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Handmade Dutch Bike Is All-Wooden — Down To The Spokes

October 6, 2011

Photos: Jan Gunneweg

There’s a lot of wooden bikes out there, ranging from the glue-it-yourself, no-metal kind, to award-winning, high-end designer bikes. But this near all-wooden bike, handmade by Dutch industrial designer Jan Gunneweg, must be one o…

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Steve Jobs: The Computer is a Bicycle For Our Minds

October 5, 2011

Still from documentary ‘Memory and Imagination’

Following on from Mike’s Vale for Steve Jobs. I’d like to tender, as my tribute, this quote and video, in which a young Steve, ever the visionary, remarks: … the computer is the most remarkable tool …

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Streamlined Bamboo Scooter Bike Zips Around With Hidden Electric Motor

October 4, 2011

Photos: Fritsch-Durisotti

From high-end models to do-it-yourself workshops, to affordable and local bike-making projects in Africa, bamboo bikes are popping up all over. Bamboo’s sturdiness and pliability means that more and more manufacturers are cho…

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Have Fun On Your Bike with 50 No Handed, Easy to Master Tricks (Video)

October 3, 2011

Image via Vimeo screenshot.

There are lots of great reasons to ride a bike- it’s good for your health and for the environment, and it’s economical. But if you’re not having fun on your bike, what’s the point? To help you out, here’s a video from dire…

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Clever Bike Repair Station at the University of Virginia

October 3, 2011

Photo: fermion72, reddit

Awesome: Tune Up Before Going to Class
I stumbled on this image randomly, so I don’t have too much information about it except for what I can see. Based on the stickers, it’s a bike maintenance/repair station at the Universit…

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"Poop As You Go" Biogas Bike To Go On 600 Mile Tour Of Japan

October 3, 2011

Photos: TOTO

Never dreamed poop could get you blazing down the asphalt? Well, now it all comes true as Japan’s biggest toilet maker, TOTO, takes the toilet on the road with its launch of the Toilet Bike Neo, a bike that’s powered entirely by human was…

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Minneapolis’s Awesome Midtown Greenway (Video)

September 30, 2011

With Heroic Music and Everything!
Minneapolis is a strong contender for ‘top city for cyclists in the USA’. Part of what makes it so great is the 5.7 mile long Midtown Greenway, which is the highlight in a network of 100 miles of bike paths. It goes …

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The Week in Pictures: Living Map of Central Park, a Bike with Metal Tires, and More (Slideshow)

September 30, 2011

Image: TreeHugger

We’ve featured a lot of vertical gardens on TreeHugger, many of them superb but none quite like this one, grown as a living map of New York’s Central Park.

We also have a bike with innovative metal wheels, avant-garde DIY fall har…

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The Future of Transportation on a Planet with 7 Billion People

September 29, 2011

Photo: Flickr, CC

Take a Step Back and Look
As we near the moment when our planet officially hosts 7 billion people (of course this is just a statistical guess – nobody’s sure precisely how many humans are on Earth), we need to take some time to thin…

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Think You Know What A ‘Utility’ Bike Should Be? Vote For Your Favorite

September 29, 2011

Photo: Fuseproject and Sycip’s Local utility trike.

What is the ‘ultimate utility bike’? The organizers of Oregon Manifest Construction Design Challenge 2011 Oregon Manifest 2011 aimed to find out. Setting that theme attracted a big batch of entries …

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