Oct 22
If you’re a time traveler who’s looking for a good cyclist’s map of California in the 1890s, well, today’s your lucky day.**
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Oct 18
They don’t need gas, they can weave in and out of traffic, and you don’t even need a licence to ride one. But unless you tack on a set of panniers or a basket, bikes are notoriously lacking in storage space; a problem that Industrial Designer David Hotard might have eliminated with his novel Transport bike, which features trunk space inside the bike’s front wheel.
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Oct 14
Cycling is great, but transporting much more than your person from here to there means becoming a bit of a human pack mule. Buca Boot hopes to make the schlep a whole lot easier.
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Oct 10
The ICEdot crash sensor clips to any bike helmet and registers impacts via a gyroscope and an accelerometer. If you take a digger and you don’t wake up, it tells your phone to call for help.
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Sep 30
An avid cyclist — and bike blogger — signs up to test Google Glass. He uses it in the shop. He uses it on the road and on the trails. He learns where not to use it. This is his …
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Sep 26
The most expensive, most intricate bike locks you can buy are really only guaranteeing that your bicycle’s frame doesn’t get stolen. Everything else, from your wheels to your seat, are fair game if not taken with you or somehow secured. But that ‘somehow’ could very well be these clever Sphyke miniature combination locks, which make it impossible for your ride to be disassembled without knowing the passcode.
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Sep 25
Fat Wheels, Gravel Whips, and Kangaroo Leather: The Latest Cycling Gear at Interbike
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As I sit at the airport headed home, bleary eyed and exhausted after two days of this insanity, I try to parse all I learned, comprehend all I saw and, in the end, figure out why the hell WIRED was …
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Sep 20
When you ride your bike to and from work every single day, you’re going to want to make sure it’s as comfy as possible. And that’s exactly what Alter Cycles is promising commuters with its unorthodox take on shock absorbers. Instead of integrating them into the front forks, the company’s replaced the down tube on its bikes with a flexible bow that promises varying degrees of comfort.
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Sep 10
Riding your bike through a full-size carwash is one of the easier ways to seriously injure yourself. But who has the time to take a hose and sponge to their bike after a dirty off-road ride? The rich and famous, maybe, but for the rest of us an Italian company has developed a carwash for bikes—or a bikewash, if you will—called the QBike.
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Sep 04
For those who live and breathe by two-wheeled transportation, bicycles are more than just a way to get from here to there. The immediate, wind-on-your-face freedom of pedaling fast is a feeling that just can’t be matched by wandering around, road-tripping, or pretty much any kind of public transport.
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