Raise your arm before a turn, and a tilt switch activates big amber LEDs to signal your turn at night. An accelerometer detects when you slow down to illuminate a big patch of red LEDs on your back. This clever cyclist jacket is the invention of Michael Chen in London, who won a design competition […]
Warren posted a bike haiku, so of course I’m obliged to link to it. Remember, if you post a “baiku” or bike haiku and I find it, I link to you (unless it’s horribly offensive to me). My children and I just finished up from a four hour mountain bike ride. I’m too tired to […]
Recently, Saratoga, California chair Brigitte Ballingall was quoted in the Mercury News making statements that appeared anti-cycling. She responded on this blog and in emails that her quote was taken out of context, and offered her explanation and an apology to cyclists who ride on Saratoga roads. As a member of the city’s advisory committee […]
The Oregonian interviews two women who recently began biking to work in this video. They started out objecting to the idea because biking to work is too dangerous, too hard, too convenient and too time consuming. After trying it, however, they discover how nice commuting by bicycle really is. Found via Bike Denver.
Discovery Channel Cycling’s last event will be participation in the inaugural Tour of Missouri which starts September 11, 2007 in Kansas City and finishes up 600 miles later in St. Louis on September 16. Discovery Team members participating in the Tour of Misery include Tour de France winner Alberto Contador, 3rd place finisher Levi Leipheimer, […]
“Cycle Chick” is the clever name of Zakka’s cycling blog that shows what real transportational cycling looks like. Bicycle blog collection 21st Century Citizen asks “Drive? or Bike?” with a bunch of “if only” conditions. “I’d bike if only there were bike lanes, if only gas were $10/gallon, if only I worked from home, if […]