And happy holidays to you! This shot was taken during the 2010 Men of Point 83 Calendar shoot. The girls didn’t do a calendar this year, so the men did. Get yours now.
And happy holidays to you! This shot was taken during the 2010 Men of Point 83 Calendar shoot. The girls didn’t do a calendar this year, so the men did. Get yours now.
We had such a good time at the Hugga Holiday sale last week, we’re extending it for another 2 weeks until 12/21/09. Our online sale continues through the New Year.
Handscreened Your Bike is Freedom tees are now available for purchase in limited quanities — we’re selling what Chris Mahan made at the Hugga Holiday party.
Note these tees vary slightly from the handmade process. Each one is unique and we [...]
Didi Senft (the Devil at the Grand Tours) rides his Santa Clause bicycle for the media in Germany earlier this week.
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Spotted this in the basement custom area of Mellow Johnny’s. Sure it looks like an old rusty bike, but it’s a top-end Madone with a paintjob to discourage thieves. All the rust spots are painted, the coating looks scratched to metal and [...]
Spotted this sidecar bike filled with wine outside of a winery in Napa Valley — that’s a bike we’d like to see restored. More details in this photo.
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Bardessono is a bicycle and eco-friendly hotel in Napa Valley. Arrive and a well-stocked bike shop awaits you. The bikes are complimentary and the staff, locals, are friendly.
Rode for an hour yesterday before the sun went down and riding again today with a [...]
The Trader Joe — a dead-sexy-BMX-racing, Alley-cat winning, Bellingham resident, marketer of Traitor Cycles — wears a Hugga Bamboo Hoodie at the holiday sale.
We [...]
Mavic, traditional purveyor of rims and wheels, has decided to enter the high performance tire market with the K10 tire to go along with the limited edition K10 Yksion version of their Ksyrium wheelset.
Really, Mavic? You’re going to make tires? Bike Radar reports that the tires will work [...]
Tonight during the Hugga Holiday Sale @uRBDO we’re showing a custom-embroidered Knicker and Ibex Coppi hat. Both the work of our partners and a few years in the making. The knicker offers performance, style and is part of Hincapie’s Commute Collection. It’s also for apres cycling — [...]
Replaceable derailer hangers are engineered to break, to spare the derailer, and this one did in an S&S travel case. Can’t imagine the forces within the case to do that, but break it did. Sheared right off. Discovered this back home from the Mobile Social Worldwide.
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Chris Mahan, bike racer, Man about Town, and designer for Novara will screenprint this graphic to tees during the Hugga Holiday Sale @uBRDO this week.
Design Real is a gallery show at the Serpentine in London that celebrates useful objects. It’s curated by Konstantin Grcic and designed in collaboration with Alex Rich and Jürg Lehni.
The relevance a product has to our life lies not only [...]
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Chris Mahan, bike racer, Man about Town, and designer for Novara will screen this print to tees during the Hugga Holiday Sale @uBRDO
[...]Second only to our wheel fetish is the one for technical wear. I’ve got it down to a science, what I wear on the bike, and have been practicing it for more than 15 years. In the Northwest, you’re going to get wet, soaked actually. The challenge is [...]
Don’t know if anyone has ever studied what old bikes people still ride, but Raleigh has to top the list. See them everywhere.
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Just posted video of the Cannondale Duchess in our Community and stopped short of dismissing this prototype as yet another design-school cad drawing that’ll never get made despite all the blog posts.
Bicycle Design posted at length on the Dutchess and you can find [...]
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A selection of Ibex hats we'll show during the Hugga Sale @uBRDO this week.
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As we roll merrily into the holiday season, it’s time to put together the Bike Hugger Curated Gift List—our “best of” list for presents for the cyclist, generated by our readers and the Bike Hugger writers. We’ll take the best suggestions and put them all [...]
It’s no wonder I liked the Look Keo 2 Max pedals, after all they won the Tour de France. Okay, they had some help from a small Spanish guy that was pushing them quite hard, but really it’s quite clear after some time riding [...]
Colum McCann, who won the National Book Award last week for Let the Great World Spin, was inspired to write by a cross-country bike ride:
So he took off on a bicycle for a year-and-a-half odyssey across the United States, traveling through Florida, Louisiana, Texas, [...]
Matt Haughey post photos of his new Desalvo Cross bike on the Buy Local Cycling site.
The bike is built as local as possible:
Companies making parts locally in Oregon (DeSalvo frame, Chris King hubs & bottom bracket, Kool-Stop brake pads, Ruckus bashguard) American [...]
Launching at Art Basel Miami 2009, Swiss Institute presents the cutting-edge calendar Artists on Their Bicycles New York. The limited edition portrays twelve of today’s most famous artists on their bikes, including David Byrne and Cindy Sherman for December.
The calendar is available as [...]
Add this to your shopping list for gear gifts — there’s only 300 of them. Also see David’s shot of them from his visit last week during the Mellow Johnny’s Classic.
Tokyo Fixed Gear has opened a shop in Soho, on Peter St behind Madame JoJo’s.
Hat tip LFGSS and blogs from Yorgo Tloupas and I Like to Ride my Bicycle.
Photo by TokyoFixedGear.com. Also see London is a [...]
Ride in the Mavic car, get the guys talking, and they’ll tell stories about wheels changes like this …
They especially don’t like it, and remember when, racers don’t return loaner wheels.
One tech (not Mavic) told us how he turned the aero spokes sideways, into the wind [...]
Sure we’d paint that with our logo on it….
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Photos from the Mellow Johnnys Classic at Juan Pelotta Ranch. Related posts on bikehugger.com.
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Photos from the Mellow Johnnys Classic at Juan Pelotta Ranch. Related posts on bikehugger.com.
[...]For those of us yearning for clothes we can wear on the bike and right into the office, especially when traveling, Performance Couture by Nona Varnado is another option.
Inspired by global travels and balancing a busy life of business and sports; Performance Couture is an evolving collection [...]
Cyclelicious photos from the SF Bike Expo. Shown here is a Push Bike vintage Adidas jersey; Fabric Horse utility belt; Chuey Brand cap, Denim leggings.
More on stylish San Francisco cyclists from SF Gate.
Addressing the “huge” carbon emissions produced by the 2010 Soccer World Cup — in part because South Africa is such a long haul — the organizing body announced they’ll supply green energy and use bicycles.
Bicycles would also be used in [...]
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Rode with Steve Gluckman today and he wore a Novara Prototype eVent Jacket. In stores Fall 2010 for under $200.00, the final details and colors will change. 2-way zipper, breast pocket, and reflective piping [...]
Give (or get) the Gift of Hugger during our one-time, exclusive Hugga Holiday Sale @ uBRDO in Kirkland, WA. We’ll present select Urban Gear from our partners, tap a keg, and offer you meat on a stick with a veggie platter, of course.
Our online sale is good through [...]
The Blue Beanie on our Twitter avatar, and you’re likely seeing elsewhere on the Interwebs, represents International Blue Beanie day. We’ve got our blue beanie on early for our colleague Jeffrey Zeldman and in support of Web Standards. The day itself is [...]
If you were a participant or a spectator in the Mellow Johnny’s Classic mountain bike race this weekend, we’ve got some photos for you.
The first group is our Flickr steam of some images from the event.
The rider, already caked with mud, dropped down the slope and followed the line into the puddle just as many before her had. A thick plume of brown water shot into the air, coating the tires with another layer of muck. Clearly, the race wasn’t [...]
The Hare Krishna have co-opted so much in the world—shaved heads, chanting in the streets and being a lunatic all had their own meaning, but the HK’s have really taken ownership of all that.
Now they’ve stolen ghost bike design to make a “Love” bike, [...]
Yamashita Park is in Yokohama City Japan and a lovely place to ride a Dahon. Mark V has toured Japan.
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The folks at Mellow Johnny’s are holding a big race up at Juan Pelota’s ranch this weekend, and Hugga is in town to cover it. We’ll have images and thoughts from the race on the site on Sunday, so if you’ve got a hankering for [...]
Also note that London Cyclists care not for this “lyrca or not” debate and fashion stance. They wear what works. They’ll also laugh you out of pub if you mention shoe dryers …
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Verlyn Klinkenborg writes for the NYTimes that
there is a deeply pleasing randomness about the campus cyclists, as though one morning university officials had assigned a bicycle to every member of the Stanford community, come as you are, without considering for a moment matters of fit — [...]
It’s really been a long time since I was a mountain biker. My first “real” bike (after a hand-me-down clunker I used to get into shape in college) was a GT Avalanche. I saved and saved for that bike and the night before I went to buy it my [...]
In this version of “The Odyssey,” Hermes, the messenger god of Greek mythology, gets around not on winged sandals but rather on a Schwinn.
The Sirens could’ve sang from Cross bikes adorned in Lycra and covered with mud, but the Topeka West High School’s production kept them in togas. [...]
Val, a bicycle industry legend, has cancer and the Seattle community threw a party for him last night.
Beer was drunk, prizes we’re raffled, and Val was toasted. Not feeling well, I wasn’t there, but Mark V MC’d [...]
You’re Getting a Pink Saddle for Xmas from this guy.
And you will like it. More photos from the Party for Val.
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Val has cancer and Seattle's cycling community had a party for him.
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Someone once said, (might have been me at a blog conference) that there’s a blog for everything, now including the Flying Pigeon.
The Chinese keep those bikes working at bike stops like this.
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You squint, Google, cross reference, and determine that slightly-out-of focus bike in the background is a Trek Top Fuel WSD.
You later notice Eliza Dushku’s thong. Eliza’s show, the Dollhouse, was cancelled by Fox last week.
The Party for Val has been opened up to everyone and is on tomorrow night. We’ll be there with some gear for the raffle and toasting Val.
At first we wanted to have an insiders-only Seattle Bicycle Industry Party. However, Val’s battle with cancer is overshadowing that [...]
Traveling often shifts your worldview, changes perspectives, and the way you look at things. Back from the Mobile Social Worldwide, I’m just starting to parse all those thoughts into posts. I’ll get to stopping for a Holy Man and riding a Bubble of Curiosity in Delhi later.
Last month, Alternative Needs Transportation held an open house with happy bike owners showing off their baskets bikes. Lovely Bicycle blogged about the event with an emphasis on the Scorcher.
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According to Glenn F, it seems this old Airport base station maybe one of the oldest in operation. It starting failing once a week and then every few days. I replaced it with a new [...]
We have a variety of ways to talk to each other on Bike Hugger — via Twitter, Flickr, comment threads, sending us tips, saying hello, and now with a community.
We tried out the community app — built with TypePad Motion [...]
Matt Haughey is a fellow cyclist and bike racer. We cosponsor the Buy Local Team. He’s also internet famous and a colleague who blogged with [...]
I’ve ridden in sideways, full-frontal, deluge, drizzle, mist, freezing, bounce-off-the-top-tube-into-your-face rain. Snow, blizzard, freezing fog, and wet dust storms that spit mud drops. On one particularly epic Mt Rainer ride, a Forest Service Ranger handed me a plastic garbage bag so I could make it down the road a [...]
These bikes locked together looked like a couple of bike bros. Aside from the owners themselves, as if they enjoyed riding together. They’re quite similar actually. Different heritage, designers and companies, but serve the same purpose. Ridden on the same daily routes.
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In light of my recent posting about YACKBAM (Yet Another Cyclist Killed By A Motorist) I thought it was perfect timing that ElevenGear sent us info on this new eyeball-scorching winter jersey. As someone who has searched for the most visible clothing [...]
Earlier today I was at the Apple Store in University Village and overhead some employees talking abut riding to work in the rain. As you’d expect I engaged the conversation:
At the Apple Store answering questions about riding in the rain with their staff — via Twitter 4 [...]
This is a photo of Merrill Cassell, a cyclist, father and former director at UNICEF.
And this is a photo of the bus that killed him last friday in Westchester County, New York.
You’ve probably already guessed that he was riding his bike [...]
Designing with Web Standards 3rd Edition arrived while cooking dinner last night at Hugga HQ. Much of what we do at Bike Hugger and for our clients at Textura Design is done with web standards. It’s not something I talk about everyday anymore — used to [...]
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Designing with Web Standards 3rd Edition arrived while cooking dinner . . . Much of what we do at Bike Hugger and Textura Design is done with web standards. It's not something we [...]
The annual Spokesmen Live television event from the Interbike Media Center with David from The FredCast Cycling Podcast, Carlton from BikeBiz.com/ Quickrelease.tv, me, Jeff from Velo Reviews, and Joe Lindsey from Bicycling Magazine.
Worth noting that a bike [...]
Note: This post was told to us by Chris Mahan who raced the Singlespeed Cyclocross World Championships on a Specialized Tricross Singlecross. His first report was published yesterday. Chris designs for Novara.
Instead of a qualifier on Saturday, we made friends with Sunday’s combatants and rode a [...]
A Thanksgiving day Alleycat in Milwaukee. Turkey day in Seattle has annual rides that often turn into a spirited, off-season winter races.
Here at Hugga HQ, we like to let the turkey (or turkey with mashed potatoes gravy, beer, and whiskey) [...]
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Hey tell your girlfriend to stop searching for us. Maybe she should put some pants on too. Buy her a couch, at least, so she doesn't have to lay on' [...]
While we recovered from the Mobile Social Worldwide and rode in the Seattle rain, Chris Mahan guest blogged for us at the Singlespeed Cyclocross World Championships in Portland. He rode a Specialized Tricross Singlecross.
As [...]
Dahon’s view of the Mobile Social Interbike in Vegas. We rode the Strip from the Sands to Mandalay Bay and into a VIP Tent.
-->We just finished the Mobile Social Worldwide and our next one is in Austin for SXSW.
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It seems that my RSS feeds are often treated to the news that various celebrities ride bikes.
Who the hell cares?
Look, I’m all for people riding a bike, but celebrities are just folks that that are paid way-too-much so that they can pretend that [...]
On Friday morning’s commute I ran into the police memorial procession for Officer Brenton. The Burke Gilman trail was clogged w/ pedestrians paying their respects.The road was blocked with police, fire and aid units passing slowly by, rolling through intersections in one long continuous filament. It reminded me [...]
Integrated racks, swept-back bars, discs, lights, leather saddle, honjo fenders, muted paint — all the urban-bike prerequisites are checked off with this Donkelope bike, except for that pump. Custom builders usually paint pumps to match frames or expect the owner to [...]
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Another addition to our Hugga Comfort line of gear, nylon hats in small/medium and large/x-large. $9.99 available now directly from us and later this month on our Amazon Store. You can wear, wash, and [...]
Another addition to our Hugga Comfort line of gear, these new nylon caps are available in small/medium and large/x-large. The caps are made for us by Hincapie Sportswear and cost $9.99. They are available now directly from Hugga HQ and later this month on our Amazon Store.
We like [...]
Well sure that’s a great shot of Juliet, her ink, and her bike, but check those toe straps. They’re Chicago Wig Street Straps. They keep your feet on the pedals when you’re doing wheelies, and tricks, and stuff.
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Having just seen everything imaginable carried by bike in India, appreciate the DIY spirit of the Dolly Cart Cargo Bike.
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[...]Doping cases in cycling often seem so far away. Dope is in Europe and off in that world of professional bike racing us weekend warriors just dream about, as we line up for an office park crit. In the media, Joe Parkin covered dope in his book about [...]
A few months ago I gave a rather (to be delicate) negative review of the Clif Quench line of sports drink. I am not the only person to have done so, and it seems I’m not alone in my initial thoughts that “the [...]
Most kids dream of the 9th inning HR, or the last second hoop, or whatever. For the rest of us who make pilgrimages to the Alpine passes or to the Belgian Cobbles - here’s where you need to be Saturday night. CycleU is opening [...]
Spotted this Bridgestone in a camera shop — wish I’d had a better camera with me and also that Bridgestone would make a comeback. This bike rivals any urban or commuter of today and check that cool light.
I’m not schooled enough in Bridgestones to know what [...]
This morning I was out on a shakedown cruise on a new bike and forgot to bring my phone with me. That’s a shame as a friend was busy trying to alert me to the fact that Lance was stopped in the town below the [...]
While we were traveling, Hincapie shipped us the new hats. These are nylon (wash and wear) and will sell for $9.99. We like traditional cotton hats too, but not when you wash them twice and they start to fall apart. Tested one [...]
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