Chinese amphibious water bike. Chinese inventor Li Weiguo apparently took the Treehugger article on women and bikes to heart by asking his daughter to demonstrate his amphibious bicycle that can be used on land or water. Li used empty water bottles (the large 8 gallon size used in office water coolers) as flotation for this read more
MUP: Multi Use Path. Chicagoist on sharing the road and sharing the trails: Riding to work Wednesday morning this Chicagoist staffer and avid cyclist was doored ever-so-slightly by a trucker. While tending to the minor scrapes incurred from the sudden braking and subsequent tumble, the trucker proceeded to yell at us about how we shouldn’t read more
My morning commute reading this week is The Bourne Sanction by Eric van Lustbader. I was kind of a fan of Robert Ludlum and the first couple of Jason Bourne books. Sanction is kind of meh — there’s a power struggle between the U.S. military and the CIA that only Bourne can defuse and an read more
April in Sweden posted on Six reasons the world needs more women on bikes, mentioning some of the reasons women don’t bike to work as much as men. April mentions that only about 30% of bike commuters in Portland (Oregon, presumably) are female; in San Francisco, it’s currently about 27%. Why the gender split? Natalie read more
Pedalpalooza 2009 runs Thursday (tomorrow!) June 11 to Saturday June 27.
I watched the cool cats waiting around in San Jose last night for the Tuesday night SJFixed ride to start. Their trackstands, backwards riding and bar spins reminded me of this old film of bike tricks shot by Thomas Edison back in 1899. They’ve got the whole repertoire of modern bike ballet over 100 years read more
