Tuesday Bicycle News

SRAM's recent $400,000 gift to the League of American Bicyclists and the Thunderhead Alliance brings SRAM's total cycling advocacy contributions to $1,000,000.



Price of rubber ingredient drops 90%, tire prices expected to go down.

An evening with Tom Ritchey.

Lance Armstrong on Barack Obama. Armstrong placed 29th in the Tour Down Under in Australia, where Aussie favorite sons Allan Davis and Stuart O'Grady podiumed with Spaniard Jose Rojas. Next stop for Armstrong: The Amgen Tour of California.

San Francisco Parks Bike Tours. Via.

Mountain Monk bike in a bag. Missing: pedals and a seat.

Wackos, crazies, and other extremists: Frosty cyclists in Columbus, Ohio. Via.

Junk pedalers and cargo bikes.

A $10,000 bicycle safety camp?

MAKE blog on Velib.

Bad idea: Bikers revenge.

Use a plastic peanut butter jar to craft a saddlebag.

Looks like a scam to me.

Freaky Skeleton Bicycle. Haven't I seen this before?

Recalls:

• Merida folding bicycles
  
• Saris CycleOps Pro Series Trainer.
  
• Potential recall of 100,000 eBikes in Europe because of power cable confusion?