It's not about the bike

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Bike Tree Stores Your Bike Safely

Bike Tree Stores Your Bike Safely 03/19/2005 02:45 AM

Do you remember the last time you locked your bike at a public post and took the seat, only to come back two hours later and find both the wheels have also been removed? (At least your Kryptonite was left intact!) The Bike Tree is the perfect solution for your city or school. Simply swipe your smart card, enter your PIN and watch as your bike is hoisted up into the glass canopy, filling out a bike rain forest of sorts. Perfect for bike sharing or rental programs, the system was first installed in Geneva and is powered by solar power, but your bike is still accessible 24/7. (Thanks, Luke!)

Product Page [BikeTree via T reeHugger]

Bike question

Bike question 06/12/2004 08:03 AM
I think I know the answer to this, but, we'll see: If bicycles are so damn good, why is it that I can walk up hills that I can't bike up?...

Bike Route 1.0

Bike Route 1.0 05/18/2004 09:03 PM
Bicycle route planning software.

Dec. 16: A Bike Helmet HUD

Dec. 16: A Bike Helmet HUD 12/18/2003 05:46 AM
Popular Mechanics Dec 18 2003 4:51AM ET

Dec. 16: Bike Helmets' HUD

Dec. 16: Bike Helmets' HUD 12/17/2003 06:13 AM
Popular Mechanics Dec 17 2003 4:53AM ET

SMS Message-spraying bike

SMS Message-spraying bike 07/30/2004 01:57 PM
AppleScript and Perl code translate each letter into a 5-by-5 dot-matrix pattern and send binary code to a black box containing a BASIC stamp microcontroller.

Digital Dirt Bike

Digital Dirt Bike 07/30/2004 09:56 AM

The Bronze medalist in the "Business & Industrial Products" category of the IDEA 2004 awards, the Digital Dirt bike is an all-in-one communications station, driven by a single technician from village to village to deliver news, weather forecasts, school lessons, and needed treatments for common diseases. It's currently being put to use throughout Andra Pradesh, India. It's basically just a notebook, a printer, camera, satellite phone, and sunshade all mounted together, but taken as a whole it's definitely greater than the sum of its parts. It's like Broadband-Over-Gasoline.

Read - DIGITAL DIRTBIKE [IDSA via SmartMobs]

The long bike ride

The long bike ride 08/03/2004 02:44 PM
The Long Bike Ride is a cross-country charity ride (which is short of its goal, kick in a few bucks) by two guys that have never ridden a bike more than 15 miles in one sitting. They're already halfway done, having ridden 50-75 miles everyday for the past couple months, probably thanks to riding high-end ultralight recumbent bikes. Their tour updates are extensive and looking at the photos they look quite relaxed. Then I realized if you're getting your 50-75 miles done in about 4 hours, the rest of the time you can just party! party! party! Still, a pretty amazing feat to do this entire route, especially considering their lack of experience and training.

statesman.com | Lance's Bike

statesman.com | Lance's Bike 07/22/2004 02:56 AM
Tour de France blog by Lance's bike .. It is about the bike

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Game Bike Controller

Game Bike Controller 05/14/2004 11:48 PM
JANE PINCKARD -- Who says gamers are fat and lazy couch potatoes? Not me, anymore. Just hook up this handy accessory, set your bicycle on it, and spin, spin, spin your way to blooming good health while you play racing games. If only racing games weren't so boring....

Sinclair's Folding A-Bike

Sinclair's Folding A-Bike 07/08/2004 08:44 AM

Sir Clive Sinclair, inventor of the pocket calculator and the nigh-on-legendary Sinclair personal computer, has unveiled a new, folding bicycle design he's calling the 'A-Bike.' To be launched in 2005, the 12-pound bike can be folded and unfolded in around 20 seconds and rides on tiny, air-filled tires. The idea is (if it weren't obvious) to provide a cheapish alternative to full-sized bikes that can be folded up and taken with you wherever you go, although the $300 price is considerable more than it would cost to purchase a capable, if basic, street bicycle and chain. Still, I am intrigued. Portable urban transportation is one of my new pet pastimes, and the A-bike would be much easier to recharge than the electric scooters I've been eyeing (they sell pizza almost everywhere). (Thanks, Tim!)
Read - Clive Sinclair peddles world's smallest folding bike [Yahoo (Reuters)]

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"The car. The copter. The boat. The
bike"

"The car. The copter. The boat. The
bike" 05/12/2004 04:03 AM

Bike-eating tree

Bike-eating tree 12/05/2003 05:25 PM
Number three in a series of object-eating trees: the bike borg. Link (thanks, ernie!)

LED Bike Spoke Messages

LED Bike Spoke Messages 03/31/2005 07:08 PM

This is nearly too geeky, even for us: Hokey Spokes make up a set of LED blades that attach to your bicycle's spokes and spell out words and poor images while you ride about town, keenly aware of precicely how idiotic they make you look. The perfect compliment for your favorite pair of bicycle shorts, the blades communicate with each other using infrared and are actually programmed with your Palm, so you can make changes while on the run. I wouldn't be surprised if an entrepreneuring bike courier in New York started selling his spoke space for ads, really. Actually, for only $30-$40, the images they can create look pretty damn cool. On a computer screen. And not in "real life".

Product Page (Available now.) [hokeyspokes via I4U

A Bright, Shining Bike

A Bright, Shining Bike 09/15/2004 12:15 AM
Zoom! The upside of lax traffic laws and motor scooter travel in Viet Nam: a good time isn't better had than a sunny day's travel from Hoi An to the East Sea. If you visit here, take the time to go the beach. And take a scooter as the traffic here seems much easier to negotiate than anywhere else we've visited. Scooters with manual transmission. Love 'em. The weather wa ...

Bike Powered Pleasuring

Bike Powered Pleasuring 03/08/2004 11:12 PM
Bicycle!Bicycle!Bicycle! .. Dildo on a Bike Seat .. sex

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Panasonic's Folding Electric Bike

Panasonic's Folding Electric Bike 03/23/2005 04:53 AM

Panasonic has introduced a "folding" electric bicycle. Called the "Off Time," the bike can be folded to fit inside of a car's trunk, go with you on the train, or stashed under your bed for when you need to make a quick getaway. Its lithium-ion battery can drive for about two and a half hours, but I presume that even if it runs out, you can still pedal it like a normal bike.

Press Release [Panasonic]

A little girl on a bike with an ipod
mini

A little girl on a bike with an ipod
mini 06/05/2004 02:44 AM

As I was walking home this evening, a little girl was riding her bike in the middle of the street. She still had the training wheels on as she wobbled and struggled to peddle. It reminded me of when I was little and how badly I wanted a bicycle but couldn't get one. My parents wouldn't let me have a bike until I was 12; my mom was too afraid I'd hurt myself. I'd pass the bike section in the store and just look, having given up asking my parents about it long ago. I eventually did get one after much pleading and begging. Amazingly, getting my driver's license at 16 and the subsequent borrowing of the family car passed without incident.

That little girl's name was Nigritude Ultramarine. Critical IP still sucks. Andy Pressman is a talentless hack. I am part Jew.

Nanotubes race toward bike parts

Nanotubes race toward bike parts 09/01/2004 01:11 PM
Easton Sports plans to produce bicycle components made out of carbon nanotubes, a step forward for the tiny technology.

McGregor set for global bike trip

McGregor set for global bike trip 04/13/2004 12:33 PM
Ewan McGregor is to embark on a round-the-world trip by motorcycle with fellow actor Charley Boorman.

Quad bike thieves get their chips

Quad bike thieves get their chips 07/14/2004 08:34 AM
Microchip technology is drafted in to stem the theft of quad bikes by criminal gangs in Cumbria.

Cops Put Brakes on Bike Protest

Cops Put Brakes on Bike Protest 08/31/2004 04:36 AM
The creator of Bikes Against Bush planned to use his Wi-Fi-Bluetooth-SMS-bike combo to spray anti-Bush messages on city streets. But police intervene before he could start. Cyrus Farivar reports from New York.

"Senator Kerry for falling off his bike"

"Senator Kerry for falling off his bike" 05/04/2004 05:02 PM

Bike Writer Pedals for Protests

Bike Writer Pedals for Protests 08/02/2004 04:36 AM
Activist Joshua Kinberg is taking it to the streets with a graffiti-spraying bicycle, soon to be blanketing the streets of New York with anti-Bush slogans. You can get involved, too, via the Net and SMS. By Leander Kahney.

Wireless bike joins U.S. election
campaign

Wireless bike joins U.S. election
campaign 08/16/2004 08:18 AM
globetechnology.com Aug 16 2004 12:42PM GMT

Tour de France bl0g by Lance's bike

Tour de France bl0g by Lance's bike 07/21/2004 02:28 AM
the Austin American-Statesman is doing something interesting with this MT blog

3 Share Finishing Time After a 7-Bike
Sprint

3 Share Finishing Time After a 7-Bike
Sprint 07/10/2004 05:10 PM
The overall standing remained unchanged, with Thomas Voeckler in the yellow jersey by 3:01 over Stuart O'Grady. Lance Armstrong is in sixth place, 9:35 behind.

AP: Bush Rides Mountain Bike Hard (AP)

AP: Bush Rides Mountain Bike Hard (AP) 07/27/2004 02:29 AM
AP - Running hurt his knees. Swimming cramped his style. So President Bush took up mountain biking, a sport that gets him outdoors, pumps up his heart rate and, every so often, sends him crashing to the ground.

American Modder: Computer Bike Part V

American Modder: Computer Bike Part V 12/19/2004 03:47 PM
ExtremeTech's Master Modder continues the challenge of constructing the first ever "Motorcycle Mod."

CNN.com - Bush falls on bike ride - May
22, 2004

CNN.com - Bush falls on bike ride - May
22, 2004 05/23/2004 01:53 AM
Bush Falls on Bike Ride and Suffers Cuts and Bruises. White House Said Zarqawi Pushed Him. (Okay, The First Part is True Anyway.) 5/23 .. bikes

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Ex-coder's account of life as a bike
courier

Ex-coder's account of life as a bike
courier 03/25/2005 09:10 PM
Cory Doctorow: Duff is an ex-coder in Toronto who took Neal Stephenson and William Gibson to heart, and gave up programming to become a bike-courier, shedding pounds, getting hit by cars, and working the best job in his life. This K5 story covers the joys of couriering in depth. i used to ride a bike winter and summer in Toronto, and it was amazing. These days in London I'm still looking the wrong way when I step off the kerb about half the time, so I'm not getting near a bicycle until I can get my subconscious retrained.

As a courier, you will get hit by cars. It is an occupational hazard. Most of the skill involved in being a bike courier relates to making sure you never occupy the same space as a car at the same time. Even so, no matter how hard you pedal, you can't outrun the law of averages...

Personally, I have been hit twice while working. The first time was by a cabbie who changed lanes into me. I was knocked from my bike. My front wheel and shocks were damaged, but i wasn't. The second time was a door prize. As i rode north up Yonge, someone opened the door of their parked car directly into my path. This one was very scary, as the fall sent me rolling across three lanes of busy traffic, but both my bike and my person came out of it unharmed.

One thing I was surprised to discover is that pedestrians are almost as dangerous to the full-time cyclist as drivers are. Especially if you indulge in sidewalk riding, but frequently even if you stick to the road, people will dart in front of you or suddenly stop or change direction without even the most cursory glance or indication of intent. A car, at least, can't change its direction of travel by a full 180 degrees in half a second. Personally, I have never hit a pedestrian, but on at least two occasions I have bailed in the process of sudden evasive manoevers which they required of me.

Link (via AccordionGuy)

Bike trail info abounds online

Bike trail info abounds online 04/10/2005 10:41 AM
Startribune.com - Sun Apr 10, 03:54 am GMT

"Bikes Against Bush creator arrested
before he could even use the bike"

"Bikes Against Bush creator arrested
before he could even use the bike" 08/30/2004 10:12 AM

Kryptonite faces bike lock-picking
fiasco

Kryptonite faces bike lock-picking
fiasco 09/18/2004 01:56 AM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Sat Sep 18, 04:17 am GMT

Orange offers bike with hands-free phone

Orange offers bike with hands-free phone 02/17/2004 11:43 AM
ZDNet Feb 17 2004 3:38PM GMT

BBC NEWS | Europe | Revolutionary bike
'too quiet'

BBC NEWS | Europe | Revolutionary bike
'too quiet' 03/19/2005 02:19 AM
"The problem with the "fuel cell" bike, which produces no polluting emissions, is that it is too quiet." .. Hydrogen Fuel Cell Motorbike Unveiled .. hydrogen-powered motorcycle

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West Bank Suicide Bomber on Bike Wounds
2 Soldiers

West Bank Suicide Bomber on Bike Wounds
2 Soldiers 09/14/2004 05:29 AM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 14 2004 9:22AM GMT

Bike Crazy :: View topic - Why Howard
Dean is unelectable!

Bike Crazy :: View topic - Why Howard
Dean is unelectable! 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
Why Howard Dean is unelectable .. HR's target female audience .. Bike Crazy

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World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) June 12,
2004

World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) June 12,
2004 06/13/2004 10:47 AM
¨ªŠ† ‡…§Š ˆ†‡ ˆ§§† ¨‡†‡ ¬‡§† .. World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) June 12, 2004---There is one in Western NC .. original image .. some things .. overal

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Clive Sinclair peddles world's smallest
folding bike (Reuters)

Clive Sinclair peddles world's smallest
folding bike (Reuters) 07/08/2004 04:04 AM
Reuters - Zipped into a bag, it looks like a large umbrella. Unfolded, it plies the streets like any other bicycle.

It's not about the bike

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