You can turn your steel, carbon fiber, aluminum or titanium bicycle into a "woody" with the addition of these wooden fenders.

Cody Davis of Bend, Oregon, has been making these wooden bike fenders in his garage for about three years now after getting involved in furniture wood working just for fun.

I stumbled across his website -- Woody's Custom Cycling Fenders -- recently and e-mailed him to learn more about how he got into it and how his fenders are made ....   more »

Apparently there was more for bicycling at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this past week than a Motorola CEO pedaling around on a yellow bike to sell cell phone chargers.

In a weekend wrap-up, a couple of Seattle Times reporters told about the helmet camera, a PCGamer bike and iPod bicycle speakers they stumpled across at the event.

Oregon Scientific had the ATC2K Waterproof ActionCamera (above, not on bike helmet). The half-pound camera ...   more »

A brake problem with some 2007 model year bicycles prompted Cannondale Bicycle Corp. to recall about 700 bikes, according to the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

(Update: Cannondale asserts the number of bicycles "recalled" at 145. Although the number of bikes with the flaw was 700, the problem was caught before most of the bikes made it out the door, and the other affected bikes remained at the warehouse. Cannondale also told Bicycle Retailer and Industry News that the company or retailers have contacted all the customers.)

Apparently the front brake can fail; no injuries have been reported. The bikes sold for between $3,200 and $4,500 ...   more »

That bike-mounted cell phone recharger that Motorola CEO Ed Zander announced a couple of days ago at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) isn't the first one to pedal down the road.

A Sweden-based company named Ikon Global Ltd. marketed a cell phone battery recharger named Pedal & Power up until a year or so ago, but has now apparently dropped off the face of the Internet.

The invention by Kieron Loy received write-ups in TreeHugger, Wireless Business and Technology, Engadget, and BikeBiz (back in September 2000) ....   more »

I'd say this is definitely a bicycle used as a decoration.

Motorola CEO Ed Zander rode this yellow comfort bike onto the stage for his keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Monday.

Was it left over from Interbike in September? Maybe. The boss of the $35 billion electronics giant (2005) wanted to make the point that digital content is portable, even in countries that rely mostly on bicycle transportation.

(Update: Motorola plans to sell a bicycle-mounted cellphone charger that will broaden its cellphone markets to developing countries.)...   more »

I always thought custom bicycles just so much froufrou. They're critical equipment for bicycle racers, but the rest of us citizens would do just fine with something off the rack at the local bike store.

An everyday guy like me owning a custom bike? That would be like buying a Range Rover to drive to the local grocery store.

An article in the LA Times today goes a long way to changing my mind. The writer makes several good justifications for buying a custom bike which all boil down to this: If a custom bicycle gets you out on your bike more often, it's worth it.

Here are some of the advantages of a custom bike mentioned in the article....