“Wheel skates” are roller blade style boot with bike sized pneumatic tires for a “smoother, more fluid skating experience that crosses boundaries into skiing and cycling” with carbon fiber construction and optional hand brakes. The inventor, Michael Jenkins, claims “I usually overtake recreational cyclist[s]” as he travels at 20 km/hr, but then don’t we pass read more
The tech and local news sites have been all over this over the weekend after rumors that have floating around for at least a couple of months, but I didn’t notice this until last night: Yahoo plans to sponsor a cycling team for 2010. Menlo Park cycling enthusiast Kevin Klein, who previously raced for Rock read more
Murph wants to document Highway 101 bike crossings across the San Francisco Peninsula from the City down to San Jose. As Murph notes, 101 is a large traffic sewer with homes, jobs and other commercial activity on either side. He has a comprehensive list, but I’ll just quickly post a couple of videos and photos read more
Behold the bamboo built recumbent trike. Monash University industrial design student Alexander Vittouris in Melbourne, Australia designed this three wheeled recumbent “Naturally Derived Personal Mobility Vehicle” using a bamboo fiber and resin composite, something like the bamboo composite that mad scientist Brano Meres showed off in 2008. In his design contest submission, Vittouris writes: The read more
It even has kickstands! More at Corbin’s Treehouse with build instructions too. Via MAKE.
Paula Kuhumbu travels to Nairobi Kenya to discover the truing stand and a clever freewheel removal tool. I don’t imagine Park Tools are easy to come by in Kenya. Props to Mohammed in the video. Via Boing Boing and Afrigadget.
