Now that bikepacking is popular, everyone is getting on the extra bags or long rides game. If you are a reformed (or unrepentant) fixie kid, that means you've got a track bike kicking around with no waterbottle mounts. Enter the handlebar bag.

As soon as the weather broke and beautiful, sunny, warm weather returned to the region I immediately planned to start taking the long way home bike back from work – a plan that Francis and I took to an extreme this past weekend. 

Look, if you're wanting an actual review, you're in the wrong place. I mean, "five out of five cogs, keep feet warm, go well in shoes, great socks" could be said about most of the wool two-thirds of my sockdrawer.

I've been cruising around on my All-City Cycles Nature Boy single speed cyclocross bike for about 3 years now. At various stages it's been bike camping, it's been my primary commuter,  it's been my trail bike, it's raced gravel grinders, it's raced a season of cyclocross, and it's even been carried over the barriers during a US National Championship race.

I saw these drop into my inbox today and was this close (indicates tiny distance with fingers) to getting one right away. 

Snap one up here!

At $7, you might be tempted to think, why should I buy such an expensive bottle opener, when I can get free ones all over the place? Having been burned before by cheap freebie bottle openers, I have learned my lesson and like to say, "Buy once, cry once." 

These funny named German rubberballs, Racing Ralph, Kojak, Rocket Ron, Muddy Betty , and the rest of the Schwalbe rubber gang and myself have a long lasting love/hate relationship. What about the Shwalbe X-Ones? Well let’s cut to the chase...

We've been getting a few questions, so we wanted to give a little bit of background about the kits: their design, manufacture, and magical powers.

I'll miss you, little blue track bike!

Asylum cycles just gets it. Or maybe they're just manipulating me. Either way: WANT.

Get the drop on the F5 SSCX, Factory 5's newest brew.

WTF bottles are back!

Nice to see a local review of the tires we all wished we owned this winter.

Welp, that confirms what plenty of people knew already: REI is coming to NoMa in 2016. I'm not sure why they need that long to move in--BicycleSPACE moved in to an old Burger King in 3 days!