The creator of BitLock has a vision of networking and sharable objects. This vision speaks directly to today’s bike culture on a cool, down-to-earth, and yet contemporary-techno dimension. The particular sharable objects are a bike and a BitLock. A BitLock is a bike lock which is easily controlled by a smartphone. Urban bike culture has been waiting …
The Hammerhead is an interesting product for cyclists that is looking to get commercialized via crowdfunding site Dragon. There are a couple of particularly cool things about the Hammerhead. For one, connecting it with an iPhone or Android phone, you can get led along great bicycle routes “wherever” you are. And those routes will be …
The Gas2 repost below features some pretty cool- …errr… hot-looking panties for women cyclists. I’m afraid that the ladies might be pulled over in some places for riding around in public in these things… or is such a use just for the Kickstarter crowdfunding photos? Anyway, these are hot — within just about 5 days, …
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Redefining is the catchword for our progressive bicycle landscape. It is not lip service. As part of that, companies are rapidly redefining bicycles, and consumers now have a grand wave of bicycles to choose from. Gliding over and around the entire globe has never before been so diversely accommodating. The electrifying Vanmoof “intelligent” bicycle, Vanmoof …
Vanmoof 10 Electrified — The Intelligent Bicycle, Smartest Around Read More »
For the next generation of bike-sharing innovations, take a look at Copenhagen and smile. Trains and a bike-sharing program working as one travel option now offer a GPS built into the bike. Not only do you know where to pick up your next connection – you have a schedule of all local train times between …
Whenever I unpackage new items, they come with small pieces of bubble wrap… as I’m sure is the same for many of you. But as a kid, they were always too small, especially for someone that loved popping bubble wrap like my sister. Now there is a bicycle that will both dispense bubble wrap and …
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A unique new bicycle saddle design — one that effectively prevents chafing, pain, and other common forms of damage associated with the genital area, such as impotence and prostatitis — has been created by researchers at the University of Alicante. The new design is — essentially — just a hinged articulated saddle where the coccyx-support …
As you’ll see in the videos below, MJ the cat is now a famous Philadelphia cat thanks to his bike courier owner Rudi Saldia. Rudi gave the 1-year-old cat a ride up and down the street, which MJ seemed to like. So they went further and further. Being his only time outside (plus, you know, the …
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Here’s a pretty wicked little DIY project: And the video before that one, with more info: For a quick text summary, Michael Graham Richard of TreeHugger has a good one written up already: [Matt Richardson] used an inexpensive Raspberry Pi credit-card-sized single-board computer to create a very special kind of bike headlight that can dynamically project information on …
I’m all for simple cycling. I consider myself a Dutch-style cyclist — in other words, I simply get on my bike (with normal clothes on) and ride away at a comfortable pace. No need to complicate things and turn bicycling into some kind of high-tech insider’s club. That ruins the simply, efficient appeal of it …
Bike lights are great, but they’re rather small and can sometimes be easily missed. Wouldn’t it be great if the lights gave a better message to drivers to watch out and give the biker his or her deserved space? Heck yeah! So I’m really hoping this great bike light concept below gets off the drawing …
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I love the way this attention-getting, eye-catching, visibelt for cyclists, runners, pedestrians, and any night-time traveler is made of energy-efficient LED lights; spinning out from one’s body like an aura. I want one. It would go great with an actual “Aura” system on my wheels when biking at night. This visibelt will bring bright notice of me or you as …
Eye-Catching Visibelt — Vibrant Protection for Cyclists, Runners, Pedestrians at Night Read More »
Who doesn’t love small, independent bike shops (other than big, corporate bike shop chains, that is…)? But for those of us who travel or move around a lot (and I think that’s most people these days), it can be hard to find such bike shops in new cities (ok, not that hard, but not always that easy either). Additionally, in some places, there’s no independent, local bike shop at all. The Bike Store Guys is a website that links up many of these shops, though, and helps create a broader community of such bike shop owners and lovers, for people across the U.S. Here’s more from their website
Groningen would be number one on this list if we were looking at percentage of residents who bicycle for transportation purposes. About 57% of travel in Groningen is by bicycle! The city has been named the world’s best bicycle city a couple of times (1993 and 2006). It is a university city which is part …
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