Posts under ‘New Product Announcements’

Eurobike is wrapping up and Interbike, the North American bicycle trade show, will be starting up in the next few weeks. In the past, this has been the place where bicycle companies big and small try to wow dealers and industry writers with the lightest, most aero on everything from bikes to wheels to shoes. [...]

Austin cyclists Dave Appel and Trey Steele have opened a new cycling training and skills service under the name Austin Cycle Camp. With skills classes on the car free Veloway and weekend class road rides, the classes are aimed at improving the performance of cyclists of all experience levels. “This is not a one day [...]

Wired magazine recently produced a list of five iPhone applications that you can use with your bike. Most are pretty silly and not practical, but the GPS powered cyclometer Speed could help replace a Garmin with a few more features like an interface with Google Maps or MapMyRide. Also, the Gear Calucator is a cool [...]

Italian city bike maker, Gruppo Bici N.A, has just released their new 2010 line of high end city bikes, Umberto Dei Clodia. Similar to Dutch city bikes but with an Italian flare, these things could give Retrovelos a run for their money. I am a maker and promoter of European city bikes, but it does [...]

From the files of form over function, we discovered the BauBike, a Bauhaus inspired bike made by Denmark’s Michael Ubbesen Jakobsen.  Here’s Jakobsen’s explanation:   The BauBike is inspired by Bauhaus design. It is constructed around the geometric shape of the square and the equilateral triangle. The design is stripped down to clean lines and raw material [...]

Thanks to BikeHacks who alerted me to a cool new bike product, the Monkey Light. A computer run LED lighting system for your spokes, the Monkey Light ups the ante on the Down Low Glow and takes after dark visibility and bike bling to the next level. Available for the low, low price of $64.95 online, [...]

Is the SRAM XX Mountain Group the death of the road triple? SRAM has released its latest mountain group, dubbed the XX, which is the first 20 speed mountain drive train on the market (i.e. 10 gear cassette and double chain ring.) For those mountain bikers wanting more info on this latest product release, both [...]

It’s been several months since I last penned a Dumbest Product of the Week. The series was put on indefinite hiatus partly because we are spending more time covering actual cycling events, people, and the industry. Also, now that I’ve gone through the blood (literally), sweat, and tears of launching my own product, I think [...]

Recently, we reported on the Dynamic Synergy, the first road bike equipped with STI style integrated brake/shifters for Shimano internally geared 8 speed Nexus and Alfine hubs. Bike Commuters wrote a positive review of a demo version of this bike they had for trial as did BikeHugger, and it seems like a product long overdue. [...]

First there were parties and then there were shirts. There is now yet another way to help the Austin Yellow Bike Project reach their $250,000 goal so they can build a permanent workshop on Webberville Road. You can buy this stitch pattern made available by Radical Rags Etsy Shop or available online. (Thanks Jason for letting us [...]