The Dutch do it again. Moms can haul babies in style. Pedal pretty on this 3 -wheeled bike.
Taga Bikes
Very fun. Not available in the US. Great day for a bike ride. You do NOT want to know what I had on for my commute this morning. [Read more…]
Solar Biker!
Posted by on March 25, 2009 Leave a Comment
Mark found this guy at an estate sale. All he needed was some lube in his joints and he’s riding like a champ again! He goes faster than this but I took a series of still pics and created an animated gif out of it.
1980 Solar Bike
Bam! It’s Bamboo!
Posted by on March 9, 2009 6 Comments
Mark just finished his first bamboo bike! It rocks!
Mark’s first hand-made bamboo bike.
He rode it to meet me after work on Friday. He was jumping around on it to test the frame and broke a spoke. but the bike is holding up beautifully. I get one next! He wants to build me a recumbent using pieces of a mountain bike frame with a shock in it. I can’t wait!
Mark designed and built his own bamboo bicycle.
Isn’t it a beauty? We rode over to Volker on Saturday, then to Sage and Daisy, then to the Westport Coffee House and he had people asking about the bamboo bike all the way. My bike? Not so much. But soon…
Something new to hang on to.
Posted by on March 5, 2009 Leave a Comment
Got a fly new set of handlebars for the Specialized.
Dashboard view.
I’m still testing them. It’s so different from my straight bars with bar-ends. I still think I want drop bars but this made for a fun ride to work this am.
Not wonderful with a headwind, but I’ll keep em for awhile. Thanks to the BF for setting this up for me.
I’m pimping my ride…
Posted by on March 4, 2009 Leave a Comment
…with an orange NPR radio!
NPR has never sounded better.
and yes, I subscribe to KCUR and do a KILLER Kim Noble impersonation.
Oh, Portland…what a commute!
Posted by on February 27, 2009 3 Comments
I got this from portlandize.com It’s so beautiful..and look at the bike lane! How wonderful Kansas City could be if we could just imagine more ways of getting around – and co-existing.
I was just there in November. Someday I think I’ll be moving there.
I’m too old to wait for KC to catch up.
How Green Is My Wheel?
Posted by on February 23, 2009
MIT scientists are working on a new way to power a bicycle. It’s a power generation, storage and propulsion system known as the GreenWheel that will turn any pedal bicycle into an electric bike.
Check it out on the Discovery.com news site.
From the site:
The team estimates its range at 40,000 miles, or about eight years work of travel at an estimated 20 miles per business day.
“You’ll have to replace the bike before you replace the batteries,” Lin told Discovery News.
By this spring the GreenWheel team hopes to pass out more than a dozen different GreenWheel configurations to both hard-core bike messenger types and novice riders.
I will definitely have an electric bike someday along with my other bicycles.
CruzBike Silvio Recumbent
Posted by on February 23, 2009 2 Comments
OK, I want one of these.
At just under 5′ 3″ tall, I don’t even know if I”m tall enough to ride this one. I have mixed feelings tho because it makes me feel as though I’m crossing over the “old lady” line here but it’s obviously super-fast and uses regular road bike components.
I’m also testing my new WP plug-in. Contact 7. Feel free to contact away!
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I heart Photoshop
Posted by on February 21, 2009 Leave a Comment
Here’s a photo I created in my Digital Photography class last sememster at Johnson County Community College. John Lamberton was my teacher. He’s great and I learned a ton.
Happy Birthday to Volker!
Posted by on February 21, 2009
Volker bicycles celebrated their 1 year anniversary with a little party on Friday. They are good people over there. Great service fast.
And they have a swell website. http://volkerbicycles.com
They also save innertubes for me for which I’m very grateful.
Congrats to Melissa and Britton!