Category: Cycling
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Steel v. Not Steel (lovingthebike.com)
Interesting set of interviews about bamboo and wood bicycle parts, and the phattest steel ride you can find. Neat to see an interview with Craig Calfee:
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Bicycling Keeps Cash in the Local Economy (Grist)
Money paid for petrol doesn’t stay in the local economy. It doesn’t really even stay in America. This Grist article describes how riding a bicycle instead of a car helps improve the economy. Not just from reducing petrol purchases, but by bolstering local bike mechanics and shifting the trend away from drive-thru fast food to…
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Higher Foot Pegs on the Xtracycle
Jesse’s legs are not long enough yet to take advantage of the Footies that came with my Xtracycle Freeloader. Luckily the cargo racks are 1″ tubing, so I am able to put bar-ends on them so he has a place to rest his feet.
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No-weld homebuilt recumbent? Cruzbike!
I was reading this EcoVelo post on multi-modal bicycling and there were a shower of comments about this recumbent called Cruzbike. Not only are there stock models, but there is also a build kit that you can take a y-frame full suspension mountain bike and turn it into a ‘bent. Some Cruzbike discussion on bikeforums.…
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Bike Light Patterns
Here’s a blog that has a bunch of posts discussing the effectiveness and perils of bike light qualities. It’s easy to think that a brighter light is more effective but blinding drivers around you clearly won’t help you on your commute.
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Sara Salo and her School Food Bicycle Tour
Let’s not take for granted what our kids eat in school. If you’ve actually looked at a school menu, I think you’d be distinctly disappointed. It’s filled with white flour and sugar: juice, cookies, and some combination of pizza, hamburger, grilled cheese or the like. By some standards that’s a nutritional nightmare. I am fascinated by…
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Anticipating Seattle to Portland 2011
I’m looking forward to riding my recumbent in the STP this summer. I have never ridden a century, so not even a double century. I’m not concerned about the amount of saddle time since I am not riding a diamond frame. I have met three people so far that have, but I haven’t had much…
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Statistics
I quote a comment wrt to the proposed Oregon child bicycle law: According the CDC ( http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/childpas.htm ) : “In the United States during 2005, 1,335 children ages 14 years and younger died as occupants in motor vehicle crashes, and approximately 184,000 were injured.” Accordining to http://www.helmets.org/stats.htm , which sourced it’s data from http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pubs/811156.pdf : 2008 data shows:…
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Brown Cycles makes stoker-forward kid tandems
I love these designs, putting the kids forward is a great idea! Brown Cycles of Grand Junction, Colorado.
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Great points re: proposed OR bike law (Totcycle)
Here’s a post covering a number of good points about why outlawing children under 6 on bikes or trailers is sheer inanity. http://totcycle.com/blog/family-cycling-outlaws.html Yes: obesity epidemic, heighten fear of cars, avoid traffic reduction, avoid slower speed limits, lets use sketchy data from a single survey to pass another law! Lets make it illegal to bike…
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