Accessories
Bicycle gear, mountain biking gear, cycling gear
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on November 12, 2010
A Seattle pack maker offers bulletproof pouches with creative touches.
Posted in Accessories | Tagged chrome cycling packs, chrome sultan, cycling packs, velo transit seattle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on September 20, 2010
A year after the NV’s splashy debut, we offer an in-depth review.
Posted in Accessories | Tagged bicycle racks, bike racks, Kuat NV, kuat rack, platform racks, thule t2
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on May 11, 2010
Thule’s updated T2 offers some nice tweaks, but a redesign with safety put foremost would lay to rest concerns over catastrophic failure.
Posted in Accessories, Stuff | Tagged bikerumor, thule t2 bike rack
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on April 6, 2010
You can set that thing up on your breakfast table and have Morning Newspaper for Two!
Posted in Accessories | Tagged ipad, New York Times, newspaper ipad
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 10, 2010
Ibis has responded to Bike Intelligencer’s query about why the new Mojo HD won’t come with a coil shock option. With any bike of nearly six and a half inches in rear travel, a lot of riders lean toward a coil for increased consistency, reliability, durability and tuneability. But Hans over at Ibis says coil’s [...]
Posted in Accessories, Mountain Biking | Tagged brian lopes, cane creek double barrel, Chris Cocalis, Dave Weagle, fox rp23, ibis mojo hd, pivot firebird, scot nicol
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 6, 2010
Now it’s official: The Ibis Mojo HD is ready to blow off the doors! I’ve been posting on the longer-travel Ibis Mojo for some time, and now Ibis says the HD, designed with input from slalom king Brian Lopes, will be available starting in March. White and clear-coat (black) as well as a color TBA. [...]
Posted in Accessories, Mountain Biking | Tagged ibis mojo hd, mtbr.com, pivot firebird, scot nicol
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on January 5, 2010
Following up on our investigation of Thule T2 rack issues, we’ve received another email from a reader who experienced a catastrophic failure. “The exact same thing happened to my Thule T2,” wrote Tim Cook in a comment posted on Bike Intelligencer. He referred to the issue we’ve chronicled whereby the rear rail on the rack [...]
Posted in Accessories, Mountain Biking | Tagged thule t2 rack failure
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on December 21, 2009
Over at SeattleLikesBikes, Michael Snyder offers an intriguing analysis of the “sharrows” issue. We don’t like sharrows, never have, and SLB uncovers yet another reason why: Inconsistency of implementation. It’s bad enough that sharrows send mixed signals to both cyclists and drivers. As Snyder shows, rules governing sharrow placement are not even applied consistently. Be [...]
Posted in Accessories, Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Rider Down | Tagged bicycle bob, niki gudex, pastajet, seattlelikesbikes, sharrows, six six one
