Ride Lugged

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Art

I guess I see why Johnson doesn’t try to make bicycle art.

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feeling a bit lazy but this is cool, so click through
swiss miss right up

plus check the designer’s flikr stream

To readers of this blog that may be concerned:

The poster known as 5dollarbud, aka a4nick8tor, aka Big Killa N, aka Golden Balls, aka Kung Fu Jimmy is currently on holiday in Prague, CZ.

He appologizes for not notifing sooner and wonders if it would be possible to meet any other posters on this blog before Thursday when he leaves.

He can be contacted at his usual email, or by his swedish mobile (+46 70 fourseveneight fourfouronetwo), or by calling the hotel (+420 296 889 688)

kthanks!

Yehuda Moon and the Kickstand Cyclery

Not quite as many stereotypes as I had hoped for but still kind of funny.

I think it’s goes with this article but I’m illiterate so someone else can read it and tell me if I’m right. This is another article about alley cats.

Thanks KingKog and Tracko.

Thanks to trackosaurus rex for the mind explosion.

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Transportation: Ride the Bitchcruiser Bike, But Wear Protection (NSFW)

Bicycle Winnebago — Exhibit A : TreeHugger

I would say that you have to give this guy credit but then I’d have to say you have to give my five year old nephew credit when he builds a fort out of card board boxes. I think in that case you’d have to give my nephew more credit because at least the card board boxes are portable on any type of bike.

This is a cool idea but I wonder how feasible it is for google maps since a lot of the best bike friendly routes would probably diverge from roads to take paved trails. For example a route from Baltimore to Annapolis would probably be roads from Baltimore to Glen Burnie but then the safest route would be the B & A Trail. As far as I can tell google maps doesn’t have the B & A trail on it’s maps.

Google Maps ‘Bike There’ Feature Request Petition

I read about the bike there petition here.

Just got back from London, where the above clip was shot in front of the robot rider in the “World’s Best Bike Department” at the famous Harrod’s department store in Knightsbridge. The audio is kinda muted. Basically I’m saying that the robot on the suburbo-cruiser is the best thing about the “bike department” that otherwise contains two of the stupid ass “ferrari bikes” and a few acres of designer spandex (read: prada sport polyester t-shirt: $400).

The hotel I stayed at (paid by school (!)) was next to the other famous department store, Selfridges, which also had a very half-assed bike section, albeit with a few decent fixed gear jim-jams from Wilier. Not sure why giant fashion stores in London think bikes should be part of their offering, not to get too business-schooly on you guys, but fancy suits and cycles aren’t exactly part of the same core competence.