Monthly Archives: November 2011

Mandatory sidepath law in Federal highway bill

The current version of the 600 page highway spending bill from the offices of Senator Boxer and Senator Inhofe contains a “bicycle safety” provision that is anything but.

Ultra Motor / A2B bankruptcy

Ultra Motor Ltd, which manufactures and sells the A2B electric bike, has filed for the UK equivalent of bankruptcy reports Bike EU. Ultra Motor was founded in 2003 to develop drive-trains and power electronics technologies for electric vehicles. In September 2008, Ultra Motor launched its first product line in the United States – the A2B read more »

Time for new cleats?

My mountain bike shoes with extremely worn SPD cleats. What do you think?

Drive by extinction

The once common bay checkerpoint butterfly faces extinction because of habitat loss due to automotive exhaust.

Cyclelicious Page at Google Plus

Google this morning announced Google+ Pages with a video featuring a local bike shop’s use of Pages to connect with customers.

Inframan!

My son is learning chemical compound naming conventions. Oxyanions (i.e. polyatomic negatively charged ions with oxygen atoms combined with another element) are named hypo-*-ite, *-ite, *-ate, and per-*-ate, depending on the number of oxygen atoms in the anion. Hypo-*-ite has the least number of oxygen atoms, while per-*-ate has the most oxygen atoms. He was read more »