The days, they are darkening. The time hasn’t even changed back yet, and still I find myself getting caught, homeward, in darkness, or leaving before the sun comes up. The clouds don’t help, certainly: even though it’s not full-on rainy season here yet, the spattering of showers and fallish clouds …
In, oh, ten years of using only a bike for transportation, I have yet to find the perfect waterbottle solution. Since I started biking, I’ve generally used some form of the generic plastic bottle–you know, the kind where you can open it with your teeth while you’re biking and hydrate …
I can’t see that this has too many practical applications right now, but I like the thinking behind it: Basically, the guy who designed this, Ron Arad, used spring tempered steel to make tire-like structures that apparently feel surprisingly like tires to ride on. There are 18 strips of steel …
Last weekend, the weather was nice and it was time to get the heck out of Portland. What’s a girl to do when she works until 2pm on Saturdays, only has a bike to get herself around, and needs to be back on Sunday night? Well, it turns out she …
