George Hincapie is going mobile.

Hincapie, a teammate of former tour winners Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis, signed a two-year deal to ride with T-Mobile.

Hincapie, age 34, previously rode with Discovery Channel and the US Postal Service, where he was a teammate of Armstrong for seven years.

Wanted to share a few bands and tunes I’ve been listening to as of late:

• The Exploders - I Can’t Dance
• Manu Chao - Rainin in Paradiz
• Thurston - Fri_end
• The Blakes - Two Times
• Jake Mann - Daytime Ghost

Enjoy these for your weekend listening.

Continuing it’s charitable ways, World Bike Relief has pledged to send 7,000 bicycles to seven countries in Africa by November 2008.

The effort was recently announced at the Clinton Global Initiative.

Specialized and Google have teamed up to bring us the first Innovate-or-Die bike building contest.

You can join the contest solo or as a team with up to five members. Simply film the creation process of your innovation, upload it to YouTube and your off and running. One stipulation, all the energy generated from your invention (or contraption) must be human pedal powered as it’s original source.

The grand prize team is awarded a Specialized Globe bicycle for each team member and one check for a cool five grand ($5000.00).

So, get those inspiration gears turning and your innovation filmed and submitted.