Industry Outsider

SAN CARLOS, Calif. – April 10, 2008 – Syncros today announced it will showcase new products from its All Mountain (AM), Freeride (FR) and Freakin’ Light (FL) component lines while exhibiting at the Sea Otter Classic, April 17-20, in Monterey, Calif. Festival attendees will get a chance to see and touch the new Syncros AM … Read more

Damn, wish I was going! Everyone’s stuffing my inbox with all sorts of news and invites. I’ll start with Ritchey: SAN CARLOS, Calif. – April 9, 2008 – Bicycle component company Ritchey Design announced today it will showcase the two newest framesets in the Break-Away line of bicycles at the Sea Otter Classic, April 17-20 … Read more

New Zealand is a damn beautiful country, and the people I met on holiday there were just the nicest folks anywhere. That’s why I’m pleased to announce the Vorb Video Competition: A horde of New Zealand’s most promising up-and-coming bike riders and film-makers have been flushed out of the woodwork for the 2008 Vorb Video … Read more

That Rover started out as a bicycle company! And now Ford is selling Rover to Tata Motors, the company that wants to bring India the $2,500 Nano. Their portfolio would then include the least expensive production automobile, along with $80k+ SUVs. (Bear with me now, while I weave this back into a bicycle-related post) I’m … Read more

I haven’t heard back from the owner of FootbikeUSA since we briefly discussed their posts on BikeForums.net, so I tried a Google search to see what I could find out about them outside of their website. Yikes! I was hoping for maybe some product reviews, but no such luck. What I did find was an … Read more