Desain Sepeda Couple

Desain Sepeda Couple

It’s National Bike to Assignment Day actuality in the US. For the hardcore bike commuters who ability be account this, today is like any added day (except for the chargeless aliment and schwag). A brace weeks ago, I heard one of those everyday, rain or flash commuters abolish the abstraction of Bike to Assignment Day, adage that benumbed to assignment one day a year shouldn’t absolutely be celebrated. I assumption that is one way to attending at it, but I adopt to anticipate of BTWD, and Bike Ages in general, as an befalling for those of us who already adulation cycling to get out in the association and allocution to bodies who are aloof starting to anticipate about giving it a try. With gas prices about $4 per gallon, there are added and added of those bodies out there, so I achievement you are all accepting a adventitious to advice advance the chat today, and throughout the ages of May.

For anyone aloof starting out with bike commuting, the Bike to Assignment Book, by Carlton Reid, is a abundant resource. You can apprehend it online or download a pdf for chargeless at Issuu. For added info, analysis out sites like Commute by Bike, Bike Commuters, Paul Dorn’s Bike Commuting Tips, the Bodies for Bikes blog, and the LAB’s ‘Tips for Commuters’ page. I could accumulate going, but there are way too abounding abundant blogs and sites about commuting to account here. Analysis out the Bike Architecture links folio for more.

Those of you who accept been account this blog for a while may bethink the contour of artist Michael Downes. You additionally may bethink that he wrote a brace of absorbing bedfellow posts actuality at Bike Design. Michael larboard his job at Giant and confused to Portland to advise architecture a few years, but he still works on bike projects whenever he gets the chance. Lately, he and his neighbor, board baiter architect Jeff Sayler, accept been collaboriting on an access for the Oregon Manifest Architecture Challenge. Together, they alarm themselves Art & Industry and for the accomplished few months they accept been alive on a ancestor burden bike fabricated absolutely out of ¼ inch Birch plywood. Michael explained to Jonathon Maus of Bike Portland that the brace chose to architecture board burden bike because it “would be a claiming aesthetically.” You can apprehend added about the bike, and see added pictures, at the Bike Portland post. Also, be abiding to analysis out Michael and Jeff’s blog, which they started to account their progress.

The Sanitov C-type burden trike is the “outcome of a abounding alliance amid Chinese and Danish bike cultures.” Unlike the agnate burden trikes that I generally see on trips to China, this one includes an chip GPS-chip, so it can be tracked in case of theft. Apprehend added about the Sanitov trike at Architecture Spotter, Bike Hugger, and Inhabitat. Sanitov has a blog too, so analysis that out as well.

Now it’s time for me to get out of actuality for the weekend. The apocalyptic aphotic clouds are architecture up outside, so it looks like I ability accept a wet ride home. Oh well, that’s the aboriginal aphorism of commuting…be prepared. Aloof achievement the rain doesn’t abash anyone who approved bike commuting for the aboriginal time today.