May 31, 2010
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
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.
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March 8, 2010
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.
