www.wiggle.co.uk/sc/lighting Light up your ride with our easy to follow lights comparison guide! We've created this guide of best selling lights to give you a helping hand when deciding what lights to buy on the Wiggle website. Check out our best selling road and mountain bike lights and conduct your own light test to see which light burns brightest for you! To get started just follow these three simple steps: Foldable bike helmet offers recyclable protection Urban bike-sharing programs are booming in many cities, but most casual riders don't usually tote around a helmet. This means when they rent a bike, they often ride helmet-free, which can be a risky move in places were roads aren't designed to safely accommodate both cars and cyclists. However, a novel design could make an affordable, collapsible, biodegradable helmet available from a curbside vending machine. The EcoHelmet, designed by Isis Shiffer, is made entirely of cardboard, folds up accordion-style to about the size of a banana and is compact enough to fit in a laptop bag.
Cycle Solutions - Baggy Shorts Men's or Unisex Baggy Shorts Viewing 1-15 of 130 Show: First Previous 1234 ... 25 Killer Websites that Make You Cleverer It’s easy to forget that we have access to a virtually limitless resource of information, i.e. the Internet. For a lot of us, this is even true at our fingertips, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and an ever-increasing push for online greatness by tech engineers all over the world. As a result, there are countless websites out there that are geared to make you smarter and more brilliant for either a low or no cost. Here are just 25 killer websites that may just make you more clever than ever before. What's The Best Bike For Cycle Commuting? By John Stevenson, Cycling Plus | Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7.00am Your choice of bike for the ride to work will depend on your own tastes and on the distance, terrain and varying surfaces you’ll encounter on the journey. For longer tarmac commutes, experienced riders tend to favour drop-bar bikes of one sort or another for their extra turn of speed. Many people are happy with the more upright position that you get with a flat-bar road bike or mountain bike with slick tyres, though.
CyclingAbout.com – Review: Hebie 695 Steering Stabiliser The Hebie 695 is the first steering stabiliser I’ve ever used. I didn’t quite know what to expect when I unpacked it. I guess I had in my mind that a steering stabiliser would hold the front wheel straight when you lean your pannier-bag-laden bike up against something, but also that it would keep your wheel stabilised when you want to ride with no hands. In actual fact it does do both of these things but just not to the extent I envisaged – front pannier bags are too heavy to keep still. A steering stabiliser creates a resistance in your steering to pull the front wheel to centre whenever possible. Essentially, there is no steering resistance when the wheel is straight, there is a little steering resistance when turning around sweeping corners (slight turns), and for slow speed manuvering (sharp turns) there is a lot of resistance.
5 Secret Restaurants in Paris Promise you won’t tell anyone…! 1. L’Etage de Pastavino – Saint Germain’s best-kept secret It just looks like an ordinary Italian deli (épicerie in French) on a bustling market street in Saint Germain … but it’s hiding a secret in a dark corner at the back. Alliance for Biking & Walking: PeoplePoweredMovement.org The Alliance for Biking & Walking is North America's coalition of local and state bicycle and pedestrian advocacy organizations. We create, strengthen and unite advocacy leaders who are transforming their communities into great places to bike and walk. Donate to the Alliance for Biking & Walking. Read more »
"Oi" : The bike bell that doesn't look like a bike bell. by Knog We’ve designed a bicycle bell, Oi. We think it’s a bit different. We hope you like it. If you do, why not help us bring it to life? Bike bells have been domed since they were invented in 1877. Pretty DIY Fabric Feathers Dishtowel I am so ready for spring. I would like to go pick flowers and strawberries and to not have to wear a sweater all the time. I’m a big baby when it comes to weather. Usually when I get all anxious for Spring to come, I try and rush things inside a bit by doing all my spring decorating – as soon as Valentine’s Day is over. It’s my own personal Field of Dreams moment – “If you decorate for it, it will come.”
Paul Dorn's Bike Commuting Tips: Repairs/Maintenance The most common repair you will encounter as a bike commuter will be a flat tire. You can minimize pneumatic distress by buying durable tires. You should also monitor brake wear to make sure they're not rubbing against the sidewalls of your tires. You should also look for and remove glass or metal fragments stuck in the rubber. However, sooner or later you will experience the distinctive hissing of a punctured tire. What do you do when you get a flat?