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FUBi bike: World's most compact folding bicycle?

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FUBi the bicycle reinvented Introduction The basic idea with FUBi was this: a foldable bicycle that was very easy to store inside due to optimum compactness and at the same time would retain all the functionality and styling of standard full-sized bicycles! In order to obtain this optimum compactness a totally new (and patented) collapsible frame was devised where the aim was to reduce the volume of the folded “package” as much as possible. I.e. optimum compactness! The compact folding This is really what Fubi is about : Compactness!  The frame is so small that it fits into a tennis racket bag. This optimum compactness makes things that have been impossible before into a reality. FUBi fits in most small places like under bed, in a car, in a storage looker and even in a kitchen cabinet. With FUBi its is your imagination that sets the limit [Fubi]

Foot soldier declares war on sanctimonious cyclists: DiManno | The Star

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/ TOROTNO STAR FILE PHOTO Cyclists have a self-righteous possessiveness about bike lanes, writes Rosie DiManno, even though those lanes must sometimes be used by others. Some would have you believe there’s a war raging in Toronto between automobiles and bikes, motorists and cyclists. I, Pedestrian, am having a one-woman guerrilla war with both. Frankly, those who drive and those who pedal can wipe each other off the face of the city’s streets in this mutual roadkill rush to attrition and Toronto would be better off for it, leaving behind an urban Shangri-La for ambulatory bipeds. As it stands, both are rivalling to land me in an ambulance, pile of broken bones. Cars have always given me conniptions. As a downtowner who doesn’t drive, my antagonistic view towards vehicles is that they’re all variations of Christine, the supernaturally possessed ’58 Plymouth Fury in Stephen King’s horror novel turned TV movie — a homicidal maniac on wheels. Automobiles — and worse,

FASST @fastboycycles‎ | Vimeo

FASST from Sam Newman on Vimeo .

RYB Denim jeans for women | @rybdenim

ryb indiegogo oct2-nov17 from RYB Denim on Vimeo . Why Are We Making These Jeans? *Most jeans wear through in the seat and saddle area, usually very quickly after you start riding in them. *The standard center seam placement in the seat makes them uncomfortable to sit on. *The back rise is generally too low and can expose you lower back..and even your butt..not good! *There is not enough room designed for the movement of your thigh and calf muscles, and your knees. *They lack other features that are benefits as you ride, like deeper pockets, a lock holder, a key holder, pocket placement, and reflective seam piping. RYB Denim Solutions The RYB Denim jean design came about after talking to friends and fellow cyclists from around the world. *The RYB jean has a one-of-a-kind, unique, double-reinforced seat gusset specifically designed to eliminate saddle wear. *The seat gusset design also removes that uncomfortable center seam *A swooping waistband to increase coverage an

MEMPHIS IS ABOUT TO BUILD THE COUNTRY’S FIRST CROWDFUNDED BIKE LANE | People for Bikes

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A rendering of traffic on the Hampline planned for Memphis' Broad Avenue. The most interesting bike project in the country just keeps getting more creative. It wasn't enough that Memphis's Hampline, a combined on- and off-street bikeway through a redeveloping arts district in  the country's poorest major metro area , was pushed by a  unique cast of private foundations and for-profit retailers  and visualized with a  spectacular one-weekend live demonstration . As the $4.5 million project heads into the final stage of its fundraising, it's also become what seems to be  the first American bike transportation project that'll be paid for in part by crowdfunding . [Keep reading at People for Bikes]

Retro Ronde 2013 | Brooks England

City Cycling Guide Set | Rapha

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Stylish pocket-sized guides to the major cycling cities of Europe Providing locations, destinations and experiences for travellers on two wheels, Rapha have collaborated with publishing house Thames & Hudson to create a collection of pocket-sized guides to the major cycling cities of Europe. Stylish, covetable, locally informed and fun, every guide is illustrated by individual artists to give each book and city a unique aesthetic. With additional maps and functional layouts, the books are easy to navigate to help you explore each metropolis by bicycle. The collection is presented in an exclusively designed slipcase and features the following eight cities: Amsterdam Antwerp/ Ghent Barcelona Berlin Copenhagen London Milan Paris Key Features: Exclusive slipcase 115 × 175mm (Rapha jersey pocket sized) Four-colour print with additional spot print Fully illustrated [Order them at  Rapha]

Forget room service -- order a bike | @CNN

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(CNN)  -- Hotels have introduced all sorts of fun amenities over the years, from iPads to pet goldfish. One of the features that seems to be growing in popularity is bicycles, which are no doubt a great way for guests to discover a new destination. While some properties charge for the privilege, many don't, such as these 10 hotels across the globe that have free loaner bikes so their guests can get out and explore everything the area has to offer. So strap on your helmet, stretch out your quads and start pedaling. Hotel Monaco  (Portland, Oregon) Back in July, Kimpton announced that all of its hotels would now offer free loaner bikes. This Kimpton property happens to be in Portland, one of America's most bike-friendly cities -- boasting miles and miles of well-marked bike paths, including the esplanade along the scenic Willamette River. In addition to a fleet of 18 beach cruisers, city bikes and road bikes for guests to tool around town on, the hotel has a special b

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How to Shift Gears Correctly on Your Bicycle | Bike Advisor

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As we noticed some cyclists making a mess out of chain positioning on chainrings and sprockets, so we wrote an article about how to correctly use the bicycle’s gears. It’s true, when you buy a new cassette or a new crankset, you get them with instructions telling you how do it right, but just to make sure, we came up with our own drawing in this article. Keep in mind that chainrings are attached to the right crank arm, while the sprockets can be found installed on the rear hub. [Keep reading at Bike Advisor]

Bicycle Traffic Counter Could Come to Market Street by Bike to Work Day | SF Streets Blog

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An SFBC rendering of the bike counter coming to Market Street's eastbound approach to Ninth Street. San Francisco will get its first bicycle traffic counter within the next month. The SF Municipal Transportation Agency Board of Directors sealed the deal yesterday on a bike counter for Market Street between Ninth and Tenth Streets. The Market Street bicycle counter. Image: SFMTA Bike counters, which have been installed on major cycling streets in cities like Copenhagen ,  Portland , Seattle, and Montreal, help the city get an accurate count of bike traffic and promote bicycling by showing that number on a digital display. Every time someone bikes by, the number ticks up. SF’s bike counter will show daily and annual counts of how many people have biked on eastbound Market approaching Ninth. “The installation of this innovative bicycle barometer comes at a critical moment in San Francisco,” said SFMTA Director Ed Reiskin in a statement. “As more and more San Franc

Testing Amtrak's roll-on bike service | anything but the car @bus15237

On Tuesday, I participated in an historic opportunity, to be part of a pilot project to test roll-on/roll-off bicycle transport service via Amtrak. It is not generally available to the public yet, but Amtrak wanted to see how well their idea would work in a real time situation. Some 20 cyclists were recruited to ride segments of the Capitol Limited between here and Washington DC to try it out. As background, I have been asking Amtrak for years for just such service. For our silver wedding anniversary a couple of years ago, I had hoped to be able to have my bride and I do a day trip from Pittsburgh to Altoona. The plan was to bus our bikes into the city, hop on a train, exit in Altoona, two hours to the east, grab our bikes and ride three miles across Altoona to Lakemont Park to ride the wooden rollercoaster and other rides for a few hours, followed by a short bike ride back to the train station, picking up an ice cream sundae along the way somewhere, hop aboard a train, ride Amtrak two

Five Tips to Seamlessly Transition From Summer to Winter Bike Commuting

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Summer bike commuting is pretty easy to figure out - as is winter commuting - when we don’t try to convolute it. If it’s hot, pack deodorant. If it’s cold, slap some extra layers on. It’s the transition period from hot to cold (and vice versa) that can be tricky. When you leave the house with air cold enough to show your breath and you return eight hours later in balmy, flip-flop worthy temps, it’s important to keep your commuting kit versatile. Here are five tips to keep you comfy and on two-wheels even when the weather is conspiring against both. 1. Wool is your friend.  We’re not going to be humble and bury this tip. It’s too important. Merino wool is breathable for warm temps and highly insulating in cold temps. If you perspire or the skies open up, wool will keep you warm even when it’s wet – a health and safety issue in cold weather. Plus, wool bodes well for your semi-annual performance review at work. Even if you sweat on your ride to work, wool’s natural antibacterial p

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BitLock offers a bring-your-own-bicycle approach to bike sharing | @Engadget

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Unless you're an enraged motorist, there's plenty of good to be found in the current push for big city  bike sharing programs . BitLock is certainly in keeping with the spirit of such initiatives, albeit on a much more localized scale. The proposed product is essentially a standard bike U-lock that communicates with Android and iOS devices -- get within proximity and click the unlock button on an approved handset and the BitLock opens up for you. The device is, thankfully, weather-resistant and has a battery that should last up to five years, according to claims (and you'll get a notification on your phone when it's finally ready to shuffle off this mortal coil). [Keep reading at Engadget]

It’s Time to Stop Sharing the Road | Rebel Metropolis @HartNoecker

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You’ve heard it ad nauseam:  Share the Road  -  a mantra adopted much by cyclists and not at all by motorists. It’s become a passive petition: vulnerable bicyclists begging for enough street space to not be run over and killed from drivers largely indifferent due the empathy-crushing confines of the metal machines they drive. Even worse, groups like  Be Kind to Cyclists  have taken this kind of Stockholm Syndrome to absurd extremes, using language that would embolden any bully, ceding them power over their pleading victim. The PC urban professional crowd you see on their  corporate sponsored, helmet-required tours will shun assertive language and cling to a vocabulary of non-confrontationalism. For them, reputation and obedience are more important than responding to clueless motorists and their lethal driving habits with equal and opposite force. Whether in the streets or in our ongoing discourse, the tendency is to back down, to let the oppressor define the rules of engagement a

How many minutes are you worth? @surlybikes

Every year someone dies on a bicycle. Cars hit bicyclists every year and every year there are people in our community, friends, family, co-workers that suffer injuries and worse due to being struck by vehicles. There are many instances of DUI involvement and many more of clean and sober moving violations on either parties side. The part that pisses me off the most is the surge of bike hate that causes malicious acts against cyclist for the simple reason of being too slow, taking up space or being presumed to have some superiority. There are bloggers that write about being so angry with the slow moving cyclists downtown that they want to encourage people to spray them in the face with super soakers filled with hot sauce concoctions. Garbage and slushies are thrown at cyclists in and out of bike lanes. Burning cigarettes too. Any cyclist who has read a post about a bicycle accident knows standard responses include "Were they wearing a helmet?" "Were they in their lane?&quo

Amtrak tests bicycle roll-on service on Capitol Limited route between Pittsburgh and D.C. | post-gazette.com

Amtrak today allowed 20 bicyclists to roll their two-wheelers onto the Capitol Limited train from Pittsburgh to Washington, D.C., in what enthusiasts hope will be a step toward full implementation of roll-on service. "It went lickety-split," said Linda McKenna Boxx, president of the Allegheny Trail Alliance. "I don't think we cost Amtrak a second in dwell time." Amtrak placed a baggage car with racks for six bicycles on the Capitol Limited for the one-day trial. Six cyclists got on in Pittsburgh and off in Connellsville, where six others with bikes boarded. Four bicyclists were to replace them in Cumberland, Md., and four others were to ride the leg from Harpers Ferry, W.Va., to the nation's capital. [Read more at post-gazette.com]

Testing the Camargue | Velo Orange Blog

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Bike packing style. We're doing a bit more testing with the large size Camargue. Casey is leaving on a 5-day solo bike packing trip in West Virginia today. It involves dirt roads, fire roads, single track and even a little pavement. He'll be riding about 50 miles a day. Casey promises to write a blog post when he gets back. Here are a few shots of his rig and gear taken at VO world headquarters as he was packing this afternoon. [Keep reading at  Velo Orange Blog]

Promoting Cycling Positively - Now with Proof | @copenhagenize

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One thing we've being going on about here at Copenhagenize for six years is the importance of promoting cycling positively to the great untapped well of potential cyclists. The 99%, if you will.   Two years ago, Copenhagenize informed you about  a research project that was funded by the national bicycle fund entitled  Effective Bicycle Promotion  -  Development of methodology to determine the effect on messages regarding marketing of bicycle traffic.  We had teamed up with  Thomas Krag Mobility Advice  to investigate how promoting cycling with positive imagery was more beneficial than using images involving fear or perceived fear.  Two years on, the results of the study are in. Have a read. And now, more than ever before, endeavour to sell urban cycling to the 99% with positive messaging. Bicycle Marketing Messages: What Matters.  The report, collated by Sidsel Birk Hjuler and Thomas Krag, reveals some of the most important ingredients for the creation of successful cycling

Bike Helmet Buddy Will Text Your Mom in the Event of a Head Injury | @gadgetlab

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Photo by Josh Valcarcel/WIRED With autumn upon us and winter beginning its descent, let’s strike up the Anvil Chorus in honor of all the craniums that, like so many precious and unique hammers, will soon hit something really hard really fast. Watch as the courageous year-round cyclist hits a schmear of slimy leaves, gets waylaid by some black ice, or bunny-hops into a wet trolley track. Oof! Observe the coon-eyed mountain Chad as he strays into a feral pack of heedless snowboarders, gets cocky on some double-black vertical, or yard-sales after hucking off a sweet jump. Pow! Good thing they’re wearing helmets. But if that’s you lying there in your snazzy helmet, what if you still don’t wake up? Get KO’d or suffer a serious outage and you’ll most likely lie there and collect angel tears — unless you were smart and/or paranoid enough to drop 150 beans on an  ICEdot Crash Sensor . [Keep reading at Wired]

Philly Bike Expo is November 9-10, 2013 @phillybikeexpo

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The Philly Bike Expo is a celebration of cycling. In 2010, Bilenky Cycle Works aspired to broaden their reach and promote cycling culture. And so, the Philly Bike Expo was born. Now in its 4th year, the Philly Bike Expo promotes the fun, function, fitness and freedom to be found on two wheels. The Philly Bike Expo creates an environment that fosters relationships between the cycling community and the dedicated companies and organizations that are the foundation of bicycles as a lifestyle. We host this weekend to admire the artisans whose craft enables us to ride two-wheeled art, to applaud the activists whose tireless efforts further our cycling infrastructure and to explore cycling as a fun and efficient transportation alternative. [Website]

bike lanes by Casey Neistat | YouTube

Novara Randonee Bike @REI

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Our Novara Randonee® touring bike is built for epic rides that cross mountain passes, explore the countryside and tour through town after quaint little town. Classic touring frame accommodates fore and aft racks and fenders—rear rack provided (front rack and fenders sold separately) Reynolds 520 chromoly frame offers great stability and strength under heavy loads, and you get the reliably smooth ride quality that steel is known for Dependable Shimano Deore LX crankset and front derailleur, along with the super-reliable SRAM bar end shifters and X7 rear derailleur, make up the 30-speed drivetrain The SRAM X7 rear derailleur accommodates up to a 36t rear cog for an ultra-low gear option for sweet relief when tackling mountain passes with a full load Tektro linear-pull brakes provide reliable stopping power; wide brake arm spacing allows ample room for fenders front and back Robust Mavic A319S 36-hole rims and puncture-resistant Continental Touring Plus Reflex tires have the du

Cateye Stealth 50 with GPS & ANT+ for $150 @CatEyeBicycle

The Stealth 50 is a simple power meter that is ANT+™ compatible, so it works with CatEye or third party ANT+™ power, heart rate, cadence and speed sensors. Track basic cycling data and combine with power, heart rate and cadence data to target and reach training goals. Upload ride data to web-based training sites, such as CatEyeAtlas.com and TrainingPeaks ™ , where you can visualize your activity, analyze performance and share your ride. Other features include a full-time backlight, auto-stop/start and programmable odometer. The Stealth 50 is waterproof, USB rechargeable and can be used on multiple bikes, so you’ll always be ready to ride. [Cateye Stealth 50]

Soleus GPS Draft available for $99 @soleusrunning

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Since the beginning, Soleus has been dedicated to providing the most accurate, comfortable, and insight-driven running instruments on the market --- And now we are taking on cycling. Transpiring our core principles of providing simple, intuitive, easy to use functions, packaged in bold colors. At Soleus, we believe grabbing life by the handlebars applies to more than just your ride; it's a lifestyle. With our new GPS Draft we can help you make the most of every workout. Simple to use, GPS Draft houses a high sensitivity GPS receiver that allows you to track your journey alongside a USB data upload cable that allows you to easily upload to your workouts. 30 ride files storage, current/average/max speed calculations, auto calendar, and 5 programmable alarms make sure you never forget where you have been. While water-resistance and EL backlight with night mode make sure you get there. The Soleus Draft GPS is compatible with Strava (www.Strava.com) Prices listed are in $

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Groningen: The World’s Cycling City | Street Films

Groningen: The World's Cycling City from Streetfilms on Vimeo . It's no secret that just about anywhere you go in the  Netherlands  is an incredible place to bicycle. And in Groningen, a northern city with a population of 190,000 and a bike mode share of 50 percent, the cycling is as comfortable as in any city on Earth. The sheer number of people riding at any one time will astound you, as will the absence of automobiles in the city center, where cars seem extinct. It is remarkable just how quiet the city is. People go about their business running errands by bike, going to work by bike, and even holding hands by bike. The story of how they got there is a mix of great transportation policy, location and chance. You'll learn quite a bit of history in the film, but essentially Groningen decided in the 1970s to enact policies to make it easier to walk and bike, and discourage the use of cars in the city center. By pedestrianizing some streets, building cycle tracks eve

The Dutch army bicycle band | YouTube