds, 29ers and this very limited edition cyclocross bike called the Rainier.  Only 50 were made…

75 Years of Campagnolo

Campagnolo celebrates 75 years of cycling passion with this book, now available in book stores throughout the US and Canada, and soon in the UK.…

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