This economy certainly has left some to do more with less. Case Knives even introduced a liner of so-called “Hobo” knives including the Camo Caliber Hobo. While it isn’t designed for an upscale hobo, it does offer a blade, fork and spoon in a single package. So perhaps it is for the upscale hobo – one who also desires a bit of camouflage.
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Six More Cities Get Green Lanes
PeopleForBikes – formerly Bikes Belong – has selected six more cities for its Green Lane Project. The bicycle advocacy group will conduct a two-year program to build protected lanes in six new U.S. cities including Boston, Denver, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh and Seattle. This follows the original Green Lakes Project that brought lanes to Austin, Chicago, Memphis, Portland, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Green lanes are on-street lanes separated from traffic by curbs, planters, parked cars or posts intended to help organize the street and make riding a bike an appealing option for more people.The six cities, which were chosen from more than 100 U.S. cities that submitted letters of interest for the program, will receive financial, strategic and technical assistance to create the lanes.
AA Thinks Bikes
The British AA – equal to America’s AAA – has launched a Think Bike campaign that will provide drivers with stickers that could placed on sideview mirrors to remind them to watch for bikes.
BikeRadar reported that the campaign was launched after an AA survey of more than 17,500 drivers found that 93 percent sometimes found it hard to see cyclists and more than half admit to being surprised when a ‘cyclists appears from nowhere.’ Perhaps this program could eventually come to America.
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Marin Museum To Feature Historic Bike Collection
There is no denying that Marin is a big part of the history of the bicycle, and the Marin Museum of Bicycling will display a selection of bikes from the Igler Collection with pieces dating back to the 1860s. The Igler Collection will form one of two permanent displays at the museum, while the other will be the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame.
Among the collection is an 1868 “boneshaker” velocipede from the first bicycle builder, Ernest Michaux of Paris. The collection also includes an 1880s Coventry Rotary tricycle, the design that held human-powered speed records until improved high-wheel bicycles, such as the collection’s 1886 Rudge, were able to break the records. The collection also features a 1898 Pierce shaft-drive bike, which was that company’s top model until it launched its Pierce Arrow automobile. The Marin Museum of Bicycling, which will double as a cultural center for Marin cyclists, expects to open its doors to the public later this year. Museum construction is underway in downtown Fairfax at 1966 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard.
The Shark is Ready to Ride
We’ve seen a lot of interesting bike saddle designs, and lately it has been about changing the profile of the seat. This has included making seats with slots and even holes. The Shark saddle from Essax goes the opposite direction and adds a fin that riders will sit on.
The fin (as seen above) will apparently find a place. The company says this fin will help evenly spread a cyclist’s weight onto the sit bone. We’re not sure we want to be the ones to test it out – and we think we’ll wait to see what people have to say!
The Buddy Gives Back
Next week Buddy Bikes will provide 10 bikes to special needs children as part of the The Michaela Noam Kaplan Great Bike Giveaway. This online contest is organized by The Friendship Circle, a non-profit organization. The third annual contest is currently in progress and has already surpassed the previous contests in donations, prizes and applicants. In 2013, 29 adaptive bicycles were awarded to the contest winners; so far in the 2014 contest, 76 adaptive bicycles are included in the prizes, surpassing the organizations goal to give away 75 bikes.
Entrants submit a photo of their child and a short description of their need for an adaptive bicycle and obtain 50 nominations before the contest ends on March 25, 2014 at 11:59 am (Eastern Standard Time).
The Michaela Noam Kaplan Great Bike Giveaway Official Website
Infinity Plus One
We are in a minimalist world and it is evident by the Infinity Pedal from MöBIUS CYCLING. We’ve seen other clip-in cycling pedals that are just an axle but most require a bit of training and practice to get used to – however, the Infinity Pedal is much like any other step down clip-in pedal. It just happens to be round.
For this reason it appears that you don’t need to align the pedal to clip-in. Just step in or step on and clip. For those looking to cut down on weight the Infinity is about as light as they come. The titanium version of the Infinity Pedal, which is being developed via a Kickstarter project, weights just 190 grams.
This design features just one moving part and is designed to be easily maintained and rebuilt. That could allow it to be a pedal that could last until infinity and beyond. Video after the jump
Rack It Up
Buck Wear has introduced a new shirt to support breast cancer research. The tongue-in-cheek pink shirt is part of the new pink “Save the Racks” series of shirts and hoodies. According to Buck Wear, any huntress can show her support in style, and the shirt is available in both Light Pink and Hilconia, while the design features a trophy buck so cleverly and carefully illustrated strictly of the iconic pink ribbon logo recognized around the globe as the symbol for the fight against breast cancer. The words ʻHunt for a Cureʼ tie both passions together for a perfectly matched message of hope.
WTB Launches New Saddles
At the Taipei International Cycling Show earlier this month WTB launched a new mountain bike saddle, the High Tail, which the company said is designed to give increased rear tire clearance on full suspension 650b bikes. It features a distinctive cut out at the rear to allow the extra tire clearance, making it ideal for downhill and other large wheel off-road bikes.
Skate for the Gold
We can only wonder what Pierre de Coubertin would think? He was the founder of the International Olympic Committee and it was his vision that resulted in the modern Olympics, but he was also very much a product of the late 19th century. So perhaps the news that skateboarding might be added to further Olympic Games might not have sat well with de Coubertin – yet he also knew that the games had to evolve with the times.
At any rate, Tony Hawk told Larry King – as reported by ESPN – that he’d like to see skateboarding in the games and that it was likely that the IOC would add the sport to the 2020 Games. Given that the Hawkman will be 52 if and when this happens we’re not sure he’ll get to go for the Gold, but it would be interesting to see how the Summer Olympics might evolve.
Fix It Again
Last year Fix It Sticks caught our eye when it successfully launched its first radically designed, all-new bicycle tool on Kickstarter. For 2014, Fix It Sticks is returning to the crowd funding site to help launch two new products, the “Fix It Sticks Replaceable Edition” and the all-new “T-Way Wrench.”
“Each of these tools essentially combines a 3-way wrench, T-wrench, multi-tool and screwdriver all in one small, tough, portable package,” said Brian Davis, founder of Fix It Sticks. “Our new tools easily replace a few hundred dollars worth of shop tools and will free up shop storage space. Besides the bits we provide, the design accepts driver bits found at any hardware store. Virtually any bit can be used; sockets, Torx, hex, and Pozidriv.” Video after the jump
Adidas is on the Roll
When we think of Adidas shoes are the first thing to come to mind, followed by apparel – but the company looks to hit the road on wheels this year. For 2014 Adidas has collaborated with Bombtrack Bikes to create a limited edition track bike. It is a minimalist looking ride, but apparently you’ll have to head to Asia or Europe to get one. It will only be available in Adidas stores but sadly not in the United States.