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The new 30 Seconds to Mars video for Kings + Queens features some sweet bicycle riding action, costumes and fixie tricks.  Oh, yeah, and a decent song, too.  Thanks to Brian for the tip!  Find it on MySpace here.

Warning: It takes a bit for the music to come in…don’t turn your volume all the way up thinking it’s not on or it may surprise you when they start jammin’.  That, and then your boss’ll know you’re not working.

Makes me want to get on the bike and go jump things.  Video from Kona.

Geax Tires has completely revamped their website (it looks pretty good, easy to use) and to celebrate, they’re letting you download the full video of Aaron LaRocque’s What’s Next freeride mountain bike movie in HD, SD or iPhone versions.  The movie features riders like Andrew Sherry, Alan Hepburn, Brendan Howey, Casey Groves, Dylan Sherrard, Dylan Dunkerton, Eric Lawrenuk, Frankie Vass, Jarrett Moore, Luke Fulton, Mark Matthews, Strahan Loken, Taylor Leigh and Wink Grant.

My download’s already queued up, and here’s what it said when I first hit GO:

…and that’s just the iPhone version.  The HD file is over 600 MB.

Thanks to Carlton Reid for the tip.  Warning, vulgar language.  I was in tears by the end.

No, it doesn’t mention cycling, but it’s eye opening as to why highways are so dominant and public (mass) transportation suffers for it.  Quick takeaways:

• Mass transit accounts for 40% of transportation in areas that it serves, but only 1% of total trips by Americans.
• Half of Americans have access to public / mass transportation, and only half of those say it’s satisfactory.
• 80 years ago, the privately owned/operated railways began being taxed to subsidize the government run highways, leading to the current dominance of car-centric transportation.
• There is a misconception that transit requires subsidies, but in reality, both highways and public transit require about 50% of their operating costs to come from subsidies.

Kudos to Streetfilms.org and the other cycling bloggers for putting this out there.

You’ll be nodding your head in no time…

Produced and directed by Sophie Clements, Sound Design by John Hendicott.

Found on Instructables.com, this do-it-yourself bike ramp project from user sladek. He made it in just two days and made it strong enough for riding a bmx bike on it, but you can also use it for RC cars and skateboarding/rollerblading…

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OK, actually, you won’t see it ALL here, yet.  We’ve still got a number of posts to do, but we think we have the biggest collection of bicycle, component, clothing and gear coverage anywhere.  See that big Interbike button up on the top right of our site?  Click on it (or just click here) and you’ll get the full list.  We’re adding more and will update the list again when we’re done, but there’s plenty to see!

Johan Bruyneel just uploaded a video of him answering questions he gets through his website….things like “Do you think Alberto Contador can be as good or better than Lance Armstrong?” Click here to watch the video, he’s set it so it can’t be embedded, unfortunately.

INTERBIKE 2009 - In addition to the new Izalco Team road bike and Mares cyclocross bike, Focus had their new 2010 Raven Extreme carbon hardtail race-level mountain bike.

The Raven Extreme won a Eurobike Gold Award for it’s unique features, including an internally mounted rear brake mount and internal “tunnel” cable routing, which it shares (along with it’s rear stays design) with the $10,000 Izalco Team road bike.

It’s a hyper-efficient, lightweight race rig that’s gorgeous to look at…and look you may: plenty o’ pics, specs and weight after the break… (more…)

Here’s a short video from Make subscriber Justin Shaw showing some key bits of how to make handlebar brake lights and what they look like in action. You will need some soldering/electronics experience to make these! Full instructions on Instructables.

Danny MacAskill is featured in a foreign television ad for Volkswagen’s new Golf station wagon.  This isn’t his first commercial foray…according to BikeBiz, he’s also been in an ad for S1Jobs.com, and you can see that video after the break…

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This 23+ minute video shows John Burke, Trek’s President, at the Taipei Bike Show describing how bike companies should divert money from marketing and R&D to help promote bicycling in cities throughout the world. Genius. Make communities bicycle friendly and more people will ride their bikes! More bikes will be sold, people will be healthier–gasp! healthcare costs will go down… Good feelings all around.

What do you get when you take two of the world’s best BMX riders and one of the world’s best at the wheel……a daft and frenzied race to the finish! Kudos to Top Gear for hosting such a proper challenge.