Other Fun Stuff

A team from Appalachian State University’s industrial design department won Juicy Idea’s national competition with a bicycle made of used plastic bottles.  With just ten…

Lance Armstrong and girlfriend Anna Hansen are expecting a baby, due in June, in what is considered by modern science, Perez Hilton and CNN to…

  Specialized has a cool little Holiday Greeting page on their website. It plays Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker Suite” entirely on bicycle parts.  Click here to…

Make Magazine has a pretty solid list of things you can make and buy for yourself or the cyclist in your life.  This pic, of…

The Olympics generated a lot of interest in BMX, but compared to this course, it was a sprint.  The only thing the record size track…

The final day of the USA Cycling Cyclo-cross National Championships was highlighted by the powerful performance put on by Ryan Trebon (Bend, Ore./Kona) on his…

Nike 6.0 released these “lightning bolt” series BMX plates with unique artwork from a different artist on each.  They’re being auctioned off to benefit the…

Our local bike shops and clubs have partnered with Cyclesafe.org to put together the annual “bike drive” to give bikes to less fortunate kids this…

Watch the BMX Vert Final from Orlando’s Dew Tour Playstation Pro.  This is about a 52 minute video, so in case you can’t make it…

Fortunately, this appears to only have been a design exercise.  Good thing, because I imagine you’d end up head butting your partner so much you…

Couple of updates to this post (12/9): The Portland edition of the Bicycle Film Festival is headed to Portland, OR, this weekend, and they’re looking…

Jole Rider sent out a press release via BikeBiz saying you could buy holiday cards that would a) benefit their Bikes-4-Africa program, and b) give…

Nuun has just released single-serve, portable packets of their hydration tablets.  So, a little out of character for us here at Bikerumor, but I’m just…

I ran across this site and thought it was interesting to see a startup group having already signed some pretty solid pro’s to represent that…

The Nautica Malibu Triathlon is asking the Malibu city council next week to let their event permanently switch to a two-day event.  The 22-year-old event…

Now that inside Triathlon is owned by Triathlete Magazine’s publisher, there wasn’t much need for both of them to continue competing for advertiser’s dollars in…

…replete with death metal soundtrack.  Keep watching, they just get better and better!

SouthPark Cycles in Charlotte, NC, is having a Christmas party and sale, and they’re offering this great coupon.  Just click the “Permalink” link below, print…

For the cyclist who has everything, here’s a nifty attachment that makes a great party starter or post race recovery smoothie. From Rock the Bike,…

Nashville’s first meeting of their Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee (BPAC) wrapped up their first strategic meeting in late November, with plans for four more…

Want to buy the largest and most complete bicycle museum in the United States?  The Pedaling History Bicycle Museum in Orchard, NY, is up for…

Pedal ID by Yamato has some really cool 1:9 scale model bicycle kits, and they offer everything you need to build up a replica of your…

Well, we’re back after a little Thanksgiving hiatus. NO, it’s not cause we’re too full of Turkey to belly up to the computer…actually, we’ve been…

Got this from Paceline, a local shop offering to “Adult Sit” your cyclist while you get your Black Friday shopping done.   Admittedly, I’m only…

  Just a quick update, the site’s main link appears to be working now…the “Writing on the Wall” video premieres in about 12 hours. http://www.nike.com/nke6/v4/writingonthewall/