Rolling By, Beneath My Window – Downwind Of Amsterdam: The inspiration for Laura Domela? Via Bluebird Bicycle
Boing Boing: Unpaid diplomatic parking tickets as index of national corruption Muslim countries worst; North Europeans best. Correlation to social status of bicycle almost 1. (And let’s not talk about the million quids the US Embassy is owing us. Bastards)
Bicycle destroy – YouTube Video showing what the Japanese do if you don’t park your bike correctly. Via InfoJunk Surly long bike – Cleverchimp Surly introduces a bike built to fit the Xtrabike loading tail
Acrobat – Google Video Chinese acrobat makes it look simple – via Bike Punx
Eicma 2006 (Milan trade show) – Ciclistica.it Carbon, carbon and more carbon; the reporter concentrates on the few steel jewels. Urban bikes: zero
Steam bicycles MAKE: Blog As soon as the bicycle was invented, people wanted to make motorcycles. Bicycle Painting live – Bicycle Design: Taliah Lempert, who paints portraits of bicycles (see above), will be painting the bikes of Gary Fisher and Davis Phinney at the big US trade show, Interbike. On Thursday the 28th, the paintings will be raffled off, with the proceeds going to a Parkinson’s disease charity. Japanese Cycle Train
The Bicycle Saboteur of Riverbank State Park — New York Magazine “Epidemic of carpet-tack attacks along the Hudson River paths” Lovely image heralding the autumn by Francisco
How Brompton began – British Industry “Andrew Ritchie: ‘The intention was that the idea would be licensed to an existing manufacturer. It didn’t work out quite like that. We made some prototypes and hawked them around. It wasn’t long before I realised that we were following a flawed strategy…’ ” Via Folding News Image by our customer Greg Cowan, who can go to his gigs super-efficiently, now that he has a special cargo bracket for the Brompton.
Adidas Helps You Monitor Your Heart – CrunchGear “The system has sensors built throughout the shirt to check your heart rate and the shoes to keep tabs on how far and fast you’re moving. After your workout, just upload all the info to your PC via Bluetooth and see how you did, and how long it took you to recover. The sensors are supposed to be soft, as not to be uncomfortable and the transmitter that collects all the data is firmly planted in the [...]
Wearing helmets ‘more dangerous’ – BBC “The study found drivers tend to pass closer when overtaking cyclists wearing helmets than those who are bare-headed.” Image by Hugo. Now, that is when you need helmets. Possibly.
