Tag: Bicycles and Holy Spokes

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Tron-Tastic Two-Wheeler for Toddlers
By Charlie Sorrel

Unsurprisingly, the kids of my bike-polo playing friends are riding two-wheelers before they get to three years old, but for the children of less bike-obsessed parents, the usual path to learning to ride is through the push-bike. These are pedal-less bikes which the kids sit on and scoot along with their feet.

They are also usually dead boring, either fashioned from wood to a design that would make a Scandinavian mother proud (tasteful, but a total snooze for a toddler) or plain old plastic tat. Enter the Light Cycle learning bike, designed for by Ryan Callahan. As you can see, the Tron-themed light cycle is pretty damn awesome, and its long wheelbase also makes it look like an old Harley or even a miniature Honda Goldwing (Kinda. If you squint the right way).

Ryan isn’t just a cool-dad candidate. He’s also a designer at the great Trek bicycle company, and this model was built for this year’s just-ended Trek World trade show. Ryan not only mocked the bike up in CAD software, but built a prototype, too. If I was a kid, I’d think it was totally awesome and take it out for a spin immediately. As a fully-formed human being, I’d probably do exactly the same. Right up until my 90 kilos crushed it into the flat light grid beneath, at least.

Here, at last, is a hubless bike that I can get behind.

Via: Wire

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Tron-Tastic Two-Wheeler for Toddlers
By Charlie Sorrel

Unsurprisingly, the kids of my bike-polo playing friends are riding two-wheelers before they get to three years old, but for the children of less bike-obsessed parents, the usual path to learning to ride is through the push-bike. These are pedal-less bikes which the kids sit on and scoot along with their feet.

They are also usually dead boring, either fashioned from wood to a design that would make a Scandinavian mother proud (tasteful, but a total snooze for a toddler) or plain old plastic tat. Enter the Light Cycle learning bike, designed for by Ryan Callahan. As you can see, the Tron-themed light cycle is pretty damn awesome, and its long wheelbase also makes it look like an old Harley or even a miniature Honda Goldwing (Kinda. If you squint the right way).

Ryan isn’t just a cool-dad candidate. He’s also a designer at the great Trek bicycle company, and this model was built for this year’s just-ended Trek World trade show. Ryan not only mocked the bike up in CAD software, but built a prototype, too. If I was a kid, I’d think it was totally awesome and take it out for a spin immediately. As a fully-formed human being, I’d probably do exactly the same. Right up until my 90 kilos crushed it into the flat light grid beneath, at least.

Here, at last, is a hubless bike that I can get behind.

Via: Wire

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On my way back from Copenhagen I had a chance to stop in Helsinki. It’s a very cool city, but after Copenhagen it struck me as strangely devoid of bicycle riders. What it did have though is lots of amazing vintage bikes. Here is an attempt to take a picture of me in Helsinki. Not a lot of…


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Bike Porter: Handlebars With Built-In Basket
By Charlie Sorrel

Baskets on bikes are very useful, and so are handlebars. Unlike handlebars, baskets are pretty easy to steal. The Bike Porter from Danish designer Goodmorning Technology mashes the two together into something that looks like it could be used for mobile cage-fights. Between very small opponents.

The concept is a good one — the basket is built into the handlebars themselves, making stealing it hard even on the brakeless fixie in the photo, which has no cables to deter thieves. Being metal, it’s also tough. Sure, small things will fall through the gaps but for slinging shopping bags in there and carrying them home this would be ideal.

It also has another advantage for the aesthetically-minded fixed-gear rider. As this is technically just a fancy handlebar, you can add it to your bike safe in the knowledge that you haven’t corrupted the clean, spare, simple lines of your ride.

Product page [Goodmorning via Noquedanblogs]

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Hands-On with the Knog Frog Bike Light
By Charlie Sorrel

Relax, lean back in your comfortable chair and join me on a journey. Imagine, if you will, that you own a beautiful, brake-free fixed-gear bicycle. The exquisite paint-job, iridescent in the shimmering sun, is rivaled only by the clean lines of your ride. From front to back, there is nothing to distract the eye as it rolls across the smooth geometry, free of superflous lugs and holes, or even reflectors.

Imagine now that you need to take this bike out at night. You want to be seen, of course, but you also want to be seen. Permanently fixed lights are, naturally, out of the question, as ridiculous as wearing a hair-mussing helmet. Even removable lights need unsightly brackets. What to do? You need a hipster lamp, something that the Bike Snob calls the Hipster Cyst. It is the Frog, from Aussie company Knog.

Via: wired

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Hippie Mansion Paradise

I spotted this VW bus grafted on an International school bus at Ocean Beach in San Diego in 2002. The “driver” wanted to take a look at my new fangled digital camera. I let him see it and I seriously thought I wasn’t going to get it back even though he’s maybe the most trustworthy guy on the beach. Man, dude, he took his time checking it out, like, wow.

I tell you though, the longer I look at this, the more I think I could live like that. I’d love to have my Flickr office up in that VW Bus!

(Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/8492055@N08/3394548736/sizes/l/in/photostream/)