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fine art and ideology since 1978

People for Bikes

spwilliamsinspiration:

Ak-Baital pass by Ellen van der Zwan on Flickr.
I want to be on that bicycle.

micasaessucasa:

(via Furniture for Bikes: Sculptural Bike Storage | Design Milk)

It’s an amenity I think people are starting to expect in a new building.

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Stephen G. Kliegerman, the president for development marketing at Halstead.

The Bicycle Muscles In - NYTimes.com

The Quoc Pham range began with the Fixed shoe, a sleek and elegant take on the traditional cycling shoe. Made for the urban enthusiast and weekend tourist, the striking design and comfort of a traditional leather upper and flat, sturdy sole allowed them to be worn as much on the bicycle as off it.
via Mission Workshop

Sanomagic Wooden Bicycles
A ninth-generation shipwright, Sueshiro Sano has been making exquisite wooden products since he was in elementary school. But in 2008, drawing inspiration and technique from a lifetime of shipbuilding, the woodworker produced his first bike constructed entirely of mahogany, including frame, fork, seat, seat post, handlebars/stem combination and even rims.

Using mahogany lends flex and responsiveness in a way no metal frame can, which in turn gives riders an elevated sense of control and increases pacing possibilities. A number of Sano’s prototypes have been raced professionally, excelling in both ideal and inclement weather. In the three years since starting the project, Sano has handcrafted 11 of these fully wooden bicycles, making improvements that shave the average weight of his full builds down from 11 kilograms to around eight.
via Cool Hunting

It’s crazy. Gibson Dunn is the law firm that represented George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore in 2000. Now they’re working to get rid of a bike lane. Think about that.

— Is New York Too New York for Bike Lanes? — New York Magazine

The Rules › Velominati

RULE 10:

It never gets easier, you just go faster. To put it another way, per Greg Henderson: “Training is like fighting with a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired. You stop when the gorilla is tired.”

In 2009, the last year for which records are available, 630 cyclists were killed by cars in the U.S. (compared with 4,092 pedestrians). That’s arguably a big improvement over the 1,003 cyclist fatalities that occurred in 1975, when, as Census data hint, far fewer people were commuting by bike and still fewer wore helmets. And yet, even if things have gotten safer, at least in terms of absolute deaths (which are easier to measure than where or how much people are actually cycling), a sense of hostility—and sometimes outright violence—seems to be on the rise.

— Bike Commuting Conflicts | OutsideOnline.com

ridetheblackline:

TRACK WORLD CUP: BRITISH TEAM PURSUIT
This is an amazing photo from the Track World Cup in Manchester. The photographer (Tom Jenkins) uses an off-camera flash pointing back towards the camera to freeze the subject and a slow shutter speed of 1/4 sec at F16 to blur the other cyclists. Read about Britain’s Gold Medal ride at The Guardian.

ridetheblackline:

KEIRIN TRAINING 1994
This stunning image has been flying around the internet for the past couple days. Training on the pro Japanese Keirin circuit is pretty intense but that’s the job. In my opinion it’s gotta be a whole lot better than something like this. For lots more awesome images check out the Numerious Flickr.

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