Police arrest a man after they see him “riding a bicycle while drinking a bottle of beer, holding two cell phones and intending to sell cocaine and Xanax.”

More –> PennLive.com: Multitasking man on bicycle accused of trying to sell drugs.

Designboom says this City Recumbent bicycle design is on the shortlist of possible winning entries for their Seoul Cycle Design Contest 2010.

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“Gonna ride my bike until I get home…”

“The Bike Song” by Mark Ronson features Scottish singer Kyle Falconer from indie rock band The View and American rapper Spank Rock.

The guy in the orange outfit with the big hair is Kyle Falconer. Ronson is the serious dude with white hair. Ronson’s girlfriend, Josephine De La Baume, rides a white bike in the short white go go dress. Spank Rock wears a blue suit while riding a blue bike.

Via Bike London.

For the benefit of those outside of the United States, we had our token holiday honoring American socialist heroes this last weekend. I hope your Labor Day Holiday went better than mine. I spent much of it in bed recovering from a vicious sinus infection.

What little time away from the bed was spent enjoying the gorgeous California coast. Thanks to all of you who messaged, emailed and otherwise contacted me to let me know that the website was down over the weekend, but I was offline until Monday afternoon. My wife and I had a lovely, relaxed bike ride into Santa Cruz, where we enjoyed a long walk on the beach. I finally met Wade of Spokesman Bicycles; I also ran into Bennett (of the 42 Below ride fame) and saw him for the first time, I think, without his baseball socks.

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Morrocan comedian and actor Gad Elmaleh arrives on a bicycle a the 36th American Film Festival in Deauville, France.
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A record 85,000 people participated in Sunday’s London SkyRide, as the city closed 15 km / 9 miles of city streets for the exclusive use of people and their human powered machines. Perhaps some of them were warming up to bike the tube strike?

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