Bike Hugger 

TreeHugger’s search for celebrity cyclists is paying off. Interestingly, none of the submissions feature portrayals from film or TV – it’s all celebrities who ride in Real Life, including a post from G Living featuring Travis Barker (BMX frame), Elle Macpherson, Hilary Duff, and Lindsey Lohan (all on wide-whitewall cruisers), Chloe Sevigny on a folding bike, and Naomi Watts on a hybrid.

My favorite was a link to this video from Daryl Hannah on urban cycling, featuring her ride in L.A.’s Critical Mass. (If that link isn’t working, try this one.)

How’d you like a herd of bike trailers to show up at your place to assist your move in a pedal-powered way? Then contact Portland’s Move By Bike, a crew that’ll move your house with bikes.

When I first started researching our sport utility bike project, I arrived at the Puppet Parade bike move and it looked way more fun than pizza, beer, and a U haul!

Mark emailed this photo of This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, who played a The Vera Project gig last night. As Mark said, the band is “the origin of the infamous sticker that causes the police to crack down on bike punks with righteous fury.”

See the wikipedia entry for more on stickers that freak cops out.

If that free energy claim from Steorn is correct (and defies the basic laws of the universe), just imagine a magnetized motor assist for our sport utility bike project! Steorn claims, among other examples, that it provides five times the amount of energy a mobile phone battery generates for the same size, and does not have to be recharged. Not recharging a Stokemonkey would be fabulous or as they’d say on Wayne’s World, “monkeys might fly out my butt.”

Checked in on the Ditty Bops and they’re coming to the Northwest in September. The Ditty Bops are on a national bicycle tour to promote cycling, clean air, and their new album.

NPR profiled them today with an interview that includes a discussion of their longest ride.