The ARider plugs into your iPhone to provide a heads up display to help you navigate as you ride a bicycle.

This is a prototype from Ubiquitous Entertainment in Tokyo.

Via Core 77.

Elly Blue of Bike Portland was at Momentum Magazine’s Urban Legends Fashion and Art Show at Interbike 2009 tonight. Here’s a sample. Click here for the full set.

Interbike TV: Rich “Mr Interbike” Kelly talks with Mavic about their new shoes and wheels.

Urban Velo is at Interbike and found some interesting products:

• Duro reflective tires.
• Knog solid state bicycle lock.
• Masi has a new line of bike components they call Brev.
• Cute bike lights

Singletracks:

• Interbike tidbits.
• Cool stuff from Camelbak.

Bike Rumor:

• Basket Buddy liners (with booth babe)
• Pashley Clubman fixed gear.
• Giant carbon CX bike?
• Sillgey has a bike components brand called Bullous.

Bike World News Interbike photo gallery.

Timbuk2 Freewheelin at Interbike.

Lots and lots of Interbike photos at MTBR.com and Road Bike Review, including the always popular Interbike hotties gallery.

Last spring, Dave, I, John Brazil and some other people made a stink about Noddin Elementary School‘s bike ban in San Jose, California. The school administration agreed to lift the ban after “Streets Smarts” safety instruction and a bike rodeo.

The Bike Rodeo is coming up on Saturday, October 10, and the organizer Tara Jones, has no volunteers yet. She needs six to eight volunteers at Noddin Elementary School. Her plea for help is posted below. If you think you can help, please contact me and I’ll forward her email address to you. Her phone number is also posted in her note. Noddin Elementary is located at 1755 Gilda Way, San Jose, CA. This is just off of Blossom Hill Road between Camdem Avenue and Union Avenue.

I have a Bicycle Roadeo schedule for Oct. 10, 2009 from 8:30am-2p.m., and yes, that is a Saturday. I have put an email out to my usual volunteer list, and have had NO OFFERS. I am down to two weeks before the event, an I’m starting to panic. I need at least 6-8 volunteers and have one possible. The great thing about this particular Roadeo is that we had heard the Principal at this school, Noddin Elementary, would not allow any students to ride their bikes to school, because she had deemed it unsafe. She agreed to a sit down meeting with me to see what Street Smarts and DOT had to offer. When I explained everything, she agreed to a helmet giveaway, series of safety presentations, and a Bicycle Roadeo; students will now be allowed to ride to and from school.

If you or ANYONE you can think of would be so kind as to help me out, it would be so appreciated!!! If you’re not familiar with a Roadeo, there will be four stations that groups of kids at a time will go through, and each station teaches a simple safety technique. For example, there is a station to learn avoiding objects in the street, or learning to check over your shoulder for cars. It’s fun, and very rewarding. It just is impossible without help! So again, if you know any bike enthusiasts, people who need community service hours, or if you’re bored, please let me know!! Thanks in advance.

p.s. we will probably pack up way before 2pm! And I’ll provide lunch!

Tara Jones
School Safety Education Coordinator
Department of Transportation
City of San Jose
200 East Santa Clara Street
San Jose, Ca. 95113
(408) 975-3296

UltraRob took this photo of ProTonLocks Magnetic Bicycle Pedals during Outdoor Demo at Interbike 2009. He says they magnets are strong enough to hold the shoe in place. According to ProTonLocks, these pedal retention systems are used a lot for therapy for injuries or cerebral palsy. ProTonLocks seems to be marketed mostly toward BMX riders.

The magnetic plates will fit “most SP – ISIS – two screw cleat mount” cycling shoes. This contrasts with Mavic’s EZ Ride Magnetic Pedals, which requires a special shoe that matches the pedal.

There are six models of the shoe (3 designs for men and women), but I’m curious how well this proprietary shoe plus pedal will work out for Mavic, and it’s Yet Another Shoe (in several sizes) that the bike stores have to keep in stock if they want to sell this pedal.

While recent advances in strong magnets make magnetic pedal retention more practical, the idea has been around since the 19th Century. Henry Tudor first patented his magnetic bike pedal in 1896.

“The object of my invention is to avoid the use of toe-clips or other devices by which to prevent the foot from slipping off or disengaging from the pedal,” says Tudor’s US patent 588,038. His patent specifies a magnetic plate on the pedal, and either “soft iron” or another magnet in the shoe to “hold the foot in a fixed position and prevent any change or disengagement from the pedal which might occur arising from high speed or due to shocks or jolts owing to irregularities in the surface of the road.”

Nearly 100 years later, patent 5473963 is granted to James Aeschbach’s “Magnetic bicycle pedal foot retainer,” which improves on the state of the art by embedding the shoe magnet into the sole of the shoe in a way that’s compatible with clipless pedal binding systems of the day.

What do you think? Are modern clipless pedals good enough for you? Or would you like something you can just snap in place without any practice beforehand?

Believe it or not, this is an SPD compatible cycling shoe.

Building on the success of their popular Commuter Sandal and Springwater cycling shoe, KEEN created the Austin Pedal shoe for men. The waterproof leather with classic Oxford lace design disguises the bike-ready performance of a recessed SPD plate underfoot. The Austin comes prepared for long commutes with a moisture wicking lining and toe-protecting rubber outsole.

For women, KEEN took their Presidio shoe and added SPD compatibility to create the Presidio Pedal.

The Presidio Pedal blends the outsole construction of a lightweight hiking shoe, the style of a downtown street shoe with the SPD-compatible performance of a bike shoe. A full grain waterproof leather upper with durable top stitched construction and a soft leather lining offer style and comfort. A recessed SPD plate allows for clipless efficiency, while an anti-microbial metatomical footbed and rugged outsole with toe coverage provide support and protection.

These shoes will be available Spring / Summer 2010.