Nice little piece of entertainment by Casey Niestat that has to do with bicycles (which some of you may have locked or left locked long ago).

After three years and thousands of miles of rural routes where the local mini-mart serves as rest-stop and restaurant, the Rapha Continental store was open briefly this past weekend at the North American Handmade Bicycle Show. With bikes stacked and resting against the front of the store, the weekend store popped up amidst some of the more beautiful hand-made bikes in the world. Staffed by the likes of Jeremy Dunn (Embrocation Cycling Journal) and Tony Pereira (of Pereira Cycles), the CS-H designed store was visited by friends like Ira Ryan, Brian Vernor, Chris Milliman and many more.

While shoplifting seemed to be curtailed to a Coke or a Snickers here or there, I’m sure the urge to ‘nick was tempting so people could save and splurge on some bigger ticket items like this blue beauty from Signal Cycles.

A personal favorite. Spent a snowy afternoon yesterday at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art just for a visit with Wyeth’s painting.

Andrew Wyeth, Young America, 1950, Egg tempera on gessoed board.

We are pleased to share with you our new road bicycle. While prototyping this model, we were speaking with Rapha and decided it would be a great collaboration with the Continental project. Stay tuned for the release with a signature Freeman Transport paint scheme.

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They might as well be these guys.  Beautiful, hand-crafted medicine balls, heavy bags and other meat head type tidbits all still made by Lineaus Hooper Lorette himself of the Lineaus Athletic Company.

Seems like quite an interesting guy – he hails from Marfa, TX and has penchant for collecting prison art and relics from Mao Zedong’s Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution.  More at sightUnseen.

It seems a classroom full of super-nerds (an endearing term btw) at the Yale Mechanical Engineering School created a proof of concept for the popular conceptual “spokeless wheel.”  The complete bike is F-ugly (bad cross between a Softride and Trek Y come to mind), but who cares really.  They made this thing actually work – belt drive and all.

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and Winter has broken me.

I haven’t seen dirt in 3 months or ridden with anyone in 150 hours of time on the bike.

This…was good.

Dave Christenson has been with Rapha filming riding for the past year, first on the Rapha Tour of California journey of six Continental riders taking on the professional tour stages- stage for stage, for nine brutally long days. He’s been a part of the family ever since, driving the country nearly twice last year to capture the beautiful footage and stories of riding in the US. Last Novemeber, Dave and Cole Maness joined Shea Paarton of Apolis Activism to help put the finishing touches on the Rapha/Apolis Activism collaboration sweater, the Transit Elite. Hand made with the consideration that Apolis is known for, the sweater is made by a women’s cooperative in Nepal.

http://www.rapha.cc/transit-elite-sweater-1/

jeremy, bring the kilts. i’ve been practicing the bagpipes.