Biking

At $700, the new P-Town wheels are exotic creatures that borrow from high-end race design (but are made for fixies and singlespeed bikes). Gear Junkie gets a first look and a road test of Rolf Prima’s fancy new rollers.

Strengthen your body — and the fight against cancer — with the LIVESTRONG LS28IC Special Edition Indoor Cycle. A large portion of the cost will be donated to cancer programs and research.

“If the Batman was a non-fictional person, he’d have a Beast in his garage for sure.” That’s a tagline for the Beast, a gargantuan and to-be-released hybrid bike built by M55.

Who you calling a stud? The person who can ride all winter long and keep it upright with studded winter tires! Our writer tested the stud-equipped Schwalbe Marathon tires for a full season of use.

CrossVegas is one of the nation’s most unique bike races. This fall, the Gear Junkie crew was in attendance, and T.C. Worley, a contributing writer for GJ and a pro photographer, to the opportunity to capture the race action.

The limited-edition SSCXWC from Raleigh is the “first ever production carbon singlespeed racing cyclocross frameset.” Short version: It’s fast and light, and ready for the mud!

In a generous act, the Swedish retail giant gave 12,400 employees a new bike this month. But shield your eyes, dear gear junkies, for the gift bikes appear to be about as cheap and ugly as two-wheelers come.

The Chris King Espresso Tamper is not just the product of a bike designer dabbling in the coffee world. It was made as a collaboration with the America Barista & Coffee School in Portland, Ore.

Prohab Helmet Society, an organization in Vancouver, B.C., has a 2011 calendar that strives to make supporting helmet use on bikes sexy and fun.

Computerized bike pedals are the rage with Polar, Look and Garmin, companies that have announced sensor-equipped pedals for 2011. Rumors say costs could rocket up toward $1,000 per clip!

If you haven’t kept up with the level that modern freeride mountain biking is now at, then this film is going to drop your jaw!

Bike lust alert! We test Crank Bros. new bling wheels to see if performance can keep up with the wheels’ tech and handsome looks.

With a re-release of its Colt model, Brooks England Ltd. hopes to put a younger — daresay? — more hip generation on its vintage-looking, handmade leather bike saddles.

Ergon pitches its latest platform pedal as an upgrade to a design that’s seen little change in more than 100 years.

Alleycat races pit urban riders against a course made to mimic the route of a bike messenger on an average day in a city. Gear Junkie raced in Minneapolis’ All City Championship this year to report on the scene.

Last month, Mountain Bike magazine assembled a group of bike legends for a ride in Boulder City, Nev. Contributor T.C. Worley spun along with the group capturing helmet-cam footage.

Gear Junkie reviews bike-ready hitch racks from Thule and Kuat. Stout outrigger arms and a solid connection to the hitch make the racks bomber for transporting bikes on the road.

Change of plans. After a flirt with Anaheim, Calif., for its show next year, the Interbike Expo is riding back to Las Vegas again after all in 2011.

Italy’s fi’zi:k brand jumps into the bike-shoe market with a high-end line. Kangaroo leather, sail cloth, and $400 price tags are included in the feature set.

It stands more than 60 feet tall. It’s made of recycled bike parts, concrete and steel. Meet “The Cyclisk,” a public art sculpture in Santa Rosa, Calif.

Its tires are 8 inches wide. It floats on snow and sand. On flat terrain, the HANEBRINK X-5 can reach speeds of over 65 MPH.

A Swiss Army Knife-like bike, the Crosby converts from urban commuter to CX rig, or from fixie to freewheel with the turn of a screwdriver on its rear hub.

The Pro Tour peloton is full of faces wearing Oakley’s Jawbone shades. Contributing writer T.C. Worley tested the sports glasses for three months to see what all the hype was about.

Bicycle-inspired posters are the theme of the traveling ARTCRANK show. With a show in Portland, Ore., opening this week, here’s a preview of posters from ARTCRANK’s archive.

For only $45,000, you can have what may be the lightest road bike ever made.

It may look like an aesthetically-sublime torture device. But the Ciclotte is an exercise bike in disguise. Cost? A cool $10,700.