January 27, 200812 Comments on 42 foot tricycle
As seen on Japanese television…
More about Sudhaker and his vehicular creations are at his website.
January 26, 200813 Comments on Bicycle snow plow
It’s been at least a year since somebody has mentioned David Peterson’s bicycle snow plow.
Peterson rides his bike seven miles to his job at Fermilab in Chicago Chicagoland. When he built this snow plow for his bicycle several years ago, the bike paths he took to work weren’t plowed, so he started walking to work with a shovel and shoveling the path along the way. He soon moved up to a push plow, a contraption he pushes like a baby stroller with angled blades to push the snow to the side.
In 2002, he built his tow-behind snow plow.
David Peterson posts the history and detailed construction plans for the bicycle snow plow at his website. I have no idea if he still uses this (the website was last updated in 2005), but I’ve sent Peterson an email and we’ll see what he says.
Here’s another bicycle snow plow photo I found randomly on the web.
January 26, 20086 Comments on Soma: Gold pedal
Ain’t this a pretty track pedal?
The gold Hellyer track pedal is among the new products Soma Fabrications announced on Friday.
January 25, 2008Leave a Comment
The number of San Francisco bike riders rose by 15 percent from 2006 to 2007, according to a report by The City’s bicycle program.
In the study, which will be presented today at the Bicycle Advisory Committee, observers from the Municipal Transportation Agency’s Bicycle Program counted 6,454 cyclists on the streets during sample days in August 2007, which is 800 more than noted in 2006, the first year of the bicycle counting program.
Read more at the San Francisco Examiner.
January 25, 2008Leave a Comment
Here’s the Nada Surf “Whose Authority” music video on YouTube, featuring a guy riding his fixed gear bike through New York City, dodging cabs, hooks, doors, pedestrians and red lights.
Via Bike Snob, who of course has much more to say about this video.
January 25, 20082 Comments on Friday bicycle news
It’s still raining in California and I’m still riding. Here’s the news for today.
Brad Pitt on a Bianchi.
200 new electronic bike lockers at some BART stations in the East Bay.
Amgen Tour of California organizers in Palo Alto are short on cash.
Tour Down Under: Team Rabobank’s Michael Hayman seriously injured in head butt. Read here and here.
Anonymous cyclist “John Doe” sues USADA. Sample ‘A’ came back negative, so USADA wants to test ‘B’ sample, which is against the doping agencie’s own rules and testing protocol.
Bike thefts are down 50% in China as a result of a bike theft crackdown by the Ministry of Public Safety and other government agencies. More than 3,700 thefts were reported daily across China last year. No word on how China deals with bike thieves.
James has some good links at Bicycle Design, including a story about an amazing all wood bicycle — the complete drive train is even made completely of wood and glue. I’m talking the chain, freewheel ratchet and cog. A 16 year old built that bike by hand as a school project.