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Friday Roundup: Bike Chic

By Becky Striepe On August 20, 2010 · 2 Comments · In Buy Handmade

Who needs a reason to drool over awesome bike-related crafts? I certainly don’t! Cycling is good for your body and for the planet, and I just love seeing more and more folks embracing the bike! Here are some super rad bike-themed pieces I’ve been ogling:

High Five New York City

By Becky Striepe On September 28, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

I am in love with this video of a cyclist high-fiving folks on the street that are hailing taxis! Something about it is just totally delightful.

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42 Folding Bikes

By Becky Striepe On September 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

Check out this awesome photo from Boing Boing:

Yep! That’s 42 Brompton folding bikes in the space it takes to park a single car. Not only are bikes more space-efficient, as commenter fyreflye points out, “I think the point is that it would do away with 42 cars!”

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Let’s Get BikeWise, Atlanta!

By Becky Striepe On June 10, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Uncategorized

[Creative Commons photo by Joel Mann]

BikeWise is a new user-generated site where cyclists can log common problems they encounter: crashes, thefts, and hazards. It’s a pretty new site, and most of the data right now is for Seattle, but I would just love to see it grow! Atlanta could certainly [...]

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An Open Letter from No Impact Man

By Becky Striepe On September 18, 2008 · 4 Comments · In News

The letter below reminds me a lot of something that happened to me. I was riding down 10th Street in the right hand lane. Rather than pass me in the empty left lane, a giant SUV swerved towards me, [...]

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