Ride along with former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne as he bikes across Brooklyn to show off his whimsical bike rack designs.
Stunt cyclists in San Francisco in a Japanese soft drink commercial for Kirin Beverage’s Millenium METs soda.
METs is a grapefruit flavored beverage. I’ll need to run to my local Japanese supermarket and see if they carry it. Urban Velo.
Urban Velo and Streetsblog also mentioned this old news about the proposed “Idaho stop law” for the state of California. I seem to recall hearing that the MTA BPAC already gave up on looking at this after a flood of negative input from both cyclists and the general public.
I imagine the news that the MTA BPAC was taking a preliminary look at the Idaho stop law was probably released prematurely. For those who want to advocate for this law, I have a couple of ideas:
I pointed to it before, but this article about the scofflaw cyclist is an excellent discussion about the “taboo” of running a red light. It’s good, thoughtful stuff.
Finally, here’s yet some more discussion on can’t we all just get along.
Remember the contest! Only another 2 days to enter.
Macaframa in San Francisco is releasing a new DVD this summer featuring fixed gear cycling in San Francisco. View the video below for a taste .
And this little snippet from Macaframa absolutely rocks.
I wasn’t originally planning on it, but I think I might spend the Independence Day weekend in San Francisco. More at Macaframa MySpace page.
Transportation Alternatives in New York City held its 7th annual Commuter Challenge yesterday. Streetfilms had cameras on each of the car driver, cyclist and public transit user and Elizabeth Press stayed up all night to create the video of the challenge in less than 24 hours!
The song “Handlebars” by Denver hip hop group the Flobots is amazing. The subtle theme of the song caught me by surprise, and the animated music video accompanying the song serves to drive the point home.
If the embedded video doesn’t work, this is the link to the video on YouTube.
Read more at Urban Velo. See also Flobots website.
I’ll be on the Santa Cruz rail trail bike train tomorrow with my children. I hope you’re having a good weekend. And for a final word for this Friday night I give you this recipe for pain: Ride 30 miles on a fixed gear bike in hot weather + jump into a cold pool = excruciating leg cramps!
Pure narcissism. Enjoy your weekend. The shirt is this master/slave shirt from one less car.