Over the next couple of weeks, you’ll occasionally see a new byline here – mine. I’m Mark Blacknell, and with Richard’s assistance (and the Taiwan Tourism Bureau’s support), I’m off to Taiwan to check out its road cycling. This will be something like the trip that Richard took last year, but since I bring a read more
“Va fa Napoli” means something like “Go to Bakersfield,” if you take Bakersfield as a metaphor for hell. From Blue Barn Pictures. The film was shot in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (where else — it’s the hipster capital of the world) in one day with a Canon 5D.
The UK Carbon Trust — a green non-profit working to “to accelerate the move to a low carbon economy” — discourages cycling on company business because cycling is too dangerous. They also don’t reimburse employees for Boris bike rentals because “the company cannot assess the quality or safety of any Boris bike and it is read more
Elly Blue’s article on safety in numbers is making the rounds in the cycling blogosphere / Twittersphere / Facebook-o-sphere, and it’s worth repeating: safety for cyclists seems to improve when there are more of us on the road.
Red mud is a highly caustic byproduct of aluminum production and is the sludge that inundated several towns in Hungary when a storage pond failed. Though researchers have experimented with alternate uses of this waste product and efforts are made at reclamation, land that is dedicated to red mud storage is typically lost forever to read more
Police in Suffolk County, New York say three people — two in gorilla suits and the third in a chicken suit — assaulted a bike riding teen on Long Island Monday afternoon. The two gorillas punched the kid in the face, knocking him off of his bike. The chicken grabbed the bike and rode off read more
