Tag: Bike Sharing - Page 4
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One Helmet, Many Heads - It's HelmetShare
In places where helmets are required (and even in places where they aren't) HelmetShare helps bike sharings grow
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Baltimore Announces Plans to Introduce Bike Sharing
Baltimore announced it that B-Cycle will install a bike sharing system in the city next year.
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Cycle Chalao! Bike Sharing Comes to India
Cycle Chalao! is bringing bike-sharing to Pune -- and the federal government is looking to help the program expand around the country.
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New Art-Bicycles by Gavin Turk
The British artist Gavin Turk loves bicycles. Last year he designed 15 wild and crazy bicycles for an international art fair.
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Bicycles Rule Britannia This Week
It's the Team Green Britain Bike Week and bicycles are busting out all over. There are activities across the UK with the aim of getting everyone thinking and riding bicycles.
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For Its 4th Birthday, Vélib' Plans to Get Faster and Better
Vélib',Paris' bike-share system, has come a long way since it was first introduced in July of 2007. From 10,000 bikes to 17,000, and 750 rental stations to 1,202 (that's one every 300
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First Gear. A Kid on a Bike is Independent and Healthy
Image credit: Specialized. "Set a kid riding and you set them on a winning course for life: You help defeat childhood obesity and attention deficit disorders. You give them a chance to progress and even excel in a sport. And you develop healthy habits
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Google Donates $25K to Boulder B-Cycle
Looks like Google was feeling generous toward Boulder—and toward bike-sharing—this week! The company gave a $25,000 donation to B-cycle "as part of Google's commitment to support innovative ways for using
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Bike Sharing Keeps Moving Forward: Now In The Interior Of Argentina
Photo: Santa Fe Government. It may be faltering in Barcelona, but bike sharing is definitely moving forward in more than 200 cities around the world. The latest addition to the trend in South America is a new program in Santa Fe province, about 300
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Bikes for the World Need a Storage Site. Can You Help?
Bikes for the World donates used bicycles to non-profit community programs in Africa and Central America "to enable the poor to hold jobs, attend school, and obtain health services." To date they've processed about
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CNN on Bike Sharing in Washington D.C. (Video)
Image: CNN Video screen grab Fair Criticism? Or Not CNN has a video segment about Washington D.C.'s Capital Bikeshare, a bike sharing program with over 1,000 bicycles and 100 stations. The whole thing is pretty positive: They interview people who feel
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Bicing Bike Sharing System Hits The Streets Of Buenos Aires Tomorrow
The Buenos Aires government sure is doing something right aggressively pushing bike use, even against complaining drivers or dumb press campaigns. After creating new bike paths and better conditions for bike
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Exclusive Preview: Urbikes Trapper, the First Intelligent Electric Public Bicycle Sharing Systems
What characteristics should the perfect public bicycle have? A minimum of mechanical maintenance, maintenance-free shaft transmission, solid tires to avoid punctures, a theft-free design and an
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Roo Rogers on the Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Podcast)
Photo credit: Andrew Zuckerman "The great success of hyper-consumption in the 20th century was persuading consumers that sharing is somehow akin to being either a hippie or a communist," says Roo Rogers. "The 21st century is about realizing that sharing
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407 Bicycle Solutions: The Very Versatile Velocipede
Pedal power epitomises the type of solutions we need to embrace for a brighter future: efficient, accessible, human scale, non-polluting, simple, field-repairable, etc. Hence this little homage: 26 different bike round-ups totally some 407 bicycle
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What's Mine is Yours - The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Book review)
"Barter, Swap, or Pass on this Book." These are the first words you see on opening What's Mine is Yours - The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. Printed on the inner jacket of the book, in the style of a
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In Defense of Sidewalk Bike Riding
As a new
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When Bike Sharing Falters (and Why We Can't Let It)
In its early days, Barcelona's Bicing seemed like an unparalleled success. With 400 stations and 3,000 of the squat, burly red-and-white bikes stationed around the city, Bicing quickly became part of Barcelona's big
