Category: News

Ride the City Review

Ride the City is a website that allows you to search for a safer bicycle trek through your city. Anyone that rides in a major city knows the perils of riding your bike on a major thoroughfare. Even if you ride on a two lane road that is fairly busy, you can still be overwhelmed…

April 26, 2013
Find a Biking Trail

There are lots of ways to find a trail to bike on from the most obvious (get off your keister and find one) to the more lazy (browse the Internet or your favorite app store). Another way to find a trail is to visit your local biking advocacy groups website and see if they have…

April 23, 2013
Share the Road Video

I came across this video and liked the simple message contained in it. I’m always surprised (not sure why anymore) when someone in a car goes rushing past me around a corner or cuts me off going through a roundabout that doesn’t have a bike lane. I’m always aware of cars around me and am…

April 22, 2013
Bikelantis Teaser Trailer

For those of you that enjoy biking documentary films, I think you’ll like this. Emmanuel Cervantes takes a look at the cycling world in more than 20 American cities and shows the growth of the industry, the people involved in growing interest around cycling and it’s impact on the community. Bikelantis Teaser Trailer from Emmanuel Cervantes…

April 18, 2013
Ride Tracking Website Whatcom Smart Trips

I use a couple of tools to track my daily commute. I have a spreadsheet that I keep track of ride statistics on (graph embedded here) and I also use my county’s commute tracking website, Whatcom Smart Trips. I think that creating this type of tool for commuters is essential to pushing people to thinking…

April 16, 2013
The Cascadia Dirt Cup Enduro Series Announced

The Cascadia Dirt Cup was officially announced today and registration opened at noon. This 5 part race series around western Washington is sponsored by Shimano, DiamondBack and Transition Bikes. Registration proceeds will go towards building trails in the areas of the races and will also benefit the local trail advocacy groups. These groups include Cold…

April 12, 2013
Horse Cycles Urban Tour Project

Horse Cycles of Brooklyn is trying something new. They’re taking to Kickstarter to help bring their manufacturing costs down to offer more bikes to more people. If you want the feeling of getting a custom built bike for a not so custom price, this might be for you. Keep in mind, these bikes aren’t custom.…

April 9, 2013
Brooklyn Brewery Mash

A friend turned me on to this video. He knows me well enough to recommend something with bikes and beer in it! It’s an interesting ‘video’ that takes 3000 images and pieces them together to create a stop motion-like film travelling through Brooklyn New York. The riders final destination is the Brooklyn Brewery (who sponsors…

April 3, 2013
Raspberry Pi Dynamic Bike Headlight

I really love to see stuff like this. I think that bicycles can be changed significantly with technology to make the riding experience more enjoyable for the rider. This is first solution, prototype stuff, so pardon the rough edges of the person’s work (breadboard in the bike frame!). However, imagine multi-use tools on your bike…

March 30, 2013
The Inverted Bike Shop [Video]

I came across this video on Vimeo and was entranced by the ideology behind the bike shop. I’ve always thought of bike shops as being friendly, collaborative spaces and have never found a bike shop employee that is mean or comes across rude. I’m sure they’re out there, but are much fewer and far between…

March 26, 2013