Cross Season starts for us this weekend at Kruger’s Kermesse.

We’ll have new bikes from Redline

and kits from Cycling Northwest

The Redline Team issue is updated with a carbonS-bend rear stays and

• Double butted 7046 aluminum tubing
• Integrated headset,
• carbon fork
• SRAM Force 10 shifters & derailers
• FSA BB30 Energy 46 x 36t cranks
• Mavic Ksyrium wheelset w Schwalbe Racing Ralph tires.

More photos. Redline is on Facebook and Twitter.

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Attended our first bike-in film in San Francisco earlier this year, and there are two of them this weekend in the Pacific Northwest: Seattle and Portland.

5th Annual Seattle Bike-In

Saturday, Aug 28 at 07:00 PM The Bike-In is a celebration of green transportation, our urban community and summer nights! Grab your bike, grab your friends—we’ll see you for our annual event in Cal Anderson Park on Capitol Hill!

Meet at 5pm to hang out and enjoy tunes by DJ NLJB. Music by Concours d’Elegance and Sap’N at 7pm Short films followed by Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure at dusk (around 9pm).

Disposable Film Festival & Backyard Blam

In partnership with Backyard Blam, the Disposable Film Festival is in Portland at the New PDW Space: 15 NE Hancock, from 8-10PM on Saturday the 28th. That includes a bike race, bicycle tractor pull, and films. RSVP and details on Facebook.

Obsolete and scary! Tragedy happens when this cycling raptor meets 50s Girl on a Bike or maybe she tames the beast.

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Cross and facial hair go together like peas and carrots, gin and juice, Cruise and Diaz, Turner and Hooch, Salt-n-Pepa, Facebook and Privacy (no wait). It’s time to start considering your look.

Are you going for Magnum PI, Grizzly Adams …

Maybe a beer-drinking, cheering fan with an ironic Tee from Etsy.

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A well-made Tall Bike from three Schwinns with a hand brake, Nexus, and LED lights.

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A well-made Tall Bike from three Schwinns with a hand brake, Nexus, and LED lights.

The iconic photos of Audrey Hepburn include bikes, like this one from a Hollywood set.

Fashion communities have worked out mashed-up collections from those photos, inspired by another time that fits our modern urban sensibilities …

and what we noticed is that the “most beautiful woman of all time” is riding arguably the best bike of all time, a 3-speed, step-through Raleigh.

In our travels, we see vintage 3-speeds transporting people to and fro in cities.

Earlier this month, we rode this prototype bike during a demo.

Product managers always have their own pet projects. Maybe an idea that’s been simmering for years and this bike is part of project that may get released.

We hope it does. 3 speeds makes as much sense now, as they have since 1902.

We also wonder and have talked at length with the old dogs of Cyclocross why there isn’t a 3-speed drivetrain for riding road bikes in the dirt? There was back in the day, cause that’s all they had.

Nice ink and bike.

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1986 and a patriotic version of the Dahon logo for their folding bikes.

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WOW, that’s a really cool fixie that you can travel with! Wallpaper* (don’t forget the asterisk) deserves a lot of credit for their vision. Kinda makes me wish I had thought of that….

Wait, a minute…I did think of that…7 fucking years ago.

And since S&S didn’t even remotely develop their excellent “torque couplings” with Wallpaper* (don’t forget the asterisk) or me personally in mind, I guarantee you that someone else did it before me.

Wallpaper…*……does offer a beautiful and doubtlessly expensive leather bag to pack your bike in. That way you can look quite spiff struggling with your fixie in a bag through every airport…’cause unlike S&S’ well-proven hardcase, their leather bag has NO WHEELS. The smirk on my face while I watch you attempting to carry that bike along with your ridiculous Louis Vuitton bags shan’t be modest. My only loss will be not seeing your grief-stricken face at your final destination after you see what baggage handlers can do to a bike in a soft case.

But proper credit where due, the bike as pictured does have the correct hubs for the job. Phil Wood track hubs are smooth and durable, but they also have the crucial bolt-in axles. Otherwise, the width of solid “bolt-on” axles would affect packing density. Also, the choice of a powdercoat finish is smart, as it is usually less prone to chipping than wet-application paint finishes. Still, anyone frequently traveling with a bike ought get used to blems on the kit, unavoidable as it is.

Of course, no one is really asking for my opinion. The fact that I’ve flown over 120,000 miles, made a couple dozen train trips, and 3 European bus tours with an S&S bike as well as designed (and I don’t mean paint design) a series of S&S bikes with the “Modular concept” (interchangeable kits to rapidly optimize the bike for different uses) pales in the face of professional photography and oooooh! leather.

Sigh, at least the bike is quality craftsmanship. It’s just not versatile, well-thought out, inexpensive, or original.

update:

This is an S&S hardcase after 120,000 air miles and untold abuse. I’d like to see a leather bag hold up to that. And leather or not, it’s nigh impossible for the bag to be significantly smaller than the hardcase because the 700C wheels dictate the internal space. Again, the lack of roller wheels on the leather case is a sad, sad omission.

Spotted at Russie’s Bike Swap Yard Sale, this dude with a Surly 1X1 that was really fun to ride. He’s also been seen on a cruiser at the World’s Slowest Bike Race and atop a Penny Farthing. Who is he? We suspect he may have more bikes than us.

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Over the past month I’ve been experimenting with different wide-range 10sp cassettes and rear derailleurs with SRAM and Shimano road shifters. I’m still not done with all the combinations, but as a preliminary warning to those riders and shops looking to use wide-range (ie 11-32, 11-34, 11-36, and 12-36 ten-speed cassettes) with Shimano road STI, you CANNOT use the new 10sp Shimano MTB rear derailleurs with road STI. Shimano 10sp road shifters will work fine on those new 10sp wide-range cassettes if you use 9sp Shimano MTB derailleurs, however.

The new 10sp Shimano mtb derailleurs need more cable per derailleur movement than previous designs and require the matching 10sp MTB shifters.

Over the past month I’ve been experimenting with different wide-range 10sp cassettes and rear derailleurs with SRAM and Shimano road shifters. I’m still not done with all the combinations, but as a preliminary warning to those riders and shops looking... Mark V http://bikehugger.com/people/mark-v/

WOW, that’s a really cool fixie that you can travel with! Wallpaper* (don’t forget the asterisk) deserves a lot of credit for their vision. Kinda makes me wish I had thought of that…. Wait, a minute…I did think of... Mark V http://bikehugger.com/people/mark-v/

Kinfolk’s S&S bike made the gadget and design blog rounds after winning a Wallpaper award earlier this year. For more on S&S bikes, see Travel Bikes: Couplings and Hinges.

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Kinfolk’s S&S bike made the gadget and design blog rounds after winning a Wallpaper award earlier this year. For more on S&S bikes, see Travel Bikes: Couplings and Hinges. Uploaded by KINFOLK by Ways&Means | more from the Bike... DL Byron http://bikehugger.com/people/byron/

Wondering what the rest of the bike looks like.

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That looks like a bike BBQ to us.

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