Oh dear god...

Look- I'm all for over-the-top, especially when it comes to some bike stuff. But this is just ridiculous:
This guy up in Alaska and has a pretty crazy custom Moots Pugsley bike.

He apparently was having some issues with snow building up on this oversized rims, so his solution was to take a new Zipp Super-9 disc and cut in in half for some wheel covers (!).


So, so, so painful!
Did he not know that there's a better way?

(Photo: Squid/cyclehawk)

Thanks to Cale for making me cringe!

Gnome Fest 6

Insane mountain bike shenanigans - Sep 11-13 - Levis-Trow Mounds, WI - Details here.

NAHBS 2009

The North American Handmade Bike Show is next month (Feb 27th - Mar 1st) in Indianapolis. It's the biggest and best show of its kind, so if you want to spend a weekend looking at some of the hottest bikes in the world, go get your ticket. Special online deal available here.

BikePortland have some great photos of last year's NAHBS, so you can see what you'd be missing if you didn't go to this year's. Go here.

Irish Olympians

The Olympics start today, and there are four Irish cyclists participating. Nicholas Roche (Crédit Agricole) and Philip Deignan (AG2R) are in the Men's Road Race tomorrow, Robin Seymour (Team WORC) is competing in the Men's Mountain Biking, and, of course, David O'Loughlin (Pezula Racing) is competing in the Men's 4000M Individual Pursuit on the track, with his first round in the Olympic velodrome next Saturday, Aug. 16th. David is in with a real shout at a medal, having improved his time from that which earned him 6th place at the Track Cycling World Championships in Manchester a few months ago. An Irish track cycling Olympic medal? That would be feckin' deadly. C'mon Davo!!

Gnome Fest V

If you like to get drunk and wreck yourself on mountain bikes, then get ready for Gnome Fest V. It's not till September, but that gives you plenty of time to organize the liver transplant you'll need when it's over. No details yet, but they'll eventually be here.