Monthly Archives: April 2011

Smile! You’re on a bike!

Photo CC by-SA 2.0 from Xtracycle Gallery.

Acetylene shortage

An industrial accident in Kentucky leads to a shortage of a welding gas used in steel bike production. But first, a handmade bicycle video.

Bike Hanger vertical bicycle storage

Manifesto Architecture created a rotating, ferris-wheel design for a vertical bike storage facility that was submitted to a design competition in Seoul, Korea.

The Bicycle City Nicaragua

Rivas is an impoverished village on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua. After Pedals for Progress flooded the city with 20,000 donated bikes from the United States, the bicycle has become an integral part of daily life.

Smile! You’re riding a bike!

Happy Monday! Seen Sunday afternoon in Santa Cruz, California.

Bike Rentals Santa Cruz

Seen Sunday afternoon in Santa Cruz, California in front of the bike rental place where Pacific Avenue hooks south toward the Santa Cruz wharf. The city is converting this five way intersection into a traffic circle.