Danielle Baskin’s Hand-Painted Bike Helmets
Art on your head with these beautiful hand-painted bike helmets.
Fun & Games
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
New My Paper Crane Toy Series
Need a Jell-O toy fix next month? Look no further than crafty gal My Paper Crane’s new Kid Robot line, Yummy Dessert. Some of Heidi Kenney’s most well-known designs appear to be featured in this keychain line. My personal favorite has to be the Jell-O mold. I don’t know about you, but my keys could […]
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 […]
Networked Etch A Sketch For Long Distance Doodling
Product Design student Andrew Little created the Connect A Sketch, a networked version of the ever-popular Etch A Sketch mechanical drawing toy: We all love to leave personal messages for one another, be it productive or playful, Connect A Sketch was designed to take this interaction to a larger scale. The reason I chose to […]
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!
GeoHot on the Sony and 77 million compromised users
GeoHot on the Sony and 77 million compromised users… One of the things I was contemplating back in early January was a PSN alternative, a place for jailbroken consoles to download homebrew and game without messing up anyone else’s experience. Unfortunately events led me off of that path, but gamers, if I had succeeded you […]
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.