USA

With less than a week to go ’till the UK’s General Election, this week’s competition is simple: What’s wrong with this photo, allegedly depicting a bike made for the Republican Convention in the US? Elephants can’t assume that position. Ever. Wearing a helmet to ride an elephant bike? I tell ya’, it’s elephant safety gone mad. Wearing...
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Rick Smith, creator of Yehuda Moon & The Kickstand Cyclery is away for a month or so, re-charging his creative batteries. The trouble is, I’m missing my daily dose of bike shop comic strip - so much so, that I’ve had a go at a strip of my own (click to enlarge): If you’ve...
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Possibly the strangest news story ever, via MSN : A woman driver caused a pile-up after becoming distracted while shaving her bikini line. Megan Mariah Barnes, 37, crashed into the back of a truck in the Florida Keys after giving her ex-husband the wheel as she shaved her private parts. Barnes was driving to meet her boyfriend...
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This video comes via Tom Vanderbilt’s Traffic Blog - always worth a visit. This vision of the future is portrayed as some sort of Promised Land, but it looks more like a vision of hell to me. And I can only assume that with all this extra "leeesure" time that people will have, they’re spending...
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For some time now, I’ve hankered after building bikes from scratch. I mean, building the whole frame from lengths of steel tubing, and hand-cast lugs. Actually, not from lengths of steel tubing, but from iron ore that I smelted myself, and then converted to steel in a Bessemer converter in my shed, and then...
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This comes via BikeSnob New York City. Anyway, it’s a great film full of snigger-worthy moments. And no, I’m not going to comment on the "always wear protection" line.
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Over on Urban Velo today there’s a piece about how Philadelphia City Council is considering bicycle registration. This is on the back of recent cases in which there were two pedestrian deaths resulting form collisions with bikes. In addition to mandatory registration of all riders over the age of 12, legislators are calling for Increasing fines...
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One of the institutions of British cycling is the British Heart Foundation’s London to Brighton Ride . With 27,000 riders heading out to cause traffic mayhem (the roads on the route are closed to proper, tax-paying traffic…) the ride’s about 60 miles, and the event has been run since 1980. But actually, it’s a...
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This via a comment by Scubamatt on today’s Yehuda Moon strip: Man convicted in orange rabbit pedicab hit-and-run Friday, October 30, 2009 By The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Mercedes driver testified he didn’t see the 6-foot-tall orange rabbit driving a pedicab because he was fumbling for a dropped cell phone. Pedicab driver Kate Altermatt...
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This via Carbon Trace - a video that appeared on the Commute Orlando Blog , that shows in clear terms how far from a parked car is safe for overtaking. This was a real eye-opener for me, because I think that I generally overtake parked cars somewhere between the first and second position shown, and...
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