The big European bicycle show — Eurobike — starts Thursday in Friederichshafen, Germany. If you have the software installed for your web browser, you’re viewing below a multimedia presentation from Oamos of random images, text, and sounds related to a search for “Eurobike.” It’s kind of entertaining. Via Velorution. Oamos While Giant Bicycles of Taiwan […]
Marc Gwadz of Washington, D.C. is the brother of prolific bike photo blogger Gwadzilla. Marc races cyclocross, works as a scientist at the National Institutes of Health, and wears “Cars R Coffins” socks on his bike commute. Marc also gets bike commuter benefits from his employer in the form of “bike bucks,” which are redeemable […]
Just like the children in Lake Wobegon, all of us are “above average” drivers. I’m reading the book Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do by Tom Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt quotes former New York City traffic commissioner Henry Barnes, who says, “As times goes on the technical problems become more automatic, while the people problems […]
After a two year absence, it looks like Bianchi will reintroduce the Boron steel Pinella frameset in 2009. I don’t have information on the 09 model, but the sub 3 pound Pinella has been among the lightest weight steel frames available. Though there are concerns with durability — the light weight comes from paper thin […]
Cycling advocates in Richmond, Indiana wanted a bike map to help promote the use of bicycles around their city. The city didn’t have the funds to develop and print a bike map, so Mark Stosberg and other cyclists started an advocacy group, identified cycling routes, presented the maps idea to the city staff, looked at […]
Crown Prince Willem Alexander of the Netherlands carries his daughters, Princess Alexia and Princess Catharina, in his box bike while his wife Princess Maxima totes Princess Ariane on the back of her bicycle.