Word travels fast in the local bike community, and within a few hours the virtual watercooler had spread the news of a cyclist hit and killed by a truck just a few miles from the Bicycle Times office.
Coverage from local news source, KDKA.
7 o'clock in the morning...52 years old...3 kids and a wife. Driver of the truck hasn't been charged. Police say he "may have been distracted." I can bet the words "i didn't see him" were used by the driver.
I've had the Endura for a good bit of time now, evidenced as I looked through my folder of images for this blog. The first shots show evidence of the the huge snow storm we had at the end of winter, and the latest are all sunshine and green.
Anyway, the words have been written and the magzine is off to the printers. Thought i'd talk about a few things I didn't have room to discuss in the review.
First the saddle, a Selle San Marco Ponza Power.
After much poking around on the internet for a fast and comfortable carbon road bike I set my sights on a Jamis Xenith Endura 1. Jamis was game for sending us a bke to test, and less than a week later a bike box with my name on it darkened the doortep of Bicycle Times HQ.
I've got two new test bikes in the stable, and in preperation on an introdutoctory blog I took some photos. My poor old point and shoot has a cracked lcd screen from too many trips floating around loose in my bag while riding. This means I can't really see what is going on until I download everything, kind of like shooting film...you remember that stuff.
I download the entire memory card and found a few things I didn't know I had.
A bunch of photos from the Magura press camp last year:
Most of the bikes I own are quite understated aesthetically. Which makes my affection for the District a bit of an oddity to me.
Seriously, look at all that orange. I love it, but I feel like I should be all grouchy about it.
Hiding under that natty pants guard is a Gates Caron Belt Drive. The future of commuter bicycle drivetrains? Too soon to tell, but the lack of mess and maintance is nothing to complain about.
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I’m a curious person by nature, and when the little box enclosing the Melon Slice showed up on the Bicycle Times doorstep I was interested to see what was inside. I’ve had little to no saddle time on folders, other than a short fling in Indianapolis aboard the Dahon Mu Uno from BT #2. To remedy that I built up the 20” wheeled Slice and took it home.
