718 Cyclery in Brooklyn NY took the normal process of bike selling, discarded it and came up with the idea of “Collaborative Builds”

You can visit the bike shop here: www.718c.com

The Inverted Bike Shop from Show Love on Vimeo.

They do look really nice, but the question of course is, if they actually work in a better fashion that today’s regular rim brakes. Only time will tell..

Well, nothing more to do than wait until summer 2012

Pumping It Out – Through the Winter from Liam Mullany on Vimeo.

It was ugly in black, it was ugly in red, it was ugly in black/red, it was was ugly in white and it sure as hell is ugly in red/yellow/orange/white/set up as a road bike.

But still – it’s nice work both on the marketing and the visual side of things.

This time it’s the new Rapha Cross 3/4 knickers. I wont be doing any cross biking this winter but the design and price was just too good to miss.

Tomorrow is a day a with 9 degrees celsius so it could be the first day out with the new clothes (if my son decides to get rid of his stomach flu and go to school).

I went by the local Dick’s Sporting Goods today as I often do – I seldom buy anything but it takes the edge off my buying desire to browse around the megastore.

I went down to the shoe section and quickly found myself giving the Men’s ProGrid Kinvara 2 a look, as it was on sales at the bargain price of $59. So I decided to try it out. After looking in the shoes I had on, I went for a size 13, but it was just a tad too roomy, so I asked the sales guy for a size 12.5 and he told me, without blinking that the shoe was only made in size 12 and 13 – not a size 12.5…

Under normal cicumstances I would have not have though any of this, but the funny thing is that the same statement was made a few months ago in the same store when I tried out a Adidas AdiZero shoe – “Sorry sir, the Adidas doesn’t make this shoe in 1/2 sizes… It only comes in size 12 or 13″

At that time I bought the shoe in 13 even though I might have been better off with a 12.5 (Note: havn’t experienced any problems with the shoe due to this issue) but when I came home and investigated further I found out that Adidas indeed makes the shoe in a size 12.5, so understandebly I was a bit p***** at the sales guy for lying to me (and to myself to believe the story).

This time I said no thanks and went home and loked at the Saucony website, and sure enough – the shoe is made is a size 12.5!!!

Goddammit Dick’s, that is just a really bad sales technique!

No need to say that all I will be using Dick’s Sporting Goods for in the future is to make sure what size shoe I need – purchases will be done online or at other stores.

It took around 3 hours of self-convincing, but in the end I made it outside for my daily run in the pouring rain. Thank good for Tiësto and his Parade of the Athletes album. If not for that, I wouldn’t have made it through!

What is your favourite album to run to?

Get the album now if you want to run faster! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parade_of_the_Athletes

Oh – and it’s limited to 25 pieces.

More photos on http://www.cycleexif.com/vandeyk-nightstream-di2

These shoe covers are my best winter gear and I wouldn’t go out without them. They are good for up to 10 degrees celsius and are still warm below 0 degrees. (not that I go out that much in below 0 degrees).

What is your best winter gear?