Paula Kuhumbu travels to Nairobi Kenya to discover the truing stand and a clever freewheel removal tool. I don’t imagine Park Tools are easy to come by in Kenya. Props to Mohammed in the video. Via Boing Boing and Afrigadget.
Introducing “Pedaling”, a gastronomic adventure on two wheels – New Culinary Cycling Adventure Series Features NYC in First Installment This looks like my style of adventure cycling: A new series of videos beginning in 2010 to highlight the joy of eating and cycling at PEDALING.TV. The PEDALING episodes will contain practical tips for urban cycling, […]
A sorta new SF Critical Mass blog with do’s and dont’s of CM. Explanation of the reason for this blog at Streetsblog SF. CM is on the last Friday of the month. That would be on Christmas Day this month.
In order to meet greenhouse gas emission goals, the city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands aggressively promotes electric cars. Amsterdam pays half the cost of plug in electric cars and gives free power to recharge the batteries. They are also considering free parking for electric cars in a city where space for any vehicle comes […]
The Streetsblog Network and Seattle Transit tipped me off to a delightful resource: Low Tech Magazine (paradoxically published and probably made possible through the Internet, but never mind that). Their premise: Low-tech Magazine refuses to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution. A simple, sensible, but nevertheless controversial message; high-tech has become the idol […]
I drove to work today for the 3rd time this year. My wife is working today and my daughter is out of school for the holidays, so I planned to do the bus / train / bike trip together with my daughter. She’s accustomed to that so no big deal, but then last night the […]