Wednesday, May 11, 2011

The Ultimate Bike Helmet-related Letter to the Editor

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OK, just kidding (sort of). The May/June 2011 Momentum magazine features "The Helmet Debate" by Elly Blue (four pages long), as w...
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Decade of Action for Road Safety: We are all "Steve"?

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Today starts the "Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011-2020 " , a collaboration between the World Health Organization (WHO) and ...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Seville: "Great is the enemy of good"

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The People for Bikes website has a nice, short article about the recent very rapid increase in cycling mode share in Seville, Andalusia (Sp...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Don't we want honest labeling on bicycle helmets?

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(Please click on image for full effect. The original advertisement is used for visualization purposes only. Nutcase, Inc. is not connected w...
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Non-profit pro-helmet group in Canada sponsored by automobile producer

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In September 2010 Prohab organised some kind of helmet-themed art show , and in a subsequent entry in their blog they thanked this sponsor ...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

The Conditional Surrender

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 Traffic congestion in the Dutch capital, including a Prius and a bunch of brand new cars. From The Hamperium . A video from Mark Wagenbuur ...
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Thursday, November 4, 2010

Melbourne Bike Share: Helmet dispensers, but no one to help adjust fit

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Are 7-Eleven employees in Melbourne trained to fit bike helmets? The State of Victoria, Australia, requires all cyclists to wear helmets. Th...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The Amazing and Fashionable Airbag Bike Helmet

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image from Urban Dictionary.com OK. This is so terrible that we should waste as little time as possible on it. A crew from Malmö, Sweden at ...
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Lux-Narcissism (Was: "Don't Believe the Hype-rillumination")

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Cycling is generally very safe. For celebrations on a "bike theme" or not, certain special events etc. the MonkeyLectric Bike...
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Friday, August 27, 2010

Ring My Bell

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Oh, I am sure the birds will love that nonsense. Further explanation necessary can be found on Treehugger . But really, isn't something ...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Does your street have special bike clothing?

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This is the first of at least two parts about defining "streets". Mikael Colville-Andersen from Cycle Chic travels to Dublin as p...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

"Freedom Muffins!!" - USA government, aided by automobile industry, prepares attack on UK

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The U.S. Department of State held a surprise press conference in Detroit late on Tuesday evening to announce that it would launch a pre-empt...
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Monday, June 14, 2010

Sailing safer than driving?

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Probably many readers know the story about Abby Sutherland , a 17 year old "American" who just got rescued from her boat the ...
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

"Unmanned Commercial Flights Could Become A Reality"

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Ha ha ha, I sometimes cannot believe the crap they spend our money on. From PSFK : "The US Federal Aviation Administration is undertaki...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Se beber, não ande de bibicleta e nem a empurre

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From AMOBIK E , this video has two titles: The one above says "Drunk pushing a bicycle" and in the video itself it says "Drun...
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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

The Netherlands: "Volvo introduces helmet to protect against Volvos"

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Couldn't possibly think of something better, so I took the title for this entry from the latest at Bakfiets-n-Meer , from Henry Cutler ...
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Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Green Idea Factory wins 1st Prize in Copenhagen Bike Share Design Competition

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The team of Koucky & Partners , LOTS Design and Green Idea Factory has developed an innovative bike share concept, called OPENbike , f...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

"Dog and Cat Collars" (2009) by Chris Jordan

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Depicts ten thousand dog and cat collars, equal to the average number of unwanted dogs and cats euthanized in the United States every day*. ...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Regarding "Compleat Streets"

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Transportation for America wants people in the U.S. to send this letter: Dear Secretary LaHood, I am alarmed by the continually high ped...
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