Most urban cyclists are guilty of a little jay-biking. A quick jaunt up onto the sidewalk here, a rolling stop there.
Lately, a mysterious bike cop – not a cop on a bike, but a cop policing bikes – has been coming down hard on cyclists pedaling the Midtown Greenway.
Here’s the problem – he’s enforcing an imaginary speed limit. And no one … Details
Saturday, September 18, 2010
12 miles, 2,000 feet of climbingÂ
The classic race returns for 2010! Registration and Start Line at Stinson Beach Park, US Highway 1, Stinson Beach, CA. Race goes north up Highway 1, right on Bolinas-Fairfax Road, right on Ridgecrest, finishing at the Rock Spring parking lot on the West Peak of Mt. Tam. Results will be posted at Stinson Beach Park by approximately noon.
RACE SCHEDULE
Registration opens at 7:30, closes 15 minutes before each race  … Details
Remember when the Segway was launched in 2001? The company proclaimed that it was going to revolutionize personal transportation, but… well, although Segways are still around, they’re hardly a common sight. What could soon be a common sight, however, are electric bicycles. While a variety of styles were on display at this year’s Eurobike show, commuting ebikes were by far the most common. An electric drive makes sense on a commuter – you still get some exercise and don’t have to register it as a scooter, yet you also don’t arrive at your destination all hot and sweaty. As with all electric vehicles, however, range is  … Details
One fateful day back in 1984, I read an article in Popular Science entitled “Pedal-power slingshot.†It was about a vehicle called the Cyclodyne, which was a recumbent human-powered tricycle enclosed in a full polyester-and-epoxy streamlined shell. The writer claimed that he had easily got the thing up to 30 mph (48 km/h), and that it was designed to reach 53 mph (85 km/h) on flat ground. Good Lord, how I wanted one. Its US$3,800 price tag ensured that it would never happen, but that didn’t stop me from obsessing. That article was my introduction to the world of velomobiles, which can pretty much be defined as aerodynamically-shelled recumbent tricycles  … Details & Pictures