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Week 12

There are plenty of press releases coming out in advance of next weekend’s Sea Otter Classic. Expect these releases, along with plenty more product news in the weeks to come.

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On Monday, Dan posted up a brief review of the Louis Garneau Airstream bib shorts followed by Ashwin’s final entry in his skills series, one that focused on the bunny hop. Wednesday saw Guitar Ted’s second-t0-last entry in his introduction to the 29″er and it focused on some of the beneficial ride characteristics the 29 inch wheeled bikes. For Thursday, Dan offered up his thoughts on cycling with music.

Elsewhere around the ‘net

Cannondale announced The Cut, helped along by a tongue-in-cheek writeup from BikeMagic. PinkBike built up a pimped out Iron Horse MKIII. The Haro Werx 5 / VL120 was awarded Mountain Biking’s 2006 Cross Country Bike of the Year. The Transition BottleRocket is a burly slopestyle bike with 5.5″ of travel. NSMB.com interviewed Mark Weir.

Nature published a great series of articles discussing the future of computing. American researchers are using computer generated models to predict the effects of global climate change.

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