Tom Boonen of Team Quick Step tested positive for drugs in April. He was allowed to continue racing since they weren’t of the performance enhancing variety. “I was very drunk. I do not know what happened, but the next day I tested positive for cocaine,” he said. He has an interview on Cycling News talking [...]

Portlanders are into bikes as much as people from Minneapolis. And with bike love comes beer and generalized earthiness. But now Portland is beating us in the new Cold War of beer/bike technology. It’s only a matter of time until we get our own Hopworks-style Bike Bars in the Midwest. I think we still would [...]

The 2008 American Community Survey found that bike commuting in the U.S. has gone up 43% since the 2000 census. The percentage of people who commute to work primarily on a bike in the U.S. is at about .5%, so don’t go all bragging on the phone to your friends in Holland just yet. In [...]

I like the play-by-play while he’s riding behind the biker. I know he keeps mentioning the ‘crowd going crazy,’ but I only see a few dozen people hanging out. It’s nice of whatever third world country this is to let Red Bull come in and convert their church roof to an urban downhill course. Either [...]

I have wanted to try riding an electric bike for some time now. I have had the chance to ride one for a block or so, but not much more than that. Electric Bikes are appealing for a number of reasons; they could get some people biking who normally wouldn’t commute by bike due to [...]

Young, single white people in New York don’t take it too well when you try to give them a high five. This NYU-student looking guy found a buddy with a video camera and a lot of free time. They rode around Washington Square Park, Times Square, Murray Hill, and a lot of Midtown throwing high-fives [...]

A bunch of project managers for the NY Department of Transportation pedal around in fancy clothes and explain why different kinds of bike lanes are built. They make mention of signs that say “Share the Road,” though since they ride I’m sure they understand how futile those things are. They also make no mention of [...]

You’d be so drenched in sweat by the time you arrived at work that it wouldn’t have mattered if you’d worn a rain jacket at all. The Bikesuit is a real product that we’ll begin seeing in stores next year. It’s as close as you can get to wearing a full on SCUBA diving dry [...]

A confusing graphic. We came in .1% behind Portland in a Rutgers University study into which North American city is best for biking. The percentages are a little bit baffling; I’m not sure if they’re saying that’s how many people cycle in each city or if that’s the measurable amount of bike lanes vs streets. [...]

The GearJunkie filed a post about an August Alleycat in Minneapolis that started at One on One in Minneapolis. He borrows some pics from Generation Outdoors, who showed up to shoot the race. Looks like a good time, though I’m not sure why this guy wore a jumpsuit. The race lasted about 3 hours and [...]