Employees at the Google campus will have a new way to zip around. The company has unveiled new GBike, which was created by a team of engineers within the company. It is the result of about 40 submissions in a design competition from company employees, and it will debut later this month.
Google reportedly looked at for design criteria including easy production, affordability, comfort and security. The results is a basic form factor bike that features a beach cruiser design, and that the company has dubbed “Googley” (no word on whether Ned Flanders had input on the name). It features coaster and handbrakes, along with a basket and bell. Google will also reportedly order enough bikes for its 10,000 bikes on its campus. Continue reading Googlers Gets New Campus Bikes
Electric powered bicycles are helping people commute, but the technology is finally seeing a major shift in the development of the lithium battery industry, reports BusinessInsider. This addresses one of the dirty little secrets of the so-called green technology of electric bikes. At present, a fact which is widely reported, is that the majority of bicycles in the developing world rely on the route are dirty sealed lead acid batteries, rather than the cleaner – and more environmentally friendly – lithium batteries.
All off-road trails are not the same, yet there are numerous ways to adjust a mountain bike fork while riding. With the flip of a switch or press of a button a fork can be adjusted to accommodate trail conditions. Tire pressure remains another issue. To actually change tire pressure typically requires the rider to stop to add or release air from the tires. ADAPTRAC has another solution, and its designers have created a new system that allows writers to actually inflate or deflate tire pressure well in motion. 
There are bicycle horns and then there are serious bicycle horns! DYIer Chad Thoren – known to his friends (and apparently foes alike) as The Chadster – outfitted his bicycle with a dual trumpet horn from the locomotive! He connected the born to a tank filled with compressed air, which he says produces much louder results that you get by just honking up the horn to an air compressor.
For those who like the idea of caving – also known as spelunking – but don’t like the idea of getting dirty, or worse trapped underground for all eternity, CaveSim might just be for you. Instead of crawling through natural caves or underground caverns, CaveSim puts you in a virtual in your cave environment. It even add a video game like scoring system as you wear electronic sensors that track your personal efforts will you compete against others.
What goes around comes around, especially when it is a bicycle. While carbon fiber may be the current material for the major frame makers, some small builders are returning to good old metal – but in new and innovative ways. One such builder is Ronin Metal Masters of San Francisco – a small three man partnership that is is building frames from laser-cut or punch-cut sheet metal. 
Music fuels workouts. But sometimes the cord from headphones gets in the way. On a run your arms swing and often come in contact with the cord and rip it out of your ear. The reason for this is too much slack in the cord, though shorter cords aren’t necessarily the answer, then you risk not having enough cord to accommodate your needs. 
Turning heat into energy is just basic physics, but usually boiling water is done to generate steam to drive a turbine. An entirely different concept involves boiling water to create an electric current via thermoelectric materials through the temperature gradient.
Absolute power mar corrupt absolutely, but that won’t be a problem for Garmin. Our friends at BikeRadar have reported that Garmin has delayed the release of its highly anticipated Vector pedal-based power meter.
or centuries British soldiers have wanted to look smart with their dress uniforms. But now the British army is experimenting with a different type of smart uniform, one that actually includes not smart looking fabrics, but rather actually smart fabrics that could include electrically conducting yarn woven directly into the clothing.
In urban centers bicycles are unfortunately stolen a lot. And a quality bike lock can protect the bike but only to a degree. Thieves often use tools to steal the expensive components from an unguarded bike, but now we’ve started to hear about British bike component maker Atomic22, which has introduced its infiniti3D system that utilizes a one-of-a-kind key tool that is paired with matched fasteners including bolts, wheel skewers and other parts that require tools. 
There is an old saying that what goes up must come down, but for those who skateboard sometimes what goes down must go up. That’s the case if you ride down a hill and need to get back to the top. If walking isn’t an option, and you can’t get the leg powered deck up the hill there is always the Zboard Electric, a skateboard that adds an electric motor.