Our Friends at Buddy Bike announced that the company has donated five of their alternative inline tandem bicycles, called the Buddy Bike, to adaptive cycling programs and special needs organizations. These donations were to support adaptive cycling, with the goal to put more people on bikes – especially riders with special needs who may feel they don’t otherwise have a safe option for cycling. Continue reading Buddy Bike Steps Up
World Snowboard Day Coming Soon
It’s beginning to look a whole lot like Christmas, but with the white stuff coming it also means it is looking a lot like World Snowboard Day, which is now in its eighth year.
World Snowboard Day is an international event created in 2006 by EuroSIMA, the World Snowboard Federation and Outdoor Sports Valley, in partnership with SnowSports Industries America, Core Power Asia and TTR Pro Snowboarding, to provide everybody the opportunity to discover, for free, snowboarding as a sport and culture across the world’s summits.
Brake Light Jacket
We’ve seen a real trend this year in cycling clothing that integrates lights, and the latest is the Eclaireur jacket from Esthete, which features integrated LEDs that can shine the way and even allow the rider to be seen. It further offers black reflective stripes and a removable yellow armstrap.
The jacket is designed to be stylish and low key when wearing around town, but can light it up to ensure a safe ride home after the sun goes down. Continue reading Brake Light Jacket
Let Cervellum Look Behind You
While cycling you need to watch where you are going, but often you need to see what’s behind you as well to stay safe. Taking your eyes off the road isn’t really recommended and the Cerevellum camera system can be like eyes in the back of your head. It provides a large screen on the handlebars so you only need to look down to quickly see what’s coming from behind.
The Cerevellum is now being developed via a Kickstarting campaign. Video after the jump
Holiday Gift Guide: Loving Spoonful
Perhaps you have friends that act like they were born with a silver spoon in their mouth, but you can show them with the Optimus Titanium Long Spoon. It is ideal for those on the go, and is durable and rugged. It can also reach deep into stand-up food pouches – making it ideal for commoners as well.
Holiday Gift Guide: Easy Camping
Camping shouldn’t be hard. It should be fun, and the Easy Camp Tipi Tent requires just a single pole in the center for support, meaning that it can go up quickly and easily. It is made of 100 percent fire retardant polyester with taped seams to make it water tight, while anti-bug mesh keeps the critters out. With capacity for four people it also means three people can watch you put it up in no time.
Drift This Way
Drift Innovation has announced that its new action camera, the Drift Ghost S, is ready for an adventure. The company claims this one has the longest battery life – three and a half hours – of any wearable camera on the market. The camera also offers a built-in two-inch LCD screen and it is designed to be waterproof up to nine feet by itself or up to 196 feet with a special case.
It can shoot 1080p video at 60fps and offers a 300-degree rotating lens, Wi-Fi video streaming while recording and it even comes with a two-way remote control. This does appear to be a Ghost that offers the most!
Don’t Pin it On
If it is race day then chances are you either brought or were handed some safety pins to attach your number. It is hard to believe that in the 21st century that racers in so many sports are using what is basically 19th century technology to secure the numbers to the clothing. Not only is there a risk of injury if the pin opens, but it isn’t good for the jersey or shirt.
The folks at RaceDots have another solution, small magnets that can hold a race number in place. With just three weeks to go the innovators of this one are in a race to secure funding via an Indiegogo crowd funding campaign. Video after the jump
Holiday Gift Guide: Light Like Flint
Fire is an essential part of camping, and sure there are plenty of ways to start one, but the Vargo Titanium Flint Lighter makes it so easy. It can easily clip to key chains, zipper pulls and even backpack straps, and it is durable enough to provide more than 1,000 lights. The reliable striking mechanism provides a dependable spark in any weather and it utilizes a one-hand operation.
Space Age Olympics
Not only will there be the precious metal gold in the upcoming 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic Gold Medals, but a few gold winners will receive with medals that are embedded with shards of meteorite. The meteorite-imbedded medals will be presented to the winning athletes on February 15, 2014 – which is the one year-anniversary of the meteor strike in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.
[Via GearJunkie: Meteorite Shards Embedded In Gold Medals At Sochi 2014 Olympic Games]
One Ball for the World
The world is a tough place, but the One World Futbol is a ball that can stand up to almost any environment. It is nearly indestructible and never needs to be pumped up. It was designed to endure streets, rocky landscapes and dirt lots. The ball can outlast hundreds of others, so it is ideal for the developing world.
The One World Futbol Project is also designed to provide balls to those in need, and the makers are now providing a free ball for each and every one that is bought. This makes it much more than just a holiday gift for a friend this season, as another ball goes to a friend you might not even know.
Holiday Gift Guide: The Gift of Light
If you know that special someone who spends too much time in the woods after the sun goes down you might want to ask them why? Or you could just give them the Magnalight HUL-LEDP2X10W Spotlight, a rugged and effective LED spotlight designed to provide users with a powerful, durable, and easy to use source of reliable light.
This spotlight utlitizes a 20 watt LED light head which produces a light beam over 700-feet long. This spotlight includes a detachable 16 foot coil cord with cigarette plug for easy connection to vehicle and equipment power sources.
MagnaLight: High Intensity 20 Watt LED Handheld Spotlight Official Website
Just Beatz It
Riding a bike with earphones isn’t really recommended, but if you have to bring the tunes why not beat it out with the BikeBeatz. This speaker box contains two 6×9-inch speakers, a 240-watt amplifier and line-in port, which can be connected to virtually any portable music player.
It isn’t the lightest option we’ve seen, and no doubt those who share their music with the world may find not everyone has the same tastes in what is “good music.” Continue reading Just Beatz It