Eye Contact
From GearPatrol: Being Seen: Visible Cycling
Hey there. Yeah, you, riding along in your cool color-coordinated cycling team kit, all matchy-matchy. You look real spiffy, so neat you’ll make a great hood ornament. Because that’s where you’re going to end up — on someone’s hood, or like me, under one. Those who really need to see you, can’t. In your fancy attire, you’re invisible to motorists.
No Pass for Dopers
From Runner’s World: Steroid Passport Latest Way to Catch Dopers
The World Anti-Doping Agency hopes to introduce by the end of the year a “steroid passport” to complement the biological passport already in place to detect the use of performance-enhancing drugs by elite athletes.
Human of Steel
From Bicycle Retailer: KindHuman releases steel framesets
KindHuman is releasing a line of three steel framsets to complement the carbon fiber models it announced earlier this year. The line consists of three models for road, cyclocross and mountain biking all made in the United States.
Not Hot Air
From Shot Business: The New World of Airguns
For the past few Christmas seasons, a cable channel has staged marathons in which the film A Christmas Story is broadcast continuously for 24 hours straight. It tells the story of a young boy who wants for Christmas “a Red Ryder range model carbine with a compass in the stock and a thing that tells time.” Every time he expresses his heartfelt desire to an adult, he receives the same rejoinder: “You’ll shoot your eye out.”