Beauty and the Bike chronicles two groups of teenage girls and young women who bike around their cities. Here’s an 8 minute preview of the 55 minute video that will premier in the UK and Germany later this week. Mentioned at Copenhagenize, Cenas a Pedal, London Cyclist, and Riding Pretty (among other places, I’m sure).
The Los Angeles Times “Gear” column covers human powered wheeled machines that combine gym equipment with bikes to create hybrids like this Street Strider. Believe it or not, I see one of these Street Striders many evenings used a commuter vehicle. I think the benefit of something like this is supposed to be a more […]
Roger Kramer in St Louis published a letter supporting the creation of a bike sidepath along U.S. Route 66 through Macoupin and Montgomery Counties in southern Illinois. The historic and iconic Route 66 begins in Chicago, IL and, like the song says, passes through St. Louis. That prompted the question from me: How would one […]
Danny compiled a list of the 10 most expensive bicycles. His list includes a $114,000 gold plated fixed gear bicycle, the diamond studded Trek Madone 5.9 auctioned off at a charity fund raiser in 2005, a $28,000 limited edition of Chanel’s city bike, and more. Read more at Danny’s Sidi Ergo blog.
Happy Monday, and I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving holiday in the USA. A couple of odds and ends you might have missed over the long weekend. Caltrain to have GPS driven real time delay info. Caltrain says they will equip their trains with GPS transponders and provide real time arrival & delay information […]
This video of the Muppets performing Queen’s “Bohemiam Rhapsody” is hilarious. In case you haven’t seen it yet… There’s a Muppets Studio page on YouTube of all new videos of the Muppets. I love it.