Lifecycle - A bike in New York is locked to a pole and photographed everyday as it slowly disappears.
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posted by quin
on Jan 21, 2012 -
42 comments
Forget Velonews. For years now, the best place to follow the big cycling stage races has been
steephill.tv, a "bike travelogue" with stage previews, results, news articles, photos, and video curated every day of the race. This site is an obvious labor of love... with no ads! If you want to watch or listen to the Tour de France for free, steephill will helpfully tell you
where to go on the web. But if you're away from your computer or don't have Versus (in the US), there's
an NBC iPhone app with live video, for $14.99 (launches iTunes)
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posted by jstef
on Jul 1, 2011 -
24 comments
Your Sweet Justice story for the day: In February, K.C. was riding her bike home from work. While waiting at a stop light, she felt a slight bump from the car behind her, followed by laughter from within. K.C. wasn't looking for a fight, and did her best to ignore this. Disappointed with his failure to elicit a response, the driver bumped her again, this time a bit harder. This is when K.C. pulled out her police badge, and
things started to get weird...
posted by schmod
on Jun 14, 2011 -
94 comments
Michael had always claimed he could make anything from wood, and James called his bluff in a big way.
More than 1,000 man hours and a considerable amount of skill and ingenuity later, the
SplinterBike was ready to ride.
posted by veedubya
on Apr 27, 2011 -
39 comments
Ride the City maps the best or safest urban bicycle route from point A to B. Presently featuring multi-lingual maps from New York, Chicago, Austin, Louisville, San Diego, and Seattle.
Their blog posts updates about new cities added to the grid, or other topics relating to urban bicycling.
posted by netbros
on Oct 29, 2009 -
16 comments
David Byrne has just published a new book about bicycles called
Bicycle Diaries. A long time rider, Byrne muses on how the world looks and works from the vantage point of a cyclist. It's
getting pretty good reviews. To launch the book, Byrne is touring the US and arranging public forums. Each event features a civic leader, an urban theorist, a bicycle advocate, and Byrne himself speaking about bikes in cities. Here’s a
schedule of the upcoming events. He’s also designed some
bike racks for his hometown of New York City.
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posted by Toekneesan
on Sep 27, 2009 -
28 comments
Bicycle Snobbery - whether "mustache handlebars", silly tattoos, "mankinis" or other male cycling fashion statements, brass knuckle bicycle grips or celebrity brokeback pie-plates, NYC's Bike Snob casts judgment on all he surveys from one high gear
posted by Blazecock Pileon
on Jul 6, 2009 -
43 comments
The Vélocouture flickr pool. Over 1600 photos of
stylish (and, uh, "
differently-styled") bike fashion, from
the hipster to
the formal, the
casual, the
young, the
old old-timey, the
new old-timey, and
much,
much more. There's also a
blog.
posted by dersins
on Apr 23, 2009 -
37 comments
62 year old emergency physician John Hall and his wife Jane took off on a
Bike Ride Around America to promote cancer awareness. They started on
April Fool's Day, and completed their 12,000 mile journey around the perimeter of the country just
today. Along the way they encountered hundreds of towns and thousands of
friendly people, and a few
not so nice. All in all, a pretty amazing accomplishment in my book.
posted by netbros
on Jul 31, 2008 -
21 comments
Igor Kenk was arrested for bicycle theft in Toronto on July 17. Here's an audio documentary that includes an interview with the man himself:
Steal This Bike (be warned, a lot of profanity, and a little pretentious).
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posted by Chuckles
on Jul 29, 2008 -
46 comments
Suddenly, a man in a vintage hat rides up, hip-hop blaring from a glowing Plexiglas container shaped like a tropical fish set above the back wheel of his bicycle, control lights flashing. Fossil Fool, a rolling rapper from San Francisco who rides the college circuit preaching the benefits of peddling, grabs his microphone, cranks up the volume and starts to rap. Paul Freedman, aka
Fossil Fool, is one of the founders of
Rock the Bike, which makes Soul Cycles -- bicycle-based, often human-powered hi-fi and
PA systems -- for "playing clean, powerful, uplifting
music at street festivals and off-grid parties." RTB recently made a
mobile DJ booth for Austin's DJ Manny;
here's how. Attention, party-throwers: In 2008, you may well be able to
rent or borrow a Soul Cycle for your own shindig.
posted by GrammarMoses
on Oct 28, 2007 -
9 comments
