Retroreflective spinners for your bike

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Local inventor Tom Kahan sold a bunch of these Flecto Spinners in the previous decade around the Bay Area. He’s making these Made-In-California reflective spinners available again through this crowd funding campaign at Indigogo. As Tom notes in the video, Flecto Spinner can also be used on scooters, wheelchairs, and strollers. The tubular clamp seems […]

San Diego County, motoring paradise

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You might remember Cecelia Abadie, the Temecula woman who was cited for violating California’s mobile device law after she blew past CHP officer Keith Odle at 85 MPH in the right lane with her Toyota Prius. That seems like clear evidence of impairment, right? Odle thought so, especially after she became argumentative when he lectured […]

Virtue Bike: A truck, a bus and a box for 2014

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William Mulyadi began Virtue Bike in San Diego, CA as a distributor of “lifestyle” bike accessories and a handful of inexpensive steel bicycles while he earned his MBA at UC San Diego. Their flagship Virtue One — a coaster brake singlespeed chromoly diamond frame with detailing like a riveted leather saddle — remains a popular […]

Yet another electric bicycle at a car show

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The hot topic yesterday was this $3000 pedalec from SMART, which is  known for its small automobiles. Unlike many bikes shown as concepts and engineering exercises at auto shows,  SMART says they plan to make this bike available at select USA dealers. Although the bike appears somewhat unique,  the features are about what you’d expect […]