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And you? DO you have ORDER SYSTEM??
Wheels of Change: How The Bicycle Empowered Women
Posted: Sunday, May 22, 2011 by greeni in misc, news/eventsThe bicycle as cultural agent. Fantastic book and a great post about it here. Read more. National Geographic‘s Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) tells the riveting story of how the two-wheel wonder pedaled forward the emancipation of women in late-nineteenth-century America and radically redefined the [...]
One rather unusual use of a bike part. Who’s gonna do this on their bike?
from here: http://www.manmadecreation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/TypographicBicycle_AARLINE.png
Just got a bottle of their Pinot Noir at Sainsbury’s today to go with some black truffle pasta tonight. Cono Sur has teamed up with susTrans to celebrate 15 years of the National Cycle Network. The bottle comes with a raffle ticket that, among other things, informs us about the ‘phenomenal growth of cycling’. Well… [...]
I suppose you can see where this is going? flat tire, this pump, parking car… ;) ingenious! http://www.instructables.com/id/Automatic-bicycle-pump/
Check out this credit card sized bike tool. Looks handy hey? More pics after the jump: http://www.sutkutusu.com/post/1215794199/brokebikealley (sent by Matti)
Stole this off facebook somewhere. I think it’s one of Kaja’s friends.
Jamie Fouss: China’s recent economic growth has been impressive, giving the normal Chinese person the opportunity to buy luxury goods that they only could have dreamed of a short while ago. It is estimated that in Beijing alone, more than 1,000 new cars are added to the road every day. The ubiquitous bicycle is still [...]
Reading through issue #1 of the Bristol based Boneshacker Magazine. It’s fantastic! Conceived by James Lucas who started a community bicycle workshop more or less like ours down in Bristol, ‘Boneshacker is a collection of articles, stories and anecdotes about people and projects doing great things with bicycles.’ Full to the brim with photography and [...]
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Randonneuring is a type of organised long distance bicycle riding, with rides typically covering between 100 and 1,200 kilometres (60-750 miles). A participant is known as a randonneur, and an event is a randonnée. The term brevet may be used interchangeably with randonnée, although strictly speaking, a brevet is one [...]
also here: http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1936094
Lance Armstrong, isolated after flatting, rides in a cloud of dust on a cobblestone section during the third stage July 6. (AP Photo/Fred Mons, POOL) –> Fantastic shots on boston.com
This urban bicycle-rental dispenser was developed by industrial design agency Springtime and engineer consultants Post&Dekker—both located in Amsterdam. The system allows for one-way trips; an interested rider can rent the bike at one machine and drop it off at another. For tracking purposes, the bikes are equipped with RFID chips, so if “misplaced,” they’re easy [...]
In case you don’t know it, this is a really nice blog to read through every once in a while: http://www.copenhagenize.com/
What a fantastic place! http://www.keirinberlin.de
