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Bikerumor.com (that’s us! yay, us!) has been nominated for a 2009 BikeBiz Award as one of the best Cycling Consumer Websites! We’re nominated alongside such…

Part Three of our Summer Contest Series is here, and we’ve got lots of goodies to give away to day: FIVE pair of TekoPoly cycling…

Today’s contest is coming up soon, and the prizes go FIVE deep today!  What time you ask? Well, if you were a fan of our…

Part 2 is here! We’ve made a few changes to the rules and we’re going TWO DEEP!  We’ve got two pairs of Keen Springwater shoes…

Getting together with folks from all over the world who share the same passion is just about as good as it gets and this year…

BIKERUMOR SUMMER CONTEST – PART 1 Alright folks…we’ve been teasing you all month about a bunch of free stuff we have to give away, and…

From Lance and/or his Livestrong Publicist: Last month when I started the Tour de France, I asked you to join me in signing the World…

Okanagan Spring Brewery wants to sponsor your next bike race, alley cat, poker run, social ride or pretty much anything else with free beer. Out…

If there’s one thing we’re not terribly PC about it’s fat kids.  We won’t sugar-coat anything with “a little overweight” or “glandular problems.”  Of course…

The only tie-in to cycling this has is that I found it on YouTube after watching the Danny MacAskill “Inspired” street stunt cycling video…which is…

Found this a bit ago via Gary Fisher’s Twitter stream…claims to be a SRAM shifter prototype.  Not sure if it’s real or just him being…

Cycles de Oro is having this annual blowout this weekend.Click to enlarge the image and print your own coupon…word on the street is, if you…

For an art contest, they should really have a better logo, but ProCycle 2009 Art Expo is a juried art exhibition in Providence, RI, that…

Story from London Cyclist by way of Bicycle Design: How would you like to cycle across a lake? Or cycle at 60km/hour with the power…

The 2009 Tour of Ireland kicked off this morning with a 196.40 kms / 122.13 mile stage. Due to finincial concerns the 2009 Tour will…

Ladies: Since we can’t ride side-saddle on a bike, and it would be nice to wear a skirt whilst riding our bike out on the…

What does this have to do with cycling? The gifts were Timbuk2 messenger bags for the groomsmen with Luchador mask and monogram embroidery…and inside each…

Panda Bicycles is counting down the days until the launch of “The One”, their first bamboo bicycle.  Based (and to be built, we presume) in…

Just found this in a roundabout way through Twitter: Mike and the Bike, a children’s book by Ben Harper guitarist and avid cyclist Michael Ward,…

Even though the Tour de France is over, there’s always something to talk about. Such as the Lanterne Rouge, for example. With all the hype…

Xendex and iPlay has released the Red Bull X-Fighters iPhone app game. It’s not bicycles, but it’s still two wheels and it’s something to do…

The NY Times’ Freakonomics blog has an interesting story on the seemingly overpriced used bike market in bike-friendly cities.  The author was in Portland, OR,…

Above: Billy Savage ‘field-tests’ a 1940s ‘Klunker’ up near the Oregon border (courtesy of The Morrow Dirt Club) I went to the Topanga Film Festival…

Nothing I’ve seen compares to this.  The only thing that would make it better is if they weren’t wearing ‘tards…Maybe Chrome will sponsor them with…

I just can’t figure out why this never caught on… Thanks to Chris from Focus Bikes USA for the tip!

Team Saxo Bank just released an update on Jens Voigt and suggest that he may be ready for a comeback as early as the Tour…

This could be a good idea if your dog wasn’t super excitable about random things he/she might see along your walk. I can just see…