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Is This The Best Bike Lane Graffiti Ever?

by steve casimiro on September 2, 2010 · 2 comments

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File this in Late to The Party But Still Happy to Be Here category. This bike lane graffiti actually reminds me of the bacon dispenser meme, which I felt so clever for discovering until I found out that even my mom knew about it before I did. So if I’m the last person in my [...]

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Cyclist Gets Thrown Off Bridge

by steve casimiro on September 2, 2010 · 2 comments

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You know the feeling. Someone sends the moral compass of the universe spinning like a top and your sense of outrage kicks in. Problem is, there’s never a good bridge around when you need one. This little clip has been floating about the internets for a while, and it’s always good to pull up when [...]

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First Rodeo Flip Pulled in Surfing’s World Tour

by steve casimiro on September 2, 2010 · 1 comment

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It’s funny, our expectations. The surfing world is abuzz with Pat Gudauskas’s big-time move in the Billabong Pro Tahiti yesterday. In the waning minutes of his heat, Gudauskas need to score at least 7.83 (out of 10) to pass Chris Davidson. He busted out a rodeo flip, the first ever nailed at the world tour [...]

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Fresh Goods: Giro Introduces Full Line of Cycling Shoes

Giro, the company best known for its cycling and snow helmets, is entering the bike footwear market in a big way, with seven models of road and mountain, men’s and women’s. They all look pretty tasty, with Easton EC90 carbon soles and lightweight uppers, but the mountain bike Code is especially attractive. Imagine an ultralight, [...]

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Keeping An Eye on the Tiger: Ibis Eye Hurricane Tracker

President Barack Obama said that officials along the East Coast are preparing for the “worst case” scenario as Hurricane Earl takes aim at the Carolinas. Depending on your perspective, “worst case” could mean the storm surf only turns out to be a couple of feet instead of the forecast 8 to 10, but that’s probably [...]

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Red Bull Illume Photo Contest Picks Actions Sports Gallery of the Year

By any measure, the Red Bull Illume Image Quest brought together an extraordinary collection of sports images, with extraordinary efforts on the part of both photographers and athletes. Winners were announced yesterday in the dining hall of Trinity College in Dublin, which you know better as the dining hall in the Harry Potter movies. The [...]

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After 8 Days of Waiting for Surf, Billabong Pro Restarts

Teahupoo hasn’t shown its fangs yet for the Billabong Pro Tahiti surfing contest, but it finally bared a little gum and the contest got back underway in four- to five-foot surf, with top draws surviving round two. Points leader Jordy Smith crushed it with a powerful aerial on his first wave and knocked off C.J. [...]

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Lapsing in Time: An Epic Full Moon Risin’

Ben Knight is my hero. Not only is he a gifted storyteller and filmmaker, he’s wryly put the perfect punctuation on this gorgeous time lapse of a moonrise. Time lapses have become the mixtapes of 2010: They require just a little bit of effort, can leave you looking brilliant, and everybody’s making them. But you [...]

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What Do Think About When Riding Your Bike?

Andrea Dorfman paints a love letter to cycling…a time lapse, a video, a film…an inspiring bit of creativity that must be watched. Why ride your bike? Says Dorfman, “If feeling alive isn’t enough, I’ll tell you right now — you’ll also receive a gift that will unfurrow your brow. It’s the answer to your puzzle [...]

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The Many Faces of Munich Cycling

Munich isn’t happy playing 9th fiddle to Copenhagen in the race for greatest percentage of commuters on bikes. No sirree. If 20 percent of the commuters in any major America city rode to work by bicycle, it would herald nothing less than a revolution. But over there, you know…over there in Euroland, they act as [...]

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If You’re Bouncing on the Reef, Must Be Monday Morning

Some days you eat the bear and some days you eat shit. Mountain bike endos, snow snakes for skiers, blown heelsides that lead to rag dolling snowboarders, even the odd root that trips up the trail runner…it’s just a matter of time. If you’re a surfer, though, the fickle nature of waves, especially big ones, [...]

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Caffeinated Marshmallows Turn S’mores Into Rocket Fuel

Next time the Perseid meteor showers come along and you think you can’t stay up until their peak at 2 a.m., you might want to consider firing up some s’mores made with Stay Puft Caffeinated Gourmet Marshmallows. These bad boys pack 100mg of caffeine in each little mallow–24 in a $20 pack, for a whopping [...]

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NY Times Opinion is Wrong on Wilderness

“The Forest Service has become increasingly strict in its enforcement of the Wilderness Act,” writes attorney Ted Stroll on the opinion page of today’s New York Times. On the face of it, that sounds like a pretty darn good trend. But not to Stroll. Here’s the whole sentence: “Despite the millions of people who have [...]

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Darren Berrecloth Breaks a Paw

It an assumption among writers–let’s be honest and call it a pretension–that a good writer can spin a great story out of almost anything. John McPhee comes to mind–who knew reading about a bark canoe could keep you up at night? The same can be said of filmmakers. But filmmakers, at least in the adventure [...]

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Gear Review: Klean Kanteen Wide Insulated Bottle

So, the big trend at this summer’s Outdoor Retailer trade show was water bottles. Yawn, right? I figure, you need a water bottle review like you need a sock review. Or at least I did until this week, when I woke up and took a slug off my Klean Kanteen Wide Insulated 16-ounce bottle ($26).
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