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Via BikeBlogNYC: The family of Mathieu Lefevre, the 30-year-old artist who was run over by a truck in East Williamsburg earlier this month joined Transportation Alternatives at a press conference today at 1 Police Plaza, calling on NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly to reinvestigate the case of Leferve, as well as other cyclist fatalities.
Monthly Archive for October, 2011
From Yahoo News:
Having lost their gas-powered generators, the protestors at Occupy Wall Street are turning to a more eco-friendly alternative: pedal power.
Keegan Stephan, a bike mechanic and environmentalist at the Zuccotti Park site of the protest in New York, has been pedaling a stationary bronze Schwinn bicycle to provide energy for the protesters’ encampment.
According to Yehuda Moon:
We have blown past our goal of 18k which means the printing bill is covered and THESE BOOKS ARE GOING TO PRINT!
While pre-sales over the last two weeks have been strong, we still have over half of the print run available. We are also writing/drawing a bunch of new strips for these books and plan to continue leaking about one a week through yehudamoon.com and on twitter@yehudamoon.
The Bike Factory New Hampshire is having a grand opening celebration this coming Friday November 4th. Home to the new Independent Fabrications and BaileyWorks production facilities and retail operations, The Bike Factory is a state of the art facility in Newmarket NH a relatively short drive from the Boston area.
You can see a photo tour of The Bike Factory while it was still under construction from my visit back in July.
Amazing is not nearly a strong enough word for this video. And Africa was just a part of the Peace Pedalers journey. Check out this incredible photo series from 81 countries around the world.
Now, Jamie Bianchini needs funding to publish his video series. So he’s created a Kickstarter page, and you can help him out.
Visit www.peacepedalers.org for more info.
Surly has some new t-shirts out, and to say they require their owner to posess a certain sense of humor might be an understatement.
Visit www.surlybikes.com for more info.
From CBS News: Sometimes, taking a wrong turn can change your life. That’s exactly what happened to Luma Mufleh one day while getting lost on her way home stumbling upon a group of refugee children living in a suburb of Atlanta. Mark Strassmann reports on how she’s lending a helping hand.
What’s more, faced with the intimidating cost of bus transit during the summer, Luma decided to have the kids commute the 10 miles to school and back via bicycle!
Ride To Eleven, a Spinal Tap themed alleycat scheduled for 11.11.11 in Pittsburgh PA. 11 stops, manifest at 11pm, starts promptly at 11:11pm. Rain or shine. Wear a helmet, bring lights and a bag. All bikes and riders welcome, bonus for Campy-11. You might want to be 21 to get into the bar at the end. Ride careful, brake like the wind, don’t get killed. www.ridetoeleven.info
Over at the Montague Bikes blog there was a post expressing frustration with some of the way cyclists are treated riding on the roads of Boston, spurring on an adaptation of Shylock’s speech calling for tolerance from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
I am a Cyclist. Don’t Cyclists have places to be? Don’t Cyclists have friends, families,
engagements, jobs, appointments, obligations; aren’t we entitled to
the same rights, injured by the same collisions, subject
to the same laws, ticketed by the same police,
enduring the same weather and road conditions
as Drivers? If you cut us off, do we not seethe?
If you yield to us, do we not wave? If you run us over,
do we not die? And if you do not respect us on the road, shall we respect you?
If we are alike in all these other ways, we are alike in this way too.
If a Cyclist takes the lane, how do Drivers react?
With anger and aggression. If a Driver cuts off a Cyclist, what is
the driving force behind the Cyclist’s response? Aggression.
I will emulate the irresponsibility and indifference you teach me,
and take it to a whole new level – regardless of the consequences for you.
Read the entire post at www.montaguebikes.com
Makerbot is a 3D printer manufacturer that recently did this nerdy Pimp My Ride spoof video showing plastic valve caps, bar plugs, light assemblies, cup holders and spoke beads made by the Makerbot printer.
The Milwaukee Brusier has been appropriated as a polo bike ever since it was first introduced—I reviewed a Bruiser back in July 2010 that I used for about a year, almost exclusively for polo. Last month Milwaukee Bicycle Co introduced the Polo Bruiser, taking the Bruiser design and addressing most of the concerns out there to make it more of a polo bike.The Polo Bruiser frame is made in the USA and is nearly 2 lbs lighter than the original Bruiser. The fork is made overseas, and it too has a weight savings from the original. Otherwise a slightly steeper seat angle, slightly shorter top tube and cantilever mounts round out the polo specific changes that make up this $700 frameset.
‘Tis the season for Halloween alleycats, and Indianapolis has the annual Monster Mash 4 coming up on October 29th, 7pm at Veterans Memorial Plaza.
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