From the informative illumination files…
From the folks at speedvest.com comes a reflective vest that displays your speed to the drivers you’re passing in city traffic. If all cyclists wore these, it could deliver a message about how effective cycling is as urban transport. Personally, my favorite way to deliver this message is simply to beat my driving friends to the next destination on a night out.
Music is “Do the Spoke” by The Golden Greats, a musical project of one of the inventors.
Read MoreConcept invention in blog echoes the need to define one’s space on the road.
Bike light concept echoes the need to define one’s space on the road.
Bloggers at Altitude have beautifully illustrated a concept for “Light Lane,” a bike light of the future, one that helps cyclists define their space on the road. This has been one of the goals of the Down Low Glow from day one.
The concept light uses a laser to project the lines of a non-existant bike lane on the road around you, along with a clever bike symbol behind you. Meanwhile, the Down Low Glow, which is not a concept, uses a fluorescent light source to project a diffuse cloud on the road, as seen below. I don’t know the relative efficiency of lasers vs.fluorescent lamps, or whether the photo of the Light Lane, shown above, is real is real or a composite created in Photoshop.
Down Low Glow throughs light on the road around the bicycle, defining your space in traffic.
Read MoreBike Commuter from Seattle posts an extremely safe rig on Flickr
RJL20 is one of our Flickr friends. I saw his picture of his Xtracycle commuter rig this morning.
New York bike photographer seeks catharsis on Flickr after wreck
After posting the series of her wrecked Surly on Flickr, 50 or so other bike heads piped up with moral support and gratitude for her luck at emerging with only a ‘bruised ass’.
She reports that “no part is salvageable”.
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