January 14, 20112 Comments on Sign of the Bike
Birota — the Bicycle Constellation. Visible from the Northern and Southern Hemisphere year round, though more prominent during warmer months in all locations.
January 14, 20117 Comments on Cycling machismo
Way back in 2010, Mario Cipollini decried the lack of ‘machismo’ in modern cycling. I ran across some old Tour de France photos from 1928 that proves his point, in a way.
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Rin’ is a female pop group that mixes modern popular music styles with traditional Japanese instruments like the shakuhachi (a flute) or the koto (a very traditional Japanese harp).
January 13, 20111 Comment on Seizures + driving = cyclist death
Maybe you remember Joshua West. He was the young man who was killed nearly a year ago in Los Gatos, California when Kevin Derr accelerated his Chevy Blazer to 50 MPH at a busy, narrow intersection, drove up on a curb, and ran into West, who was stopped on the side of the road with his bicycle.
January 13, 20115 Comments on OSM bike path tutorial
MapQuest’s bike routing API uses OpenStreetMap data to preferentially route cyclists on bike facilities. It works well when the data is complete and connected, but fails completely when the data isn’t there. This tutorial shows how you can help complete the data.
January 13, 20111 Comment on Paul’s outrigger tallbike
Paul Freedman aka “Fossil Fool” of Rock the Bike added some clever outriggers to El Arbol, his tallbike mobile audio system.