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While I’ve been in the trench warfare of flat tires and greasy chains, I’ve been wondering about the larger picture, keeping a look out for industry, market, and technology trends. I’m not talking about wishful thinking about what I’d like to see happen; I mean, I’d like to wake up to Jessica Alba in a thong cleaning my drivetrain, but that’s not very likely.

Elaborate April Fools hoax with BikeBiz.com, the San Jose Business Journal and Specialized all in on it? See BikeBiz’s news flash on the historic announcement on the Northern California bike company here. The dead giveaway is the quote from supposed GM VP, “Flora Lopi” - an anagram of the words April fool.

Tim "Masi Guy" Jackson has never gotten back to me about test-driving one of the new Masi uprights. I'm not going to hold a grudge, because he obviously has bigger problems than the bawling of some backwoods chump with a lame-ass blog read by tens of thousands of highly influential and filthy rich cyclists.

The new Canadian owners of Cannondale, Dorel, also happen to own Schwinn -- maybe one of the world's oldest and most abused bike brands. They bought them back in 2004. Schwinn has always been more of a presence at bike shops and garage sales than at races or philanthropic events.

If you're like me, you fantasize about getting paid to ride a bike and travel. Not racing professionally, silly! Something much less taxing, that doesn't require body shaving and mysterious veterinarian-grade drugs. You know, like being Stevil Knievel.

In another of my non-original posts here, I’m going to reference and plug another’s work again here in scooping this story. This article is right up our alley here at Interbike since it’s a great bike industry B2B story that is playing in the national non-endemic media.