With less than a week to go ’till the UK’s General Election, this week’s competition is simple: What’s wrong with this photo, allegedly depicting a bike made for the Republican Convention in the US? Elephants can’t assume that position. Ever.…
Rick Smith, creator of Yehuda Moon & The Kickstand Cyclery is away for a month or so, re-charging his creative batteries. The trouble is, I’m missing my daily dose of bike shop comic strip – so much so, that I’ve…
Possibly the strangest news story ever, via MSN : A woman driver caused a pile-up after becoming distracted while shaving her bikini line. Megan Mariah Barnes, 37, crashed into the back of a truck in the Florida Keys after giving…
This video comes via Tom Vanderbilt’s Traffic Blog – always worth a visit. This vision of the future is portrayed as some sort of Promised Land, but it looks more like a vision of hell to me. And I can…
For some time now, I’ve hankered after building bikes from scratch. I mean, building the whole frame from lengths of steel tubing, and hand-cast lugs. Actually, not from lengths of steel tubing, but from iron ore that I smelted myself,…
This comes via BikeSnob New York City. Anyway, it’s a great film full of snigger-worthy moments. And no, I’m not going to comment on the "always wear protection" line.
Over on Urban Velo today there’s a piece about how Philadelphia City Council is considering bicycle registration. This is on the back of recent cases in which there were two pedestrian deaths resulting form collisions with bikes. In addition to…
One of the institutions of British cycling is the British Heart Foundation’s London to Brighton Ride . With 27,000 riders heading out to cause traffic mayhem (the roads on the route are closed to proper, tax-paying traffic…) the ride’s about…
This via a comment by Scubamatt on today’s Yehuda Moon strip: Man convicted in orange rabbit pedicab hit-and-run Friday, October 30, 2009 By The Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Mercedes driver testified he didn’t see the 6-foot-tall orange…
This via Carbon Trace – a video that appeared on the Commute Orlando Blog , that shows in clear terms how far from a parked car is safe for overtaking. This was a real eye-opener for me, because I think…
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