Tag: Electric bike
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A naked bike and lots of links
I hope that you have been enjoying the holidays. I have been taking time off work to spend with my family, so the blog hasn’t been getting much attention in the last week or so. That doesn’t mean that the links haven’t been coming in though, so today I want to quickly pass along several…
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The Copenhagen Wheel
“Transform your ordinary bicycle into a hybrid e-bike that also provides feedback on pollution, traffic congestion and road conditions in real time!” That is the opening statement on the website for the Copenhagen Wheel, a project by MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory. With a claim like that, it is no wonder the project has been getting…
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Hen and Chickens
This cargo carrying penny farthing pentacycle, ‘Hen and chickens’, was the featured bike in a VeloVision story that was forwarded to me by a reader, Ross. The Canberra Bicycle Museum in Australia closed last year and this old bike is one of nearly 150 that are still to be sold. On the museum website you…
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Beyond Bicycles
In May of 2010, Oakland, California’s Rock Paper Scissors Collective will be hosting Beyond Bicycles, a celebration of the art, science, and politics of harnessing human power. From now until March 15th, they will be accepting entries for the exhibition. They are looking for “human-powered machines, bicycle-based inventions, and interactive kinetic sculpture” from artists, designers,…
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Joules, the electric stoker
I talked a bit about electric bikes in my last post, so today I will share a different take on that subject. Meet Joules, the stoker on Carl’s home built electric tandem. Carl challenged himself by asking, “Could I build an electric tandem based on actually pumping the pedals?” The result is a design that…