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Fixie Doubles

fekaylius — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:50:38 +0000

Mad bike skills!

Do What You Want To Do

fekaylius — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:40:44 +0000

via: youtube

This video has been accepted as part of the Filmed By Bike 2009 festival, come out and watch all the amazing flicks.

Hunchbackfiets

fekaylius — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:30:52 +0000

YES!

(Via bakfiets-en-meer.nl.)

The Bakfiets Band

fekaylius — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:28:27 +0000

Saw these guys at an art magazine release party back in Amsterdam, good to see them emerging on the web.

(Via YouTube – De Bakfietsband.)

Bike Submarine

fekaylius — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:02:35 +0000

A small but great collection of images of people about to get gravitazed(!). Related to my old MidAir group on flickr, that has generally become too full of sports shots, but oh well.

“When I cried, it was because of extreme grief, and when I fell, it was because gravity made itself master over me.”

link: but does it float

Flickriver: hive’s most interesting photos

fekaylius — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:03:26 +0000

Hmm, a whole site dedicated to showing flickr’s stuff? Here are mine!

(Via Flickriver: hive’s most interesting photos.)

HORT

fekaylius — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:28:01 +0000

(Via HORT.)

Contrails: DIY Bike Route

fekaylius — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:29:50 +0000

“Contrail” is a design concept that enables cyclists to increase their visibility to cars, pedestrians, and each other. Conceived by Pepin Gelardi and Teresa Herrmann, this frame-mounted device would allow cyclists to make their mark on the street with faint lines of chalk. The rear wheel spins a smooth trail of color onto the pavement as the bike whizzes along.

(Via Worldchanging: Bright Green: DIY Bike Route.)

Pilen concept bike

fekaylius — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:58:39 +0000

(Via ADDI – Products – Pilen concept bike.)

vi11age

fekaylius — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:47:31 +0000

(Via vi11age.)

Transportfiets / Cargobike Race footage from the 30s

fekaylius — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:52:46 +0000

Similar But Fundamentally Different

fekaylius — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:51:54 +0000

Similar But Fundamentally Different: “

Ariel Schlesinger took an 80’s Italian racing bicycle and filled the tube with cooking gas. Check the valves!

found at datenform

“

(Via today and tomorrow.)

Support the Rolling Stop Bill! Idaho Style.

fekaylius — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:24:41 +0000

This is important.

In the fall, I witnessed a friend, biking her daughter to school, get pulled over and ticketed by a cop, for rolling through (and turning right into a bike lane!) a stop sign. It’s one of those intersections where you can see so clearly in all directions, there is actually never a reason to actually stop here (if you are on a bike). The reflective yellow clad mother was in tears, the helmeted first grader was scared, and the cop had no mercy, he was a literalist.

My main issue I have with the “equal rights, equal responsibilities” rationalization for enforcing traffic laws designed for cars onto cyclists is that CARS OFTEN KILL PEOPLE, AND BIKES DON’T.

The wording in the new proposed law explicitly cites this huge difference in potential injury and damages as the primary argument for the bill. My only concern is that it could be seen as an attempt for cyclists to simply get around the law. I hope the conversation gets statistical, looking at this as an incentive for more people to bike, for biking to be more pleasurable, more efficient, more rewarding, to feel special, yes! If Portland wants to be the model of a bike friendly city, we need to make biking as attractive as possible, and the cops won’t stop ticketing for bullshit reasons till the laws are changed. Go BTA!!

Here are snippets from bikeportland’s article:

Exclusive: BTA will go for “Idaho style” stop sign law: “

The BTA hopes to make
it legal to roll through
stop signs.
(Photos © J. Maus)

The Bicycle Transportation Alliance (BTA), a Portland-based non-profit with over 5,000 members statewide, has proposed a new law that would make it legal to roll through a stop sign while riding a bicycle in Oregon.

One tactic Rohde has found works well in explaining the proposal is to equate it to walking. ‘When you walk up to an intersection in a neighborhood and no one’s around,’ he said, ‘you don’t come to a complete stop. You just look around and then go if it’s safe. We’re just applying that same logic to biking.’

For the BTA, passage of the Idaho Stop Law would accomplish many things, including:

It would make biking easier and more efficient (having to stop unnecessarily is a ‘deterrant to many people’),
it would put an end to the long and controversial legacy of Police enforcement actions (a.k.a. ‘stings’) at stop signs so they could ‘focus more of their limited resources on high-risk intersections’,
it would ‘eliminate the argument that cyclists are always breaking the law when they are actually acting in a very rational manner.’

(Via Bike Portland.)

Poking Holes in Bike Helmets

fekaylius — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:55:32 +0000

This thoughtfully culled article provides a lot of support for something I have always felt, “bike helmets are basically worthless”.

A few very brief points:

the kinds of injuries bike helmets aim to mitigate, and are tested against, (linear) are not the kinds that cause long term damage (rotational), and in some studies have been shown to convert linear injuries into rotational ones.
studies showing helmet effectiveness are not based on primary research, but extrapolated case-control studies with potentially flawed methodologies.
many other primary research studies indicate no reduction in head trauma.
cycling is safer than walking (regarding head injury statistics).
helmet laws always reduce cycling numbers, which does increase cycling danger.

So read up, think critically, follow your heart.

Oh yeah, also, add stories of your bike wrecks to This Map.

Pirate Island to Pirate Town / by bike

fekaylius — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:56:15 +0000

After noticing NYC’s new Ride the City site, I rediscovered bycycle.org for bike route mapping in Portland. To celebrate, I’ve created a little route from Pirate Island to Pirate Town, enjoy the summer by bike!

Sick Wooden Scooter/Bikes

fekaylius — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:26:27 +0000

see many more pics here

Tallbike for Stilts

fekaylius — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:37:57 +0000

Bamboo Bikes

jason — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:10:36 +0000

No joke, bamboo tallbike coming soon, right here!!

update: found a few more examples:

New Amsterdam’s bike lane roots

jason — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:49:34 +0000

Wooden Tandem Bike

jason — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:46:39 +0000