Tag Archive for 'bike safety'

MonkeyLectric: LED Light System for Bikes!

jackson published on July 29, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Yo!

boingboing has this great piece up right now about how to turn your bike into a super street safe psychedelic wonder-machine with the MonkeyLectric!.

“The MonkeyLectric m132s is a revolutionary bike light that keeps you visible – and in style. Its ruggedized all-weather design is perfect for daily commuters, urban cyclists, casual evening riders, BMX, festivals – anyone that wants to be visible after dark and not feel like a second class citizen.

The m132s creates full color graphics on your spinning bike wheel, and it provides outstanding visibility. The lighting effects and colors can be easily customized anytime to fit your style – mellow to extreme.

The m132s sets a new standard for bike lighting with brightness, visual quality, effects sophistication, user control and durability that far exceed what has previously been available. It installs in minutes on Road, City, Cruiser, Mountain and BMX bikes.”

Rats! Out of Stock!
No matter, we’ll just put our names on the list and wait patiently for awesomeness.

The MonkeyLectric system is $65.00 per wheel, but what cost total night visibility?
What cost supreme awesomeness really? Are they saying that supreme awesomeness can be yours for merely $130.00? That’s it?

You heard it. $65 for one tire awesomeness, $130 to rule the school.

Bargain.

More Bike Lanes for NYC!

jackson published on April 29, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Just saw this on treehugger:

“Perhaps because Mayor Bloomberg’s plan for congestion pricing in New York City has failed, the Big Apple is now trying to make up for it by becoming more bicycle-friendly. As it is, 112,000 New Yorkers bicycle on an average day, an increase of 10% over the last decade. The proposal, which is part of a new Department of Transportation strategic plan, hopes to double that number by 2015, as well as

–Add 200 miles worth of new bicycle lane between 2007 and 2009
–Install 37 bicycle shelters and 5,000 bike parking racks by 2011
–Install 15 additional miles of protected on-street bike lanes by 2010 and 30 miles from 2011 to 2015

Finally, “To raise bike-consciousness in the city, the Transportation Department and the nonprofit group Transportation Alternatives are holding a competition to find the most bicycling-friendly employers in the city.”

Hooray! Mas bike lanes for all! Bloomy, you’re the bee’s knees.

DIY LED Bike Helmet!

jackson published on April 25, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Safety is rad.
DIY is rad.
DIY safety is the intersection of rad and radder.

Thank you to sternlab.org

Make yo sweet self one of these beauties.
Live to be a thousand, my homies.

Here’s how: DIY LED Bike Helmet @ instructables.com

Helmets! Helmets! Helmets!

jackson published on April 3, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

Spring is here!

That means good weather, less layers, and a fine time to get out the bike that’s sat sadly unused all winter.

But if you’re going to ride, and you don’t want to end up a Ghost Bike, you’d better protect your cantaloupe.

That’s why you need a good helmet.



Athletic Armour is an American company from the Bayou State, and they’ve got quite a quiver of head protection.

Backcountry.com is another U.S. company, this time from the Beehive State, and they’ve also got some sweet melon covers.


And if you don’t feel like waiting for a helmet, cruise over to NYC’s own Paragon Sports, where their friendly staff and ample supply of dome-piece armour will leave you feeling happy and better protected.

Look out for your fragile head and it will return the favor ten-fold. Our math is fuzzy, but you get the idea. Wear a helmet.

Love,

Team SF

Bike Lane Love

jackson published on March 18, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .



Hello All,

Saw this as I walked to work this morning.
Someone’s taken the time to design a cute stencil and paint this design up and down the bike lane on 9th Ave.

Marvelous.

Graffiti makes things unique and interesting, and provides a sense of place.
And this made me smile.

Thank you, whoever did this…

Now, to create more bike lanes/empty canvasses.

Go New York!

Turn Signal Biking Jacket

jackson published on March 14, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , .

Ghost bikes. Every block seems to have one, if not multiples.

I used to walk past them all the time, not knowing what they were for. Ads? Viral street marketing? Turns out, sadly, it’s both.

Ghost bikes are regular bicycles, painted white, that are chained up near the scene of a crash that killed a cyclist. Some have little plaques bearing the unlucky bikers name, some have flowers and candles, many have nothing.

When I finally figured out what the Ghost Bikes were and what they stood for, I found them to be an extremely effective way of making me that extra bit wary whenever I rode my bike through the mad tangle of our streets.

Bicycles and their fragile riders are such an integral part of the day to day workings of NYC that I’m frankly surprised that more hasn’t been done to protect them and ensure that they can move freely through the cityscape. (With the exception of 9th Ave. which has an incredibly convenient bike lane.)

But there is hope!

The Turn Signal Biking Jacket, a wonderful creation by Leah Buechley, could ensure that fewer and fewer blocks are occupied by Ghost Bikes, and that there are more than enough safe and happy bikers.

Integrate a motion powered generator into the system and you’ve got an incredible piece of hardware.

Cheers to Leah Buechley for using her noodle! And cheers to swissmiss and treehugger for bringing this to our attention.

Keep an eye out for each other, be safe, share, and prosper.

Love to all,

SF