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Archive for September, 2006

Big Dummy

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Earlier this morning, at the Interbike trade show in Las Vegas, Surly took the wraps off a new bike, the Big Dummy. Not sure if that’s a final name (from Sanford & Son, starring Redd Foxx). Big Dummy is the first production longtail bike built around Xtracycle’s modular rack system. To use Xtracycle’s racks presently, [...]

Same revolution, different day

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

BikePortland.org got the scoop: [photo: unknown; Rodale] Electra is a smart company. This is big. This is emphatically a bicycle for riding in plain clothes, around cities, in the course of normal life, in style, rain or shine, day and night. It has only incidental recreational value. It’s not a toy for youth or a [...]