Two last pictures from the show, taken by Bikeportland.org.  Go to the website itself for some great coverage of the show.

Nothing really going on in the vast wasteland we all call the Chicago Metro area, well at least for me anyway.  I know a Zach and Kevin are getting ready for a road race down in Cincinnati the weekend of February 16^th and 17^th.  Starting the year super early.  Sam stopped by on Friday night and we did some interneting.  He enlightened me to a couple pretty sweet things that exist out there in the inter-spaceland.  First is the Mountainbike Militiamen Movement, where I suggest reading up on the "Headshok Review" and "Downhill Tips with Spoolie."  That group is really on the verge of setting some new trends.  And speaking of the next new thing.  Since the NHMBS has highlighted that fixed gears are out and that cyclocross and utility bikes are in everyone needs to stay ahead of the game and see that Unicycling will be the next big thing.  The Unicycle Bastards are right there on the forefront winning world champion titles and all.  The Cross Crusade out in Portland has an entire category for unicycling and this page has pictures and video of the action.  And if Portland wasn't cool enough already, this weekend is Minibike Winter Five, which amongst a bunch of other awesome events has Bike Chariot Wars, Ben Hurt II.  The list of different events they are putting on over 5 days! is pretty amazing.  Back to the Midwest, via the snot rocket, Cog Magazine has released issue number 2.  Leaving for a foreign land in a few days.  Pictures of it on Flickr, but probably no updates here after Friday for a couple weeks.