October 21, 2009Leave a Comment
Can you help my daughter with her fundraiser?
She’s selling cookie dough door to door in our neighborhood to raise funds for a school trip. For those not in the neighborhood, she would love your help. You can click here to buy stuff for the fundraiser. The deadline for orders is October 26.
Ivy says, “Thank you!”
October 20, 20095 Comments on Car shaped bicycle
Does anybody know the background of this car shaped bike?
My buddy Saam — who says it’s ‘rad’ — sent it to me but he in turned got it from a friend. Its filename is “toronto_bike_show” so I’m guessing it came from the Toronto Bike Show last Saturday.
October 20, 2009Leave a Comment
Yesterday’s edition of Bike Snob NYC included a fabulous example of a Japanese Ita Chari (痛チャリ).
痛 (itai) is Japanese for “painful” while チャリ (chari — short for “chariot”) is Japanese slang for a bicycle. The name is inherited from similarly designed itasha — originally “Italian Cars” but then the derisive meaning “painful cars” arose because they’re so painfully embarrassing and painfully expensive. The otaku fanboys who decorate their cars and bikes this way then adopted the new painful meaning as a sign of ironic pride.
Click through the photos for attribution.
Here’s another gallery of Itachari bicycles. Thank you to my pal Naoto for the Japanese language help.
October 20, 20095 Comments on Elmhurst College gives free bikes to non drivers
Elmhurst College in suburban Chicago, Illinois is offering free bicycles to students, faculty and staff who pledge to not drive to campus for an entire year.
The program is open to continuing students who have reached sophomore academic status, faculty, and staff. Participants who sign an agreement will not be eligible to receive a parking sticker from Campus Security for the entire academic year, though they do get a winter exemption from December to March.
Bikes available in the program are the Hybrid style Specialized Crosstail and Specialized Ariel; and the city commuter style Schwinn World S in “men” and “women” frame styles.
Ripon College in Wisconsin pioneered a similar bike giveaway in 2008. Ripon is now in its second year of the Velorution project. To minimize vehicular traffic on campus, Ripon has systematically moved campus parking from the interior of the campus to the exterior in an effort to make car travel less convenient. In the last year, portions of the two main streets that bisected campus were removed to create a safer, greener, more pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly mall. The program’s annual costs total approximately $50,000, or roughly the cost of three parking spaces in a multilevel garage.
Via Dottie & Trish in Chicago.
October 20, 2009Leave a Comment
Artcrank San Francisco is this Saturday, October 24, 7 PM to 11 PM at the Chrome store, 580 4th Street in San Francisco.
Admission is free, and all posters are $30. Best of all, Chrome and ARTCRANK will donate $4.00 for every poster purchased to Bikes To Rwanda. Via Meli who will be there participating in Artcrank.
October 19, 20092 Comments on Cycle Of Life
I hope you all had a lovely Monday!
Video from Jill Morris for the Upright Citizen’s Brigade.
Warren and his Rock Star Parking.
Has anybody tried these cedar shoe inserts?
Mountain biking San Francisco: Save Mt Sutro Trails.
Huh, I just learned this: since January 2009, employers in San Francisco have been required to offer the IRS Section 132 commuter fringe benefit. I’ve also learned that the city is not enforcing compliance with this law right now.
I think maybe Richard Heene should have watched these videos on talking with the police.
Gear Factor: Pedal powered pedal mounted lights.
Something I have some personal experience with: Endo analysis.
AIDS challenge and “Why I Ride”.