If you’re an entrepreneur (or ever had daydreams during death-by-boredom conference meetings of becoming one) you’re familiar with the process of trying to come up with “the big idea.†It ain’t easy, to say the least: researching, brainstorming, sleepless nights, feeling like your banging your head against a brick wall, headaches (from actually banging your head against a brick wall), more sleepless nights (from uncomfortable bandages wrapped around now bruised head). Then, finally, at 4:23am as you lay in bed ready to strangle the 1,099th sheep you’ve counted – the idea finally comes!
Understanding this crazy, difficult process, I’m ever more appreciative of creative, original, inspired new business and product ideas. Thus, the moment I heard about ARTCRANK, the bike-themed poster art show … Details
A cloudy sky couldn’t keep the moon – er, make that moons – from shining last night, as hundreds of carefree cyclists traversed Center City for the Philadelphia Naked Bike Ride.
The biggest surprise? Very few people were naked, at least when they left the gathering point near 25th and Locust Streets. Some said they might dare to go bare as the ride progressed.
The 1st Philly Naked Bike Ride – This was the first Naked Bike Ride ever to be held in Philadelphia. It started late in the afternoon so the shot gets a little grainy towards the end and the finger covering the lens is not mine bu…
Brendt Barbur’s cause is noble: He wants road rash to be sexy. Then chicks would giggle rather than withdraw the next time he explains how he grated the flesh off his forearms and palms …
Sure, girls go all gaga if you smash your face into coral while surfing in Hawaii, says Barbur. (The general consensus being that surfers and surf injuries are sexy.) But getting clipped by a car door, and being sent over your bicycle’s handlebars, and belly flopping onto the road like it was a Slip ‘n Slide with a 30-foot concrete runner … well, the NYC cyclist says, girls don’t think getting “doored” is as stunt-man mythic as wiping out on waves. Yet. … Details
Levi Leipheimer will ride once again with Lance Armstrong, signing a two-year deal with the seven-time Tour de France winner’s newly formed Team RadioShack.
Leipheimer confirmed the switch Tuesday.
“There were other possibilities, but I’ve signed with the best team in the world, an American team that’s going to sign more American riders,†he said… Details