Cyclist down in Capitola yesterday afternoon. Craig Calfee’s bamboo bike Africa project in the alternative local weekly. Somebody (can’t tell if it was a motorist or cyclist) was doored and got a ticket for it!
“Wheel skates” are roller blade style boot with bike sized pneumatic tires for a “smoother, more fluid skating experience that crosses boundaries into skiing and cycling” with carbon fiber construction and optional hand brakes. The inventor, Michael Jenkins, claims “I usually overtake recreational cyclist[s]” as he travels at 20 km/hr, but then don’t we pass […]
The tech and local news sites have been all over this over the weekend after rumors that have floating around for at least a couple of months, but I didn’t notice this until last night: Yahoo plans to sponsor a cycling team for 2010. Menlo Park cycling enthusiast Kevin Klein, who previously raced for Rock […]
Murph wants to document Highway 101 bike crossings across the San Francisco Peninsula from the City down to San Jose. As Murph notes, 101 is a large traffic sewer with homes, jobs and other commercial activity on either side. He has a comprehensive list, but I’ll just quickly post a couple of videos and photos […]
Behold the bamboo built recumbent trike. Monash University industrial design student Alexander Vittouris in Melbourne, Australia designed this three wheeled recumbent “Naturally Derived Personal Mobility Vehicle” using a bamboo fiber and resin composite, something like the bamboo composite that mad scientist Brano Meres showed off in 2008. In his design contest submission, Vittouris writes: The […]
It even has kickstands! More at Corbin’s Treehouse with build instructions too. Via MAKE.