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Bull Moon Ride: Saturday, July 18th

Durham Habitat for Humanity’s night ride, scheduled for July 18. Durham, NC – The Durham Bulls and Habitat for Humanity of Durham today released the tentative map for the 2009 Bull Moon Ride. The ride, mapped at just under 17 miles, will be a circuit through Downtown Durham and the American Tobacco Trail that will [...]

Tesla test drive

The Washington Post has an autoreview/video for the new Tesla.  I saw a Tesla dealership on Santa Monica Blvd while I was out in LA this summer, and these cars really do look as sexy, sleek, and stylish in person as they do in photos. President Obama’s announcement today that the EPA should review its [...]

the real cost of owning a car

Got an extra 8 to 12 thousand dollars lying around each year? You’d better make sure you do, if you want to own and drive a car. Adrian Hands breaks down very nicely the average costs of owning different classes of cars. Since owning and riding bikes is not free either, has anyone broken down [...]

bike lane advocates = terrorists?

Sunday’s Washington Post has an article on the long arm of the law… The Maryland State Police surveillance of advocacy groups was far more extensive than previously acknowledged, with records showing that troopers monitored — and labeled as terrorists — activists devoted to such wide-ranging causes as promoting human rights and establishing bike lanes. The [...]

no war required

Great ads by a Portland bike shop

transcontinental timelapse

I work in a place that hosts academics for a fellowship year, so each summer the residential fellows have to return home (sometimes to their dismay at having to leave the Center). Paul Werth, one of last year’s Fellows, and I talked a lot about video while he was here. We discovered a shared love [...]

Quake City Rumble

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). [...]

Bike Emory: students encouraged to bike the campus

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 [...]

David Byrne’s bike racks

Thanks to Adrian for pointing this out

$17,000 for a Chanel bicycle

Although the tires on this bike have inverted tread, and thus are able to handle both roads and moderately uneven compact dirt, the Chanel commuter is ideally suited for riding on travertine marble smothered in foie gras while starving African children look on. From PurseBlog When I reported on the $3,500 Hermes bike two weeks [...]