Year: 2011

Indoor bike security

Suppose you need to lock your bicycle up to keep it safe from your thieving roommate. Or perhaps you like to keep your bike indoors at your workplace, but you don’t trust the cow-orkers there to keep their fingers from your lovely steed. You don’t have the room to install a bike rack inside your apartment or in the storage closet. What to do?

Rodd Industrial Design in the UK created two interesting locking solutions: Lupin and Armlock, for use in multi-occupancy houses and apartments while taking space constraints into consideration.

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Highway collapse no danger to Tour of California

Part of California Highway 1 in Big Sur collapsed south of Carmel-by-the-Sea near Rocky Creek Bridge, possibly endangering a portion of this year’s Amgen Tour of California but Caltrans tells Amgen Tour of California race organizers that repairs should be complete in time for the May bicycle race. Stage 5 from Seaside to Paso Robles will pass along this stretch of Highway 1 through Big Sur.

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