We’ve all seen the bike point of view videos from Lucas Brunelle, Macaframa, MASH SF and others. David Goodman writes a short history of bike messenger videos from David Leopold’s appearance on Letterman to big screen films, TV pilots, and the ubiquitous Internet shorts in The New York Times City Room blog: “Cycling on Camera, […]
Andreas aka the London Cyclist timed trip times of some common journeys, riding his bike and taking the London Underground and comparing the times. You can read about his experiment here. In the various commuter challenges I’ve seen, bikes generally come out ahead of other transportation modes in urban environments, even beating out a helicopter […]
My heavily dogeared copy of Jeff Mapes’ Pedaling Revolution is up for grabs to the winner of today’s trivia contest this afternoon. The first to answer some trivia questions I’ll post sometime this afternoon (USA California Pacific Time) will win this book, so watch this space for your chance to win.
Paste Magazine’s Evolution of the Hipster includes “The Williamsburg,” who is “often seen walking his fixed-gear bike around town while texting with his iPhone.” View the complete spread here. Via Urban Velo.
Momentum Magazine issue 43 pushed to the web this morning. This issue includes a 2010 Gear Guide which includes my review of Sanyo’s Eneloop bicycle. I’ll post a little more about this bike here later, but for now: Mostly, it’s a pretty cool electric bike. Butterflies and flowers optional. Report: Cycling is bigger than hunting […]
Update: Congratulations to Rica in New York. Several correct answers were posted, but Rica was the first and she gets the book. Comments are now closed. Watch for another contest tomorrow! First to correctly answer all three trivia questions as a comment to this post wins my copy of this book. Post a comment with […]