bicycles
Bihar is one of India’s poorest and most populous states and life is especially tough for girls. One of their biggest obstacles is the commute to school, which is often arduous at best.
Enter Nitish Kumar, the state’s chief minister who three years ago adopted a “gender agenda” to balance… Read the rest
Occupy Wall Street (OWS) is now literally people-powered. After their gas-fueled generators were confiscated on Friday, the protestors have found a solution in the stationary bike. According to estimates from the non-profit group Time’s Up, it’ll take only 11 of these bikes to provide enough power for the entire OWS… Read the rest
Wow. So many reasons this is just plain stupid. How did the inventor think this is a good idea? I bet he or she was the one getting left behind.… Read the rest
For the nearly three-quarters of the almost 160 million that live in rural areas in Bangladesh, answers and solutions to life’s common problems have now come in the form of ladies on bicycles toting notebooks and mobile phones. These Infoladies, as they are called, ride from village to village to… Read the rest
Apparently your right to ride doesn’t withstand the presence of President Obama. On Earth Day in New York, the NYPD confiscated hundreds of bikes along Houston Street in preparation for Obama’s speech at Cooper Union. The concern? That the bikes might be secret pipe bombs. The hoard of bicycles were… Read the rest
Riding bicycles in Portland could be an entry on Stuff White People Like according to a comment made by the bicycle coordinator for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation at a City Council Transportation Committee meeting last week.
According to a great report by our friends over at BikePortland.org, Michelle… Read the rest
Ever wondered what to do with your bike when it’s too used to do you any good anymore? Make a tree like this on in Taiwan!
[Photo: lee benjamin, Flickr]… Read the rest
