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Last updated November 30, 2008

Two time Olympic medalist and Canadian treasure, Simon Whitfield stumbled upon the bike below and had a few things to say. Thanks Simon!

Shimano Show Bike Sam built this City Bike cruiser for Shimano to use at a few bike shows to show off there city line component groupo. Soon to be on display at Fairfield Bikes in Victoria. Check here for some pictures

Lots of new changes to the shop itself this fall. Come on by and check it out for yourself. The beer is cold and the kettle is on.

September 18 - Battle Mountain, Nevada . The sight of the annual Human Powered Speed Challenge. This year the Deci-mach prize is up for grabs. On Thursday evening, Sam Whittingham, set a new World Land Speed Record of 82.3mph. This surpasses the .decimach marker of 82mph. Meaning....Sam went faster than 1/10th the speed of sound and all this on the flat. Check out daily results here.

New SWAG!!! Get your Naked Jerseys and Bib Shorts, T-shirts and Boomerang Dropouts. New Swag page coming soon....

A few new pictures were added to our gallery. Check them out here.

Mellow Johnny's Opening It's official, Lance Armstrong's community oriented bike shop is open in Austin, Texas. We visited the shop, partook in some riding, some partying, some hanging-out. A good time was had. Thanks to all the crew at Mellow Johnny's for inviting us along. Here's a couple pictures and an article by Velonews that will give the weekend justice.

NAHBS 2008 We have just returned from the North American Handmade Bicycle Show and what a ride!! Sam's wicked bicycle design ended up winning 3 prestigious awards including Best in Show! There were are few celebrity surprise visits and one of them bought the bike....Check out the link.

T-Shirts are in!!!!! Made out of Bamboo from HT Naturals. Sizes range from S to XL. Cost is $30 not including GST/PST and shipping. E-mail us if your interested and we'll get you hooked up.

Team Naked We would like to announce the unauthorized birth of Team Naked. Sporting flesh tones since 1897.

Suzuka 2007 We're back from racing in Japan at the Suzuka Challenge, an 8 hour team relay race. Thanks to our hosts in Japan, our sponsor Astro Pro Works, my teammates and the many people that helped along the way.

Fitting Page This was a mess! I hope we have cleaned this up a little bit. Dammit Jim, I'm a bike builder not a computer programmer.

New naked dropouts We got our first batch of new laser cut boomerang dropouts. These are Sam's own design and really clean up the back end of a disk brake equiped touring bike. They allow the disk to ride in the low position or in the standard spot as desired.

New World Record!!  Sam has set a new 1 Hour World Record of 53.91 miles (86.23 km) on April 8th increasing the Hour record by 1/2 mile. Wind conditions were crazy (15mi/hr gusting up to 25mi/hr) at the Nissan Test Track in Casa Grande, Arizona, but all the competitors gave it their all, many setting new personal bests. Many thanks to the organizers Al and Alice Krause and the many other people that made this event possible.

Straight frames just got straighter. We finally purchased a very cool alignment system from Henry James which allows very quick checking and correction of frames to within mere thousandths of an inch. Very exciting for us and piece of mind for you. No more time consuming surface plate checks.

Stainless head badges, polished and sexy, now available.

New website address! We are changing providers and slowly changing over to my new web address is at www.timetogetnaked.com. My old site: www.fortebikes.com will link to the same site for another year or so.

Stainless Lugsets  Hand polished. Not cheap and lots of work but what a pay off.

S&S Couplings now available!! A bike that rides like a dream and fits in a suitcase.

World Human Powered Speed challenge 2003  On his way to beating his previous speed record Sam goes airborne at the 2003  World Human Powered Speed Challenge. Also added are the last two nights of full SRM power files including some very interesting heart-rate data during the crash.

World Human Powered Speed challenge 2002  Andrea Blaseckie beat her own previous speed by over 10mph and Sam improves ever so slightly on his last years record at the World Human Powered Speed Challenge. 

World human Powered Speed Challenge 2001  Sam is once again the fastest human on the planet after breaking his own World Human Powered Speed Record by nearly 10mph. See all the details at WISIL.