Archive for December, 2009
Before you add those epic rides to your New Years resolutions, and then pack them away for springtime to begin, consider that the cold weather of winter actually provides the best conditions to start riding. You don’t sweat, and provided that you wrap yourself up enough you won’t be cold either. Trois Rivieres, Quebec on [...]
Merry Christmas/Boxing Day from everyone here at Highflange. I home everyone got some sweet bike swag. Some of the things we got: I’ll let you guess what we are building. Full writeup coming soon.
Last weekend we hit the road and ran for the hills. Rocky Hill Ranch is a private Ranch located an hour from Austin, TX. The course is long and the location hosts many races including an off road duathlon and a dedicated MTB race yearly. To clue you all in as to how it went: [...]
Wandered onto this video on YouTube. It shows a bicycle wheel being built from rim to complete entirely by machine. While technically neat I honestly don’t think anything will compare to a high quality, hand laced, hand built wheelset.
What do you get when you combines the 90′s, a dentist who wants to be a comic book author, and bicycles? The CAT 3 comic. I’m not too sure who’s idea it was to green light this beyond the first issue or charge $2.50/per comic was but I’m pretty sure they feel plenty of shame [...]