On Bicycles, and.... what else is there?

Shamelessly stolen from The MASH SF web page ... this video is from Steve, who finished second in the fixie category: MASH TWIN PEAKS MAIN RACE from Storts on Vimeo . It looks surprisingly benign. However, some people didn't like it so much: photo from John Prolly photo from John Prolly photo from Bici Girl Here's Kyle, who won the oh-so-close fixie race: photo from John Prolly and Chris, the geared bike winner, following a fixie rider who show's how its done when your riding "a la Desgrange ": Bici Girl photo And Kate, the women's winner: John Prolly photo Compilation of photo sources: mine Bici Girl John Prolly Steve's video

Sunday I rode my Ritchey Breakaway out to a new bike shop in San Francisco. No, not a replacement for the Weight Weenie void left by the closure of Bike Nüt (insert a moment of somber silence.... okay, we can continue now); it was MASH Transportation, a new shop which seems to be marketed towards cycling culture and urban riding (more the fast messenger than the hippster crowd), and apparently, alleycat racing. Indeed I wasn't there for the shop itself, but rather to the race they were organizing: a timed event to the summit of Twin Peaks and back. From MASH 2011 Twin Peaks Time Trial This is racing in its purest form: get from point A to point B (and in this case, back) and we don't particularly care how you do it. There were two groups, one for fixed-gear bikes (no freewheeling, a penalty if it had mechanical brakes) and one for "geared" bicycles (bikes with a freewheel, allowing for coasting; no penalty for brakes). First the "qualification": rid...