Tag: blog roundup
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Bike News Roundup: A bike path xylophone
That’s right. It’s a bike path that is also a xylophone. It plays a tune as you ride. Two designers presented the idea for the Seoul Cycle Design Competition. Freaking awesome. From Treehugger.
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Bike News Roundup: Diets and dangerous detours
Several new pieces about so-called road diets have been written in the past few days. Some are for, some against. Always good to hear new points of view on the issue. However, it seems like the importance of safety is finally taking hold in the center of the debate, and old concerns about increased car…
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Bike news roundup: A month-long traffic jam (!)
Reason #365 NOT to drive a car: A nine-day traffic jam near Beijing. But the real kicker in this traffic jam is that nine days is mere child’s play. A traffic jam last month backed traffic up for a month. Basically, the jam is because of increased demand for coal, which is being shipped by…
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Bike news roundup: Beer Bikes! (can we please get one?)
CAN SEATTLE PLEASE GET A BEER BIKE?!?!?!?!?! Whatever laws might get in the way, we need to change (hat tip BikeHugger):
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Bike News Roundup: Mark Twain was for bike sharing programs before it was
coola U.N. conspiracyThe Social Bicycle System from Ryan Rzepecki on Vimeo. This week’s roundup looks at bike sharing programs, from innovation to history to conspriacy theories. SoBi (see video above) is a concept for a bike sharing system that is supposedly 1/4 the cost per bicycle. Basically, you can mod any ol’ bike with the GPS-based system…
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On other blogs: Biking the coast in 1909
A quick roundup of interesting stuff from around the city. Go Means Go has a book review of “Two Wheels North” by Evelyn McDaniel Gibb, the story of two boys who rode their bikes from Santa Rosa to Seattle for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. From the review: On their best day they traveled 64 miles, over…
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