Street vendors at Hanoi in Vietnam (mainly female migrant workers) on their fully-laden, early morning way to work as seen from an overhead bridge by photographer Loes Heerink.
Tag Archives: bicycle
E-Bike
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The Budnitz Model E is the lightest electric bike of its kind, combining an enclosed 250W electric motor (feeding a 30V L-ion 160Wh battery) with a titanium alloy frame, it can cruise at 15mph (24km/h) for 100 miles (160km).
Your wallet will be similarly lightened by $3,950 (€3,500).
Impossycles
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For several years now, Italian designer Gianluca Gimini has been inviting freinds and strangers to draw bicycles from memory.
He ponders the bikes in the drawings, then he renders them, as if they were real.
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Pedalphabet
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The intersection of Bridge Street and Cook Street, Dublin
There have been 139 submissions to the Dublin Inquirer Bicycle Collision Tracker map.
A pattern is emerging.
Willy Simon writes:
We’ve found an intersection in Dublin’s city centre that appears to be particularly dangerous for cyclists…There is a discernible cluster of reported incidents in the city centre, and it’s only a stone’s throw from Dublin City Council’s Civic Offices at Wood Quay. Two accidents have been reported at the intersection of Bridge Street and Cook Street, and three more just south of the intersection on Bridge Street Upper before it meets High Street….[details on how it can be improved at link below]
Danger For Cyclists – Here’s A Place To Avoid (Willy Simon. Dublin Inquirer)
Pic: Caroline Brady/Dublin Inquirer
Stop That
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This afternoon
Daniel Keogh writes:
A lad on Dame Street [Dublin] making us bipeds looked like Luddites…
But can he use the cycle lane?
Wooden Fixie
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A solid ash ‘vibration-absorbing’ cyclocross bike by Amsterdam-based designer Paul Timmer.
The bike weighs in at just 11kg, uses a more durable belt rather than a metal chain and has a split front fork and solid handlebar to preserve the grain and strength of the wood.
Peddling
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Wheely’s – a ‘bicycle café’ by the Volvo boffins at The Nordic Society For Invention And Discovery’, currently funding on indiegogo.
Maria De La Croix writes:
Today we are extremely proud of launching the world’s smallest AND most ECO-friendly café AND the world’s first open source brand. All in one! The concept is a café is totally enclosed in a bicycle. A fully equipped Wheely’s Café bike, including cups and branded materials, costs $ 3000. Less than 1% of what it costs to open a Starbucks.
We would sell jelly snakes and Lucozade from ours.
Sun Bike
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The Solar Cross e-bike by Terry Hope of R&D company thekpv has eight 0.1kg photovoltaic panels with reflective sides for indirect sun exposure that power the 22kg bike to a frisky 7km/h.
Granted, it’s not what you’d call aerodynamic, but it only cost $500 to build and wind resistance isn’t really a problem at 7km/h.