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Which of Two Mornings is Your Morning?

Two Mornings, a video short by the Sierra Club, will either make you serenely pleased with your morning or leave you wondering if you made the right choice. Which of the two mornings is yours (video after
Engineering Student Builds Flywheel Energy Recovery Into Bike

Max von Stein's flywheel bicycle is everywhere these days. The engineering student first demonstrated it at the Cooper Union year-end show. ArchPaper described it:
Cycling Across Scandinavia: Stockholm's Vision for Urban Life

We are at the end of our LostGen2 quest for the world's best city
Only in San Francisco: Artisan Pickles Delivered by Cargo Bike

OK, it isn't as exciting as Copenhagen's Spermcycle, but Brad Koester comes close with his picklecycle. He delivers his artisan pickled dills, green beans and onions with a Burley Travoy bike trailer, "or other
More Bike News: David Suzuki on Bike Lanes, The Guardian On Toronto's War on Bikes

David Suzuki weighs in on bike lanes in Huffington Post Canada: Most arguments against bike lanes are absurd. Consider this: We have wide roads everywhere to accommodate cars, most of which carry only one person. On
When an 81 Year Old Driver Kills An 84 Year Old Cyclist, Why Do They Blame The Victim?

The Toronto media went insane last month when a cyclist hit a pedestrian and injured her; (see The War On Bikes In Toronto Just Got A Poster Child) Suddenly everyone was calling for licensing of bikes, mandatory insurance and testing.
Bike Sharing: Saves Lives, Cuts Carbon Emissions

It's no longer big news when a European city gets a new bike share program, unless they do it bigger, better, or with a technical innovation that hasn't been seen before. It is newsworthy,
Free "Tour de Fashion" Designer Bikes Coming to New York Fashion Week

The Fashion Center is outfitting New York City with "Tour de Fashion," a fleet of thirty bicycles customized by the city's top designers just in time for Fashion Week.
Drivers Beware! Park in the Bike Lane in Vilnius, Lithuania, and Your Car May Get Crushed By a Tank

Screenshot from YouTube. Though bad driver behavior in Vilnius, Lithuania, hasn't quite reached Moscow-like levels yet, Mayor Arturas Zuokas had gotten sick and tired of cars parking illegally in the capital's bike lanes. While other city officials
Copenhagenizing Has Another Name: The Slow Bike Movement

We have talked about "Copenhagenizing", Mikael Colville-Anderson's term for learning to ride bikes like they do in Copenhagen, in street clothes, at a comfortable pace, usually without a helmet. Andrew Sullivan points us to the
Cycling Across Scandinavia: Making Design Choices For A Sustainable City

What can Canadian cyclists say about Gothenburg? If Gothenburg had a Canadian city doppelgänger it
Brompton Dock Is A Different Kind of Bikeshare System

TreeHuggers will be familiar with bikeshare programs like the Vélib or the Bixi, where durable city bikes are borrowed from and returned to docking stations. These systems are not without their problems, including often not
Sneak Peek! Designing The Utility Bike of The Future (Video)

A lot of fancy futuristic bicycle designs have garnered TreeHugger posts. We all want to know what the future will bring in terms of cooler features and entirely novel forms. You'll notice, though, that most of those future-oriented bicycle ideas sport
World Naked Bike Ride in NYC Protests Car Culture and Body Shame (Photos)

Sunday was a big day in New York City. It was the first day of legalized gay marriage, so there was plenty of celebrating going on in the streets. And to add to things, a horde of scantily clad, even naked cyclists
10 Firefighters Cycle From LA to NYC to Honor 9-11 Victims and Raise Money for Charity

On Sunday, a team of ten firefighters pulled out of a fire station in downtown Los Angeles, but not in a fire engine, and not in response to an emergency call. They were all on bicycles, and at the
Cycling Across Scandinavia: AprÃ¨s Moi, Le DÃ©luge

Leaving Copenhagen hurts. And it is not just because we're abandoning the most livable big city I
Bike Nation to Ford Nation: "We Just Want To Share"

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford was elected on a platform of "Respect For Taxpayers", but that hasn't stopped him from spending $400,000 of taxpayers money to rip up bike lanes that are purported to be slowing traffic. Last night,
Cycling Across Scandinavia: You Don't Have To Be A Starchitect Ambulance Chaser To Be Impressed

In our search for some kind of Grand Tour enlightenment, the first lesson we learn is that in