cycling

How-To: Brake Light Backpack for Cyclists

How-To: Brake Light Backpack for Cyclists

Check out what MAKE alum Becky Stern has been up to over at adafruit, lately.

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Rebar bike frames

Rebar bike frames

They’ve got to be heavy, and I can’t imagine how they might ride, but there’s no denying the post-apocalyptic awesomeness of sporting a bike you welded up yourself from a pile of rebar. Up top is a shot from the consistently-amusing-but-often-offensive There, I Fixed It, that got me Googling around for more….

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Be Cycle & Fashion: Custom Bikes for Charity

Be Cycle & Fashion: Custom Bikes for Charity

Introducing, Be Cycle, a customization project where twelve great names in fashion and design modify and decorate twelve Peugeot fixed gears for auction. The proceeds will benefit ACT Responsible, a non profit dedicated to promoting environmental and social causes. As a cult object and symbol of a responsible attitude, cycling made its comeback in many […]

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Warmer winter cycling

Warmer winter cycling

Probably only a mockup, but such a wonderfully weird idea that I wanted to share. From Momentum: Iron Saddle Who hasn’t suffered from ‘cold butt’ while riding in winter, at least in the northern parts of the continent?… A battery, a 12 volt iron (without steam option) and voila! Toasty Buns! And of course if […]

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