What will they think of next ?!?

A clamp-on "cycle" for wheelchair users enabling opportunities for exercise or rehabilitation to short or long term wheelchair users. more...

Scantily clad hipster cyclists attracted to the Brooklyn neighborhood made it difficult, the Hasids said, to obey religious laws forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex in various states of undress. These riders also were disobeying the traffic laws, they complained. more...

The Copenhagen Wheel, unveiled by MIT students at the COP15 Climate Change Conference, may not look like anything special. But in reality, it’s a treasure trove of bicycle wheel technology, complete with a kinetic energy recovery system (KERS), sensors, a smart lock, and a Bluetooth connection to the rider’s iPhone more...

The world's first $500,000 bike just sold at Sotheby's in NY a few weeks ago to raise funds for the Livestrong Foundation. The bike is a Trek Madone 6.9, hand painted by renowned British artist Damien Hirst.

One of our customers in LA has the bike on display this week (I've been assured it is being kept under lock & key). Also on display is the Lance's TTX 9.5 that was stolen and later recovered during the Tour of California. This bike sold for $100,000 at the same auction.

Two bikes = $600,000k in value, and I've been reminded by a sharp HMA insurance professional that, unlike other works of art, these pieces can actually be ridden away...

Many years ago I started a small business, a dusty little bicycle shop located in a strip mall in Hales Corners, Wisconsin. Back then the bicycle business was booming nationwide. Every sports shop, garden center, gas station, department store, hardware store, and even dry cleaning establishments had bicycles for sale. In addition there were about twenty five legitimate bicycle shops operating in the Milwaukee area. So I thought I’d jump on the bicycle band wagon. I invested every cent that I had in the bank, enough to buy twenty bikes from an importer in Chicago, and hung up my shingle.

My brother was supposed to join me in the endeavor as a full partner, but at the last minute he pulled out. “A bicycle shop can’t support two families,” he said. more...

WATCH out for the iPod zombies. Cyclists distracted by music blaring in their ears have become the latest menace on Britain’s roads.

The fashion for cyclists to wear earphones on crowded city streets is being held partly responsible for the recent upsurge in cycling injuries and deaths, as well as collisions with pedestrians.

Road safety groups are alarmed at the practice and this weekend Edmund King, the president of the AA, called on the Department for Transport (DfT) to launch a campaign warning cyclists of the risk. The number of urban cyclists has grown so sharply that safety groups say the risky behaviour of a minority can cause serious problems.

The latest DfT figures show that 820 cyclists were killed or seriously injured in the three months to June, a 19% rise on the same period in 2008. more...

Southeast Portland-based recumbent parts and accessories manufacturer TerraCycle wants to bring the Xtracycle revolution to a whole new segment of the bicycle world — recumbent trikes, folders, and other non-standard bikes.

The company has just released their latest product, dubbed the “Cargo Monster”. more...

Anthologie Quartett - catena wall clock by andreas dober for anthologie quartett

One of our favorite wall clocks, the catena wall clock harkens back to traditional mechanical clocks. copper digits mounted onto a bicycle chain place emphasis on the cyclical nature of time. this clock is a striking clock, literally and figuratively. more...

The 'bike tree', an automatic storage system for cycles, can hold up to 6,000 bikes – but could it branch out in the UK?

It's not often something stops you in your bike tracks. But a spectacular "bike tree" invention from Japan bowled me over when I was in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago.

Fed up with bicycles locked to railings, piled on top of each other, blocking doorways and roads, a local council in the city installed the mechanical masterpiece. It's basically an automatic storage system for cycles and operates with computer tagging of bikes and either storage in a building or a basement structure. more...

Most cyclists would agree that the two most likely things to forget after heading out on a journey are a light and a tire pump. It would make perfect sense, then, to combine the two into one handy accessory, which is exactly what designer Kai Malte Roever has done with the “PUYL”.

The PUYL was the winner of the Eurobike design award for 2009, whose criteria specified a product that was both environmentally friendly and capable of reducing the number of accessories cyclists must carry around.

The concept is ingenious in its simplicity, not only combining two products in one but containing no batteries it uses electromagnetic induction to generate power from the movement involved in using the pump. The light source is an ultra bright LED bulb, which means that it can be recharged limitless times and just 20 seconds of pumping amounts to around 45 minutes of use.

Unfortunately the PUYL is only a prototype, and though a patent is pending there’s no information on when it will hit the market. more...

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