Carlo Gemmati brazes a bike frame in his rural Italian bike shop.
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Get a job, hippie
October 17, 2011 – 1:30 pm
I see several professional job openings in the bicycle industry listed this week along with the usual collection of part time bike assembly jobs.
Vidal Sassoon was a bicycle messenger
October 17, 2011 – 12:00 pm
Hair stylist Vidal Sassoon apparently had an interesting life as a teen and young adult. He grew up in a Jewish orphanage in London, worked through the London Blitz delivering packages as a 14 year old bike courier and picked street fights with fascists in post-war Britian as a member of the infamous 43 Group read more
Mountain Charlie Google Streetview
October 17, 2011 – 10:45 am
Mountain Charlie Road is a narrow single lane road that winds from Scotts Valley, CA to the summit of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Popsicle stick bicycle
October 14, 2011 – 3:59 pm
Sun Chao in Kaiyuan, northeast China spent four months building a ridable bicycle out of 10,000 popsicle sticks.
Waterwings, earbuds, and thongs
October 14, 2011 – 12:02 pm
From a distance, this woman’s orange jacket looked like water wings to me. I didn’t realize it was a jacket until I was right behind her. Foothill Expressway in Santa Clara County, CA.
