The Mechanic: Archive

Getting around town has never been easier: the... →

Jan 19th

2010 Tour Down Under: The beginning of an amazing... →

Even though it seems like eons until we see spring here in the Northwest, elite road bike racing is just about to roll into its season throughout the world. This weekend the ProTour will kick off in…

Jan 15th

LA driver given assault sentence for road rage... →

In an trial followed by several cycling news sites a California doctor has been given a five year assault sentence for a July 4, 2008 road rage incident. The incident severely injured one of the…

Jan 12th

Fighting a global pandemic from your saddle is... →

Today is World AIDS Day. Not many people are thinking about it and most of us are blissfully coasting through our daily routines. Whether or not we knew today was an important date for the fight…

Dec 1st

Brake review: KORE Cantilever →

Nov 30th

This is worth seeing →

Ryan from <a href=”http://www.gomeansgo.org”>Go Means Go</a> announced a showing of the documentary <a href=”http://www.allornothingproductions.com/”>London to Paris</a> from All or Nothing…

Nov 25th

Fenders! →

Nov 25th

SSCXWC 2010 is coming to Seattle! →

This is big…Really BIG. Seattle has a long standing fued with our Northwest brethren over which city boasts the best Cyclocross scene and now we have a chance to prove who knows what. For those of…

Nov 13th

Dreaming about the big ride. →

After a dismal week here in the Pacific Northwest I find myself wondering how easy it would be to just check out and go for the Big Ride. Lots of cyclists are entering into the brave world of…

Nov 6th

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Examiner

Just found out that I am going to become the commuting “Examiner” for Seattle. It’s a pretty sweet gig and maybe I’ll be able to bring some focus onto issues that aren’t getting talked about. Sweet!

Oct 16th

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Watch

Beautiful.

Oct 2nd

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Sep 29th

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Sep 29th

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Interbike and Embrocation

I’ve been reading a lot of glossies this week. I keep coming back to Embrocation Cycling Journal for their coverage of all things glorious in cycling. Jeremy Dunn from P-Town had the best article explaining how Interbike treats all of us. Scotty and I had plans to cover the show in some amazing manner but for the most part we failed miserably. My little camera never gave me great shots, the...

Sep 28th

What a difference a mind makes

Jay Townley might be a genius but Scotty thought about most of this already. He just described uBRDO to perfection.

Sep 23rd

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UCI worlds live at interbike!

Body

Sep 23rd

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What's Goin' On

I just posted this for Osprey. It’s all true and going to be a long couple of weeks. Long weeks and even longer weekends; that’s how it’s going to be for the near future as I race and travel. Last week was the start of a super crazy month that had me all over Seattle and down to Oregon for work/fun/suffering. My bike sponsor, Baron Bicycles, was invited to participate in the Rapha...

Sep 17th

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RGR on Bike Hugger →

Sep 15th

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RGR

Results are up for the Rapha Gentleman’s Race and the Baron Bicycles Team ended up in 18th. We started fifth from last and finished there. Congrats to the guys that won the race because we know that they suffered mightily to stay in front. The fastest team HPC came by like a freight train at mile twenty and I doubt they were going much slower at mile 130. We tagged along with them until...

Sep 15th

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@iMiNUSD gave us a great shout out for the build. Hopefully we’ll get a chance to go see everyone down in the Bay Area sometime soon to shoot the shit. Damn s words. Sweet!

Sep 8th

Reviews!

…are the hardest things to write. There are so many reasons why you may or may not like something and deciding which one of those reasons make or breaks something sucks. I have a few in the works for: PRO, Ultegra 6700, Edge Rims, Baron Frames, Hammer Race Day Caps, and a couple others. uBRDO is really starting to move into cross season and Scott and I are thinking about ways to make sure...

Sep 8th

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Kabush does Supertroopers!

Aug 31st

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Aug 25th

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New Ultegra for the Baron CX Bike! Sweetness

Aug 17th

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I love the internets! This movie also brought me back to when I owned a Hoffman Bro’s ramp bike that weighed thirty pounds. I still don;t know why I bought it. I was horrible at tricks. Maybe it came from seeing one too many of the awesome BMX vids that came out of the eighties. There is way more on woozybmx.com.

Aug 2nd

Jul 29th

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Jul 29th

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Pivot Cycles at St Ed's

Summer is definitely coming on strong in Seattle and so are the demos! This week we started our test ride season out with Victor and Jason from Pivot. For those of you in the know you will have heard that this company is the brain child of Chris Cocalis the long time owner and manager at Titus Cycles. His designs have long been among the best in the full suspension world and have mostly featured...

Jul 29th

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Jul 17th

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Jul 14th

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uBRDO Sweetness

Yea!! Amanda’s Lynskey Pro Cross rolled in ten minutes ago accompanied by some White Industries Pedals. Two things that I really have a hankering to own!

Jul 13th

I rode to Portland this weekend and had a good ol’ time hanging with my sister and her crowd of merry pranksters. I got to see some things that got the gears turning so stay tuned in!

Jul 7th

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Working with Baron

We’ve been working with Geoff at Baron this past month on his new cross bike. It is still in the super secret development mode but without any unforeseen delays in production he hopes to have one to us with the new cross geometry by the middle of July. Here is the Beta bike that he designed after a collar bone break last fall; that means its a little whacky and far from the usual Baron...

Jun 24th

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Jun 18th

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Jun 15th

And this is why we don't sell Mavic! →

Jun 10th

Brown and Blue Santa came to uBRDO today and left us with lots fo presents!

Jun 3rd

Lots and lots...

of things have been going. uBRDO is everywhere right now. We have been back and forth across the state and supported no less than three events over the past week. I think if I can slow down for a minute I can get some reviews and reports pushed up to tumblr and maybe even write a blog for Osprey. After a 24 hr race and little sleep over the past couple of days nothing is all that coherent.

May 26th

May 5th

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I took my new Rapha jacket out for a test ride in the Snoqualmie Valley yesterday and was blown away by its fit and feel. Sixty miles in 3:25 felt pretty good!

Apr 27th

Video Tim

Drinking with Tim Reha at the uBRDO leads to many dangerous and exciting ideas!!

Apr 26th

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