Chrome Bags is offering a limited edition Miller High Life graphicked collection.

The ‘Champagne of Beers’ logo will be available on their standard Citizen messenger bag, which has their trademark seatbelt buckle closure with integrated bottle opener (though you won’t need that with MHL bottles…), and their Hip Pouch and Small Utility Pouch. Prices are $160, $50 and $20 respectively.

To celebrate their release, they’re hosting parties at each of their Chrome Store locations. Click through to see store addresses, dates and times, plus a video of the bags being made…

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Joining the ranks of Trek and various retired pros, Cervelo has announced their new Pro Travel Experience, offering fully supported road bike rides surrounding major pro races and iconic rides.

Working with Butterfield and Robinson, Cervelo will provide the bike, a custom kit from Castelli and everything else you’d need to just kick back and enjoy the ride. Options include rides at some of the biggest European and American races and rides centered around legendary areas that combine climbs on Madeleine, Croix de Fer, Galibier and Alpe d’Huez, among others.

For its inaugural year, they’ve got 14 events are on the calendar, starting at $3,495. Private trips are offered, too. Full PR and another photo that’s gonna make you change your holiday wish list behind the break…

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Produced as part of a CSM 3rd year dissertation by The Manimation, this video shows early animation as seen through changing paper cutouts on a bicycle wheel. Because of the frame rates of video capture, it appears similar to stop motion animation that’s only visible because it’s captured on video. IRL, it would just look like an artsy scraper bike.

Zoic has a few fresh pieces of clothing for Spring 2012 for men and women. We’ve also cobbled together a few examples of some current fall styles that are in their regular rotation because, as we flipped through their website, the collection of patterns and designs really stood out as both technical and downright stylish.

Starting with the Black Market convertible cycling pants that zip off into shorts, they’re made with a technical quick dry fabric with a bit of spandex for stretch. The cuffs button up with reflective bits underneath, a stretch waistband with adjustable buckle and angled zip pockets on the legs for easy access while riding.

They have a padded liner inside, and the gussetted crotch is designed to make sliding on and off the saddle easy. For $79, they look like a pretty good deal.

With similar styling in a shorts-only version, the Ether are mountain bike shorts with a 12″ inseam and removable padded liner. It’s also coming soon in a Premium version with an upgraded Cytech chamois and outer material.

Keep reading for pics, plus women’s and children’s versions of these shorts and more, plus a special pre-order link for some 2012 items…

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• Pedal Pushers Club now has youth sized tees, like the one above. So now your young’n can advertise his or her love of cycling right along with you.
• RoadHolland is offering 30% off all clothing through Monday with the code “ORANGE” at checkout.
• Please take 5 seconds to save cycling. Sign this petition from the League of American Bicyclists to keep bicycles allowed on National Park Roads.
• Frank The Welder is auctioning his personal Yeti Ultimate bike on Ebay to benefit a friend in a tight spot.
• Raleigh Bikes is presenting the 2012 Seattle Bike Expo. Scheduled for March 10-11, the event is put on by the Cascade Bicycle Club and will have national and local vendors, brands and shops set up.
• Santa Cruz Bicycles is offering free ground shipping to the lower 48 on any purchase over $100. They’re showing parts kits, clothes and accessories in the email, but presumably this stretches to bikes and frames if you twist their arm. Deal good through Dec. 16.
• Ellsworth Bikes is blowing out their current inventory of Evolve, Epiphany and Moment SST mountain bike frames for $1,695. When they’re gone, they’re gone.
• Rapha has issued the Turkey Takeoff Challenge. In partnership with Strava, they want you to track your rides and burn 9,000 calories over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend…about what they estimate you’ll eat if you have a big meal and go back for seconds. They are also having a 15% off sale through Sunday, midnight PST. Enter the code “BLACKFR11″ at checkout.
• Trek Stores are having a Black Friday sale, with helmets and some other gear 50% and blowout deals on 2011 bikes.
• Alexis Dold, of Villin Cycle Works, is offering 30% off all prepaid orders for his totally gorgeous custom bikes (and handcrafted furniture) today through 5pm EST.
• Apres Velo is offering free shipping on all orders now through Midnight, December 4th AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time!), using the code “AVXMAS” at checkout.
• Sidewall Distribution is having a big sale on various BMX gear now through the 27th.
• Endurance Conspiracy has all T-shirts at $20 for Black Friday, too.

Photo submitted by Neil, “I just thought I’d share this birthday cake of my rider pal Ian. It was his 31st birthday last September and the cake is a labor of love from his wife Mayan and her siblings Emille and Camille who also helped out. It’s a real cool cake, you gotta love the details.”

Click on to see the happy birthday boy!

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Besides a frame that was just too small, the real driver for this fall’s single speed build project was the theft from my workshop of my single speed wheels.  Having the chance to start from scratch, I decided to try DT Swiss’ 350 hubset with Stan’s Notubes Crest 29er rims.  A tubeless convert, Stan’s rims were a given:  the 21mm inside/24mm outside, ready tubeless-izing, and 380g claimed weight seemed hard to beat.  Hubs were a bit harder.  I wanted a proven freehub design without too much weight- or cost.  A cassette hub with the ability to run gears if needed/desired was also a criteria.  Eventually, I remembered Tyler’s piece from Interbike a couple of years back:

For the more budget conscious, DT [Swiss]’s all-new 350 family of hubs comes with all the same internals as 240 line, but has a beefier Taiwan made hubshell versus the machined out Swiss made 240′s. So you get a lower cost hub with the same high quality internals as their premium hubs.

Sold.  Hit the jump for weights, prices, and riding impressions…

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Photo submitted by Harlow Farnsworth, ”This pic was taken early on saturday morning on some trails just outside Seattle. The temp was around freezing and we were riding right in a fog layer that sun was slowly burning off.”

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Looks can be deceiving; dirt's not on the menu for Todd Well's race day nutrition.

Cyclocross is a weird animal. It’s intense and technically demanding, so you don’t get much chance to consume anything during the race. It’s also short, so heavy carb loading might be overkill.

We tapped the racing-based knowledge of Team Clif Bar / Specialized pro cyclocross racer Todd Wells and nutritionist to the stars Dr. Allen Lim to see what works…

BIKERUMOR: What do you recommend eating the night before a ‘cross race?
LIM: Definitely a carb-heavy meal. Chicken marsala with rice, a salad and a nice bowl of fruit, nuts and yogurt to finish it off.

WELLS: I like to eat something fairly digestible, something like pasta or rice, maybe a little protein, nothing too heavy.

BIKERUMOR: What would you recommend eating for breakfast and leading up to a cyclocross race?
LIM: Big bowl of oatmeal with scrambled or poached eggs and maybe a small glass of freshly squeezed beet juice. If you’re standing around for a few hours before your heat, something like that you can just nibble on like our rice cakes or a peanut butter and jelly tortilla or waffle.

WELLS: I like to eat about 3 hours before a race, and I go with either rice or pasta. It depends on what time you race as well. Some amateurs generally start pretty early in the morning. I like to eat the least amount for a meal, but about an hour before the race I’ll have a Clif Bar and while warming up I’ll drink Clif’s sports drink just to keep topped off. During the race I don’t really eat or drink anything because they’re just not time. If it’s hot, though, and they’re feeding, I might grab a cup of water.

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At this point, anyone bringing their first 29er bike could either be seen as late to the game or smartly waiting to see whatever everyone else did then do it better. Many claim the latter, many are simply the former. Brodie, however, was waiting on forks.

More precisely, they were waiting on the availability of forks that met their requirements for rake and trail, letting them dial the handling to what they thought a 29er should be. Here’s how they put it:

“The art of having a bicycle steer the way you want it to is having the “trail” of a bicycle fall within a certain range.  The trail refers to the imaginary line through the center of the steerer tube and the vertical line of where the center of the hub lies.  Fork manufacturers can adjust where the hub lies by offset (by hub placement on the fork legs and/or fork crown spacing).  The longer the trail, the floppier the steering (DH bikes) and vice versa the shorter it is, the twitchier the feel (road bikes).  When designing our 29’er two key aspects were critical, the fork trail and the chain stay length.”

So, how did this translate into a Brodie 29er?

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Night time-lapse photo by Fred Grinnan, “Billed as the longest 24 our race in the world. The 25 hours of Frog Hollow takes place near Virgin, Utah over the time change in the fall; hence 25hours….”

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Back in June we posted a review of both the Chrome Kursk Pro and the Mission Workshop’s Rondel (a DZR shoe).  While both are good shoes, the Rondel came out on top due to some fit issues with the Krusk Pro.

As expected, Chrome has expanded their Pro series to include their popular Midway shoe.   The taller design should help with the slip issues noticed in the Kursk Pro.  Head past the jump for the full details, plus a little something about their fantastic wool socks.

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