Solar-Powered Bike Light
Cateye is coming out with a new bike light that appears to be a combination solar-charged Ni-MH battery and a AA alkaline battery. The AA serves as a backup when you're out of sun juice.
From Cateye's product description:
The solar cell charges the nickel-metal hydride battery for up to 6 hours ...
Pensacola Police Officer Hits and Kills Child on Bike
Jesus. Ok, I hope I can get off these negative posts, but this is reality people.
According to multiple witnesses, the story goes like this: Pensacola, Florida. Around 2am this past Saturday. A teenager is riding is bicycle. A cop in a car comes up and stuns the kid with a ...
Jail Time for Riding an Unlicensed Bike in Santa Monica?
Holy hell, this goes beyond ridiculous. Alex Thompson over at Westside Bikeside has shed some light on a nice post by Gary Kavanagh where he explains that riding an unlicensed bicycle in Santa Monica could get you up to 6 months jail time and up to a $1000 fine.
Today is ...
Girl on Bicycle Abused by Police at G20 Protests in Pittsburgh
Just when you needed another reason to hate cops. It looks like the first cop tries to punch her in the face but kind of wiffs. I hope this goes to court:
Here's the video:
This was during a protest in Oakland -- which is an area in Pittsburgh -- for the ...
Market St Traffic Reduction Experiment Starts This Week
Cyclists of San Francisco: go ride Market Street this week! Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, September 29, any private vehicles headed eastbound on Market Street in San Francisco will have to turn off at 8th Street to make way for bikes, pedestrians, public transit, taxis, and delivery vehicles. Mwah ha ha haaaa!! ...
Positive Disruptions: Improv Everywhere’s NYC Subway Yearbook Photos
Earlier this month, Improv Everywhere set up a make-shift photo studio on NYC Subway trains, claiming that the MTA had hired them to create a yearbook of passengers.
Riders who obliged sat for typical elementary-school style photos, complete with fabric backdrop and silver photo umbrellas -- inside a moving train!
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Today is World Carfree Day!
It's September 22, 2009 right now in the Bay Area. That means it's World Carfree Day!
Here's a nice quote from the World Carfree Network:
When people get out of their cars, they should stay out of their cars. It is up to us, it is up to our cities, and ...
New York Post Special Edition
They done it again. A fake "special edition" of the New York Post was distributed by thousands of volunteers all over New York City this morning. The paper, created by The Yes Men, is a brilliant ploy to capture the imagination of every day people in a shocking "what if" ...
Think You Have a Bruised Rib?
I get a weird amount of traffic coming to this site from people who are searching for something to do with cracked ribs. I think it has to do with my post about getting hit by a car a couple years ago.
While I'm in no position to give medical ...
Complaining About Track Bike Hipsters
It pains me to do a post that uses the word "hipster," because it's very usage in a sentence has already flagged the speaker (in this case, me) as snarky and judgmental...perhaps even, a hipster?! Yes, the instant that a person says the word, "hipster" they are transformed into a ...
I Just Rode My Bike Across Thailand!
Hello everyone. I haven't posted in five months and I don't feel the least bit guilty about it! :)
Right now I'm in the middle of I just finished a month-long bicycle tour across Thailand with my boyfriend fiancee, Tommy. We're blogging about our adventures here on our blog, Thailand ...
Economic Downturn Means Increased Bike Usage
Reuters' "Sign of the Times" article (Jan 23, 2009) described some of the ways that people worldwide seem to be adapting to more difficult economic times. One definite upshot to all this is the positive effects that economic slumps may have on bicycle adoption and usage.
Check it out:
Australian car ...
Fixpert a Guest on Bike Talk Radio – Listen!
I was in LA a couple weekends back, and my friend Jim Cadenhead of Orange20 fame invited me to be a guest on his radio show, Bike Talk. Bike Talk is on KPFK (90.7 FM) out of Los Angeles. The show is Saturdays from 10am-Noon. If you missed any shows ...
BikeStyler Customs Grand Opening
Last weekend, I went down to LA to celebrate the grand opening of BikeStyler Customs. BikeStyler is the brainchild of my friends Toons and J Swift. BikeStyler is not a bike shop, it's a bicycle customization lab. Powder coating, anondizing, BikeStyler does it all. Just bring your vision in there ...
Gil Kelley on “the bicycle city and a new energy paradigm”
Gil Kelley, Portland's long-time Bureau of Planning Director, has written a great opinion piece in the Oregonian which spells out his vision for the city's future, and includes some really inspiring ideas about the role that the bicycle could play.
The need to improve air quality drove much of our urban ...
UPS Delivering Via Bike During Holidays
What?!! Awesome!!
UPS has begun a pilot program to deliver packages by cargo bicycle instead of their classic boxy brown truck this holiday season. This experiment is currently being tested in Oregon, California and Washington as a cost cutting measure for the logistics company. Although package capacity per trip is a ...
Marcellus Hall’s December 2008 New Yorker Cover with Santa in a Bicycle Rickshaw
Whoa, hey! Check it out, Santa's riding a bike rickshaw on the cover on this month's New Yorker (December 2008). Illustration by Marcellus Hall.
Here's the New Yorker cover art archive.
CETMA Cargo Bike is Looking Pretty Sweet!
Check it out:
...right?! Pretty sweet. If you're not stoked, then watch the video:
Visit the CETMA site for more info about the CETMA Cargo Bike.
Multiple Cyclists in Traffic Should Follow Skiing & Snowboarding Rules and Etiquette
La la laaa, I'm just ridin' my bike. Hmm hmm hmm, ridin' my bike. *WOOOOOSH!!* DEG, WHAT THE F?!!
For all of its wonders and joys and amazing moments, San Francisco -- the bikiest of all bikey cities that I've ever lived in -- has presented me with one unique challenge ...