Month: December 2008

Biking in Astoria

Great bike carries

A truly great bike carry requires a bike or rack designed to carry truly great things. A comment just pointed me to this guy. I don’t know him from Adam, but I hope he’s nice. How could a guy making bike racks not be nice? Plus he has great struts… always the weak link in…
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A Better Bike Rack

John Seckler designed a better bike rack but the world didn’t come beating a path to his door. He submitted his bike rack to NYC but it didn’t make the cut. That’s a shame. It’s really the perfect bike rack… simple and can be attached to existing things like subway stops and parking meters and…
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Great bike carries

First there was this great picture on Elyse Sewell’s excellent blog (yes, there really is at least one model out there with looks and brains… and she just happens to like travel, food, and bikes. Oh, deary me). Imagine the planning session that preceded this expedition. If you have access to a good mental cholo…
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Bamboo bikes for Africa

The Economist has the story.