Bike Bottle Rack
Clever idea from Etsy seller oopsmark. Perfect for hauling around your ships-in-bottles. Or, I dunno, bottles of wine or something. If you’re a weirdo. [via Dude Craft]
Drones & Vehicles
Danielle Baskin’s Hand-Painted Bike Helmets
Art on your head with these beautiful hand-painted bike helmets.
Make: Bike Shop — Bike Repair Book Giveaway
We hope you enjoyed this month’s Bike Shop theme and Skill Builder series. As with all of our Skill Builder sets, we’ll continue to add content going forward, and we always have great ongoing bike coverage under our Bicycles content category. Thanks to Chris Nodder and to RadBrad and KoolKat of Atomic Zombie for helping […]
Top 10: Bike Repair
We have covered a lot of bike-related content over the years, and a lot of bike-repair-related content. Trouble is, we don’t have a separate repairs-only category, so assembling this round-up required manual cherry-picking from the many pages of our Bicycle category archive. I then picked my ten favorites, tabulated the pageviews for each, and counted the days since it was posted, and divided to get an average-traffic-per-day figure for each post. So this is probably my most scientifically-organized Top 10 to date. I hope you enjoy it. Happy Friday!
Skill Builder: Adjusting Bike Shifting
In this how-to, mountain biker Chris Nodder explains common problems with bike shifters and how to deal with them.
Frida V, a Mapping Bicycle
We posted about Frida V. (Free Ride Data Acquisition Vehicle), a mapping bicycle, back in 2007. However, it looks like they haven’t quit working on this neat project. Frida V. is a rugged and comfortable bicycle equipped for efficient exploration and mapping of public urban spaces. It carries a small computer, GPS positioning device, 802.11 […]
Meet the Makers: Satya Kraus
Learn how Satya Kraus felt when he saw a motorcycle for the first time in his life. Since that moment, he has been obsessed, and turned that obsession into Kraus Motor Co. He hand-builds the most incredible machines from scratch in his workshop under the redwoods.
Experience Satya’s remarkable bikes at Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 & 22, 2011.