"Anyone can go down to the local bike shop and pick up a crappy bike computer that tells you how fast and far you’ve ridden. But there’s a whole new breed of wireless bike computers, ANT+, that not only track how fast or far you’ve gone, but also things like…
When you think of bicycles, you think about steel, Cr-Moly, aluminum, and carbon fiber. How about bamboo? Bamboo has numerous qualities that make it an excellent material for a bicycle frame. It has excellent tensional rigidity with the dampening quality of carbon fiber and the durability of steel. Bamboo is…
It's from Sanyo, Sanyo landed a huge hit with the introduction of the eneloop brand that includes a number of "green" products, such as lamps, batteries or even Wii controllers. In the past few months, the company also introduced electric bikes that featured eneloop technology, one of which it wanted…
Living near Santa Cruz I have seen plenty of surfers trying to strap their surfboards onto their bicycles. Usually the surfboard is hanging off one side of their bike making the bike unstable and wide. Apparently a sober surfer has come up with a better bike surfboard rack that mounts…
As many of you know, I like picking on the Segway as the epitome of technological “mas puto” and the sign of the impending Apocalypse. Well, this morning a question was answered that plagued me for years (not really but please go with it). What would happen if an old…
The BioLogic FreeCharge will charge your iPod or iPhone from your bike pedaling. The unit will actually charge anything that charges off of USB. The device costs about $100 and is actually a dyno powered battery pack with USB port. Or you could just get a solar panel. [Via]
Designed and constructed in Christchurch New Zealand, the YikeBike is the worlds smallest, lightest electric folding bicycle at about 22lbs. The YikeBike is available for pre-orders and expects to ship in 2010. The bike folds up (in about 15 seconds) and is small enough to fit into a decent sized…
When going to college (many years ago) I was lucky enough to live close enough to campus that I could ride my beach cruiser bicycle to classes. I loved that bike. Now that I am older, and often hung over, pedaling is sometimes a tad tougher. Enter the DudeSteer motorized…
The Pedego Comfort Cruiser (pictured above) is another e-bike that lets you choose between the healthy route (peddling) or the lazy route (cruising on electric power). The bike will set you back about $1,500 but seems to be a well built machine. Read on for more details and video after…
At first glance this looks like it may be a photoshop jobby… but rest assured it is real… and you can own it for about $10,000. Rintendo has made this rocket powered bicycle a reality and gave it a SpongeBob SquarePants type of name – the Fire Trick Bob Rocket…