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    • Bicycles & Power Stations: 1 December 5, 2009
      If you’re in the UK (and pay your electromagnetic radiation tax that gives you exclusive rights to the airwaves over mere tax-dodging radio users), you might have seen Bang Goes The Theory on BBC1 last night. The plot of last night’s programme was to try generating the power required for a family home from [...]
    • Bicycles and Power Stations Part 2 December 5, 2009
      There’s a definite link between bikes and power stations. First of all there was that programme on BBC with its bicycle power station and an unwitting bloke undressing on national TV. Then there are these pictures from the Maslauf blog (a Slovenian fixed gear site) , that I found via Urban Velo . Basically these guys [...]
    • Friday Caption Contest - Another Cycling Nun December 4, 2009
      This week’s contest is in two parts. Obviously you have to come up with a caption for this photo, but there’s also a multiple-choice question in case you can’t be bothered to think of anything creative but still want a chance of winning. Our prize this time is a week’s stay in the convent of [...]
    • Dutchess, You’re Freaking Me Out December 3, 2009
      First off, let me say that I like the Dutchess. Cannondale’s take on the classic ladies’ bike is full of the sort of design features that would normally not make it past the eyeball grabbing concept bike stage. I love the structural rear-mudguard, the fact that it comes with a rack as standard, and that feature [...]
    • Greenwashing Cycling Is Counterproductive* December 2, 2009
      Yes indeed, green IS the new black. Whether you’re painting your nails with Chanel (or fake Chanel - the real stuff is rumoured to be going for around £80 a bottle), trying to put some clear green water between your political party and the next, or just trying to ease your conscience after a career of [...]
    • Too Painful December 1, 2009
      I’m seeing more and more of these strange little cartoon video things from Xtranormal . For me (seeing as I work in a Kafka novel set on the fringes of local government), the TV series The Office was just too painful - too full of the sort of power-deranged, delusional madness that I saw every day. [...]
    • Is Bar Tape SO Expensive? November 30, 2009
      I guess when you work in an industrial equipment store, there are just so many alternatives for the regular cork & synthetics / cloth / leather options. And seeing as the availability of these alternatives could be seen as one of the perks of the job (i.e. free , provided that the boss doesn’t catch [...]

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Bike Lock – With Danish Design

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Karl McCracken

I found this today over at Copenhagenize. It’s an innovative bike rack, but with built-in security measures:

What you do is wheel your bike into the guides, and then drop the cover down onto the saddle, thereby securing it. You lock this in place with your own lock. The idea is that the bike can’t be [...]

Filed under: Bike Rack, Bike Security, Bike locking strategy, Bike security tips, How to lock your bike | 1 Comment »

Old School Kryptonite

Posted on October 8, 2008 by Karl McCracken

Yanek from over at Bicyclog sent me these pictures from a 1970’s cycling book he has – The New Complete Book of Bicycling, by Eugene A. Sloane.
Take a look at this – it’s an early model Kryptonite lock! You can use your own padlock with it, as the body of the lock protects the padlock’s [...]

Filed under: Bike Security, Bike locking strategy, D-Lock / U-Lock, How to lock your bike | 1 Comment »

Bike Theft Warning: Tel Aviv Style

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Karl McCracken

These images are from the Bicyclog. When I first saw them, thought it was just a piece of street sculpture (seems to be a bit of a theme today). But no – it turns out that it’s a warning to bike thieves:

There’s another sign on the back of the bike too, and apparently they read,
We [...]

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Bike Racks in NYC

Posted on October 1, 2008 by Karl McCracken

This via the excellent Copenhagenize:
As part of the efforts to get more people cycling in New York, the city’s having a competition to design their future bike racks. They’ve now got a shortlist of ten:

Now I’m a HUGE fan of anything that’ll get more people cycling. But a couple of these designs give me real [...]

Filed under: Bike locking strategy, How to lock your bike, Partially Locked Bike | 1 Comment »