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Donate Your Old Helmet to Science

Does your helmet have an expiration date? Do the plastics degrade reducing it’s crash worthiness? MEA Forensic is doing testing to find out: We plan to crash test about 1000 used helmets to understand how helmet performance degrades with time and use. Your old helmets can be part of this study. We are accepting donations of [...]

Semi-Custom Bont Vaypors

I have been using plastic shims under my right cleat on my Sidi Megas to compensate for a leg length discrepancy. 2 shims under the right cleat made for a very squirrel-y and disconnected feel on the shimmed right foot. I was also having problems with a hot spot along the right edge of my [...]

Rapha Commemorates “Los Escarabajos”

Rapha’s new Colombian super-light jersey pays tribute to ”Los Escarabajos”. Referring to the Colombian climbers as Escarabajos (beetles) began when famous sports announcer Carlos Arthur Wheel in the 1953 Vuelta a Colombia referred to cyclist Ramón Hoyos as a “escarabajo de las montañas”. A year later the Mexican Sports Daily Esto headline for the Vuelta a [...]

Assos for the Weekend Warrior

Assos is now offering the new iJ.bonKa.6 jacket in race fit and regular guy sizing. It looks like the Mille line will be extended as a fit alternative for more “robust” athletes. I’d written a post not to long ago about the The Demographics of Kit Fit. While my images on that post of the [...]

Keirin Jerseys

NOS Keirin jerseys available @ NJS Export Tweet This Post

Manubro 4 Manubri

Manubro 4 Manubri hand-made leather handlebar wrap from Richard Sachs Cycles. Tweet This Post

Café du Cycliste

New French cycling apparel company Café du Cycliste is making some very smart looking kit. Café du Cycliste web site Tweet This Post

Hampsten Sweater

Woolistic Hampsten sweater designed by House Industries. Tweet This Post

Made in Miami: Road Holland

I got a sneak peek of a new jersey with polo collar from South Florida based cycling apparel maker Road Holland. I really love the classical styling of this new jersey and I love the fact that it’s being made right here in Miami. The factory is 10 minutes away from me… Here’s the scoop [...]

Go Heat!

Miami Heat cycling jersey. Tweet This Post

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