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Highlights 75 miles 16mph average Tim, Shelee and myself Hilliard start Dutch Kitchen breakfast London Ohio Strawberry Festival and Cobra Car show

Highlights 19 Miles 4 riders Grandview Lower Scioto Greenway Bridge to McKinley Rhodes Park Franklinton Main Street Bridge German Village

Highlights Canceled normal start time and rode at 630pm to beat the rain 4 riders up, 9 riders back Hills Market Tail wind and light rain 25 miles

Due to some unfortunate bike-on-tree action at Mohican state park, my favorite single-gear trail bike is kaput. Tight summer funds (due to overlapping apt. leases) inspired me to dig out the frame that first introduced me to mountain biking. I'm not looking forward to running gears again; I've become quite accustomed to life without chain slap and trail-side derailer re-engineering. As this frame has vertical dropouts prohibiting a proper single gear setup, I've decided to run a 1x8 with wide ratio cassette (11-32t) and my single-speed crank (36t). The 36/32 is plenty low for crawling up hills, and the 36/11 is overkill for going down. The middle of the cassette gives a 36/21 and a 36/19, either of which are acceptable single-speed ratios. Best yet, I can get away with using a short cage road derailer due to the short chain length. I found an old SunTour SVX ( http://www.disraeligears.co.uk/Site/SunTour_SVX_SS_derailleur_(7300).html ) which has very stiff springs for...

The Tour de Donut is a unique bicycle event, where your ability to eat donuts is just as important as your ability to ride your bicycle fast. The event is a mass start timed bicycle "race" where riders visit two "donut stops" during the 30 mile course and eat donuts. For each donut the rider eats during the ride (and keeps down) they have 5 minutes deducted from their ride time. There are prizes in several classes including the coveted golden Tour de Donut championship belt for the best adjusted "donut time". We also award the most donuts eaten in several classes, and for the speed freaks we also award the fastest bike only time. This ride is meant to be fun, and include all cyclists pro to amateur, triathletes, tourist, fitness riders, fun riders, or you can dust off that 2 wheeler you found along side the road, you are not going to want to miss this. [Tour de Donut]

Turns out that building bike lanes isn't just a benefit for bikers. Building those bike lanes provides a big boost to the economy. As states and cities face increasingly limited budgets, tough decisions about service cuts loom. Some people might get frustrated when they see government workers painting out a new bike lane; what was sacrificed to keep those self-important cyclists a little safer? But in reality, bike and pedestrian infrastructure projects generate more than just peace of mind. They also generate 46% more jobs than car-only road projects, according to a new study. Streetsblog points us to the University of Massachusetts study, which evaluated job opportunities created by 58 infrastructure projects in 11 U.S. states. The result: Cycling projects create a total of 11.4 local jobs for each $1 million spent. Pedestrian-only projects create a little less employment, with an average of 10 jobs for the same amount of money. Multi-use trails create 9.6 jobs per $1 million--bu...

Central St. Martins student Bharat Bhargava's concept urges strangers to interact with one another. This concept marries some of our favorite things: bikes, good-looking street furniture, and self-generated power. Not only does it provide a bench (always in short supply) but it invites people to hop on the attached stationary bike and actually exert themselves -- and in turn create enough juice to power a streetlight. Altogether, it’s a purpose-driven lesson in urban civics. The idea comes from Bharat Bhargava, a postgrad design student at Central Saint Martins, in London, whose goal was to get pedestrians talking to one another. “The combined functionality allows for social interaction amongst strangers,” Bhargava tells Co.Design. “Using human power, this strategy also addresses ownership issues by allowing users to pedal to power their neighborhood park lighting.” While we’d love to see such furniture installed along the streets of New York, we’re afraid that some of our resident...

StemCAPtain — Time to Ride…! StemCaptain is a locally owned and operated small business that produces innovative accessories for bicycles.  Our flagship product is the StemCAPtain Stem Cap Bike Clock.  It replaces the normal, non-function stem cap of a threadless style headset with an analog clock.  We also offer a thermometer, picture frame and compass, and are busy working on other model variations and products.  Please check out our website, or ask for us at your local bike store.  StemCAPtains are  very easy to install . [StemCAPtain]

Sunday, June 26, 2011 First Avenue Street Party  – Food, beverages, children's activities & live entertainment. Kids' Sprints  – There will be two age categories for both the girls and the boys: Ages 5-7 and Ages 8-10. Bike helmets and ribbons will be awarded on the big stage! Registration begins at 12:30 pm at Broadview and First Avenue. Come be part of the fun! Criterium Cycling Schedule Juniors - 11:45 Mens Category 4 - 12:20 Womens Open and 3/4 - 1:10 Celebrity - 2:00 Mens Pro 1-2 - 2:30 Kid Sprints - 4:15 Mens Category 3 - 4:30 Mens Category 5 - 5:30 Corporate sponsor exhibits along race route Courseside concessions, neighborhood parties [Tour de Grandview]

GET TO WORK from Horse Cycles on Vimeo . Horse Cycles is a small one-man custom bike shop tucked away in the streets of Brooklyn, NY. Each frame is made with love and care, innovation and inspiration and is 100% unique. The bicycles are made to fulfill each individuals needs by considering who you are, and where you ride. Horse's goal is to make precision bicycles one at a time using the best possible materials while working in concert with the customer to improve their riding experience. Horse offers a small alternative to a massive production based industry by paying attention to the individual to create something that is made locally, by hand, and with no limitations. †Thomas Callahan horsecycles.com Video by Tray Nelson treynelson.com

FEATURES      Fully CNC-machined from premium 6061 T6 Aluminum billet with a carbon fiber cradle and precision-machined premium titanium bolts. WEIGHT        85 g (34.9mm) SIZE     27.2/30.2/33.9/34.9/35.9/36.1/38.3mm Or upon request COLORS    Black, Gold, Red [Woodman]

 now summer 2011 and have you noticed a change? New York City isn't freaking out so hard about bicycling. More Follow Jason Gay on Twitter Spring was a little shrill and embarrassing. There were crazed media furies about bike lanes, non-stop reports of police crackdowns, hyperbolic worries that the city was transforming into an effete Euro village. If we didn't defend our streets, the cyclists would overtake Manhattan. Mayor Bloomberg and Department of Transportation commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan would open a leg-shaving station in Union Square. One day you'd walk down to the harbor and see the Statue of Liberty sausaged into tight shorts, sipping a Stumptown espresso and thumbing through Velonews. But then a funny thing occurred. It got warmer, more people started riding, and the mania was eclipsed by reality. [continue reading at Wall Street Journal]

How do we get people to act collectively, and change their habits? The LifeCycle Tree is the third of our experiments around driving collective behaviour through game dynamics, information visualization, and art. This time, we cast the act of biking not in the negative (“saving a tree”) but in the positive, and constructive: “giving life”. To give life to the LifeCycle Tree, ride your bike to Comfest this year. Park at the corral, and receive a seed. Show the seed to the eye of the tree, and you will have added a leaf to its canopy. Come back over and over again (and on multiple days) and watch your leaf grow, flower, and bear fruit. Or give life - almost literally - to the installation itself, by riding the attached bike powered generator,  thus charging its batteries and keeping it going for others to see. This is a work in progress. If you’d like to help out,  drop us a line .

VIDEO - 1080p HD Video Resolution/Frame Rates : 1080p/30fps, 720p/60fps, 1080p/25fps, 1080p/24fps Video Codec : H.264 Video Container : MPEG-4  Exposure control : Automatic Exposure Control and White Balance IMAGING HARDWARE - Advanced Native 1080p CMOS Sensor Sensor : 1/2.7” HD CMOS sensor, 3.0 µ meter pixel size Dynamic Range : 69 dB Sensitivity : 3300 mV/(lux-sec) Operating Temp : -20°C to +60°C (-4°F to +140°F) Processor : 32 Bit ARM Microprocessor, 10 Bit Image OPTICS - Widest 1080p FOV On The Market Aperture : f/2.0, Relative Illumination @ Full Field 90% Focus Distance : .7m - Infinity  Field Of View : 142° (1080p), 95° (720p) AUDIO - Built In Mic Audio Codec : AAC Mic Type : Monaural Omni-directional Cable-mounted, -40dB sensitivity at 1kHz Resolution : 16 Bit Half Duplex Sampling Rate :16kHz SNR : 80dB Speaker : Monaural 8 ohm Mylar, 0.7W Max DATA HANDLING - 32GB SDHC  Max Storage Media : 32GB SDHC File Functions : Record, Playback, Delete I/O Ports : SD Card Slo...

Camper Bike , a sculptural piece built in April 2008. A stand alone piece and the subject of a series of paintings. Prev  |  Next   1/15 [Kevin Cyr]