Other Fun Stuff

He got his start in Triathlon afterall, and now Lance Armstrong has gone on record saying that he’ll compete in the Hawaii Ironman the year…

Nothing bike related here, but freaking awesome.  And the best part is, Microsoft says it (Natal) will be ready for the 2010 holiday season.  Spoiler…

WTB’s Mark Weir and his family escaped their Novato, CA, home just after Christmas as fire spread quickly from the garage through the rest of…

Streetsblog picked up on the whole Facebook group story and managed to get a response from one of their own.  Here’s an excerpt: Streetsblog asked…

Bicycle insurance, a commonly available policy in England, Australia and New Zealand, is currently unavailable and unheard of in the U.S.  This leaves cyclists to…

Shown purely as a concept at the Detroit Auto Show this week, GMC hopes to change the perception of the brand from just big trucks…

From Corbin’s Treehouse comes his frankenstein’s monster of a two-person unicycle.  How do you create such an unwieldy, impractical machine that’s probably good for an…

Dr. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, winner of 2009 Nobel Prize for chemistry lives in Cambridge, doesn’t own a car and rides his bike everywhere.  Dr. Venki was…

I saw a link to this book on BikePortland.org the other day and made a time-management mistake by clicking on it (so consider yourself warned!).…

POM Wonderful just shared that they’ll continue their sponsorship of the Garmin-Transitions pro cycling team for 2010 (and sent us a few delicious samples!). POM…

Christopher Thompson, the Emergency Room Doctor arrested in July 2008 for vehicular assault on two cyclists, was found guilty of six felonies and a misdemeanor…

Tune in at Ustream for a live webcast of the Team SaxoBank conference.  You’ll be able to see Frank and Andy Schleck, Bjarne Riis and…

Seems like this is getting to be like Mafia Wars (which, for the record, we will not play so please don’t ask us to join…

For the more socially timid, there’s this glove hack, but for people looking to start a conversation, we offer you this video.  It should work…

Riis Cycling’s current title sponsor, Saxo Bank, has decided to withdraw from the sponsorship one year early, after the 2010 season. “We have enjoyed a…

*Southern Cross will be postponed due to the unsafe road conditions leading to the venue. We’ll have a new date early next week. Please pass…

Here’s an interesting photo–a soft sculpture of a track bike. Found via Craft:, Mashanda Scott makes soft sculptures that look like the real thing. Check…

Graham Watson has just released a new App on the iTunes store, giving you a portfolio of cycling and race photos from his collection.  Spanning…

On July 24-25, Age Groupers will get to race on the same Triathlon course around Hyde Park in London as the Olympians in 2012, and…

The New Belgium Brewing Company has invested in an international social bike program to ensure it serves the Southwest of the United States. The Social…

Found these while wasting time on Facebook.  Artist Terry Hill paints a variety of subject matter, but the bicycle ones are what caught our eye. …

RoadCycling.co.nz has a full rundown of the Unicycle World Championships (UNICON 2010) being held in New Zealand this week…if you’re into that kind of thing.…

Just a little something to brighten your day.

Various uproars and efforts have been made over the years to ban cell phone use while driving, and recently a number of states (including our…