June 4, 20101 Comment on SF bike rampage arrest
The San Francisco Police Department announced an arrest has been made in the Wednesday night bike rampage, in which a driver allegedly target cyclists with his Nissan Rogue crossover SUV before he wrecked and fled the scene. (more…)
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Craig “Radio Man” Castaldo — so called because he often wears a radio like a necklace — is a homeless man and film nut who’s known to the New York City area film industry because of his frequent appearances in various shows and movies. He gets around on a beat up old bicycle.
And now they’re making a movie about him where he’ll play himself. He’s talking with Ginnifer Goodwin and Colin Egglesfield in this photo.
June 4, 20105 Comments on Bike blog, highway expansion & CNG
Bullies suck.
Lockwood Lane is a 30 mph residential street with 3,500 vehicles per day during the week, much less on a holiday weekend. My daughter and I biked down this lane last week when she fell over in the street.
June 4, 20103 Comments on Monster Bike Tall Trike
Video of a huge and awesome fixed gear trike with what looks like a 5 foot diameter tractor tire mounted on a spoked wheel!
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Mexican pop singer Natalia Lafourcade tools around town on a 20 inch wheel bicycle with a big red suitcase on the back rack in her cute music video for “Cursis melodÃas” (“tacky tunes”).
Via Riding Pretty in Santa Cruz, who got it from Midsummer Cruisers, a “Puerto Rico Cycle Chic” blog.
Don’t forget: win a book in this contest!
June 3, 20105 Comments on Case study: Build Bikes in USA or Taiwan?
I’m a big fan of Joan Denizot and what she’s doing with her Super Sized Cycles business, which sells bikes designed specifically for larger people.
From her website she sells a variety of models, some of which are handmade for her business in Iowa with assembly at her shop in Vermont. She’s making money, but just barely with her razor thin margins. She needs to decide: Send manufacturing to Taiwan and spend the money she saves on marketing, warehousing, and assembly here in the USA? Or keep the manufacturing in the United States, which results in what Joan believes is a superior product with much more individual attention?