Our Bay Area bike-fighting superheroine Platty Jo forwarded this photo from Matt Friedman of the San Francisco Police Department’s Anti-Bike Theft Unit of evidence from a recently arrested bike thief.
After I open the door, naturally. This giraffe on a shirt design available from this Etsy shop. Update: El Tejano points me to the crazy you invite if you have the kind of family who drop in for wine and cheese at three in the morning.
Slonie pointed to this Japanese guide to gravel riding from Colnago. There’s some decent advice there, but gravel riding is so easy you don’t even need to understand Japanese to get the gist of this guide.
Chemical company BASF asks “What if 19th Century bike inventors had modern chemistry and processes?” It was the late 19th century bike boom that led directly to manufacturing, industrial process and chemical engineering innovations, so we’ve got a bit of a chicken-and-egg here, but still a fun video. BASF describes their Concept 1865 Project here. […]
Last April I had the chance to ride around the Mazda Racetrack in Monterey at dusk testing out Magicshine’s 2000 lumen MJ-880 light. It was… impressive, though that impressiveness comes at a cost, both monetarily (it’s around $200) and engineering. The unboxing is a little underwhelming – everything is fairly well packed but once you […]
Iconic and iconoclastic singer / songwriter / musician Lou Reed passed yesterday from liver disease. He was known for riding his bicycle around Manhattan with his camera, which seems like such a subversive yet pedestrian activity. Photo from Brooklyn Spoke via Duane Perkins.