Nobody ever gets bike lights quite right. Seriously, I'm not sure who is running these bike accessory departments, but they definitely must not actually ride their bike.
And I don't care how many kickstarter bike light projects there are, most leave some important element out.
I've participated in a few Critical Masses in my day. I did my first one in Madison, WI back in the booze infused glory days of college. It was a pretty small affair with a dense concentration of hippies. After moving to San Francisco I got to experience the event in its purest and orignal form. And on September 28th of 2012 the event will be celebrating its 20th anniversary, complete with a week of events and awesome promotional material like the attached poster, designed by local illustrator and muralist, Mona Caron.
Project Aura: Bicycle Safety Lighting System from Project Aura on Vimeo.
It is HARD to find a good bicycle light. You don't want to spend too much money because it might get stolen. The lights in this video are pretty awesome, nice cinematography too.
The Bicycle City. Trailer from Greg Sucharew on Vimeo.
In the developed world the bicycle we sometimes forget about the egalitarian functionality of the bicycle as a transportation vehicle.
Mark Ronson & The Business INTL: "The Bike Song" from Warren Fu on Vimeo.
Verse:
I can't understand it, but I can't really can't stand them
Girls love cars, cars cause harm to the planet
Don't you wanna take a joyride on my tandem?
Huffy on a Huffy, don't I look so handsome.
Dan Maes, some crazy ass politico from Colorado, thinks bike sharing is a gateway drug into a socialist bender. I remember when I was in Denver and I rode one of these B-Cycle Bikes. Unbelievably, I found it hard to ward off thoughts of Scandinavian governments and Canadian healthcare, both linchpins in the worlds dark socialist underbelly. Anyway, fuck this guy.
Copenhagen, Denmark has one of the most robust cycling friendly infrastructures in the world. Cyclist co-exist with drivers creating a very cycling friendly environment where many people even haul the kids around on awesome cargo bikes.
I dig this track and thought it had an apropos message on election day. Get Ready It's a New Day, so Get out and VOTE! Also it is totally bike related because Ash Roth is rocking a fixie in the video. A slightly undersized fixie, cmon prop wranglers, get your shit together (or they just took it from the only hipster they could find)!
I really want to believe Ash Roth is legit as balls, but there are a few caveats that makes me doubt his is his commitment to bicycle riding.
This is one of them. Although, I question the girl's ability to actually ride this bicycle without her onesie/sweater or whatever the hell she's got on falling off. Not that I would object to such a thing, but there might be children around.
