39 year old superstar Jennifer Lopez completed a half-mile swim, 18-mile bike ride and 4-mile run yesterday in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon — her first — in a time of 2 hours, 23 minutes and 28 seconds. Other celebrities who swam, biked and ran in Malibue include Amanda Detmer, Nicholas Gonzales (who looks like a […]
From Portland, Oregon: a new report shows that the economic impact of the bicycle industry in Portland has grown significantly in recent years – to roughly $90 million. Read more at KATU, with much more discussion and analysis at the excellent Bike Portland.
Though my children are now too old to use it, I loved the iBert child seat when I first saw it a couple of years ago. Mountain Bike Hall of Famer Tinker Juarez loves the seat so much he contacted iBert about endorsing the seat. Here’s Tinker’s wife Terri Slifko toting their toddler son Josh […]
Bicycles seen in this video beginning at 3:30… The rapper, Kate McAlpine, is a science writer from Michigan.
Food for thought from The Oil Drum: Energy companies need well-functioning credit markets to expand their exploration and production, and to pursue alternative energy approaches. For example, expanding the use of wind energy, or electric-powered vehicles, is likely to need a huge amount of debt financing. How much money will it cost, for example, to […]
Americans enjoyed a brief vacation from high gas prices this last week, but with 20% of U.S. refinery production shut down in the wake of two hurricanes slamming back to back along the Gulf Coast we can expect prices to jump back up to record levels. The free market responded perfectly to the invisible hand […]