By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 24, 2009
So yeah, you’re stuck riding at night without a taillight…but you’ve got your iPhone! This supposedly is an app that converts your device screen into a blinker. Um, right. How much did you pay for your phone/iPod Touch? You’re mounting it how, exactly?
Posted in Accessories, Transportation | Tagged bicycle, bike ride, blinker application, iPhone, iPod, taillight
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 24, 2009
Mountain Biking by 198, a ripping bike blog, has a detailed review of the 2009 RockShox Reba Team fork. I ride a RockShox Lyrik on my Intense 6.6 which I’ll be reviewing soon, but the quick take on RockShox is that the forks really rock. In my sojourns around the West Coast I run into [...]
Posted in Accessories, Mountain Biking | Tagged bike fork, lyrik, Mountain Biking, reba, robb sutton, rockshox
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 23, 2009
I started out today on my Ridge-to-Ridge ride. Despite the exotic name, it’s totally in town (Seattle). I go from Phinney Ridge near my house to View Ridge via the Burke-Gilman Trail and North 65th St., then back around Green Lake to home. It’s a good workout, scaling three major rises from the BGT to [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Today's Ride, Transportation | Tagged Mountain Biking, Phinney Ridge, Road Cycling, Transportation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 22, 2009
I’m fortunate enough to live close to Green Lake and Woodland Park, so ride time is just about any time. When the weather is threatening, I stay fairly close to home and practice stuff. Lower Woodland Park, with some rollicking trails, a jump strip and log rolls, is a good place to get in a [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail, Today's Ride | Tagged bike jumps, intense bicycles, lower woodland park, Mountain Biking, seattle, transition bikes
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 21, 2009
Jim and I went to the annual Seattle Bike Swap this a.m. and scored big-time. The opening line was incredibly long, wrapping all the way around the yard outside the Magnuson Park hangar entrance, wrapping back into the yard and then snaking back out again. There were probably 500 people waiting to get in by [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Transportation | Tagged bike swap meet, Magnuson Park, Mountain Biking, road cyclist, seattle, Seattle International Bike Expo
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 21, 2009
It was a gorgeous day and the tail end of a fantastic sunny week in the soggy Northwest, so I made the trek for a second time in 4 days to Black Diamond. It’s funny and ironic, but “black diamond” in this case refers to coal, which was mined heavily in this area’s past — [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail, Today's Ride | Tagged black diamond, Bob Hollander, EMBA, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Jim Hendricks, Lake Sawyer, Mountain Biking, Today's Ride, Turtle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 20, 2009
Meetings at the south end of Lake Union — Paul Allen country! — and Green Lake put me on a big round-the-hub loop. Down Aurora to Dexter, then cutting across south end of Lake Union to I Love Sushi for lunch. Then north on Eastlake to University District, picking up Ravenna and winding up at [...]
Posted in Today's Ride, Transportation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 19, 2009
What a shame. But Brent Thomson leaves a huge legacy, one that we’ll be reminded of every time we slam the challenging desert rock of Bootleg Canyon. Maybe time to rename it in his honor?
Posted in Mountain Biking, Racing | Tagged bootleg canyon, Brent Thomson, Interbike, Mountain Biking, nevada
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 19, 2009
I’ve been riding Tiger Mountain almost as long as I’ve been riding mountain bikes, which extends back to 1991. It always fascinates me to see how the mountain changes, with new wrinkles at every turn. I’ve been gone in California for three months, so today when the sun came out it was time to hit [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail, Tiger Mountain, Today's Ride | Tagged Mountain Biking, preston railroad grade, snow biking, tiger middle trail, Tiger Mountain, tiger mountain trail
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 19, 2009
Four bicycles (three locked) stolen in a matter of 15 minutes in Palo Alto on Tuesday. This from San Jose Mercury News police blotter: Palo Alto Tuesday 300 block of College Ave., 1:57 p.m.: A locked bicycle was reported stolen. 1200 block of College Ave., 2 p.m.: A bicycle was reported stolen. 100 block of [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged Palo Alto, police report, Stolen bike
