August 27, 20088 Comments on Pedal powered locomotive
This is German Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier touring his home region of Brandenburg cycling on a pedal powered rail cart. Is this cool, or what? I’ve seen different kinds of rail bikes, but this is the first human powered rail device that can carry several passengers that I’ve seen.
August 27, 2008Leave a Comment
One interesting factoid I didn’t know about — several sharrows were apparently placed specifically in anticipation and for bike riders visiting Denver for the DNC!
August 27, 2008Leave a Comment
Bike Rumor started in June of this year as a source of news, product information, and product rumors in the bike industry.
Tyler of Greensboro, North Carolina is the publisher of Bike Rumor. He has been an avid cyclist since 1995, when he picked it up as a junior in college. “I raced a lot for about eight years,” says Tyler. “Then I had kids and realized that cycling was more fun when it was just for fun and fitness, not racing.”
“While I enjoy the competitive spirit, my riding is focused around fun rather than keeping in top physical form for a 90 minute race.”
Welcome Tyler to the biking blogosphere. Drop by and say hello.
August 27, 20082 Comments on Free bikes overrun Denver
Bike Denver‘s Tracy Halasinski went around Denver the other day looking for the Freewheelin bikes to take photos of and didn’t have to go far. “. I was really excited when I saw my first Freewheelin bikes around, then realized they were all over and I couldn’t take a picture of each one,” she writes.
1000 bikes are available to borrow during the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week. As of last night, over 2,700 riders have put nearly 7,000 miles on the bikes. Mileage is recorded for each bike an total mileages are tallied on large electronic boards at the bike rental stations. You can view live streaming video of several Denver Freewheelin stations to see how busy these folks actually are. A couple of stations just have a couple of guys sitting around with their feet on the table, but most of them seem pretty busy. It’s good to see.
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August 26, 20084 Comments on SSWC08: Singlespeed World Championship photos
Photographer Carson Blume spent the weekend in Napa and shot some nice photos from SSWC08.
Elsewhere on his photo blog he’s posted some nice Tour of Utah photos. His cycling blog is in a way Yet Another Ride Statistics journal, but the elevation profiles and GPS tracks are punctuated with wonderful photography of the scenery and cyclists in and around Santa Barbara, California. His photos encourage me to get out and ride!
August 26, 20082 Comments on Experimenting with feeds
I’m changing my feed settings a little. If you read Cyclelicious via feed reader (such as Bloglines, Flock, or Google Reader), please let me know if you experience problems after tonight. There might be a slight hiccup, but I think the change should be mostly transparent.