Archive for the ‘Bikes’ Category

Double Bike Donation Match

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

The World Bicycle Relief organization helps provide bicycles to Africa. They currently have a program where your donation will be matched dollar for dollar. When you give one wheel, a generous supporter will give the other. Donate a whole bike, and recipients in Zambia will get twice as much. Visit Double Bike Match to make a financial contribution.

Innovate or Die!

Monday, July 7th, 2008

I was watching the Tour over the weekend and noticed the return of an old school campaign for Specialized Bikes “Innovate or Die”.  I always thought that was such a kick-ass slogan, but somewhere around the late 1990’s it seemed to disappear.  Perhaps riders were not sure who was supposed to “innovate”?  These days the topic of innovation is getting major media play, gracing the covers of all the top business magazines and websites.

Specialized has always been innovative - as a designers, builders, and as marketers.  The Specialized ads have historically been about the ride - with less talk, more imagination.  The kind of stuff you would want to hang on your wall.  Innovate or Die!

Fat Tire

Monday, April 14th, 2008

I finally have a new bike that I think is worth sharing to the world. From what I’ve been able to find out about the bike (haven’t really been looking too hard), this Zenith fat tire was built around 1950. My buddy “E” had this baby sitting in his garage so we did a swap. This thing is a total blast to ride and a refreshing change from my other rides.

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