Goldstream Sports Fairbanks Alaska

Backyards full of awesome.

Our pumptrack made the list on Jason’s pumpin’ roundup on his I Hate Bikes Blog. Who else made the list? Oh, Mark Weir’s Peacock Pit, The Fix, Patty’s Pumptrack. A hand all around to everyone who hoisted a shovel or took a trip to tamper town.

Goldstream Sports Pumptrack, featured worldwide as a place to pump

Fat Cyclist's superfly 100 image

As promised, FAt Cyclist is up to his neck in Gary Fisher’s new lineup. Read all about it

The dude from Fat Cyclist is gonna keep us updated on the 2010 GF 29er product launch. It’s gonna be swell!

He’s a bona-fide Fisher rider, and you can check out the deets on his custom Superfly at his site.

Peep those purty Chris King hubs!

A trail Map of the amazing Ester Dome Single Track

Want to see it bigger? Look at the Large Map of Ester Dome SingleTrack (JPG)

Heather Irmiger's National Champion Superfly

Heather races for Gary Fisher/ Subaru and recently won the US Cross Country National Championship. Go Heather!

The awesomeness that is becoming our latest slice of mountain bike pie! Crews meet most Thursdays and Sundays, and the dozer is pushing trail in daily. Get involved in the excitement and send us a note!

Here is a fun quiz you can take to find out if you are a real cyclist, hosted by RealCyclist. Of course, his criteria for being a Real Cyclist is the best part:

Real cycling is fixing your second puncture on a windy night.

It’s buying a three-metre curtain pole, then realising you have to bike it home like a medieval jouster.

It’s crunching your way to work through thick snow, arriving half an hour late icy-toed and white-fingered – to find everyone else has taken the day off because their cars wouldn’t start.

Real cycling is frustrating, inconvenient, exhausting – and huge fun.

Dandy Tweed and a Simple City

The New York Times ran a story about rising bike usage in the city, and ran a bunch photos of people in suits on city bikes. One of which was the Gary Fisher Simple City you see above. The only time I ever rode my bike with a necktie was the day I graduated from college. But man, if I had the need to wear ties, I suppose I wouldn’t bother to ditch them before riding. It would probably result in a lot of dirty ties – just like when I don’t bother to change my clothes before riding and they end up dirty and with holes in them. From the article:

The civilized pedigree of the Dutch bike is matched by its old-fashioned design: it comes with fenders, chain guard, generator and rack — standard, as they say in Detroit. With a bike kitted out like that, a man can wear almost anything he likes to work and not worry about getting grimy — no kamikaze messenger-wear required. Luckily, the new look of men’s wear, with its slimmed-down, sporty shapes (even in suits), is tailor-made for a bicycle commute. And since Dutch bikes are ridden upright, not hunched over, and you move at a safe, slow gait, sweating is not the issue it is when you’re careening on a road bike.