4:54 pm in beer, bikes, buy local, car free, Cars & Transportation by TreeHugger
Photos Courtesy of Zach Yendra, Yendra Built Cycles
When Shannon and Colin Westcott decided to start
Equinox Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, they wanted it to be a local, green operation. And that meant no keg deliveries by car or truck. So to save themselves a lot of back-breaking keg-carrying, the Westcotts teamed up with custom bike designers
Yendra Built Cycles. The partnership yielded the ...
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2:56 pm in bicycles, bikes, Design & Architecture by TreeHugger
Photo: Public Bikes
iBike?
Apple is known for its taste in pretty much everything, and that seems to include bikes.
Everaldo Coelho has posted a photo of one of the bicycles made available to Apple employees on the One Infinite Loop campus in Cupertino, California. This was reposted on WIRED, and readers there identified it as a
M3 Mixte from Public Bikes in San Francisco. A Public Bike employee added: "The bikes were a special order from Apple and the ...
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8:08 am in bicycles, bikes, biking, Fashion & Beauty, new york city by TreeHugger
Photo: Bowery Lane Bicycles
The Fashion Center is outfitting New York City with "
Tour de Fashion," a fleet of thirty bicycles customized by the city's top designers just in time for Fashion Week, September 8 - 15,
Thread NY reports; special thanks to participating designer
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11:53 am in bike friendly city, bikes, biking, slow movement by TreeHugger
Image credit Lloyd Alter
We have talked about
"Copenhagenizing", Mikael Colville-Anderson's term for learning to ride bikes like they do in Copenhagen, in street clothes, at a comfortable pace, usually without a helmet.
Andrew Sullivan points us to the American version, where it has become part of the Slow Movement, and is now called Slow Biking. (My own idea for a
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10:02 am in australia, bamboo, bikes, designers, life cycle analysis by TreeHugger
Images: Alexander Vittouris on Australian Design Awards
Bamboo may seem like a questionable material for making bikes, but we've seen our share of
great bamboo bikes -- and hey, there's even
DIY bamboo bike-building classes out there. Taking advantage of bamboo's qualities as a lightweight, strong,
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2:48 pm in bicycles, bikes, Design & Architecture, minnesota by TreeHugger
The Twin Cities on Two Wheels
Nice Ride MN, Minesota's great bike sharing program, is growing up fast. There are already a good number of bike stations (
as you can see on this map), but they are expanding: They started last year with 65 stations and 700 bikes, and this year they're planning to end up with around 115 stations and 1,200 bikes. Reception has been good so far, and only one bike has been stolen (not bad compared to other public bike sharing programs). Check out...
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Counting the number of bikes on the bike path in Boras, Sweden.
Guest poster Robert Ouellette has written for the National Post, Corporate Knights and his own Reading Toronto. He is cycling across Sweden and reports:
Leaving Boras takes us past a digital sign that counts and displays the number of cyclists using the adjacent bike lane. It is a good idea. I'd like to see guerilla versions put on Canadian streets. We need to make visible the growing number of cyclists our politicians are eager to ignore... anyone want to take me up on this? Mobile automated bike counters have to be easy to make and use . . .
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"To see the Google Map version of this route, 
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