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fuckyeahcycling:

Milan-San Remo 2013

Instead of MSR, the hashtag should’ve been TMI. Yeesh.

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laughingsquid: Pee-wee Herman Cycling Skinsuit, Fashioned After His Iconic Suit I need one of these. Click for high-res photo

laughingsquid:

Pee-wee Herman Cycling Skinsuit, Fashioned After His Iconic Suit

I need one of these.

(Source: fuckyeahpeeweeherman)

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laughingsquid: BLAZE, A Bike Light That Projects a Warning Symbol Ahead of Bicyclist A much better idea than this thing. Click for high-res photo

laughingsquid:

BLAZE, A Bike Light That Projects a Warning Symbol Ahead of Bicyclist

A much better idea than this thing.

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AUTOMATIC SHIFT FOR CYCLISTS

wiredinsider:

Image via WIRED

Are you sick of switching gears? Want to get rid of cables forever? This prototype can help.

Engineers at Cambridge Consultants placed sensors on a bicycle crank and wheel that calculate pedaling speed and road speed. The data gets sent to a smartphone app that calculates the correct gear, then sends it via Bluetooth to a Shimano electric shifter. It’s wireless and can be powered easily for a year by a watch battery.

Sign me up, right? One detail: the price tag. A Shimano Di2 electric shifter alone sells for upwards of $3,000. Yikes. Read more at WIRED’s Autopia.

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100 year old cyclist sets record for riding 100 km

Robert Marchand, who earlier this year set a world record for cycling nonstop for 1 hour in the over-100 age category, has set a new record, this time riding 100 km (62 miles) in 4 hours 17 minutes and 27 seconds, for an average speed of 23 kph (14.3 mph).

thedailywhat: North Korea News of the Day: A slice of good news from North Korea today. And by “good” we mean better than hearing about human rights violations, and by “North Korea” we mean the place where this story came from. Supreme leader Kim Jong Un reversed a 20-year-old rule — implemented by Papa Bear himself — banning women from riding bicycles. The law was originally mandated after Oh Hye Young, the daughter of National Defence Commission vice-chair Oh Geuk Ryeol, was killed by an automobile while riding a bicycle in the 1990s. The law was never strictly enforced outside Pyongyang, but it was still on the books, which means the old regime wasn’t going to budge. Ultimately, this change probably doesn’t represent even a microscopic shift in ruling ideology, but at least Mr. Jong Un woke up on the right side of the bed one day, realized it was 2012 — or whatever year their calendar claims it is — and concluded that women can ride bicycles responsibly. Hooray for progress! [arbroath] I love the logic: Car kills cyclist, so let’s outlaw cycling! It can’t possibly be the driver’s fault, can it?

thedailywhat:

North Korea News of the Day: A slice of good news from North Korea today. And by “good” we mean better than hearing about human rights violations, and by “North Korea” we mean the place where this story came from.

Supreme leader Kim Jong Un reversed a 20-year-old rule — implemented by Papa Bear himself — banning women from riding bicycles. The law was originally mandated after Oh Hye Young, the daughter of National Defence Commission vice-chair Oh Geuk Ryeol, was killed by an automobile while riding a bicycle in the 1990s. The law was never strictly enforced outside Pyongyang, but it was still on the books, which means the old regime wasn’t going to budge.

Ultimately, this change probably doesn’t represent even a microscopic shift in ruling ideology, but at least Mr. Jong Un woke up on the right side of the bed one day, realized it was 2012 — or whatever year their calendar claims it is — and concluded that women can ride bicycles responsibly. Hooray for progress!

[arbroath]

I love the logic: Car kills cyclist, so let’s outlaw cycling! It can’t possibly be the driver’s fault, can it?

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thisbigcity:

A better design for cycle path at junctions.

blah-city:

Yes. This. Now. Please.

Junction design the Dutch - cycle friendly - way.

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olympics: <3, re-blog, Tweet or Post this photo to cheer for Olympians that ride in the rain! Click for high-res photo

olympics:

<3, re-blog, Tweet or Post this photo to cheer for Olympians that ride in the rain!

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newyorker:

This Saturday, a hundred and ninety-eight cyclists are expected to start the ninety-ninth edition of the Tour de France. The three-week race will cover twenty-one hundred and seventy-three miles from the initial start in Liege, Beligum, to the final finish along the Champs-Élysées, in Paris.

To celebrate this year’s Grand Départ, The New Yorker Photo Booth blog has compiled a selection of vintage Tour de France photos and facts for your cycling enjoyment. Click-through for more: http://nyr.kr/N7KVlC

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fuckyeahcycling: Cyclist Robert Marchand of France celebrates after setting a world record for cycling non-stop for one hour, in the over 100- year old category, at the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) velodrome in Aigle February 17, 2012. Marchand, born November 26, 1911, cycled 24.251 km (15 miles) around the 200 metre indoor track to set the record on Friday. (via Photo from Reuters Pictures)

fuckyeahcycling:

Cyclist Robert Marchand of France celebrates after setting a world record for cycling non-stop for one hour, in the over 100- year old category, at the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) velodrome in Aigle February 17, 2012. Marchand, born November 26, 1911, cycled 24.251 km (15 miles) around the 200 metre indoor track to set the record on Friday. (via Photo from Reuters Pictures)

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