When Mike Halligan isn’t skating across frozen bridges, he’s reclaiming thrown away objects for recycling. Just last week, the Warehouse Manager at Morgan Imports rescued a Schwinn Suburban from a downtown dumpster after spotting it from a Lull forklift. He’s also an avid paddler, guiding canoe and kayak trips with Frog Hollow Outdoors. Distressed by [...]
View Larger Map Durham’s tearing down the controversial Apex Street bridge over the American Tobacco Trail, the (existing) pedestrian connection between the St. Theresa neighborhood and Forest Hills. Beginning September 2, the City is tearing down the bridge, installing a new access ramp, and rerouting ATT traffic for three weeks. A few years ago, nowhere [...]
Whack’em with the club, and aim for the mole hills. Personal best, 795.8m 1237.0m First seen over at Urban Velo.
While out filming this weekend I ran into Judy Martell, who this summer completed her Trans-America bike adventure. From Oregon to Colorado, she rode her locally-built recumbent for 31 continuous days to complete the final stage of a journey she began seven years ago. I last mentioned Martell in these pages in an Outspokin’ Cyclist [...]
Anyone want to help me diagnose a computer problem? The screen on my Apple Powerbook (15″, Aluminum) has recently started to flicker or scramble intermittently. Sometimes the flickering is preceded by patterned pixel discoloration — an odd “highlighting” of images with purple or green dots. Sometimes the flickering signals an imminent screen crash (although the [...]
I’ve gotten familiar with the bike rack on the front of TTA Triangle Transit buses over the last few years. Having bike racks on the front of all buses is a common sense move that many municipalities have made. In fact, when I travel somewhere and see that their city buses do not have bike [...]
Nancy and I have had two extra tickets to Tuesday’s Town Hall with Barack Obama. At the Exposition Center on the North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, Obama will be speaking, in a town hall format, about the economy. Tickets are free, but had to be picked up ahead of time. According to the tickets… [...]
Find more videos like this on Duke Digital Initiative Duke Engineering students Irene Tseng and Derek Juang recently won a student design contest sponsored by the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA). Their project was a shoulder-steered tricycle for a boy with TAR syndrome, which results in very short arm length.
XLR8R TV, in conjunction with Revision3, has a new video of this year’s Fourth of July weekend Quake City Rumble. Using footage from the race, the video explores the phenomenon of alleycats generally. Highlights include an odd pedal-powered playground ride, kid-bike tandem race, and a demo on how to elude the police (hint, go slow). [...]
In the Autopia of the east coast, another university encourages students to adopt bikes as daily transportation. Emory University, in suburban Atlanta, is launching Bike Emory — a program offering a full line of new Fuji bikes to students at discounted purchase prices. Unlike Duke and UNC’s bike-share programs, Bike Emory equips students with their [...]