Tag: Bike Accessories - Page 7
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Cyclehoop Locks for Bicycles are Effective and Good Design
Good looking and effective street furniture is a constant theme at TreeHugger. As are bicycles. So a hearty welcome to Cyclehoop, a small company specialising in cycle parking and locking.
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Can Cycle-Cams Make the Road a Safer Place for Cyclists?
The road can be a dangerous, even deadly place for cyclists, and battles between cars and bikes have a sneaky way of turning out in the driver's favor. But by riding to work with a camera built into his helmet, London's Ben
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CES 2011: Powerful Bike-Powered Light and Charger by Jooyn
There's always a handful of interesting pedal-powered things at CES. This charger by Jooyn looks especially nice. It is a rear-wheel generator that can power bike lights and speaker system, and can charge up other devices with
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Potted Plant Helmets Hit the Streets of Indonesia (Video)
When it comes to our increasingly crowded city streets, where trucks and cars and bikes clamor and jockey for a spot, it seems there's hardly room anymore for a little green to soak up all that CO2. But, thanks to two
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The Week in Pictures: Italian Renewable Energy Exec Arrested for Mafia Ties, 90% of Kuwait's Coral Reefs Have Mysteriously Died, and More (Slideshow)
It didn't take long for new developments to surface about the Italian Mafia infiltrating the renewable energy industry: Police officers have arrested a renewable energy exec and seized 1.5 billion euros worth of assets, because of alleged mafia ties.
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Smart Green Bike Gear for Cyclists (Slideshow)
Photo via Organic Bikes Biking has countless benefits, from the positive effects on your health to the way it can cut your carbon footprint, but having the right gear can be the difference between taking the bike out and letting it gather dust in your
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Smart Green Bike Gear for Cyclists
Trading your car for a bike -- even just on short trips -- is one of the easiest (and healthiest) ways to make a dramatic difference in your carbon footprint. But whether you're a morning commuter or a weekend racer, successful biking depends on the right
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DIY Cargo Bikes Haul It All - From Kayaks to Compost
When I wrote about cycling and the homeless recently for EnzymePDX, I happened to find out about Tony and his trailers through a work colleague. A one-time Tour de France
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Reinventing the Dutch Bike for Global City Slickers
In Amsterdam, a majority of the bikes are black. Look out at the sea of bikes parked at the city's Central station and you see a lot of black, highly practical and functional omafiets ("grandma bikes") that most women and men
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Vogue Fashion's Night Out Takes an Eco-Friendly Spin with Bike Helmet Design Contest
How do you interpret "Eco Fashion" style in your everyday life? Come up with the best graphic answer and you could win a piece of a €3,000-prize pot! Vogue and Fiat have launched a competition to design a bike helmet for the Fiat 500
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Solar Powered Bike Bags for Energy Savvy Cyclists
Sticking solar cells on bikes for supplemental power is not exactly new, but the idea is finally finding more fashionable forms. Well, sort of. This small bag fits onto handle bars or the bike bar for
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DIY Electroluminescent Bike is Perfect Project for Paranoid Pedaler
For anyone who wants to make sure they're ultra-visible while riding their bike at night, this 10-step DIY project might be the ticket. Using electroluminescent wire -- copper cabling coated in reactive paint that emits light
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FAIL! 5 Ways Google's "Bike There" Is Not All There Yet
If Google's GMail is any indication, Google Maps Bike There may be in beta for a long, long time. And that's likely a good thing. Many of us encouraged creation of the bicycle mapping tool, are using it every day, and really
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Beautiful Bent Wood Basket for Chic Cargo-Carrying Cyclists
As bike culture comes into its own, many people switching to two-wheeled transportation want to ride with style. From "Cycle Chic" fashion shows in stylish Santa Barbara during National Bike to Work Month, to major designers
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7 Great Solutions for Safely Parking City Bikes
It's not hard to find innovation in bike parking - lots of funky and functional designs are constantly being created for parking fixtures - the staples, rungs, and poles that help cyclists
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If Bike Theft Makes You Fat, Better Bike Parking Makes You Thin
It's practically a requirement these days to carry not one but two ponderous bike locks, yet city streets are still thick with bike thieves. A British insurance survey recently
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Biking And Walking Get More Bucks, Keep Going Up
It may seem like an, "Oh, duh," with the government the last to confirm the news, but a 15-year report released by the U.S. Department of Transporation and the Federal Highway Administration shows a 25% increase in trips
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6 Ways to Boost Your City's Bike Mojo
When Portland lost its first-place, "friendly bike city" status to suddenly hip Minneapolis, Portland
