San Francisco Pantless Bike Babe

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To an untrained eye it might look like this girl forgot her pants.  To those people living in San Francisco, they will immediately recognize this as the pantsless Bart ride, the yearly tradition where rides of Bay Area Rapid Transit forgoe pants for a while.  Gotta love San Franicisco, a city I also call home.

This girl is representing, Chrome messenger bag, made in SF, hello kitty undies. The whites dude! (Big Lebwoski reference)  Also, notice the people in the back that are just like, what the fuck, that asian dude is enjoying the view though, good for him.

Disc Brake Basics: What Are They and How to Take Care of Them

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On a bike, you’ve got either one of two types of brakes. You’ve got the caliper brakes or V-brakes, which look like a pair of pincers that pinch the rim of the wheel to stop. Or you’ve got the disc brake, which is a disc affixed to the hub of the wheel, which brakes via a caliper on the fork itself. The mechanism of disc brakes is very similar to those found in cars and they are used mainly to dissipate heat, which is useful for your downhillers.

The thing is caliper brake pads and disc brake pads are materials reacting to different surfaces. The pads on calipers vs the pads on discs wear on surfaces differently. The discs don’t wear out whereas the rims on a wheel do. Plus disc brakes work in wet weather and calipers are crap, which I almost found out to my cost.

This Fucking Guy. Washington state Rep Ed Orcutt Believes Bikes Release More CO2 than Cars

Up in Washington state there lives a man, by the name of Ed Orcutt.  By some miraculous chain of events he holds public office, and yet he believes a bicyclist burns just as much CO2 as someone I'm an Assholedriving a car.  This story brings together everything that is wrong with transportation policy in America.  The story was first broke by the Seattle bike blog.  Ed made the clam in an email exchange with a local bike shop owner, who opposed a new bike tax in Washington's transportation budget.

Top 10 Bike Light Projects on Kickstarter

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Kickstarter Bike Light Project FundingWhen you’re shopping for accessories, it’s good to keep your options open. Kickstarter’s motto is “Fund & Follow Creativity” and the projects on their site speak for themselves, among which are that necessary staple of every biker, the bike light. What you learn when you go through all these videos, however, are two things: