Cycle Chic™ - The Original from Copenhagen.: Cycle Chic Guide to Bike Commuting - #1 Choosing a Bike. We figured a quick guide to bike commuting Copenhagen style might be interesting.
We may be wrong, but we're doing it anyway. In a previous post about Terminology Folly we tried to highlight how, in some countries, the bike industry love it when you buy into their tech-lingo. In Copenhagen it is a much simpler process. Most of the features shown below are standard issue in Copenhagen and come with every new bike. You may have to piece together your own accessories, but here's the highlights.
In no particular order of importance: 1. Flowers you can do yourself and stickers can be bought cheap, but for funky bike bells in North America you have to google kids+bike+accessories to enter the realm of cool bells.LINKS:- Bike Bells[Know other cool links? 2. Fast Rider Double Panniers Video. Project(ing) Aura: Bike Safety Lighting System, Revisited. Posted by Ray | 15 Jun 2011 | Comments (1) "Blaze," a bicycle light concept by Emily Brooke, a product design student at the University of Brighton, has been getting some buzz in the cyclo-sphere lately.
The handlebar-mounted laser projects a bright green virtual bike lane in front of a cyclist in order to increase visibility, especially in automobile blind spots. As of press time, this is the only image available. It illustrates the concept but leaves a lot to be desired... Brooke explains her thought process: I wanted to tackle the issue of safety of cyclists on city streets by increasing the visibility, footprint, and ultimately the awareness of the bicycle. Bike lanes. News and events - University of Brighton. Published 1 June 2011 A University of Brighton student has developed a safety device that projects a bright green laser image of a bike onto the road ahead – alerting motorists to their presence.
Emily Brooke's invention is being hailed as a potential life saver and has won her a place at a prestigious college in the USA, on an Entrepreneurship Programme. The final-year product design student said: "I wanted to tackle the issue of safety of cyclists on city streets by increasing the visibility, footprint, and ultimately the awareness of the bicycle. " BLAZE is a small, battery-powered device that is attached to the handlebars of bicycles, motorcycles or scooters, and which projects a laser image ahead onto the road. A bright green bicycle symbol travels ahead of the cyclist, alerting others to its presence. LightLane concept creates bike lanes where there were none. Designers Alex Tee and Evan Gant, of Massachusetts-based product innovation firm Altitude Inc., are hoping their LightLane bicycle add-on will make bicycling safer at night: A close brush with a distracted driver is enough to intimidate the most avid bikers from riding at night.
The problem isn't just about visibility, as safety lights are effective at capturing the attention of a driver. However, these lights are typically constrained to the bike frame, which highlihgts only a fraction of the bike's envelope. Bike lanes have proven to be an effective method of protecting cyclists on congested roads. One key is that the lane establishes a well-defined boundary beyond the envelope of the bicycle, providing a greater margin of safety between the car and the cycist.
While we have our doubts as to its efficacy, we feel this is one of the many design shots that have to be fired before the ultimate solution is discovered. via dustbowl. LightLane Home. Project Aura: Bike Safety Lighting System. Posted by Ray | 16 May 2011 | Comments (35) When a tip about Project Aura arrived in my inbox last week, I suspected that it was just another hipster bike lighting system and the electropop soundtrack of the Vimeo teaser initially confirmed my intuition.
But lo and behold, Project Aura is actually a really good idea: rim-mounted LEDs that change colors based on how fast you ride—self-powered (by a front hub dynamo) to boot. It's the brainchild of Ethan Frier and Jonathan Ota, industrial design students at Carnegie Mellon University who admirably addressed the issue of nighttime cycling accidents with an idea and a Small Undergraduate Research Grant (SURG). Project Aura: Bicycle Safety Lighting System. How-to Make a Cycling Cap, Threadbanger. Foska : Clothing for Cycling and Running. KNOG : General Pages. Cycles Gladiator Home. Dringdring — Home. David Hembrow, basketmaker - Wicker / Willow Bicycle Baskets.
Traditional English Willow basketmaker.
Assen, Netherlands --- Worldwide shipping Bicycle baskets Every bike basket shown on this page was made by myself in my own workshop. My website includes a video of me making a basket. They are high quality, long-lasting and, above all, practical bicycle baskets. I offer customization that you won't find offered elsewhere. If you are unsure what you would like, perhaps look at the page of customers bikes fitted with my baskets. I also make replicas of baskets fitted to vintage bicycles.
Note that all dimensions given are approximate and there will be variations in these baskets as with all natural materials. To place an order, please click here, for advice, contact me. Fitting baskets to your bike Front baskets can usually be fitted securely by using straps to the handlebars. For some bikes, especially with large loads, you may also want to support the basket from underneath and I supply two different types of front rack to do this.