April 2005 archive

Tricycle that SHIFTs into a bicycle

This trike bike looks like it's right out of the Jetsons!
Three Purdue University industrial designers developed this children's tricycle that essentially turns into a bicycle as it is propelled forward. It's such a cool idea that it won the first prize out of 853 entries at the 9th International Bicycle Design Competition in Taiwan. That's worth $15,000. 
I'd have to see …

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SHIFT Illustration

Purdue University illustration showing how the rear wheel configurations as the trike speeds up.

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SHIFT

New tricycle that spins into a bicycle at higher speeds. For children learning to ride.

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Voices from the road; bicycle tour blogs

What's the latest on the bicycle tour riders that I've reported on in recent weeks? See the “On the Road Bicycle Tour Blogs” web page that references their stories and links to their blogs and websites.
Here's their progress, last time I checked:
Don Boehley, the 9/11 bicycle tour rider — He has pedaled up the …

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MS Bike Tour; cycling for a cause

What's the largest single event for bicycle touring each year? I'd say it would have to be the MS Bike Tour.

The fund-raiser for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society is actually more than one event; it comprises more than 100 rides in 48 states this year. Last year, the MS Society estimated about 100,000 cyclists pedaled in the rides….

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MS bike tour logo

MS logo

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Cyclist, 82, nearly circles globe — 10 miles at a time

Those cycling miles can really add up if you keep at it. Consider Dudley Boycott. He rides just 10 to 12 miles a day when the weather is nice, but he's logged about 25,000 miles in the past 13 years.

Now 82, the Maryland resident tells the Dundalk Eagle that he started riding on doctor's orders. Boycott had diabetes and the …

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Dudley Boycott

82 year old cyclist from Edgemere, Md. He doesn't wear a helmet.

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Bicycle quote: Tom Danielson's coach

“It's important for Tom to understand that he's not just another lieutenant in (Armstrong's) army. Tom represents the future for Lance's new plan: pass the wisdom down to the prodigy. There's really no better place for (Danielson) to be. Those guys were expendable, but he's the next generation.”

Rick Crawford, coach to Tour de Georgia winner Tom Danielson, referring to …

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Ohio couple win a Maryland bicycle shop

An Ohio bicycle repairman and his wife are the proud winners of a bicycle shop in Maryland.

Several months ago, the owners of the C&O Bicycle shop in Hancock, Maryland, offered to give away their business — lock, stock, and bicycle — to the author of the best essay about how to help cyclists and promote cycling in the area….

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