Nathan Davidson tearing it up at the Bonelli-Triple Crown All Mountain Pro Series in our Wrench Science jersey and Wrench Science bib! Thanks for sending us the awesome pic!

Gotta love dogs...

Being a dog owner, this is hard to watch....

Dog in Japan stays by the side of its ailing friend in the rubble

By Brett Michael Dykes

It's a universal truth that dogs are man's best friend, but they're pretty darn loyal to their own as well. Case in point: this tear-inducing video, via the website Jezebel, showing a dog, shivering and disoriented, remaining loyally by the side of a stricken fellow canine amid the devastation of the Japanese tsunami.
You can watch the video below:

The video is a stark reminder that, as was the case when Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005,

CX racing is underway with first WS victory...

The Wrench Science Cyclocross Team has been hitting it hard lately and at this point we've added some of the Sacramento Cyclocross races into the mix as well. In fact, we were fortunate enough that a our newest recruit, rider Ricardo Moran chalked up the first victory for our 2010 team...

Ricardo was invited onto the team with one request--"win." He reports that he was happy to oblige.

In other news, it seems that next year we should write another post about how we never get wet and muddy conditions for our cyclocross racing in Northern California...

WS Cyclocross Team - Season Opener

After months of anticipation, a leaner and meaner Wrench Science Cyclocross Team has hit the trails for this fall/winter’s race calendar. We are all tricked out and rolling atop the stealthy black Ibis Hakalugi’s. The 2011 “Black Lung” frames to be precise. Thanks again Ibis!

We’ve got both Sram and Campy drive trains, Edge/Enve carbon forks, Paul Brakes, and custom built tubular wheels featuring Chris King hubs and the silky Challenge Grifo tires. In the end, our bikes are tough as nails and still weighing-in around 16 pounds. We’ve been pretty excited and feel as if we have achieved these weights without even trying. That said, we are Wrench Science...

Our Machines

Once again, in 2010 our team’s main focus will be the Bay Area Super Prestige series. This is the premier race series here in Northern California where the cyclocross scene is becoming bigger and more competitive every year.

In fact, as residents of “sunny California” and more specifically the San Francisco/Bay Area, the only complaint we have about our cyclocross racing is that the weather is too nice. Seriously, those racers up in Portland have all the fun in their mud and muck while we often race in Indian Summer like conditions. However—yesterday’s race was a welcomed exception...

It rained. And we got dirty.

The Leaders of our CX team, are also the operations team at WS...

Ken Dick

& Mitch Trux

It was a fun race to start off the season. The conditions and technical course led to a plague of equipment failures and flattened tires, but our team managed not to have any mishaps. Our scene was dialed and we all scored decent results. As we roll into the season, we'll expect improvements in out fitness to come just in time to go for some solid standings in the series' final omnium standings. In case you didn't know it, we're tough...

Just a few minutes before his Men's A start time Wrench Science teammate Stephen Dey had a mishap in his warm up...

...and raced anyway.

According to Steve "it was easy enough to temporarily stop the bleeding with the mud from my front tire." Too bad for his brand new pair of WS socks! He went to the hospital an hour after the race for some stitches. :)

It should be a fantastic season of racing.

BMC wins again

BMC impec wins the EUROBIKE GOLD AWARD

Of 417 products submitted for the Eurobike Award, the twelve most innovative were distinguished with the Eurobike Gold Award. The impec, launched at this year's Tour de France, was one of the proud winners. The Swiss producer BMC is building a racing bike that achieves an entirely new caliber of perfection. Its name: impec. That is shorthand for "the impeccable bike" – with a frame that is nothing short of perfection, being the first exclusively machine-made carbon frame in the world.

The ceremony for this year's awards took place on the first day of Eurobike, the world's leading trade fair for the international bicycle sector, in Friedrichshafen. The jury of experts selected the twelve most innovative contributed products from a total of 565 registered contributions from 30 countries (417 products and 148 student contributions). These winners had the honor of accepting a GOLD AWARD for particular performances with regard to design and innovation on the first day of the trade fair, September 1, 2010, in Friedrichshafen.

impec, the impeccable bike from BMC, was also there. The jury that selected the bike had the following to say: "The first carbon frame with fully automated manufacturing. The tubes are woven with a radial braiding machine to be seamless and adapted to different loads. An innovative construction method that allows for manufacturing various sizes and geometries. A superb innovation!" The impec from BMC truly is the herald of a new era in frame building. Until now, conventional pre-impregnated carbon mats had been used in the manufacturing of racing bikes. Every frame had to be hand made from hundreds of carbon mats in operations based mostly in the Far East. After several years of research BMC, under the leadership of Andy Rihs, has now constructed a new factory in the Swiss city of Grenchen to build the frames for the new

flagship model. BMC has thus set a new benchmark in the worldwide bicycle industry.

The new manufacturing method is not the only trailblazing innovation. The tubes are connected by newly developed shells to form a highly stable frame. These shells are made from ultra-lightweight, high-strength composite material. The shells comprise a high content of carbon fibers, to withstand extremely high loads at a minimum weight. They double up as a key design element. The Shell Node Concept (SNC) means that impec is also visually distinct from any other racing bike.

In addition to the innovative manufacturing process, the unique BMC design is also being applauded with this win of the Eurobike Award. The first impec will be available to end customers as of fall 2010.