bicycles

Monster Machines: This Rocket Bike Just Set A Land Speed Record

There’s a surprising amount of energy locked away in the fizzing bubbles of hydrogen peroxide. Enough, in fact, to propel one daredevil and his modified bicycle into the record books at nearly triple the speed limit of your local interstate. Eat your heart out, Wile E. Coyote.


Inside The Nitto Factory, Where The World’s Best Bike Parts Are Made

Ever wondered where Nitto’s legendary bike parts are born? This short documentary by SimWorks, a bicycle retail shop, gives us a glimpse inside the company’s manufacturing facility in Japan.


Get A Terrifying First-Hand Look At What It’s Like To Ride A 4m Tall Bike

When’s the last time you really felt like a badass on a bicycle? Probably when your training wheels came off around the age of six. Well, fortunately for you, bike and oversized object enthusiast Richie Tremble has figured out a way to feel that sense of wobbly danger once again: a 4m towering beach cruiser he calls the StoopidTall Tall Bike.


Charging Gadgets While You Bike Is About To Get A Lot Simpler

Ever gone for a long bike ride in unfamiliar territory? Probably used your phone’s GPS to help navigate, right? Convenient. However, that also makes running out of juice more than just a small annoyance. Siva Cycle’s Atom might just solve that, and a host of other battery issues for the tech-bound biker.


Turn Signal Gloves Increase Your Chances Of Surviving A Bike Ride

Your average motorist is more used to sharing the road with other vehicles than cyclists. So instead of just relying on your arms to safely signal an upcoming turn, consider these $42 turn signal gloves that let both cyclists and motorists alike know where you’re headed.


Building This Bike Is Almost As Easy As Making A Sandwich

The SandwichBike not only sounds delicious in name, it’s delightfully customisable. It comes to you in the mail, and you assemble it all by yourself. Although that sounds daunting, it’s supposed to be insanely easy.


Could This Bike On Steroids Really Hit 160km/h?

Bike builder Tom Donhou — the namesake behind Britain’s Donhou Bicycles — has a dream, and possibly a death wish. He wants to ride a pedal-powered bike up to 160km/h, and he’s hoping this somewhat ludicrous creation is the bicycle that will let him do it.


Don’t Worry Cyclists, There’s A Swiss Army Knife For You Now Too

Victorinox’s new Swiss Army Bike Tool is the perfect weapon against misaligned handlebars and other on-the-road cycling emergencies. It weighs just 99 grams and folds away into a compact package that’s easy to pocket.


These Giant Meditating Faces Were Made From Bike Chains

Young-deok Seo is a Korean artist who works almost exclusively with different kinds of reclaimed chains. His latest project — Meditation — is a series of impressively large faces, deep in thought.


Test Your Model-Making Skills With This Plywood Lowrider

Designer Jurgen Kuipers’s plywood Sawyer lowrider bike is as awesome to look at as it probably is to cruise around the neighbourhood on. So much so that Kuipers has actually created a full-size, 1:1 scale model of the bike that comes packaged just like a plastic model kit.


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