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CJ — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:49:46 +0000

The Bicycle

The Bicycle Art Print by William Mangum. Product size approximately 15.74 x 19.67 inches. Available at Art.com. Embrace your Space – your source for high quality fine art posters and prints.
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Bicycle News: Bicycle stolen from Junior Seau's garage recovered

Bob — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:49:24 +0000

OCEANSIDE, Calif. (AP) A bicycle stolen from Junior Seau’s Oceanside home days after the former NFL star’s suicide has been recovered, police said.

An unidentified woman called police Wednesday after seeing a bicycle that matched the description of the one that was stolen from Seau’s garage on May 7, said Oceanside police Lt. Leonard Mata.

Police confirmed it was the stolen bicycle and contacted the man in possession of it. He told police he bought the bike from an unidentified man in Oceanside on May 8. The man with the bike was ruled out as a suspect.

The crook had taken a $ 500 bicycle belonging to a friend of Seau and left through the garage door, Mata said.

”Somehow they forced the doggy door open so they squeezed through,” he said.

No arrest had been made as of Wednesday.

Seau, 43, shot himself to death in the home on May 2.

”I just think it’s horrible someone would even break into someone’s house after a tragedy like that,” a neighbor, Terra Ramirez, told TV station KGTV (http://bit.ly/KNer2P).

Seau was a mainstay of the San Diego Chargers’ defense in the 1990s after starring at Southern California.

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Cycling Arm Warmers: SheBeest Arm Warmers

Avantlink — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:49:20 +0000

Cycling Arm Warmers: SheBeest Arm Warmers

Powergrid Dristyle(TM) fabric – Stay extra dry during workouts with the ultimate performance-boosting fabric. DriStyle features its own built-in temperature regulator, which prevents athletes from heating up or cooling down too quickly and reduces fatigue or sore muscles. DriStyle has a soft, weightless feel and unique micro channeled construction. No-feel flat lock seams Articulated shape, sized to fit
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Upgrading the road wheels on your bicycle can make cycling easier and faster. Learn about the latest advances in road wheel technology in this free bike accessories video guide. Expert: Jeff Cook Bio: Jeff Cook, started riding seriously at the age of fourteen. He opened All Sports in London, Ontario in the spring of 1998. Filmmaker: Melissa Schenk
Video Rating: 2 / 5

Perfect Fit Handlebar Bike Mount For iphone 4 / 3G / 3Gs,

The passive cradle is designed as a custom fit mount for Apple iPhone 3G/3GS
Also backwards compatible and custom fit for iPhone Original
Installs easily without tools
Compatible with handlebars from 0.75″ to 1″ in diameter
Create your own fastening strap to insure your iPhone stays secure in holder

This bicycle mount for iPhone conveniently positions your device on bicycle handle bars. This is the perfect accessory to secure your iPhone while you ride. There are no tools required to install the bicycle mount. With the swivel adjustment feature on this mount you can position your device for optimal viewing. This holder can also be used to connect to the roof supports found on golf carts or bars on a baby stroller.

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Lake Women’s CX211 Tri Cycling Shoes

Avantlink — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:49:14 +0000

Lake Women’s CX211 Tri Cycling Shoes

For comfortable training days and quick race times, look no further than Lake’s CX 211 Triathlon Shoes. These impressive shoes are constructed with water shedding synthetic leather and mesh uppers for post swim drying comfort. Plus, the CX 211 Triathlon uses Lake’s proven Road fiberglass-injected nylon soles, giving you a stiff platform for which to stay ahead or chase down the competition.
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After touring the UK and Europe, Red Bull Mini Drome, the world’s smallest velodrome returns to York Hall on the 18th March, in London’s East End, to take track cycling to a whole new level. redbull.com Subscribe www.youtube.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Topeak Alien II 26-Function Bicycle Tool

26 Tools Total
2 Piece Body
270g / 0.60 lb
Hardened Steel (Tools), ?Engineering Grade Plastic (Body)
Includes ?HD Nylon Bag With Clip

Alien Technology allows tool to separate into two pieces for more versatility when making repairs.26-Tool system separates with the press of a buttonChain tool is compatible with single- and multi-speed chains, including 10-speed hollow pin (Not 11-speed compatible)Includes a nylon carrying caseMaterial Construction: Engineering grade plastic frame with hardened steel toolsDimensions: 3.4 x 1.7 x 1.6″Weight: 290gIncludes:
– 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6mm Hex keys
– 8, 9, 10mm wrenches
– Phillips & flat-head screwdrivers
– Chain tool
– Spoke wrenches
– Stainless steel knife
– 2 Tire levers
– T25 Torx bit
– 8mm open wrench for disc brakes
– Bottle openerItem SpecificationsIncludes
– 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and

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Shimano SH-RO98W Cycling Shoes 41/7.5 SPD NEW

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LCD Bike Bicycle Cycle Computer Odometer Speedometer NR Waterproof

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Park Tool USA Professional Chain Tool CT-3, 10-Speed Compatible Review

Velo — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:49:12 +0000

Park Tool USA Professional Chain Tool CT-3, 10-Speed Compatible

Shop quality at home or on the trail, the CT-3 is compact and durable
Made from investment cast tool steel, this chain tool takes the effort out of even the toughest rivets
Loosening shelf to deal with those stubborn stiff links
Compatible with nearly all 7, 8, 9, 10-speed chains and most 1/8-Inch chains

Works on all chains including 10-Speed

List Price: $ 34.49

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Went to a small bicycle supplier show.. The lighting was bad. It was loud and crowded. Not a great environment to shoot video. Gonna have to put in for a camera with light system and a hand held mic
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Diamondback 2012 Insight 2 Performance Hybrid Bike (Dark Silver) Review

Velo — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:49:03 +0000

Diamondback 2012 Insight 2 Performance Hybrid Bike (Dark Silver)

Butted 6061-T6 Aluminum Insight Performance Hybrid Frame
Insight Integrated Alloy Aero Straight Blade Fork
Shimano Crankset w/ Integrated Chainguard
Shimano Acera Rear Derailleur / 8-spd SLM310 Rapidfire Shifters
Equation Double Wall Alloy Rims

The Insight 2 has a look that’s fast standing still. The Insight 2 provides a value and performance oriented build with a 6061-T6 aluminum frame and straight blade fork, a Shimano Acera drivetrain and 8 speed rapid fire shifters, lighter double alloy wheels , and puncture-resistant tires. There’s no denying the comfort, style, and performance of a bike that’s got it all. The 2012 Diamondback Insight 2 performance hybrid.

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This is a video that examines the Diamondback Insight 1 Hybrid bicycle and also highlights some accessories for improved year-round commuting.

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Bicycle Horn

CJ — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:50:01 +0000

Bicycle Horn

Bicycle Horn
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Price: 6.00

While I was at the Zero motorcycle factory in California their battery engineer Luke showed us his custom made electric bicycle. Goes 0-60 mph in 3.6 seconds and charges in only 5 minutes. Brock Harden is riding it in the parking lot and the bike only has a front brake. Matt McGuire #450 www.mitchellcycle.com
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Pacific Stratus Men’s Mountain Bike (26-Inch Wheels)
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Bicycles News: The Next Great Technology Platform: The Bicycle

Bob — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:49:31 +0000

Bicycle

Image by orangebrompton
(left) Late Victorian (1897) gents bicycle, found near Sturminster Newton

Bicycles have already become an essential part of our culture, but now they’re shaping our urban and social spaces too.

Reuters

New York City isn’t known as a biker’s paradise, with its overcrowded subways, pedestrian-packed sidewalks, yellow taxis snarled in traffic, and noisy buses. Yet even New York City is heading in the direction of places like Portland, Paris, and Copenhagen, which have embraced and promoted bike culture and bike sharing in the urban environment. Over the past four years, the Bloomberg administration has rolled out more than 250 miles of bike lanes. And this summer NYC will introduce its own bike-share program with 10,000 bikes and 600 docking stations around the city.

While New Yorkers pride themselves on always being first, the city is just catching up when it comes to bikes. In fact, the bicycle is the most commonly used mode of transportation around the world. Think of a bike as a tool, a toy, a connector and a mode of expression with a low barrier to entry. It’s probably the most hackable (and hacked) simple machine on the planet. Bikes not only get us from place to place, they are the focus of a number of conversations about how we organize communities and define and share social boundaries, and how we can harness human power to recycle energy back to the grid. Most importantly though, bicycles are an intrinsic part of how we imagine and design the city of the future. They will play a significant role in shaping identity and communities and influencing social dynamics in urban areas, because they are the next great technology platform.

Mode of Self-Expression

Most people remember their first bike. Mine was a BMX, which immediately gave me a shared identity with the coolest guys I knew. It also made me more adventurous. I felt I could go anywhere and do anything because my BMX gave me freedom not only to roam, but also for self-expression. I customized my bike to look like my favorite BMXer bikes. But it wasn’t just about the look; the changing features and functionality I made were my first steps toward creativity and experimentation. I tweaked the bolts on the front axel so they accommodated foot pegs I had fashioned to do certain tricks. I designed and built my own ramps to help me jump higher. Bikes were already inspiring me to add things to my environment. I was becoming a designer.

Here in New York we’re seeing that search for self-expression on a much larger scale in the form of subcultures like the Black Label Bicycle Club, a so-called “outlaw bike club” whose members custom-make “mutant” cycles known as tall bikes (two conventional bike frames soldered one atop the other). This community of bikers go dumpster diving for spare parts. They also find vegetables to share at vegan meals, an activity directly tied to ideas about reusing resources wasted by others.

Black Label and similar groups can also be seen as a form of anarchic and anti-consumerist expression, as symbols of freedom. Bicycle culture is their inspiration to live off the grid. My brother has traveled to New York from Nashville several times to participate in Black Label’s annual “Bike Kill” tall bike jousting event. He often travels here via a tight network of tall bikers that can be likened to an underground railroad, a community that connects cities.

Community

Go to a bike shop in your neighborhood and you’re likely to find a social space where you can not only buy a new saddle, but also get in touch with like-minded members of the biking community. People swap ride stories and repair tips. Bike shops are community hubs, where groups and new friendships are forged and social activism takes root.

You see this in the emerging movement to open nonprofit bicycle shops in large urban areas to engage troubled youth and redefine the behaviors of communities. One organization called Red, Bike and Green, a community-building collective of black urban cyclists founded in 2007 in Oakland, California, wants to create a “sustainable Black bike culture” that will improve the physical and mental health of African-Americans and improve their neighborhoods. RGB is a direct response to a number of health and environmental problems that are the result of misguided city policies.

Bicycles help create cohesion in communities and aid social services, especially in developing countries. In many African countries — Zambia, for example, where frog has worked on projects — bicycles are converted (or hacked) into makeshift ambulances that help voluntary health workers transport women in labor to far away birthing centers. Bicycles are also used to stay in touch with mothers after the birth to ensure adherence to HIV testing programs for the infant, as well to deliver critical services.

Shared Social Space

These community hubs and organizations reflect how bikes help create new shared social spaces. That’s because the bike is an inherently social machine. It has no walls; it’s human powered and we can all (some more than others) try our hand at hacking and repairing them. In turn, bike-share programs like Capital Bikeshare in Washington, D.C., raise questions about ownership and social spaces. As a mode of transportation in crowded cities, bikes take space from cars, which can be seen as a form of environmental protest. Critical Mass, a cycling event held monthly in over 300 cities around the world, is a good example of biking as a mass movement that many regard as a form of political protest. Not surprisingly, a backlash is brewing against pro-bike policies: In New York, opponents of bike lanes accuse the city of favoring bikers over car drivers.

Technology Platform

Bikes help you get around cities and can also tell you about your city and your interaction with it. The Copenhagen Wheel project, in that Danish city, transforms ordinary bikes into hybrid e-bikes (an electric bike that harvests the energy you input while braking and cycling and stores it for when you need a boost). They are also mobile sensing units that can map pollution levels, traffic congestion and road conditions — all in real time and of course controlled from your smartphone. In this way the bike becomes a sensing platform that captures data about people, behavior, neighborhoods, and health.

Bikes have already changed our relationships to each other and the urban environment, but consider the potential for so much more.

Imagine a future where cities go beyond bike lanes and build the urban environment around bikes. What would a bike highway look like? What would city life be like without cars? Imagine a healthier city — no more kids in the Bronx with asthma — and reduced automobile fatalities.

The biggest opportunity here is that given what we know about how bikes change our social dynamics, how would this play out on a mass scale? Amplify that with sensing and tracking technologies on board the human battery-powered bike platform and the possibilities are endless. Handgrips that monitor your pulse and heart rate multiplied by millions will help us better understand the people who live in entire neighborhoods, and the pace of life from a global perspective. Such data will inspire exciting design solutions.

In many of the most crowded, densely packed cities around the world a bicycle is the most convenient (if not always the safest) way to move around. Now even cities with more well developed transportation infrastructure are catching up and adding bicycles to the mix. That’s because bicycles are an essential part of our culture and our lives. They stir memories and self-expression. They encourage social interaction in urban environments that can be lonely and isolating. They are a mechanism for political and social organizing and activism. And with new technologies, bikes are a way to gather information about how we live and relate to one another in the shared space that is the city.

More From The Atlantic

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Morning rush hour in the 4th largest city in the Netherlands. Streets look like this when 33% of ALL trips are made by bicycle! This is an ordinary Wednesday morning in April 2010 at around 8.30 am. Original time was 8 minutes that were compressed into 2 minutes, so everything is 4 times faster than in reality. The sound is original. This is one of the busiest junctions in Utrecht a city with a population of 300000. No less than 22000 bicycles and 2500 buses pass here every day. And yet Google Street View missed it. Because private motorized traffic is restricted here. These cyclists cross a one way bus lane (also used by taxis and municipal vehicles), two light rail tracks and then a one way street that can be used by private vehicles. Behind the camera is a railway (you can hear the squeaking sounds of the trains passing) and the main railway station is very close too. A number of rental bikes from the station pass and many of the cyclists will have come by train for the first part of their commute. For those who frown upon the total absence of bike helmets in this video, consider these findings from a US study: “Cycling in the Netherlands is much safer than in the USA. The Netherlands has the lowest non-fatal injury rate as well as the lowest fatality rate, while the USA has the highest non-fatal injury rate as well as the highest fatality rate. Indeed, the non-fatal injury rate for the USA is about 30 times higher than for the Netherlands. Injury rate per million km …
Video Rating: 4 / 5

Joint Armored Bicycle Lock

Avantlink — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:49:26 +0000

Joint Armored Bicycle Lock

This simple and tough joint armored bike lock will help keep your bicycle from getting stolen. This lock also comes with 2 keys so you won’t have to worry about having just 1 key!
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Terry Touring Cycling Jersey – UPF 50+, Short Sleeve (For Women)

Avantlink — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:49:22 +0000

Terry Touring Cycling Jersey – UPF 50+, Short Sleeve (For Women)

CLOSEOUTS . There’s no missing you on the road — the colorful print of Terry’s Touring cycling jersey keeps you visible, and its performance-minded, UV-protective design protects you from the elements. Available Colors: RUBIX. Sizes: XS, S, M, L.
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BELL MURD MASK CYCLING HELMET SMALL 55-56cm

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Zimco Euro Pro Cycling Biking Bicycling Short Padded S,M,L, Black 1004

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