Jared Leto shoots a cycling scene for Thirty Seconds to Mars‘ latest video. The band advertised a nighttime bike ride in downtown Los Angeles on their website and invited fans to come and participate in the video shoot. The footage will be used for the group’s next single, Kings and Queens.
This is an amazing story: 84 year old Lan Yin “Eiko” Tsai rides 150 miles on an old single speed bike (complete with front basket) wearing high heels and a dress to raise money for Multiple Sclerosis research. And she’s been doing this for 26 years now and is a fixture at the MS-150 City […]
Twitter tool Twackle allows you to embed tweets from various sports categories into your website. Pick from football, baseball, basketball, auto racing, and several other sports. I picked cycling. What do you think? Annoying diversion? Or useful tool?
I seem to be fixated on weather today. The blue arrow in the map below shows part of my evening bike commute route along Middlefield Road from Palo Alto to Mountain View. The arrows at the bottom of this illustration show forecast wind direction and speed today. It should be a fast ride to the […]
Check out these upright ‘water cycles’ apparently available for rent in Venice, Italy. I can’t find anything about these bike boats on the web — has anybody seen something like this before? I’m curious how these are propelled — what’s the connection between the pedals and the paddle or propeller?
Planet Bike has Schrader valve tire pressure gauges in their catalog. These are the regular pencil guages that you can find in any auto parts store for about five bucks. What’s amusing are the customer reviews for this pressure gauge at Amazon.com, where a ten pack runs for $37. 1. “At 50 cents a piece, […]