October 22, 20104 Comments on Girls In Orchard With Bikes
“Girls In Orchard With Bikes” is a short excerpt from “The Wheels of Progress,” a 1927 film on the benefits of public roads for personal motor transportation. The film was produced by the US Department of Agriculture Bureau of Public Roads.
October 21, 20103 Comments on SF Critical Mass 1915
Enjoy this silent footage of a mass bike ride in Golden Gate Park in 1915. The cyclists rode to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Check out the double decker tallbike at the beginning of this short film!
October 21, 201016 Comments on Airbag bike helmet
$450 bicycle helmet disguises safety device as fashion accessory.
The Hövding (Swedish for “Chief”, Bork Bork Bork) is a head protection system that remains hidden in a vaguely stylish collar until you need it in a crash. The collar contains a folded airbag which deploys in a crash. The airbag then poofs out into a big hood that wraps around your head so your head is okee-dokee, yaaa, bork bork bork.
October 21, 2010Leave a Comment
Today is Overseas Chinese Day in Taiwan, an official holiday to invite the huge Chinese diaspora to visit Taiwan. It’s a good excuse to say hello to your Taiwan expatriate friends. And finally, it’s an opportunity to mention the Taiwan Cycling Festival taking place this month.
The “ 2010 Taiwan Cycling Festival” includes a series of activities that combines cycling competitions with Cycling Tourism. The events will culminate this weekend with the Taiwan Cup 2010 International Road Race, in which several Asian UCI teams along with Rabobank will compete for NT$15M (about US$485,000) in prizes.
October 20, 2010Leave a Comment
Hi all, and happy Wednesday night (in the United States now, anyway). Per usual, hover over the photos for their captions.
October 20, 2010Leave a Comment
20 year old criminology student and mother Marisol Valles Garcia was sworn in as Director of Municipal Public Safety in the city of Guadalupe Distrito Bravo, Mexico. She was the only candidate for the job in a town with drug violence. Her police force has only a single patrol car. She says she wants to start a bike patrol in her city.
More at the Daily Mail: Female student, 20, becomes police chief in one of Mexico’s most violent border towns.