Daniel Mee's Blog (7)

Bicycle Mudguards

Snap-on bicycle mudguards 'quickfix' and 'foldnfix' are produced by london bicycle accessories design company

full windsor. Unlike conventional mudguards, the pieces affix universally across almost all bikes and require no tools to install.…

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Added by Daniel Mee on November 7, 2011 at 11:00 — No Comments

Yutanpo Grip

Masahiro Asakura’s removable hand warmers for chilly bicycle handlebars are inspired by traditional Japanese hot-water bottles.

Yutanpo are Japan’s traditional hot water bottles, in aluminium, ceramics, or rigid plastic. Inspired by their ultra-simple heating system, Japanese designer…

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Added by Daniel Mee on November 7, 2011 at 11:00 — No Comments

Project Tandem: Conserve, Record, Change

Two photographers did a 11,000 mile bicycle ride around the US photographing and interviewing everyday Americans about their view on the environment. They have a blog which is full of stuff but their website has some of the content from the journey.…

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Added by Daniel Mee on September 13, 2010 at 16:39 — No Comments

Metroradruhr: Germany's Ruhr Valley Inter-City Bike Sharing

This summer brings a new regional bike-sharing system, Metroradruhr, to ten industrial Ruhr valley cities. Started on June 18th in Dortmund, Germany the system has now reached five of the cities. Bikes are now, or soon will be, available in Bochum, Bottrop, Dortmund, Duisburg, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Hamm, Herne, Mülheim an der Ruhr and Oberhausen. This is not just a series of suburban satellite additions to a larger city system, but a single… Continue

Added by Daniel Mee on August 3, 2010 at 14:00 — No Comments

Biking in Minneapolis

2&21's take on the bike scene of Minneapolis has a wealth of hyper-local information about an important community aspect of their

city.

This was designed as part of a competition by GOOD to…

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Added by Daniel Mee on April 22, 2010 at 13:29 — 1 Comment

Local Adelaide boy Brandon wins world Unicyclist comp

Behind the News ran a story this week about local Adelaide boy Brandon Nankivell's achievement of being the best Unicyclist (are they allowed in this group?) when he competed in the Unicon XV championships Expert Jr street category [PDF] (think skateboarding).

"I first saw a kid down town riding and I always wanted to… Continue

Added by Daniel Mee on February 25, 2010 at 11:50 — 1 Comment

iPhone app to track my progress

I had been given unsatisfactory remarks about any iPhone apps that could do the map|time|distance tracking that I would like on my phone. Then I read that someone else was using Run Keeper Lite (RK_free) and they didn't seem to be complaining about it. I plan to use this next time I ride (whenever that will be) but wanted to know if anyone had had any experience with this app previously.

This is the blog… Continue

Added by Daniel Mee on August 5, 2009 at 15:21 — 3 Comments