Tag: Biking - Page 12
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Think You Know What A 'Utility' Bike Should Be? Vote For Your Favorite
What is the 'ultimate utility bike'? The organizers of Oregon Manifest Construction Design Challenge 2011 Oregon Manifest 2011 aimed to find out. Setting that theme attracted a big batch of entries -
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More Evidence of Peak Car: Percentage of Young People With Licences Is Way Down
Cars used to be such a big part of being young; The Beach Boys could fill an album with songs about it. But they are losing their allure; TreeHugger covered an earlier Canadian study that claimed Young People Want Apartments, Not Houses; iPhones, Not
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Guess What? 2011's 'Ultimate' Utility Bike Is Electric
The Oregon Manifest 2011 Constructor's Design Challenge was meant to get custom bike builders to come up with some innovative and snazzy new utility bikes, in the hopes that their best and brightest ideas will trickle in to the
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What Would The 'Best' Utility Bike Look Like?
"not only a great experiment at marrying design firms with bicycle craftspeople, it is also a conversation about the
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Maker Faire NYC: Hand-Painted Bike Helmets Are Stylish and Beautiful
Few, if any of the many bike helmets we've covered on TreeHugger have embodied simplicity and beauty as well as those from the aptly-named Belle Helmets. The work of Danielle Baskin, the helmets are all hand-painted, and were on
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Bike Rack BirdHouse Holds Your Helmet Too
Bikes can be a problem when you live in small spaces. One approach is to design a special bike like Graham Hill did with his Thinbike; another is to get it off the floor. TreeHugger has shown wall mounts that are utilitarian and
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New Cycling-Themed Thriller Confirms New Yorkers' Worst Impressions of Bikers
"Fixed gear. No brakes. Can't stop. Don't want to, either." So begins the trailer for "Premium Rush," an action thriller about a New York City bike messenger caught up in a life or death chase with a dirty cop and a
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Nutcase Debuts Bicycle Helmet Designed For Commuters
At this week's Interbike show in Las Vegas, Nutcase introduced a new helmet specifically re-tooled to meet commuter cyclists' concerns.
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Greek Company Gives Pay Rises to Employees That Protect the Environment and Themselves
Recently I met the Spanish partners of Coco-mat, a greek company that makes sleeping products out of natural materials. The products are fantastic; made in Greece from renewable materials such as wood, wool, cotton, sea grass,
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Clever Design Has Bike Frame Do Double Duty as Bike Lock
There is the basic bike rule that the lighter the bike, the heavier the lock. Toronto designer Andrew Leinonen breaks the rule; in his new design, the bike is the lock. It's really clever; the lock
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Janette Sadik-Khan Gets What She Deserves From New York Times
The graphic says it all, as Frank Bruni writes about the wonderful job New York City Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan has been doing for cyclists, in the face of serious opposition. Bruni
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Getting Girls On Bikes - Where Should We Draw the Sexy Vs. Sexist Line? (Video)
Does the world need more girls, women, elegant ladies, and feminist female fatales on bikes? Yes, yes, yes, and yes. John Pucher's latest look at U.S. biking data tells a sorry tale - men 18 - 64 are fueling
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New York Fashion Week: Custom Bikes by Designers Betsey Johnson, Nanette Lepore and More (Slideshow)
Stylish men and women wanting to make way through the streets of the city to see the Spring 2012 collections in anything but a cab or underground are able to tap into something a lot more fun.
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5 Good Reasons The Tea Party Should Love Bicycles
Ron Paul rides a bike with his supporter Michael Maresco - from Maresco's Ride For Honesty web site. DCStreetsblog said yesterday and Bloomberg also reports that Republican Tom Coburn is blocking a "clean" extension to the SAFETEA-LU bill and insisting
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Hövding Airbag Helmet Wins World's Largest Design Prize
We were so intrigued by the Hövding airbag bike helmet that we covered it twice, here and here. While we might have been a bit dubious about a $500 one-shot helmet designed to prevent helmet head, the judges at INDEX, the world's
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Who Really Benefits From Socialism In America? Drivers.
It is a standard Republican meme, that Obama is a socialist. But who are the real socialists in America? James Schwartz of the Urban Country quotes a definition of socialism:
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Is a Self-Inflating Tire Worth The Extra Cost?
Benjamin Krempel has invented the PumpTire, that keeps a bike tire inflated at the proper pressure. Gizmag explains how it works:
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Guess What: Bike Lanes Improve Driving Conditions For Cars
Listening to the noise from some politicians in New York and Toronto, you would think that bike lanes are the worst things that ever happened to their roads, taking up space that was theirs and theirs
