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Week 28
Like much of the rest of North America, out here in BC, we’re sweating through the start of a major heat wave — temperatures are expected to move into the high 30s (celsius) for the rest of the weekend. Make sure everyone packs their sunscreen and lots of water before heading out on their early morning (or evening) rides!
There was a bunch of stuff I didn’t get to this week — Ashwin has a writeup ready that talks about choosing an xc bike, I’m going to have one about choosing an trail / all mountain ride, Dan has a writeup for us, as does Adrian. It was a busy week around here, but I’ll try to rein things in for next week. Sometimes regular life just gets in the way.
TBH Content
New TBH contributor Evan let us have a peek at his new singlespeed on Monday, and provided some decent tips for converting an existing ride to a single. For Wednesday, Guitar Ted offered up an interesting take on the definition of the endurance race. Yesterday, I posted up pics from one of my rides and I’ll try to make this a more regular occurence too — it’s always interesting to see what and where other people ride. Feel free to send me your pics and I’ll post them up — if you have a blog, make an entry on your site and send me the link!
Elsewhere around the ‘net
BikeMagic reviews the CamelBak MULE. PinkBike puts in some time on the Hutchinson Barracuda all mountain tire. Bike continues its series from Japan that looks at the 2007 Shimano XTR lineup. Singletrack discusses the 2007 Trek Bikes lineup. Crank Brothers unveiled the Acid pedal, which is meant to slide in between the Candy and Mallet lines.
Tour de France.
On the day after The Stage of this year’s Tour de France, Jan Ullrich has been fired by T-Mobile for allegedly being involved in that complicated doping affair uncovered last month by Spanish authorities. The best part? It was done by FAX. Ouch.
Bicycle Design looks at some of the bikes from past Tours.