What's worse than torrential downpours and six foot deep rushing ravines? Six inch deep, dust fine sand. Twenty yards in a stretch. Uphill. Downhill. And with no gear choices with which to spin up or power down.

OK OK, so it's not worse, but it's pretty damn tough. Not that it deterred 12 singlespeed teams from throwing their hat in the ring. And not that it slowed down the bionic freaks on the Jack Mormon Militia any. While '06 saw PTSD inflicting rains, '07 was dry, only mildly cool and will be noted for the fine fine sand the covered sections of the course.

The SinglePhiles were present, of course. Putting up 15 laps, good for 7th place, despite floating a Ken E Gee, a growler and a case of Cutthroats. This year also saw the arrival of the Single Rigid Chicks from CO. A team of 4 hot women riding oneseys. I also noticed that one of the young women on the Pink Ladies junior team was riding single... at 15!!! What's this world coming to? And why didn't it do it quicker?

Who's gonna share a cold one with us at 24hrs in the OP?

BykMor

sure singlephiles are everywhere... mountain biking, messengering, moseying along the river trail, BMXing... but the true home for this most pure of bicycles, is the velodrome.

Salt Lake City, UT needs a velodrome, and we're going to build one... and they will come.

please go sign this online petition, no matter where you're from, and let people know that track racing could be big again in the US of A.

http://www.gopetition.com/online/14761.html

thanks.

BykMor 

hot off the sewing machines the singlephile single speed psychling caps are now available in a very limited number and by limited i mean like 12 not 300. these wool bad boys were hand made by our friends over at www.walzcaps.com and come with the singlephile cog logo tilted and off center just like yourselves. free shipping as always. get 'em through the shop or email us directly at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

singlephiles were spotted at interbike last week, more on that later. in the mean time, wired did a little write up on the return of city bikes and fixies. i never knew they went away. also, a shout out to our friend michael wise at the slcbc who got himself quoted. way to represent michael!