Kickin' Rad!

X up over the hip!

Alleycat! In St. Louis?!

That's right. Preliminary planning for the first annual Tour de Lis (get it? fleur de lis...) is underway. More details will be added here very soon.



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The Ride Journal: Issue 1 Available Online

The Ride Journal released their first issue as a pdf for your home-viewing pleasure.

Check it out at the link above.

Move Over Carbon Fiber: Wood!

"Good Morning. Check out this killer wooden bike." - Lance Armstrong on his Twitter.

Arndt Menke thinks your next bicycle should be a wooden one. Paying strict attention to the flex and compress properties of wood and it's affect on bicycle strength and stiffness, the designer has designed a full-wood bike frame that looks rad, is supposedly more comfortable, and more powerful than a carbon fiber counterpart.

And the kicker?

The frame weighs only 2kg (under 5 lbs)

Everyone: Meet Charlie

Charlie is sad.
Why, you ask?
Today, May 11th, Charlie's MacBook was stolen from our shop. We have a vague description of the culprit, and the local police doing something, but keep your eyes peeled. Who knows which pawn shop the thing will end up at.

It's black, and has Devo/Pikachu on the desktop.

Bicycle Film Festival 2009

The Bicycle Film Festival, an annual celebration of bicycles through film, art, and music, will take place in Memphis this year. And you know what that means:

Road trip!

The festival starts on May 29 with "Fun Bike Shorts," "Urban Bike Shorts" and an afterpart with goldsprints somehow involved. Sounds like a good time to us!

Macaframa Arrives

Macaframa is a production in the style of skate videos like Lakai's "Fully Flared," about track bikes on the streets of San Fransisco. Filmed deftly in full HD, the video acts as successor to 2008's MASH SF, which pioneered the new cinematic genre.

For more info check out the website above, or the teaser below. The DVD goes for $40 with a picture book and lots of special features.

Support the urban cycling movent: buy cool stuff.

MACAFRAMA Trailer from MACAFRAMA on Vimeo.

These Hubs Are Sick!

From The Intersection Bike Project

New Shirts Coming Soon

Design subject to change as we tweak a few things as far as printing is concerned.

If anyone knows a good local screen-printer, a recommendation would be much appreciated. It'd be great to support a local business by supporting our own.

Hemmingway on Bicycles

Wise words.

Swine Flu vs Urban Cycling: Round 1

"Believe it or not, the Swine Flu scare has now affected the urban cycling movement. The Mexican government has made the organizers of the much anticipated 2o Congreso Nacional de Ciclismo Urbano postpone the event.

This Urban Cycling Conference was set to run May 1st through 3rd, but is postponed until an undisclosed date. The Conference was initiated last year in Mexico City, and attracted Mexican cycling groups and government officials as well as activists from Spain, Chile, and the US. This year, it was planned for Mexico’s second largest..."

Head over to Urban Velo to read more.

Cyclist=Artist?

LOCUS Architecture, a leader in combining green architecture with modern design, brought together Twin Cities cyclists to make their mark and make a difference. Participants bunny-hopped, spun, skidded, and cruised over prints, recording individual tread signatures.



See more of the process and posters...HERE!

A silent auction of these limited edition Tread Prints will raise money for Full Cycle, a Minneapolis outreach program that provides bicycles and mechanical skill training to homeless and at-risk youth.

How freaking awesome is this. Can't separate the cyclists from the artists.

QuickFix Kits Are Here

An inexpensive solution to an ongoing problem.

The Blog Is Back!

After an extended hiatus, the Velocity Cyclery blog is back in action.

Shop and general cycling news, sales, promotions, events and a whole lot more will be posted here daily starting right now.

So check back often. Cycling doesn't stay still for long.

As a side note, Steeze:

Macaframa from MACAFRAMA on Vimeo.