It’s a sunny Saturday morning, and I’m pinning it super-hard writing catalog copy for a bunch of bike companies. I just ran across this bit of wisdom:

In another stunningly coordinated and carefully choreographed product
release, Santa Cruz Bicycles has unveiled a new weapon in its growing
arsenal: The Driver 8.

Situated in Mid-Wales between Newtown and Machynlleth, Caersws is a private forest used for regional and national races over the past 5 years. Since then four courses have build by the local riders to make this an ideal place to run the series.

A peek into the staff bike shed reveals a lot of changes for 2009. Here’s “Part 2″ of Benji’s thoughts on his Genesis Alpitude (”Part 1″ can be found in the new 47th issue of Singletrack Magazine)…

Got IT skills? Want to work in the bike industry? Trek could be the place for you.

Intense Cycles, Cove Bikes, Lapierre, Rocky Mountain and Turner Bikes have teamed up with Singletrack Magazine to offer riders the opportunity to test their latest bikes at 5 top UK locations.

If 20k of XC racing isn’t enough for you how about a little 5k trail run at the start to get the blood moving and a 3k horrible run at the end (the Stinger Bit) to bring you to a crawl?

Following the all-new all-carbon Blur last week, Santa Cruz releases a new 8in monster

Six-bike high-end MTB lineup scores new UK distributor

Here’s a draft page from my book-in-progress, Pro BMX Skills.
It’s amazing how similarly various BMX pros fit their bikes.
The book won’t be done so soon, so we might as well spread the love: