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Light up your ride with our easy to follow lights comparison guide! We've created this guide of best selling lights to give you a helping hand when deciding what lights to buy on the Wiggle website. Check out our best selling road and mountain bike lights and conduct your own light test to see which light burns brightest for you! To get started just follow these three simple steps: - Select a light of your choice and compare it against another light from the product display. - Check the light output difference between specific light sets using our beam pattern pictures. - Make an informed decision based on the comparison before you make your Wiggle purchase Top Tips for using our Comparison Guide Click this icon to see the the most important specifications for a light. Bike - VAUDE - The Spirit of Mountain Sports. Rims for Icebiking. Welcome to 2wheelogic.com. Google Translate. O2 Rainwear | Waterproof. Breathable. Lightweight. Biller's Bikes Sales Rentals Repairs Services Havre de Grace, MD.
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Bike and Cycling Forum. Bicycling Mags -n- Blogs. Best DC Bike Commuting Neighborhoods? Bike Gear and Accessories. What's The Best Bike For Cycle Commuting? By John Stevenson, Cycling Plus | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7.00am Your choice of bike for the ride to work will depend on your own tastes and on the distance, terrain and varying surfaces you’ll encounter on the journey. For longer tarmac commutes, experienced riders tend to favour drop-bar bikes of one sort or another for their extra turn of speed.
Many people are happy with the more upright position that you get with a flat-bar road bike or mountain bike with slick tyres, though. If your ride takes in some trails or unsurfaced paths, then the fatter, grippier tyres of a mountain bike will help with traction. They can be overkill for many situations though, so don’t overlook the option of fitting a flat-bar road bike with fatter rubber (there’s often room for deeply-treaded 32mm or 37mm tyres). Whatever you choose, you’ll need a way of carrying your stuff – in a rucksack, courier bag or panniers.
Let’s take a closer look at your commuting options... Race Pros: Quick, efficient and fun Tourer. United Bicycle Institute. Paul Dorn's Bike Commuting Tips: Repairs/Maintenance. The most common repair you will encounter as a bike commuter will be a flat tire. You can minimize pneumatic distress by buying durable tires.
You should also monitor brake wear to make sure they're not rubbing against the sidewalls of your tires. You should also look for and remove glass or metal fragments stuck in the rubber. However, sooner or later you will experience the distinctive hissing of a punctured tire. What do you do when you get a flat? First, take a deep breath. Then ... fix it. , or spare inner tube. You will certainly need to do other repairs over the course of many months of bike commuting. Keeping your bike clean will keep it running smoothly. , Finish Line Super Bike Wash , or Pedro's Green Fizz foaming cleaner .
The most important advice I can offer regarding bicycle maintenance is this: replace your chain every 2,000 miles or so. Big Blue Book of Bicycle Repair Zinn and the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance (DVD) Park SK-1 Home Mechanic Starter Tool Kit. RideTHISbike.com: Folding Bike Sales, Rentals & News. Bike Bag Shop | Bicycle Panniers, Racks and Bags. Bike to Work Book | The definitive guide to bicycle commuting. Bicycle Commuting - A Primer from Work by Cycle. How to bike to work (or anywhere else) There's never been a better time to consider walking, public transportation — or the greenest, most efficient form of transport: cycling. Once a novelty of the Industrial Revolution, bicycles now supply millions of people with efficient, healthy, pollution-free daily transportation.
Bicycles can reduce traffic congestion and noise. You can park a dozen bikes in the space of a single automobile, and the idea of a morning commute free of fossil fuels seems particularly attractive fuel costs go up and down. Even if you only cycle once a week — on Casual Fridays, perhaps — you'll be reducing your weekly commute's environmental impact by 20 percent. That's about the same as trading your current vehicle for a hybrid, and a lot cheaper. But commuting by bicycle takes planning. Make it work at the office There's an old saying that a journey starts with a single step. The first thing you need is a secure place to park your bike at work. Are you in good-enough shape?
Probably so. Enjoy your ride! Transcendental Transcontinental - Bicycle commuting. Bike Commuting – finer points Before you tour, you commute. When your bike becomes your primary mode of transportation, you are well on your way. Yes, gas is around $3/gallon and bicycling is good for your health, but you choose your bike because – you like it. You might be riding an old clunker, a hand me down, a converted old mountain bike or a specially designed/ manufactured commuter bike. It’s all good. It’s transportation. I consider myself pretty lucky that I have a pretty easy commute to work and town. As you can see, I converted my old mountain bike to my commute bike. Tires If you are riding on pavement, go with "slick" or tires with less aggressive treads. Bike lock and security If you live in New York City, I don’t think that they make a lock big enough to protect your bike.
Get Paid to Bike Commute! Recently, I had a pair of prescription glasses stolen out of my pannier when I ran into the Post Office. Rain Gear It is going to rain. I have Performance Goretex coat and pants. Commute by bike anytime! BikeWhenever. Flipphandle.com. Osloh Cycling Apparel and Clothing New York | Bike Wear Gear NY |Specialized Bicycling Jeans. Surly Bikes. BICYCLE LIGHTS :: LED Torch :: Cycle Helmets :: Bike Safety :: High Visibility :: Online Shop :: Special Offers :: Competitions :: Bicygnals. Speed Vest. Systems labs » Blog Archive » Speed-Vest! UPDATE 9/11/2008: Look ma! We have a whole website for the Speed-Vest now — you can sign up for news about the V2 vest, get yer press-blurbs on, and stay informed about the 2009 Tour De Speed-Vest! Furthermore, we’ve now got video of the vest in action here. But if you’re looking for some fairly nerdy reading about how to make one of these yourself … read on!
The SPEED-VEST is a bicycle safety device and advocacy tool which displays the wearer’s current speed on their back in easy-to-read lighted numerals. The system consists of a wheel speed sensor, a wearable numeric display and a small computer that does the thinking. The numeric display is made from electro-luminescent wire, supplied to us by CooLight.com. This project was my first foray into microcontrollers.
I wouldn’t call the project arduous, but the most time-consuming aspect was probably soldering the circuit together on the Arduino’s prototyping daughterboard. You Shall Have Bike Lanes Wherever You Go. Some cities are slow getting around to approving bike lanes; others don't bother. Here is a way to carry your bike lane with you wherever you go: project it onto the road with fricking lasers. Alex Tee and Evan Gant of Altitude write: Our system projects a crisply defined virtual bike lane onto pavement, using a laser, providing the driver with a familiar boundary to avoid.
With a wider margin of safety, bikers will regain their confidence to ride at night, making the bike a more viable commuting alternative. Light Lane via GOOD A commenter pointed us to another idea to promote bike safety: The SPEED-VEST is a bicycle safety device and advocacy tool which displays the wearer’s current speed on their back in easy-to-read lighted numerals. Mykle Systems LabMore Bike Safety in TreeHugger: Turn Signal Jacket For Cyclists How To Be Seen On Your Bike at Night. Bicycling Street Smarts - Authorship, Ordering, Acknowledgements.
SURG 2011: Project Aura. Our mission is to promote the bicycle as a practical and equal member of the roadway by providing riders with a bicycle light which makes you more visible and identifiable as a cyclist, while also being a novel/cool/beautiful addition to your bike. However, we have always had a bigger goal than just making a great bicycle light, but I don’t think we ever really put out there our bigger thinking behind this project. Our greater goal is to get more people to ride bikes as a practical means of transportation. A study done in New Orleans found that when the city built more bike lanes, more people started riding. This may sound obvious but I think it’s an important idea. The whole, “if you build it they will come” concept - when you provide riders with the infrastructure that supports riding more safely, suddenly more people decide to ride bikes. The motivation behind our project parallels this idea. Community Bike Programs, Bike Libraries, Bicycle Sharing, Bike Coop, Bicycle Collective.
This category covers a wide variety of groups, with a wide variety of structures and without well defined boundaries between types of programs. They all have in common that they are facilitating more bicycling in their communities'. Some are truly free, but others have some revenue generating element to try an make them more stable and increase their longevity. Clearly there is a multiplicity of approaches to this. Activities of a community bicycle program might include; bike library, bicycle sharing, public use bicycles, public bicycle systems, bike coops, bicycle collectives, check-out bikes, tool collective, community bike shop, bicycle recycling group and bike fleets.
If you have bikes to donate, many of the organizations in this directory are willing recipients. (If you have additions or corrections for this directory please let us know. ) Directory of World Community Bike Programs (non-USA or Canada) Directory of Canada Community Bike Programs Directory of USA Community Bike Programs. Black Bike to Work Pants. Trousers With Inner Brilliance Traditional spandex bike pants make for silly work pants, and vice versa.
So we created these handsome hybrids that perform equally well on the road or in the office. Like all our Bike to Work Pants, these trousers sport a secret inner brilliance: cuffs that roll up to reveal super-bright reflective material, plus an equally blinding pullout that deploys from a rear pocket. The result: radical reflectivity that lets motorists and pedestrians know you mean business. Speaking of business, these are our most office-appropriate Bike to Work Pants ever! We also added cyclist-friendly features like a reinforced crotch, zippered rear pocket, raised back cut for crack coverage, and a slight stretchiness in the fabric. We made just a limited number, so order your pair today. Cyclelogical :: bicycle commuter gear & ideas. Seattle Snowpocalypse. No matter how much we swear we've learned our lessons, Seattle always seems to get caught by surprise by the snow.
There we were, minding our own business with our feet all toasty in our sandals and socks, when the temperature plummeted and it turned into Juneau in January. While this year the City did a much better job than last year at preventing widespread carnage and destruction, we at Dutch Bike Seattle still didn't bring in studded tires because it never snows in Seattle. Even if we had stocked them, I'm not sure they'd sell because it never snows in Seattle, right? We found something else, though. Something else entirely. You're not going to believe it at first. It's quick, it's cheap, and yes, it looks completely ludicrous. BUT. I can accelerate, brake, and corner with aplomb, even on the vile snowpack/sheet ice mix the plows leave in the bike lanes. It is at this point that I must admit that I didn't dream up this amazing technique. WorkCycles. Bike Commuters. Guest Article: Ann's DIY "Porteur" Rack | Bike Commuters.
Our friend Ann Rappaport has been at it again…some of our readers marveled at her homemade kitty-litter bucket panniers, but that’s nothing compared to this incredible feat of DIY engineering! She was gracious enough to document the process in words and photos for us. Here it is: Front Rack Supplies and Construction: -Metal shelf supports/rods that are a squared off U shape: Four @ 3 foot One @ 4 foot -Electrical Conduit Hangers Two @ ¾? -U bolts, threaded at each end and have the flat metal piece that runs between along with the two nuts Two @ the size to fit your bikes front forks -Clear aquarium tubing (One foot is more than enough) -Metal Screws — I used 20 total, but the lengths may vary; buy a few extra of each size 10 @ 3/16? x3/4? Long 6 @ 3/16? Tools: -safety glasses -Drill -Metal drill bits -Screwdrivers -Hack Saw -Metal File -Pliers Points of Importance: 1. 2. 2. 3. 4. 5.
The Shelf Rods: The 3′ lengths will each be used for one 12.5 ? The 4′ length will be used for two 12.5? 1. 2. BikeHacks. Reader Matteo recently contacted us and noted that he had turned an old wheel into a ceiling light. His bike deco hack kicked my brain into search mode for another post along the same lines, and before I knew it was in full search mode for hacks we have posted related to decorations made from bike parts. A bunch of time typing and mousing through memory lane resulted in this cumulative post. If you have a bike deco hack you would like to have featured on bikehacks.com let us know. 1. Rim Ceiling Light - Vintage Reader Matteo sent along this ceiling light he created which is featured on his website. 2. Reader Song put a bit of a more modern twist on a discarded Spinergy rim that he submitted to us. People usually have a love-it-or-hate-it relationship with Spinergy Rev-X wheels, but when I saw a damaged specimen at a flea market, I figured I just had to buy it and think of something to do with it. 3.
Via the blog ViaComIt I stumbled on a great little house decoration hack possibility. 4. Cyclelicious. The online guide to outstanding and specialised cycles. Bike Hugger. Bicycle Tutor - Bike Repair Video Tutorials. Bicycles for Utility, Cargo and Transportation - Madsen Cycles. Bicyclinginfo.org. Bikerumor. Metrofiets | Custom cargo bikes - Handbuilt in Portland, Oregon. &:: Welcome to Slowtwitch.com ::&: Defensive cycling. Two weeks ago I wrote my own tips on how to ride safely while on rural roads.
I noted my own relative success rate: one crash in 20 years. I also noted the likelihood that, after boasting of my success, I was due for another crash. And—lo! —two days after publishing that installment, while sharing the road with no vehicles or cyclists or pedestrians, riding entirely solo, I managed to find and tumble over a manhole. Just goes to show you, doesn't it?
As I was casting about for themes on urban writing, I find that what I wrote on this subject two years ago stands up fairly well. In a 2006 survey of 18- to 24-year old Americans, barely a third could find Iraq on a map; just over 1 in 10 could find Afghanistan; fewer than half could locate Ohio or New York. This year marks the completion of three decades since I first (as Phil Liggett might say) turned the pedals in anger. But most of those occurrences took place during my first half-decade as a cyclist. I'll be honest. Who was at fault? Community Bike Cart Design. Mark Rehder - Bicycle Utility Trailer. Bicycle Trailer: Assembly Instructions. The Re~Cycle Trailer | Re~Cycle. People for Bikes. 100 KM | The Metric Century. Guided and Self Guided Cycling Holidays, Mountain Bike Holidays and Road Cycling Holidays. Why Cycle? WhyCycle? - The impartial cycling advice site. Free advice on how to fix your bicycle. Ken Kifer's Bike Pages -- bicycle travelogues, bike safety, bicycling advocacy, and cycling humor.
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