The famous Trek Bicycle Company got some press about a new adoption for 2009, the Gates Carbon Drive! Indeed, as the AP reports, Trek has two models available this Christmas, the District and the Soho, which incorporate this trouble free chain replacement. Even better for us, Gates is a Denver company, they’ve been active in donating funds for completing bike trails in Summit County, and (though I may be jumping the gun here) Gates has been involved in talks to bring a bike station to the new Union Station redevelopment. (DO IT!)

One other thing I should mention, remember during the DNC when Humana promised to donate a bikesharing system to Denver? Well, we’re working on it, and though the delivery date got pushed back a bit and some other complications have come up, one idea that’s kicking around is getting Trek to build the fleet of bikes using the Gates Carbon Drive. It makes sense given Denver’s early fall and late spring snow storms, salted roads, and large daily temperature fluctuations. If we want these bikes to go the distance, we need to be creative in the kind of hardware that’s on them. Exciting times indeed.

And in case anyone from Trek is reading this, obviously, no one told you guys that bubble gum colored deep section rims are going the way of the hypercolor shirt, and will soon be replaced by box section 29er rims. When I saw the pink Deep-Vs with a sperm and egg motif in Salvagetti’s, I knew this day would come.