Bike Hugger 

We asked this question in Facebook and a lively discussion is happening. Asking it here too. If you are getting one, what are you doing it with it? For what we do here, we are, but I’m struggling with the role of a third device.

Photo: velodramatic

As I’ve written about in the Lightness of Computer, I travel with a bike, iPhone, and Macbook Air. So I’m like, well what would I do with the iPad?

Eric Wicks and I meet each other periodically at events like SXSW and FITC. He’s an Austin-based artist, designer, strategist, and fellow cyclist. Earlier this week, I tweeted his Designing Bicycle Cities post. We share similar big bike ideas and agree on the need to return to simplicity on the web. Last year Eric wrote about about design challenges

For a solution to be truly sustainable and good it must have a positive return to the environment and society. At the heart of any design problem is a question: Are we trying to make something less bad or are we trying to make things better?

and makes his case for better problem solving with the bicycle and the example of the Copenhagen Wheel

It’s when a cyclists gets the hunger that they think of things like toaster tacos (and when your spouse isn’t around to comment on your culinary genius). Burning off calories, means you can eat more, and in fun ways. Note the toaster heats tacos up very well, just pop them up when they start to sizzle.

I’ve ridden with cyclists that’d eat almost anything, including nacho-cheese dogs during a stop on a long ride. Others are finicky and stick to waffles and Nutella.

What’s your ride food before and after?

Update

Serious Eats picked up our Toaster Tacos in a post and is considering it a kitchen hack.

“Bicycles and itinerant photography finally enjoyed a healthy and prosperous relationship by the mid-1890s from two key innovations: safety bicycles (widely regarded as the most important development in the history of bicycles) and small self-casing, folding cameras.”

Source Antique Wood Cameras.

As long as there’s been bikes, photographers have attached cameras to them. Lost to history are probably lots of photos, right before impact, when the photographer did an endo on those penny farthings.

From Copenhagenize …

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There’s this

and this

Now this

It’s cyclists v. construction on Alaskan Way and by the Stadia in Seattle. Bike lanes to danger, railroad tracks, and misleading signage that puts you onto a overpass that isn’t complete.

A Hardhat put this sign up after our "conversation" about the Bike Lane to Danger. Before I rode over it, 5 cyclists came the other way. It’s encouraging to have the bike lane on this new overpass and it’s likely a new urban sprint spot that winds up from Royal Brougham, bypassing all the game-day traffic. However in the interim, it’s presenting cyclists with all sorts of hazards.

The issue is that bike advocacy in Seattle has drawn a line in the sand over Stone Way and the Missing Link while everyday, elsewhere in the city, cyclists ride in these conditions.

Just was saying …

We’re waiting for, and still haven’t seen, any freestyle fixie tricks better than Neidert’s from a hundred years ago!

Death Pedal is working on that situation and so is Keo Curry. We’ll see the Redline Urbis soon and expect to have it with us at the The Bicycle Show and Webvisions.

Also see Heavy Pedal. Maybe we’ll launch MEGA PEDAL in this niche…

One of the bike travel rules is to never travel with, or limit, the amount of carbon you pack in a case. This bike folds, but we wouldn’t recommend it for travel. The Vellix costs $2600 and weights 15 pounds.

Note: our Dahon Mu EX weighs 20 and the SL weights 18 pounds without any crazy carbon. The Brompton, don’t even weight it, cause it’s iron-age heavy, but whatever.

Do like how it resembles Trek’s Y Bike.

Don’t know either, but have been studying this photo from Tokyo Fixed Gear.

Updated

It’s like a reverse penny farthing. Also see this take on that.

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