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“Cycling Copenhagen: Through North American Eyes”

Friday, 16 July 2010 02:00

A beautiful video by a master, Clarence Eckerson, Jr., on Copenhagen as seen by over 100 North American cycling advocates at the Velo-City 2010 conference there. Enjoy… Read the full post at Streetfilms.org →

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2010/07/16/cycling-copenhagen-through-north-american-eyes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cycling-copenhagen-through-north-american-eyes
 

STP=10,000 people x 202 miles = 2,020,000 of biking

Thursday, 15 July 2010 13:05

STP (Seattle-to-Portland) is a 202 mile ride (two days for about 85% of the riders and 1 day for the intrepid other 15%) running in its 31 year and drawing 10,000 riders (so popular it was sold out in April this year) Gene Bisbee over at Bikingbis.com/blog does a great write up on STP and [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2010/07/15/stp10000-people-x-202-miles-2020000-of-biking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stp10000-people-x-202-miles-2020000-of-biking
   

Technical and review round-up

Thursday, 15 July 2010 09:57

Idlers comprehensively compared, a trio of trikes and a Trek, bottom bracket gears go up to three, drumbrake upgrades for velomobiles, a sneak preview of the latest Burrows design and pedalling the Atlantic in the Torpedalo. (posted 15 July 2010)

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Source: http://www.velovision.co.uk/cgi-bin/show_comments.pl?storynum=1117
 

“Light & Motion Vis 180 and Vis 360″

Thursday, 15 July 2010 07:43

Found this item on UrbanVelo.org. They reference the L&M site at BikeLightingSystem.com but it doesn’t appear to be listed there yet so read the details at Urbanvelo.org. I have three different recumbents rides right now… putting lights on me rather than on three different bikes makes a lot of sense…

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2010/07/15/light-motion-vis-180-and-vis-360/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=light-motion-vis-180-and-vis-360
   

The electric pedals won!

Thursday, 15 July 2010 05:52

50k towards development is secured for the electric pedals inventor... (posted 15 July 2010)

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Source: http://www.velovision.co.uk/cgi-bin/show_comments.pl?storynum=1116
 

Alberta Weather…

Wednesday, 14 July 2010 05:29

[Picture from theweathernetwork.com] Does it always snow in Alberta, Canada in July? No! Does it ever snow in Alberta, Canada in July? You bet! Like on July 13, 2010 in Jasper, Alberta Canada and in Calgary it rained so hard they had to cancel the chuckwagon races at the world-famous Calgary Stampede for the first [...]

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2010/07/14/alberta-weather/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alberta-weather
   

TerraTrike Film Festival Winner Announced

Wednesday, 14 July 2010 04:45

Congrats to Troy Bryant for producing this excellent video and taking home the $1500 gift certificate.

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Source: http://www.bentrideronline.com/?p=4023
 

Schwalbe Manufacturing Process

Wednesday, 14 July 2010 03:30

Here's an interesting video from Schwalbe on their manufacturing process.

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Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ecovelo/posts/~3/aHoph12uhVk/
   

TerraCycle Cargo Monster

Tuesday, 13 July 2010 12:57

by BRYAN J. BALL Managing Editor “Longtails” are all the rage lately. I’m talking about extended bicycles that have room built in for extra panniers and cargo. The most popular of these are made using a kit from Xtracycle. This system moves the rear wheel farther aft and makes room for two panniers on each side and [...]

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Source: http://www.bentrideronline.com/?p=4013
 

Schwalbe Tire Manufacturing Process

Tuesday, 13 July 2010 08:01

Found this on TheLazyRando.wordpress.com (who apparently found it in a post by Fastolfe on BROL)… good stuff travels pretty quickly around our little world! I guess I knew making a good bike tire and/or tube wasn’t easy. I had no idea!!

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Source: http://www.recumbentblog.com/2010/07/13/schwalbe-tire-manufacturing-process/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=schwalbe-tire-manufacturing-process
   

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