October 13, 2011
Hello Track Bike in the Sun
2,000 × miles / 2 × clips / 1 × front wheel / 1 × tape earlier:
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Filed under: Biking
June 10, 2011
Truth.
2:00 for the win:
via Prolly
The problem with bike lanes is that they represent the marginalization of cyclists as a purportedly “separate but equal” citizen: we’re given what is realistically an infinitesimally limited space to exist in terms of the law, which does not even acknowledge that right. Instead, pedestrians and cars alike stake a claim to the bike lane as their own territory—or at least a kind of bridge (or purgatory) between the sidewalk and the street—while I often encounter cyclists salmoning or simply not sharing bike lanes, as though it is a bubble for the use of a single individual at any given time. (That said, this isn’t helping.)
Also:
Filed under: Biking
April 25, 2011
Bike Messengers × CSS Art Direction
While I wait for my H+Sons to arrive so I can finally post pictures of my new ride, Wired has a nicely executed HTML5/CSS online(-only?) article on bike messengers’ relationship with technology. I initally thought the neat inset images were background divs with chunky borders, but they’re actually just absolutely-positioned; the red arrow graphics are background images. (I also mistook the quotes for Knockout; turns out they’re in Tandelle.) via Prolly
Bonus:
By Mike Joos / via Fixed and What
What could he possibly be riding towards but more cookies?
Filed under: Biking · Tags: Biking, web design
May 31, 2010
Bespoke vs. Velo
Bike porn from the book Velo: Bicycle Culture and Design and Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle.
Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle
Museum of Arts & Design
2 Columbus Circle (SSE Corner)
New York NY 10019 [map]
212 / 299-7777
May 13, 2010 – August 15, 2010
Via Designboom, Coolhunting, PSFK, DB again & Gestalten; click image for original source.
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April 7, 2010
New Bike Tech
Hypebeast.tv has a new interview with the guys behind Outlier, who craft cyclable basics.
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Benedict Radcliffe Graffiti Bike = The Art of Going Brakeless / Instant Morris Louis
Viktor Vautier via Juxtapoz.
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I’m not surprised to hear that electric bikes are all the rage in China: I remember seeing countless two-wheeled contraptions that had some kind of ad hoc outboard motor strapped to them. In fact, I passed an old Chinese dude riding an electric bike across the Manhattan Bridge just the other day…
Of course, besides legal issues, GOOD points out that electric bikes represents a stepping stone between traditional transportation (bicycles) and an emerging middle class aspiring to Western ideals of status (electrics automobiles)—an intermediate space in a rapidly developing economy that is nonexistent in our car-dominated nation.
The Economist via GOOD. Also on NYT.
March 8, 2010
Psychling
Now that the weather has taken a long-awaited turn for the better, I’m officially setting a fitness goal for myself: I want to make good time on bike five laps around Prospect Park in a month. I’m not sure what exactly that means, but I think it’s reasonable to clock the 16.5-mile ride in at under an hour—it’s not terribly long by any means, but a decent distance for timing, plus that hill at the end is hell on the knees.
I rode 3.5 laps today (0.5 = cutting through Center Drive), but I still need to figure out my speed, since I haven’t been timing myself at all. I could also stand to upgrade my crank, but that’s a luxury at this point.