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Bamboo bicycle building class

Richard MasonerApril 30, 20092 Comments on Bamboo bicycle building class

The Bamboo Bike Studio offers a two day bike building course in Brooklyn, where they claim you can “Walk in Saturday, Ride Out Sunday.”

One weekend is all it takes to fabricate a frame from bamboo, assemble the components, and roll away with a custom-fitted ride, tuned to each student’s body and cycling style. The cost of the class directly supports the Bamboo Bike Studio’s efforts and partnership with the Columbia Earth Institute-based Bamboo Bike Project and Millennium Cities Initiative to seed the first bamboo bike factory in Ghana, where reliable and cheap bicycle transportation can dramatically improve access to jobs, commerce, education, basic food and water resources, and health care.

To kickoff the workshop and website launch, the Bamboo Bike Studio is partnering with Brooklyn-based design center 3rd Ward for the Green Bikes Birthday Block Party, Sunday May third. The festivities will converge on Stagg Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY for bike competitions, bands and music videos, badminton, drinks, BBQ, live screen-printing and more. The Bamboo Bike Studio team will be riding 10 deep to event, where they will host a live bike building demonstration, have bikes on hand for viewing, and offer a sign-up sheet for classes.

For fun, for learning, for building a better ride and a better world; the Bamboo Bike Studio offers customized rides made from a local-harvested, fast-growing natural resource, and a bottom line that supports responsible light industry growth and progressive, self-propelled transportation in developing countries.

The Bamboo Bike Studio goes live on Sunday, May 3 at the 3rd Ward Block Party in Brooklyn, New York.

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New York City bike rack contest: Hoop wins

Richard MasonerNovember 14, 200840 Comments on New York City bike rack contest: Hoop wins

Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve’s “Hoop” was selected as the new standard bike rack to be installed by the city of New York.

This cast metal circular design is evocative of “an abstracted bicycle tire” according to the City transportation department judges who selected the winning entry.Eco Jym likes it because it reminds him of “Ron Cobb’s ecology symbol.” Read more.

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Criminal complaint against Christopher Long

Richard MasonerJuly 30, 200812 Comments on Criminal complaint against Christopher Long

Update 7/7/2009: Christopher Long sues NYPD.

You’ve seen the video of New York Police officer Patrick Pogan tackling bike rider Chris Long during the Critical Mass bicycle ride through Times Square last week. If you haven’t seen the video, it clearly shows Pogan targeting a cyclist then tackling him to the ground with a violent body check. The video shows Long riding and steering away from Pogan when Pogan runs directly at the cyclist and knocks him hard to the ground.

The Smoking Gun posted Pogan’s sworn statement in which he says he arrested Long because Long “steered the … bicycle in the direction of [Pogan] and drove the bicycle directly into [Pogan]’s body, causing [Pogan] to fall to the ground and causing [Pogan] to suffer lacerations on [his] forearms.” The Manhattan attorney’s office filed charges of “attempted assault in the 3rd Degree” against Chris Long as a result of Pogan’s statement. Chris Long spent 26 hours in jail after his arrest.

All I can say of Pogan is “Liar Liar Pants on Fire.”

Pogan played high school football and was chosen as an offensive lineman for the 2003 Long Island all stars team.

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