A Bicycle Built For Three From A Tree
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 a readily available, self-generating, renewable […]
The World’s First Carbon Fiber Electric Bicycle
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 to sell outside Japan as […]
Better Bicycle Surfboard Rack
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 the surfboard directly above the […]
Segway Alternative – Bolder And Blacker…
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 Penny-farthing bike and Segway, ground […]
Charge Your iPhone With Pedal Power From Your Bike – BioLogic FreeCharge
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]
YikeBike – Ultra Portable Electric Bike
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 carrying case. The bike has […]
DudeSteer Motorized Bicycle
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 bicycle., For a fair price, […]
Fire Trick Bob Rocket Bike
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 Bike. The bike has a […]
Bucket Cargo Bike
I sure could have used the Madsen Bucket Cargo Bike in college while pledging my fraternity. The pledges were constantly on call to pick up drunk members at the local bars. This eliminated DUI’s, but made life as a pledge rough… because the members were constantly drunk and needing a ride home… usually at […]
From Russia, With Bike
Gennady Kolesnikov, a self proclaimed inventor philosopher from a small mining town of Gukovo in the Russian Federation, a town previously unknown for its philosophical or inventing prowess, attempted to improve upon bicycle design by adding an extra wheel… While for some, the idea of inventing a “better” tricycle immediately conjures up valid questions about […]