If you are in Portland this Thursday, come by. I’ll be repping Wend and Foulweather… Skate art, photos, skate zines, free food and drink–come see the ½ pipe in front of City Hall put together by Commissioner Sam Adams. August 2nd 5:00-8:00pm
Portland City Hall: 1221 SW 4th

Here in the good old Pacific Northwest, the water is cold. ALWAYS. To the surprise of many, the water is often colder in the summer time. The way our storm system/ocean current/land temp vs. water temp works means prevailing Northwest winds during the summer season. This causes… Read the rest

Hey readers of Wend and the Wend blog, we just finished up our first reader poll and the answers were just about exactly as I expected. Half of you are married. Most of you own a mountain bike, and most travel internationaly at least once a year. What we didn’t… Read the rest

The Cape Kiwanda Classic has been one of the few surf contests in the PNW, so when one goes away its really, really missed….but now it’s back. Thanks to our good friend, and amazing shaper Bryan Bates, the contest is on. If you are a brand that wants… Read the rest

In our current issue, we had a little story about Bamboo and all of it’s uses. Craig Calfee was the first that I saw to make bike frames out of bamboo, but now there is a new company based in Portland making some sweet looking frames. They are called… Read the rest

Thanks for the heads up from Rocky over at the goat blog on this stylin’ urban cycling wear. The reflective fabric in Dashing Tweeds cycling suit lights up when hit by headlights. Maybe the hipsters will embrace these since the already wear shants… safety shants

I just recieved a really great story in from Jacob, part of the Riding the Spine crew, for our next issue. If you don’t know them check out the latest on the spine blog.
The story starts out with drug runners, banditos and federales… and bikes, what… Read the rest