Are Bike Reflectors and Helmet Strobe Lights Really Enough? Safe Bicycling Innovations Thinks Not

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This is precisely the kind of new goodies that my inner geek will be checking out at Interbike: Safety Illumination of Rider Light, a bike light that illuminates the back of a rider’s entire legs, to be shown at the Interbike Expo LONG BEACH, Calif. – Sept. 18, 2008 – Safe Bicycling Innovations, creator of … Read more

A 73LB Electric Bike?

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Here we go again. At seventy three pounds, the A2B’s most clever feature is its name. I’ve ridden BMX bikes back in the 70’s that had to be 40+ pounds. But 73? And I’m not ten years old any more. If these designers were honest, they would ditch the cranks and pedals altogether, and just … Read more

Helmet Commentary by a Master Debater

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Sure, waste ten or fifteen minutes of your workday reading this article. Nothing takes up more space and time than a blog post (or forum thread) debating the merits of bicycle helmets. I consider it a zero-sum argument though. No matter how grand, long, or compelling, everyone walks away with exactly what they brought to … Read more

Let’s try again

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Now that I’ve gotten the technical issues sorted, and the server no longer eats my posts without sharing them, I’m ready to try again. I completely missed out on any opportunity to comment on the bicycle race in France that I didn’t watch this year, but I suppose that worked out all right.