Rode plenty over the weekend, including a trip to the U-District on this Traitor.

Traitor downtown

Had the Luggernaut in the garage for a while and it was nice to get on it for a chill ride. The next day took this photo with @sgluckman rolling by on Jones Road.

Jones Road in the May Valley

Then it was going fast on Sunday with the S-Works Venge we’ve got in on test.

Fast

See where we rode and these photos on a Google map.

Yesterday there was this

Um, not EVERYONE in Portland makes a good cup of coffee, so get off your high horse… I mean, your tall bike,… fb.me/1LoJHC8c4

— Aisha Tyler (@aishatyler) May 27, 2012

Then

@JessCampbell90 Didn’t dis vegans. I dissed superioristic hipster *sshole vegans who weld 2 bikes together so they can look down on others.

— Aisha Tyler (@aishatyler) May 27, 2012

Before that

“Peloton.” That’s the idiomatic French loan word for fourteen bony white men who wear neon green Spanx and think stop signs are for suckers.

— Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies) May 23, 2012

We don’t like cyclists that run red lights either and hadn’t thought that hipsters built tall bikes to make themselves more superior.

Riding Velibs in Paris

David Byrne, in a thoughtful piece for the NYTimes, is expecting bike share to transform NYC for the better. New Yorkers and visitors will experience what we did in Paris riding Velib all over town, to and from tourist attractions. It was great!

Bikes can transform our world and make it better. New Yorkers are about to see how.

What Byrne and advocates overlook is the bike backlash and people competing for the same space in a very crowded city. I’ve had an editorial on the back burner that states, “bike advocates are not social engineers. They’ve done amazingly well at getting us access and forwarding an agenda, but do nothing or are ill-equipped to handle their success. It’s like they’ve hyped, promoted, and thrown a big party then ran out of beer. “

*Mandiberg Down

Last time I rode in NYC, we got attacked. Last week on the Burke-Gilman (a major bike thoroughfare in Seattle), saw a cyclist strike a pedestrian, and I had words with another.

Next time in NYC, I won’t bring a travel bike and ride their new share. I’ll also have an eye out for New Yorkers that don’t give a shit what mode of travel I choose, just that I’m not in their way or take up the space they want.

That’s the same as it ever was.

I was searching google with safe search = off, and I saw someone had posted pictures of their Vagacini on Flickr. You don’t often see Vagacini on Flickr, but I’d say that this one is pretty hot. There was only one Vagacini closeup shot, but you can tell it is super tight. You couldn’t fit bigger rubber in there, or at least not in the front.

images from tonniejansen’s flickr page

File under :unfortunate brand names

Patterns emerge occasionally when riding and this one was passing two people on a bike.

On the front

On the back

On the Fender

As is the tradition at Hugga HQ, we ride, relax, and BBQ with our friends on Memorial Day Weekend. The Holiday always arrives after a busy Spring and we need the break before going into Summer with more travel, events, and bike racing.

To kick if off, I rode with Joe and Mark from the Bikesale.com Elite team. Clouds were in the sky, so they were on their Volagis. We rode tempo with a few sprints and fast through the arboretum.

Bros on their Volagis

Tomorrow, expect to ride 4, maybe 5 hours. Then Sunday more riding fast.

How ‘bout you?

Freestyle with helmets under bowler hats

From Mark Tyler and taken during the 114th Victoria Day Parade. See another photo of these two on Experience Cycling’s site.

At 3422 Harbor Ave SW, where CycleU and a couple cat ladies are housed sits this new neon sign announcing that bicycles are available.

They are in the new bike shop and in the ‘hood, cause that’s where the Beach Drive bike path starts under the W. Seattle Bridge, across the street from the Nucor Steel Plant.

As we rode by, the workers had just finished installing it and we’re wiping the dust off with rags. Haven’t driven across the bridge in a while, but expect you can see it from a car too.

Meet me at the bicycles sign. It’s a nice ride along the beach. Keep going past Lincoln park and up into the hills where you’ll find a 22% grade called the Col de Roy.

View New Seattle Landmark: Bicycles in a larger map.

Finally a mount for Android

The Bike Mount for Android is in on test and functions just like the iPhone mount, but for the ‘droids. It’s shock and waterproof. Mounts to the bar and your phone will function like a bike computer with your favorite flavor of bike app. With the right liner, the mount works with

• Samsung Galaxy SII
• HTC Desire HD / HTC EVO 4G / HTC Inspire 4G
• Samsung Galaxy S / LG Optimus 2X
• HTC Sensation

This mount, like the iPhone version, are meant for the commute and casual ride. If you’re on rough or off road, get the HD mount to better secure it to your bike.

I use an iPhone exclusively on my bike now, including just riding, touring, and training. Using the Bike Brain app, Google, and Aperture 3, make photo ride maps like this.

The mount I’ve got is a factory sample and they’re not in the States yet. Expect the same pricing as the iPhone at $59.99 and available from us and Think Biologic.

All,

Apologies again for sending you gigantic images in your feed reader. The issue is now resolved and if you’re still seeing the giant images or video, please refresh or clear the cache. The cache will update itself in the next few hours and after we start posting again. We hope our bug didn’t blow through too much of your data plan or bandwidth.

So what happened was, we rolled out RWD images – they adjust to the size of the mobile screen – and RSS choked on the code. After a day spent traversing the DOM to replace width/height attributes inline, we’ve solved it.

I’ve been writing about RWD and living through days like this on G+. Read more about it here.

Now we’ll resume our regular programing with a video that features a cranky old Brit bike builder who in the first few seconds says

When we were riding there were only 5 speeds and we only rode 4. Now they’ve got 21 speeds and you don’t know what gear you’re in.

Like hey back in the day, you got ONE image size. That’s it. No adaptive/responsive shit. We push the web tech here like we do on our bikes. Sometimes it breaks.