Happy Earth Day, you bike riding hippies. Did you know today is also the birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (pictured to the left with a bicycle)? He was an enthusiastic cyclist and photographer, combining both of these hobbies while traveling before beginning his second career as architect of the Red Terror. More bicycle news Free read more
I’m pretty sure the first part of the caption provided with this photo is incorrect. It says, “Men ride their bicycles past election campaign posters at Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro September 30, 2010. Brazil will hold general elections on October 3. ”
Random geek amusement for this Hump Day. Copy and paste the below as a single line into a file, and compile with a C compiler. Ignore the warnings. It’s a classic “quine” program from decades back, and it still works with the gcc 4.1.2 compiler in my modern Linux distro. YMMV. The fun part is read more
Teen Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber likes to ride around on a BMX bike. Some of his publicity posters even feature him on the bike.
I hope you enjoy this collection of photos from Interbike 2009 Day 1. Click on the thumbnails to go large and for attribution. Montague Bicycles booth. Steephill.TV talks with Tour of California executive director Andrew Messick and gets the inside scoop on the Tour of California 2010. People Steve Hed talking Aero. George Hincapie signing read more
London Cyclist has a wonderful collection of bicycle posters you can use to dress up your living and working space. See also: Chef on Bike.
