Welcome to This Old Bike. Today on This Old bike, some unsettling news from Seattle: Mother Katie’s kid-towing, hill crushing bike has been stolen. “This bike represents the most time I’ve eva spent tinkerin’ on any rig. So when I herd that it was lifted, that just made me rip-shit mad.” “Yeah, Norm, I am Read the full article…

While Dirty, D2 and Gnome rip it up in the Old Pueblo tonight, I thought I’d post a few links I had saved for a while. In the meantime, just got a text from Dirty: “the 40mph wind is killing me”. * Updated: 5:58pm (AZtime) DB posted to Facebook: “Sitting in my truck trying to Read the full article…

For some reason, last year I went to the NAHBS in Richmond, VA (great show gents, great show), and never posted my pics. So, here, for your viewing pleasures, are some pictures from last year’s show to get you pumped and primed for this year’s show in Austin. For those of you going, have a Read the full article…

I had more than one reason to hit up BICAS. So I did, and for the hundredth or so time up and down this coast I asked, “Do you have a 1″ threadless riser stem?” And, of course the answer was: “Check the bucket.” I could not believe my caliper reading. A rare rare item. Read the full article…

Our good friends over at T.B.A.G. are putting on a fine little group ride this Friday. I would highly recommend this if you are in the greater Phoenix area. They are hitting up some quality establishments with some good distances between them. I won’t be there since i am committed to another little ride this weekend.  But Read the full article…

I am not one of those girls that likes to get dressed up and go out to dinner on VD. I’d rather go ride bikes. So that’s what we did. We drove the 4 hours to Rays MTB in Cleveland. The park opens at noon on Mondays so we drove up early Monday morning with Read the full article…

May you rest in peace, Marco. You were once a King. When I think of Marco Pantani, I first think of a photo from the French newspaper, L’Equipe. On Stage 12 of the Tour de France, along with the rest of the peloton, Marco sits in the middle of the road, his bike next to Read the full article…

It looks like the four corners region is blowing up with some good old fashioned grassroots endurance racing.  Both the Arizona and New Mexico Endurance series have been around for a few years, and now Colorado is jumping on the bandwagon.  The Colorado Endurance Series will kick off with the Durango Gravel Grinder 115/160 on Read the full article…

Ten days. That is all that is left until Gnome, D2, Precious, myself, and a team of 4 sultry vixens head down to the Tucson desert to represent DC at Old Pueblo. I really can’t wait to get the suffering started. I spent a good amount of today riding the course and the trail is Read the full article…

Thanks Mikey.

Dear Boston Motorists, Lets make one thing crystal clear. Cyclists are not slowing you down. You read that correctly, cyclists are not the reason you are not going as fast as you want to go. “But what about when they ride in the street!!!!!11(sic)!!!” No, stop it. Listen. C Y C L I S T Read the full article…

Guz over at T.B.A.G. is kind enough to keep me in  the loop of all the bike action going on in the Phoenix valley. This morning he sent over a news article about a local cyclist that fell victim to a hit and run. “I watched a car come around the corner and after he came Read the full article…