Latest Stories in Bikes - Page 5
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10 Wacky Kickstarter Bike 'Innovations' You May Never See
Bicycle innovations are booming - but even the best ideas can't always get Kickstarter funders to part with their cash. Take a look at these ideas and ask yourself - good, bad, or just weirdly conceived?
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DIY Pop-Up Workshop Fits on Your Bike
Take your booth or workshop with you wherever you go. Expanding the concept of cargo bike, this DIY workshop is designed to trail along to any location reachable by cycling!
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Kickstarter Money or Darwin Award? That's the Question About the Bag Buddy
Putting a 30 pound pendulum at the end of your handlebars is not a good idea in this universe.
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Liquid Aims to Be AirBNB of Bike World
Bike sharing services are ripping around the globe aiding mobility in big cities. But bike sharing doesn't always make it easy for the average tourist to get a bike. Now a new service wants to be the AirBNB of biking.
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Walk Score Now Ranks the Bikeability of Every Address in 36 Cities
There are many great organization working on promoting alternatives to car-centric transportation in the U.S., and Walkscore is one of them.
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The Unexpected Beauty of Car-Free City Streets (Video)
Colombia (where ciclovías originated) and some other cities, including Guadalajara, Mexico, give big-city citizens a weekly car-free break. Norteamericanos have more cities celebrating ciclovías, but with more infrequent events.
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Bicycling Outfits That are Organic, Reycled and Fair Trade: What More Could You Want?
These cycling clothes are organic, fair trade and recycled--and good looking too.
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How to Get a Christmas Tree Home via Electric Bike
Turns out you don't need a car to get an evergreen tree back to your house -- even a full-sized christmas tree.
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Happy Holidays: Biking Across New York City to Make a GPS Holiday Card!
Erik Trinidad decided to do something different for his holiday card this year...
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The Recyclable Bicycle Helmet - Designed With Woodpeckers in Mind (Video)
For some people, helmet choice is all about style. So can Abus, the German company famous for its locks, make a helmet that is both stylish, and able to be recycled?
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Great-Grandpa Discovers the Joy of Biking, Becomes a Paperboy at Age 86
Rediscovering the joy of cycling just might be the key to staying young at heart after all.
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Alex Moulton, Master Bicycle Designer, 1920- 2012
It was the original light high performance lightweight bike.
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10 Great Examples of Winter-Friendly Bike Gear
Fair weather cyclists be warned: Winter cycling gear here is so great you may be tempted to get your bike out of winter hibernation. Or how about the perfect holiday gift?
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Safe Physically Separated Bike Lanes Finally Make Their Way to East Harlem
Congratulations to the locals who fought to get better and safer streets!
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How Not To Design Bicycle Infrastructure: A Dutch Cyclist Visits London
He could have visited Toronto or a whole lot of other cities and seen much the same thing.
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Your Office Is On Your Bike
Dutch designers turn cargo bike into mobile office
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Bike Friday Recalls 3,800 Tikit Folding Bicycles
You are asked to immediately stop riding the bicycle and contact Bike Friday to to schedule a free repair.
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Cyclist Fights Helmet Laws in Court. Loses Drivers License.
One cyclist is so adamantly opposed to helmet laws, she's willing to have her bikes confiscated. Should the law just let her be?
