Ichi Banana

One more thing to add to the list of items made with recycled skateboards, a banana seat with a wooden base from Ichi Bike. I was ready to write this off as more hipster fodder, but for some reason I started poking around on the site checking out the custom bikes and eventually ended up […]

The legend of Roger Fairdale

Roger Fairdale was a famous English cyclist who set several long distance speed records and was even knighted for his acts of bravery. He drowned in the early 1920’s while trying to swim across the English Channel with his bike attached via chain to a padded canvas belted harness. He was memorialized by… Whats that? […]

Pannier Skaterack by Fairdale Bikes

The BMX/Skateboard culture clash seems largely forced these days. Bikes. Get over it. Fairdale Bikes makes a functional and reasonably priced (in the bike world) pannier-style rack for a carrying a skateboard. I’d really like to see a combo of this with a regular over the wheel rack. If you have any doubt that the […]

Don’t get your hopes up

Because this is picture of an indoor mountain bike park opening up in Portland called Lumberyard. By Kent Dahlgren knows a guy who built it. I’m sure he had help, but kent helped himself to a session and some photos. In some ways so similar to what you expect to see, but in others definitely […]