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copenhagen wheel project

The Copenhagen Wheel turns the bike you already own, quickly and easily into
an electric bike with regeneration and real-time environmental sensing capabilities.
The wheel harvests the energy you input while braking and cycling and stores it for
when you need a bit of a boost. At the same time, sensors in the wheel are collecting
information about air and noise pollution, congestion and road conditions.

Bike Nerds To Create a Low Cost Bike Sharing System For New York

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/08/11/bike-nerds-create-a-homebrew-bike-sharing-system-for-new-york/

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Lance Armstrong’s $15,000 Bike Helmet

Kickstand is committed to providing the best possible cup of coffee to community events in NYC with the smallest environmental impact possible. We achieve this goal by using bikes not only for all of our transportation needs, but also for a portion of the power we use in brewing the coffee we serve. At Kickstand getting people outdoors and bringing them together over coffee is our primary goal.

[via gizmodo]

joe and julie and mel and i headed out to the C&Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh for a quick camping trip. joe and julie rode down from frederick (suckers) and mel and i took our corporate jet, and met them in point of rocks. mel and i ate a bunch of ice cream, and then we all headed out.

the ride down was more or less eventlessful, aside from the roving hoards of wankers on walmart wheel’d machines. we arrived at our campsite morally stricken but otherwise unscathed, only to find 5 other people were there before us. bastards!

one couple was our age, and were immediately found to be approachable. a father and son were also present, son being stricken with some sort of stomach bug, henceforthly puking his brains out every five minutes, more or less all over the eating area, much to mel’s chagrin.

it’s 12.25 AM as i write this, so, bear with me.

the other fellow would seem on the surface to be ok: salsa touring bike, bearded, nice. little did we know…. he was a cigar smoking monologue of horribleness who trampled an otherwise almost nice evening under his cheap hiking sneakers of oppression.

this fellow, we’ll call him rick (cause thats his name) said the following phrases, more or less with out end, at least 2953 times thru out the evening: ‘…cause i ride a fixed gear single speed….’ & ‘check this out….’ followed by something you clearly did NOT want to check out, like a tale about the world’s largest vending machine, or a story about a custom van shop. a custom fucking van shop. a custom fucking van shop. let me say that again. a. custom. fucking. van shop. what the fucking fuck?

my next post will be on campfire etiquette.

dont: smoke a huge cheap cigar.
dont: endlessly talk about yourself
dont: interrupt people by jumping up off your log, waving your arms around and saying, loudly, ‘check this out’
dont: be a D bag.

well. back to my story.

within minutes of arriving, rangers showed up and busted the nice couple for possession of some beer and a modicum of pot. just a 500 dollar fine, but, fuck off, rangers. 1 beer and a tiny bit of hash?

they carted off puke’y mc’gee and his dad, leaving us with the couple (good folks) and rick (not good).

we ate in harpers ferry (creepy in many ways) and julie drank 2 pints of river water masquarading as beer. i didnt spell that write but, go piss up your leg. its almost 1 AM.

the morning found rick trying to entice the nice people back to his van to see his ‘tall bike’ which i still think is a euphemism for his stack of BETA cassette 1985 porn stash.

mel got a flat. joe got a flat. we ate fried chicken and ice cream and life carried on.

check the flickr stream for more photos, if ya want.

Jeezus.

s24o, april 10th
frederick watershed.
bring some grub and semi warm clothes
maybe a few beers.

leaving, probably, at 5 pm from my house. if dont know where that is, ask. jamesjohnsonart at gmail dot com

you should come. really.