Month: October 2009

Crazy Idea: Cable car bicycle tow

Update: I made a little diagram of what I had in mind. Thanks to the commenters for their ideas and suggestions!

Update 2: The fact that this is dangerous, possibly deadly, and probably illegal is blindingly obvious, but several of my friends felt obliged to tell me so anyway. Don’t try this at home, kids.

Cable car grip for bicycle use

I was joking around with somebody about using one of these on a bicycle or skateboard to pull myself uphill using the San Francisco cable car cables.

48 inch grabber pole extender reacher

The cable is 28 inches below the street surface and moves constantly at 9 mph. What’s to keep somebody from hitching a ride by reaching down with something like this and grabbing the cable?

San Francisco being what it is, I’m sure somebody has already tried something like this.

2010 Breezer Lightning

Coming in December — Breezer will re-introduce the Lightning, a steel hardtail mountain bike.

2010 Breezer Lightning steel mountain bike

Custom butted Reynolds 525 cromoly and integrated head tube, 23.3 lbs equipped with

  • Fox 32 F100-RL Remote Lockout 100mm Travel
  • Shimano XT FC-M770 44/32/22T Chainrings
  • Shimano XT, 28.6mm top swing dual pull front derailleur
  • Shimano XTR rear derailleur
  • Shimano XT Trigger 27-speed shifters
  • Shimano XT 11-32T 9-speed cassette
  • Shimano XT Hydraulic Disc brakes
  • Ritchey WCS Logic Zero Integrated headset
  • Mavic XC 717 wheels with Shimano XT CenterLock Disc 32H hubs
  • Schwalbe Rocket Ron tires

MSRP will be $3199. Available in 15”, 17″, 18.5″, 19.5″, 21″.

2010 Breezer Lightning

Follow Friday

Happy Friday, all!

Curtis responded to a Speedvest discussion on BikeForums.net with his own photoshopped Speedvest. He tells me he met the Speed Vest people at Maker Faire and they loved his version.

cycling speed vest

Steephill has all the latest on the 2010 Tour of California.

Speaking of which, a lot of people (including myself) liked how AEG used Twitter to announce the 2010 host cities. During the press conference yesterday morning, Michael Ross of AEG sports said, “Twitter is the social network most preferred by cyclists.” I don’t know how true that is, a lot of us like Facebook as well. The Santa Cruz Local Organizing Committee also recognizes the importance of social media in getting attention for an event and has appointed my friend Karen Kefauver as Social Media Director. Teh Santa Cruz stage has a Facebook page and lives on Twitter @TOCSantaCruz.

Minneapolis Cycling Examiner talks studded bike tires for winter (and uses one of my photos woo hoo!).

Dude! Via.

Masi Guy is recruiting.

Brooklyn By Bike: Video Guide to NYC Bike Lanes.

I haven’t mentioned Jill in Alaska in a long time.

Somebody stole his fixie har har har Gwadzilla.

Umm, the Go Girl. Via Industry Outsider who uses words like “relieve” and “whiz” in punny ways.

Have a great weekend.

World’s smallest cinema

This is one that escaped my attention until recently. Virgin Media created the world’s smallest cinema on a bicycle to promote their Virgin Media Shorts award ceremony. They call it a Flick-saw. The compact cinema can fit an amazingly small amount of people, just two! It comes with surround sound, popcorn and drinks. It is one of a kind which is a shame because I think it could make for a cool visit to the cinema. The one person I do feel sorry for is whoever has to pedal it around for the duration of a movie!

Images via Virgin Blog and papphotocall twitter.

This is a guest post by Andreas who runs the blog London Cyclist.

Spokesmen #45

David aka Fred, Mark aka “Thighs”, Tim aka Uncle Giant, Rich aka Mr Interbike, Chris aka Belgian Head Case, Scott aka Sleepy, and I talked about cycling on issue #45 of the Spokesmen.

I think we talked about Interbike (more filling, tastes great!), Taiwan (food and fun in the tropical sun), the future of Team Astana and Alberto Contador, the Tour of California vs the Giro d’Italia, helmets on kids (as illustrated below), and important tips for cycling.

Noddin Bike Rodeo