For all that Sea Otter purports to be, what makes the expo most compelling isn’t the new helmet technology or the energy bar formulated from sand and cat hair. It’s the bikes. A bike ...
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The Sea Otter Classic, Part I
Holy cow. With the demise of Interbike and a complete inability to get on my motel’s (or Starbucks) wifi, I’m faced with reviewing the entirety of my experience at Laguna Seca in ...
No Sweat: The Veo Strip
I remember the first time a broke sweat during physical activity. I was 7. My father and I were at a driving range in Reno, NV. It was summer and we were smashing golf balls like two made men. ...
A True All-Road Tire: Donnelly Cycling USH
The Zipp 404 made me a believer in aero equipment the way Led Zeppelin made me believe in rock and roll. After hearing Stairway to Heaven, there was no denying the power of rock as a primal ...
NAHBS 2019: Best in Show, Judges Discretionary Award
The mission for the awards is, and has always been, to recognize superlative work in frame building. I know there are those who oppose the idea of awards at all. They are easy to oppose if ...
NAHBS 2019: Best Finish, Track, Cyclocross, Tandem
Best Finish is a category where we never really know what we are going to see. We know there will be pretty bikes, but how so is really unclear to us. While in the cyclocross category we know we ...
NAHBS 2019: Best City, Artisan, Experimental, New
There’s an inherent challenge to the category of Best City/Utility bike, one that is straightforward. A city bike is not necessarily the same as a utility bike. To me, this is a not all ...
NAHBS 2019: Best Road, Gravel, Mountain
Each year the categories of best road bike, best gravel bike and best mountain bike bring a horde of entries. Gravel was, in fact, a separate category we had to create because we were getting as ...
NAHBS 2019: The Awards, Construction Categories
The construction categories are thinly entered because for most builders, the choice between bringing an unpainted frame and a painted one that is sexy as hell, logic suggests you bring the sexy ...
NAHBS 2019: Awards, Part II
The construction categories for the North American Handmade Bicycle Show are tough to judge. The only way to do it and know that we (Tom Kellogg, Nick Legan and myself) are coming to the correct ...