Bikes and antelopes, they don’t mix

Oh shi…..

Antelopes hate bikes? Poor spatial recognition? Don’t know, but ouch!

10.Oct.11 Uncategorized Comments (0)

San Francisco Woman Thwarts Bike Thief (on video)

Kudos to you!

Please don’t lock your bike with a cable lock!! This is exactly what happens

29.Jul.11 Uncategorized Comments (0)

Bicycles are good for the economy, our health, and our pocketbooks.

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http://www.theurbancountry.com/2011/05/bicycle-infrastructure-is-good-for.html

17.Jun.11 Uncategorized Comments (2)

Stunning Wooden Bike

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Unbelievable! A Japanese shipbuilder turned his talents towards the construction of this bike (and others). Constructed of mahogany and apparently very strong and light

Full article: http://www.coolhunting.com/design/sanomagic-wooden.php

13.Jun.11 Uncategorized Comments (0)

How to make a free saddle lock

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Materials needed: 1) spent unpatchable innertube, 2) spent stretched bicycle chain, 3) chain tool

Your local bike shop should be able to supply you with the tube and chain for free or you might already have this lying around.

The basic premise is simple: loop a piece of chain around the saddle’s rails securing it to the frame. The lock is the chain link, the key is a chain breaker tool. A crook could be carrying around one of these tools but really, the odds aren’t great. To protect the frame and saddle rails, the chain is wrapped in innertube

So there you go, an easy and free way to lock up your spendy leather saddle

27.Apr.11 Uncategorized Comments (6)

Stop signs don’t work for bicycling

Short article worthy of a read: Stop signs don’t work for bicycling

Some gems that sum up the sentiment

… it is desirable, normal, and natural to keep up momentum when bicycling. Not surrounded by 2,000 pounds of steel, we can see all around us (no blind spots!). We can hear and be acutely aware of traffic, and we can stop on a dime. If we misjudge the situation or make a poor behavior choice, the damage is likely to be to us. No way does this behavior merit a $242 fine.

 

A bicycle is not a motor vehicle. To expect bicycle riders to behave exactly like motorists is like expecting kayakers to follow the same rules as motor boaters.

 

Motorists of course tend to not agree but I think though without the experience of riding a bicycle as transportation, they have no right to judge.

However, yielding to traffic and rolling through a stop at a casual speed is completely and utterly different than barreling through a stop at full clip. The fixed gear brakeless morons that sometimes exhibit this behavior do us all a disservice and by no means represent the whole by any stretch. Most of us actually want to stay alive and know that we have a lot more to lose in a crash than a motorist and thusly proceed extremely cautiously through intersections

25.Apr.11 Uncategorized Comments (2)

Kick it old school with this candle powered bike light

OK ok, not actually real (or useful).

Source: http://blog.yimmyayo.com/post/724493744

25.Feb.11 Uncategorized Comments (2)

Moving Beyond the Automobile

Moving Beyond the Automobile: Biking from Streetfilms on Vimeo.

22.Feb.11 Uncategorized Comment (1)

Funky bike by Vanhulsteijn

Vanhulsteijn Bicycles

Funky bikes like these are usually confined to the realm of “concept” only but this my friends, is a production bike. Check it out http://www.vanhulsteijn.com/website/#/bikes/project1/0

20.Jan.11 Uncategorized Comments (2)

Bike Chandelier

Bike parts rather: chains, freewheels and rims. Neat

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http://www.facaro.com/

15.Nov.10 Uncategorized Comment (1)