pedal power

We’re all about bike powered businesses at Wend.  From delivering handmade organic soup to sustainable cleaning, forward looking companies are embracing bicycle transportation as a way to reduce cost and save the environment.  Now one New York innovator has taken this philosophy a step further by introducing a bike-powered mobile… Read the rest

These folks build a working generator out of an old mountain bike, some scrap wood, a car battery and lot of creativity. You could easily do this at home. Admittedly this thing is pretty ghetto, but it works! Fun video.
[Via: Ecorenovator]… Read the rest

In a green-minded cyclist’s dreams everything is powered by pedals. Well, sometimes dreams do come true – for better or worse.
Check out the following links to videos from Google’s Innovate or Die pedal-powered machine contest, where contestants from all over the globe were charged with inventing and building machines… Read the rest

I figured everyone needed some good entertainment for the first day back to work after a three day weekend. What better than a human pedal powered bar? This one’s from Amsterdam thanks to a group called Fietscafe, but apparently they’re also available in the US under the name Pedal Pub.… Read the rest