According to Carlton Reid in the UK, bike patrol officers are given a wide berth by motorists when using police bikes, wearing police kit, but as soon as they change back into street clothes they go back to being targets again. Not that anybody advocates impersonating a police officer, but what if you could look […]
The Stanford student government passed out 200 bicycle lights and Jamba Juice smoothies yesterday during the inaugural day of the three day ASSU bike light extravaganza. The giveaway continued today and will be repeated tomorrow at noon. This is a safety initiative from the Associated Students of Stanford University, aka ASSU, which is the student […]
As the person who built this fire-breathing bike wrote, this is major “Hold my beer and watch this” action here. Don’t try this at home! Do it in an empty parking lot instead. By remote control. Here’s video of this bike in action. This might be useful for the bike commuters out there. Thanks to […]
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Has anybody else noticed Pearl Izumi’s recent anti-car fervor? I present two items of evidence. Exhibit 1 is their “PETROLEUM: Satan’s Energy Drink” at their Interbike booth last September, complete with “$6.66” for the price of gas. You can’t see it in this photo, but “Satan’s Energy Drink” is in huge letters at the bottom […]
Jason @ Rocbike interviews Bike Snob NYC and posts it in his 22 minute Rocbike Review podcast. I didn’t use any of his wonderful similes and euphemisms in the interview, but it’s still a good listen. “We ride bikes for fun and we read about bikes for fun.” Jason also interviewed The Fat Cyclist but […]