Check out the new world record for the fastest bicycle on the planet!

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Sam Wittingham Sept 18th, 2008

Som Interbike sweetness here, the new Titus FTM All new for 2009. Daryl Roberts gives the lowdown....

Based on the popular 575. A new 7" travel Yeti . Steve (one of the engineers on the design team) gives the details in this video.

Zoo York "Bomb Down Broadway" BMX Contest

With 5G's up for grabs, 100+ riders battled it out to see who could get from point A to point B the fastest without getting crushed by traffic or collared by the police! :-)

See more skate, snow, surf, and moto videos at Shred or Die

Confessions of a McCain 'ghost' writer:

Sept. 24, 2008 | "You can be whoever you want to be," says an inviting Phil Tuchman. "You can be a beggar or a millionaire. A mom or a husband. Whatever. You decide!"



I volunteer in political campaigns now and then. After a series of outings for Obama and a first mission as a phone banker for John McCain, I returned to McCain's headquarters in Arlington, Va. The offer was too alluring to delay -- they wanted to put me into action as a ghostwriter. Next to commercials and phone banking, writing letters to the editor is the most important method of the McCain campaign to attract voters. At least that is what's written in the guidelines that McCain campaign worker Phil Tuchman presents to me.

Today he is training six ghostwriters. What on earth is the appeal of McCain for the former Soviet bloc? Last time I was here, an exuberant Polish guy was phone banking next to me. Today, a Russian in yellow suspenders is shimmering at the same table, looking just like an actor who is famous in the Netherlands for star turns as a genius who suppresses his dark side with painstaking self-control.

The assignment is simple: We are going to write letters to the editor and we are allowed to make up whatever we want -- as long as it adds to the campaign. After today we are supposed to use our free moments at home to create a flow of fictional fan mail for McCain. "Your letters," says Phil Tuchman, "will be sent to our campaign offices in battle states. Ohio. Pennsylvania. Virginia. New Hampshire. There we'll place them in local newspapers."

Place them? I may be wrong, but I thought that in the USA only a newspaper's editors decided that. No newspaper can refuse a stream of articulate expressions of support, is the thought behind it. "This way, we will always get into some letters column." ......

"With Sarah Palin, I have even more reason to trust in victory. She represents my heart."

Hmm. Does that sound like total doublespeak? Or does it sound like logical reasoning to a McCain supporter? I cannot come up with anything better.

"Sincerely ..." I leave the dots for somebody else's signature.

Does Phil Tuchman want to read it?

Phil bends over my computer screen and reads. This takes a while. I am expecting roars of laughter or to be kicked out. Then he says drily: "I like that. It appeals to the hearts of people. Can you write more letters?"

Bad news for polar bears. This CNN report gives an update on this
summer's "recovery" (if you can call it that) of the arctic ice cap.
While this summers 'shrinkage' was less, it's still not good news
overall. In relative terms, I suppose you could say it "sucks less"
than the summer of 2007. Lots of raw data and images here:

Link to the embed below.. as of this am it says the video
is not available? Read the first URL to get to the vid.