HOWTO ride the Japanese 3 person mamachari bicycle

Published January 21, 2014 / by Richard Masoner / 2 Comments on HOWTO ride the Japanese 3 person mamachari bicycle

Here’s a 15 minute documentary video on the uniquely Japanese 3 person mamachari bicycle. In Japanese with English subtitles. The narrator talks about recently changed law that allows these huge bikes, describes differences between these and more traditional bikes, and follows a young mother as she takes a safety class. Features of these bikes include […]

Cyclists for Santa Cruz Metro citizen committee

Published January 21, 2014 / by Richard Masoner / 1 Comment on Cyclists for Santa Cruz Metro citizen committee

Santa Cruz Metro (the transit operator for Santa Cruz County, California) seeks volunteers to serve on the Metro Advisory Committee (MAC). The Santa Cruz Metro Board of Directors looks to this citizen advisory board for policy and operational issues that impact Metro riders. Meetings are the third Wednesday of every month at 6 PM at […]

San Jose commuter meetup

Published January 21, 2014 / by Richard Masoner / 3 Comments on San Jose commuter meetup

A group of us will meetup for coffee Wednesday morning 8:15 to about 9 AM at Bel Bacio Italian Cafe in Little Italy just north of downtown San Jose. The time roughly coincides with Caltrain 312, 314 and 216 arrivals at San Jose Diridon.

Retroreflective spinners for your bike

Published January 18, 2014 / by Richard Masoner / Leave a Comment

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

Published January 17, 2014 / by Richard Masoner / 1 Comment on San Diego County, motoring paradise

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

Published January 16, 2014 / by Richard Masoner / 1 Comment on Virtue Bike: A truck, a bus and a box for 2014

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 […]

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