A bike can be a cheap alternative for your daily commute, but only if you don’t have to replace it every few months cause it keeps getting stolen. The Kwiggle—designed by Karstin Bettin—all but guarantees your ride won’t get swiped, because it folds to a compact package that can be easily stashed under your desk, instead of requiring you to lock it to an easily accessible rack
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Anyone who was a child once upon a time has probably dreamed about making their bicycles fly across the full moon like in E.T. Awesome photographer Philipp Schmidli actually did that. He recreated the iconic E.T. movie poster by snapping an awesome picture of a biker riding off a ramp against the backdrop of a giant moon.
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The traditional handlebar bike basket can only carry so much, and while panniers over each tire can boost your bicycle’s cargo capacity, they’re useless for toting larger packages. What you really need to turn your bike into a capable hauler is the Spanish-designed Noomad which replaces your front wheel and fork with a pair of tilting wheels supporting a carrying platform.
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This incredible looking bicycle, known as Viks, is a fixed-gear commuter bike with a twist: it actually uses two identically shaped frames to form its body.
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New York’s Citi Bike scheme has been up and running for a couple of months now—which means there’s a glut of data available to analyze. This interactive New Yorker viz shows how the bikes were used every 15 minutes between June 8th and July 8th.
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Wow, you didn’t realize there was a way to roll down the street in style like this. THAT SOUND! It’s like a big, long continuous fart. This guy is gonna make millions.
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Holier-than-thou bicycle enthusiasts have been touting the benefits of their cleaner, healthier method of transportation for ages. But thanks to the UK’s leading website for lascivious adult pleasures, the act of bicycle riding is about to get a whole lot less—well, holy. That’s right, SexShop365 is proud to present the newest innovation in vibrating bicycle seats: the Happy Ride.
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It doesn’t even look like a bike but according to the wild mind of world-renowned cyclist Graeme Obree, it might be the fastest bike ever. Made from kevlar and fiberglass, the Beastie will be used at the World Human Powered Speed Challenge where Obree wants to break the world record of 82.8 mph. 83 miles per hour on that thing!
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As bike rental programs get more and more popular in big, tourist-friendly cities around the world, wouldn’t it be great if occasional cyclists could get a temporary helmet on the cheap? That’s the goal of the designers behind the Paper Pulp Project, who have designed a bike helmet made from recycled newspaper that costs less than $1.50 to produce, but is claimed to protect as well as a more expensive option.
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There’s a natural charm to cycling that allows you to feel at one with the environment that surrounds you—but if that’s not enough, maybe you need this bike that’s made from the environment that surrounds you.
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