Archive for the ‘bicycle activism’ Category

Bikes on the Freeway

The Freeway Ride I on Channel 4 News from RichToTheIE on Vimeo. Critical Mass “protests” kind of fall in that gray area of legality and results. But this is just ridiculous, other than getting on the local news, possibly causing accidents or deaths, the amount of awareness that comes out of “protests” like this is [...]

Car / Bike crash kills 1

FOXNews.com – 1 Killed After Alleged Drunk Driver Plows Into Bike Race – International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News A car driven by an alleged drunken driver plowed into a bicycle race along a highway near the U.S.-Mexico border Sunday, killing one cyclist and injuring 10 others.

Ballers

World Naked Bike Ride DC -2008 More (un)coverage: BYT WaPo Express DCist

Do It! Do It Now!

Bicycle Film Festival, on now in NY.

This one’s for the womyn

Context at http://jalopnik.com/393601/giant-vulva-bicycle-taxi-is-freudian-wet-dream

Furzt Sit Tee

Sweat this: DC is the first city in Mmmerika to have a bike sharing program. Stockholm has had this for years already and it works quite well, though it seems to be used more by tourists than Sthlmers, who would presumably have their own bikes.

day ride/a tale of two one point fives.

. By the light of the day the pimp’s yellow ochre suit is plain beige. The rotting wooden trailer out front is the same emerald green as the swing that sat under the willow tree for years after the willow had blown down in a windstorm, 15 feet from the porch where I slept, dead [...]

Chicken or the egg?

So I just noticed this on the BBC today… Cycling Jacket wins design award Which seems really like the idea that Swiss Miss came up with not that long ago. So which came first? I kinda like her design idea better… no need to remove hands from bars at night for risking a hand signal [...]

sweet duds

_ feeling a bit lazy but this is cool, so click through swiss miss right up plus check the designer’s flikr stream

Awareness Test

Thanks to trackosaurus rex for the mind explosion.