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The Siva Cycle

As mentioned before, most bicycle projects never see the daylight.  But I think this one stands a change of becoming a real thing. The Atom is a lightweight, highly efficient bicycle generator and rechargeable battery pack designed to power virtually any of your electronic or mobile devices via USB. The generator easily mount on most standard bicycle frames and the battery packs detach easily to quickly extend your battery life.  More info here.

What's Wrong With Helmets?

Lots!
As you know, we're not fans of helmets.  We only want to encourage people to take up cycling... and to do it in a very safe way. There's much more to cycling safely than telling people to wear a helmet.
Anyway, this article explains it much better.

Brompton Exchange Rate

You know our stance on Brompton bicycles: overpriced folding bicycles; extremely popular with hipsters, fashionistas and other would-be trend-setters.  
Martin Blain of the blog www.road.cc got offered a tatty Brompton for 250... pounds!  Like everything else, he concluded; from bitcoins to houses, are worth what someone is willing to pay. That being said, he prepared the following chart to provide guidance in this matter.  
So I had a quick look what a new Brompton goes for these days: between $1400 and $2400.   That's more or less what you'll pay for 4 or 5 Dahon Eco C7's!  
It's up to you of course...

Love Is...

This is just such a beautiful picture...

Which is faster in rush hour: a bike, car, bus or pedestrian?

Courtesy of www.bikebiz.com

Enfield Council's rush-hour challenge sees commuters race two miles using different methods of transport. Can you guess which came first?

On April 25th Enfield Council ran a ‘Commuter Challenge' pitting six commuters against each other on four different methods of transport.

Travelling the two miles from John Wilkes House in Ponders End to Enfield Civic Centre, the task was to find which method of getting around – including two bikes, a car, public transport (bus) and good old fashioned walking – was the fastest in rush hour, setting off at 8.30am.

Of course it was the bikes that covered the distance first – the first in eight mins and 45 seconds, the second at 13mins 32 seconds.

A Kids Bike, Made From An Ikea Stool!

If you buy an Ikea Frosta stool, and you don't follow the instructions, you might end up with a bicycle!  How cool is that.  If you want to see how it's done, check here.

To Helmet Or Not To Helmet?

Portland is the bicycle capital in the US. Nice; and everybody wears an helmet!

Same traffic bicycle jam in Amsterdam. Difference? No one wears a helmet!
I know where I would prefer to ride...

Happy Mothers Day

Enjoy a great day on your bike with the kids!

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Do We Really Need More Ridiculous Bike Ideas?

A standard bicycle has been the same for more than 100 years or so.  A frame is 7 tubes; and that's it!  This is not gonna change any time soon.
As cycling is BIG now; lots of "new" ideas seem to surface.  Reinventing the wheel is impossible, but looking at the amount of cycling projects on Kickstarter, not many people seem to be aware of this.
Just an example of the 2 most stupid ideas I have seen... today!

The YikeBike

This is rather interesting;  a cool looking electric folding bicycle.  
From their website: 'YikeBike is a statement about using smart technology to solve the problems of our increasingly congested, polluted, stressful cities. It is the first commercial expression of the mini-farthing concept, created up by a bunch of successful entrepreneurs, engineers and dreamers'. 
The bike really folds up super small.  The only thing I find a bit awkward, is the riding position of the cyclist; not sure about that...
More info and lots of videos here.

The Sandwich Bike

There seems to be no stop on the amount of conceptual bikes seeing the daylight (or mostly not!).  I guess it's a good thing, although results are not always great; to put it mildly...
Just looking at the Sandwich bike, I wonder about the bike's stiffness.
It's not foldable, but you can take it apart.  If you want one, you can order it here - delivery in October. 

The pOcpac

The clever pOcpac water resistant lifestyle / cycling pouch is manufactured from recyclable materials which has memory and elasticity, and when filled the flat dimensions reduce. The pOcpac water resistant lifestyle and cycling pouches will fit the majority of cycling jersey pockets with our newly designed RES system, Round-Edge-Seal system. Over time this clever water resistant pouch becomes softer and therefore easier to insert and remove your vital personal and cycling items from the water resistant pOcpac. Engineered to suit the needs of every modern day cyclist, from the town ‘fixie’ to the professional out on his tireless training ride.

There’s no longer any need for an aesthetically challenged saddlebag weighing down your expensive carbon frame and wheels.

Its the Mobi that is most revolutionary – you can keep your iPhone, Blackberry or other smartphone dry and still be able to navigate, make and take calls when on the move, or stopped for a cafe break.

Another advantage the pOcpac is it’s mass marketability at a relatively low cost. The pOcpac can be custom branded for events, functions, teams, clubs and retailers.

And now pOcpac introduces the new improved range, identified by the RED header cards. The upgrades include a 25% improvement in the strength of materials used and an increase in strength due to an improved welding process.

More info on www.thepocpac.com