In my opinion, yes. Here’s a few reasons why. For starters when you ride your bike in or do any type of exercise, your body release all sorts of goodness into your brain to help you feel more at peace, invigorated and basically feel way better about yourself. This stuff is called endorphins and [...]

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Everyday I see kids riding their bikes to and from school without helmets. The other day when I was picking up my kids from school via bike, one kid comes up to me on his bike and makes a comment on how cool my Xtracycle is. I say thanks and I asked him where [...]

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Khoa on TheBikeGeek (our sister site or brother site…however you want to look at it.) has a great tip on how to get ride of brake squeal with the use of this…

Click HERE to read all about it.
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Noah from KC BikeCommuting has posted a review of the DiNotte 200L light.
During the morning and evening twilight hours, the DiNotte’s strobing patterns are extremely vivid and hard to ignore. I would almost call it annoying. Reflective street signs blink back at me, even with the sun in the sky. Now, even during the day, [...]

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We’d like to congratulate Lisa Abney of Tampa, Florida — our first SweetskinZ raffle winner to claim her prize of two 26″ “Scorch” tires.
Here she is with her prize:

Lisa was so excited about her win and so intrigued by these tires that she is going to buid up a “rat-rod” style cruiser to show them [...]

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Quinn sent in the following question:
“Commuters know about the ‘right hook’ — what about the opposite? By that I mean those drivers who creep behind you for a city block, when if they drove at speed they would clear the intersection before you got there. How do other commuters deal with them?”
This is another [...]

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A while back I did a review on these inventive lights called Reelights that require no batteries whatsoever. Since I didn’t really provide anywhere to buy them from, I figured I’d remedy the situation!
 
So, if you’re interested in a set of your own Pricepoint is now selling them for $49.98 –> HERE.
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I subscribe to most major cycling magazines. Recently, I have noticed a couple of articles on magazines where they sort of vilify blogs. They claim that we are bunch of amateurs and that we don’t know what we are talking about. They mostly classify blogs as a form of ‘entertainment’ and not a bona [...]

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In the months since I started bike commuting, I have had a handful of interesting “conversations” with my fellow employees as a direct result of them seeing me with a bike. When I first started, they were surprised to see someone walking down the office hallway with a bicycle.
- “Isn’t it too hot out there?” [...]

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Our friends from KHS Bicycles have put their 2008 line of bikes on their site. Here are a few bikes that we have tested in the past:

The KHS Urban X, I tested this bike 2 years ago. At a MSRP of $359, the Urban X is a bargain that is hard to beat.

I also [...]

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