a fight at a stop sign between who has the right of way, scooter riders, or bicyclists

Tour de France 1948, what sportsmanship looks like

https://www.facebook.com/diaspedalando/photos/a.923954151016003/2069987023079371

a parking garage for bicycles in the Netherlands, so big, it had to be built in sections... 7500 bikes can be stored there

https://brasil.elpais.com/brasil/2019/02/01/internacional/1548981501_029083.html

the Barundi banana bikers - downhill gravity racers

There is a really interesting documentary on Amazon, called Hot Roads, The World's Most Dangerous Roads, and episode 5 is about the bikers.

I recommend all the episodes, as they are about the mountain roads that are in Peru, Bolivia, or the ice roads in Siberia, and main highways in India, but this paved mountain road in a small African country is something different... it's gravity assisted cargo transport, on bikes barely stong enough for 200 kilos of bananas, palm oil kernels, or other farmed goods.

Hey! I got lucky and found part of the video! (Turn down the volume) The tv show is narrated, and doesn't have this annoying music... but the video is great and in a couple minutes show you what I'm talking about, as this IS the video from the tv show documentary



the same video is shorter with more pleasant music at https://youtu.be/fkk9HCD-Xkc

What makes the world go round?

this is the insert that Queen put in the album

In the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, during the party scene, a pair of half-dressed girls can be seen riding exercise bikes, which is a reference to Queen’s Fat Bottomed Girls/Bicycle Race

Nov. 17, 1978 - Freddie sings "Fat Bottomed Girls" onstage with strippers at Madison Square Garden

The two songs were released together on a double A-sided single, and both songs refer to each other. Near the end of Fat Bottomed Girls, the song references the band's song "Bicycle Race", with Mercury shouting, "Get on your bikes and ride!" "Bicycle Race" reciprocates with the lyric "fat bottomed girls, they'll be riding today".

Michael McKean stated that "Fat Bottomed Girls" was an influence for the song "Big Bottom" by Spinal Tap

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Bottomed_Girls
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCoolMusic/comments/42pe4p/nov_17_1978_freddie_mercury_from_queen_sings_fat/

if you don't have good brakes, you better aim at something soft... and when you cause a crash site distraction, you can bet other people are going to complicate the scene and cause MORE crashes

 Tour of Utah 2015, Guardsman's Pass crash

Notice no race officials with red flags on a hairpin curve.

https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/video-irish-cycling-champion-matt-6227977

Is it fair for transwomen (XY chromosome) athletes to compete in women’s (XX chromosome) categories?

simply not even a challenge to spot the on guy this podium who took gold away from women in a woman's race.

I say man, as McKinnon seems to have not undergone surgery. As long as you've got testosterone producing glands, and refuse to be tested for amounts of testosterone, arguing that "testing is against human rights because there is no way to measure if testosterone provides an advantage," you're just bullying the race officials to allow you to compete in a race you're sure to win, by cheating.

As of 2015, IOC guidelines require biologically born men who identify as transgender to block certain amounts of natural testosterone, but no longer require gender reassignment surgery.

Since they are morons, why didn't some woman just put a sign up at the start line of the race, and have it state "must have ovaries to proceed past this point" or "chromosomes checked at the starting line, must be XX to race"

What's next for McKinnon, competing in the paralympic races?

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/not-fair-world-cycling-bronze-medalist-cries-foul-after-transgender-woman-wins-gold

Each year Waternet, Amsterdam's Water Authority, fishes between 12,000 and 15,000 bicycles from the canals.

strange stuff

unconventional bike security ideas

New permitting and registration fees have killed off at least one bike-sharing company previously operating in Dallas, Texas. Thanks Steve!

Instead of helping people commute, run errands, or visit friends, thousands of yellow bikes previously operated by Ofo, a bike-sharing firm, are now heaped in a city recycling center

Ofo decided to pull out of Dallas after the city passed new rules requiring an $800 registration fee and permit fees of $21 per bike, and complained about the "exorbitant fees" in a statement to the Dallas Morning News.

 The Mayor's spokesman said that dumping all the bikes in a recycling plant seemed "terribly wasteful" because people could still ride them.

"They were disingenuous and didn't want to work with the city to create a more bikeable city," Mayor Mike Rawlings said Monday. "They wanted to take what they could, and when it didn't work out, throw it in the trash bin. I am sad about that, because there are a lot of kids who could be riding those bikes."

Perhaps people could, if the city wasn't trying to profit as an accessory after the fact that some other company tried to get a thin margin business going.

Ofo said bikes in "good working condition" were donated to local organizations like City Square and Bikes for Tykes.

But they haven't.

Alex Thompson, a spokesperson at CitySquare said Monday that, yes, Ofo has offered to donate 250 bikes, but that right now the nonprofit has yet to receive any. But, Thompson said, if and when they do arrive, they will be welcome.

"CitySquare case managers and program staff will distribute the bikes on a case-by-case basis to eliminate transportation barriers for our neighbors," he said. "In general, bicycles can ease the daily commute for some of our neighbors living in poverty, who have no personal transportation and do not live within walking distance of public transportation."

https://reason.com/blog/2018/08/07/dallas-mayor-blames-bike-sharing-company

As of this moment, there is not a single legal rental bike or scooter in the city of Dallas. Thirty-nine days after Dallas City Hall gave the bike- and scooter-share companies 30 days to register — to pay their registration fees and per-bike fees, their insurance requirements and security deposits — not one has sent the city a dime or turned in a single sheet of paperwork.

 Which, I guess, maybe isn't such a big deal. Because three of the five bike-share companies that dropped some 20,000 buck-a-bikes on this city one year ago — Ofo, Spin and Mobike — have already pulled out and rolled away.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/08/06/ofo-play-dallas-rules-tossed-bicycles-trash-heap

So, bike company bails when taxed, doesn't donate. City mayor is disingenuous and didn't make a better offer so his stated goal of kids riding bikes would be achieved.

We're still absent any meaningful bike infrastructure — short hundreds of miles' worth of bikes lanes, shared and protected and in-between, promised to use almost a decade ago.

I bought my friend a bike pump, and was immensely happy to find it was cooler, better, and easier to use than I thought it would be. It's effing great to be surprised and get more than you paid for

 this is what it looks like when packaged. Not all that impressive.
But I bought it based on the price, and the dual use - it's both a compact hand pump, and a CO2 pump

then it shows up, and I'm okay. Only. See, I forgot after ordering it that it has the pull out flex air line. Ever used a bike pump that is rigid metal, and has no flex air line? Every time you pump air in, you're jiggling your bike around. That sucks. Sometimes you get to over doing it, and your arm movement is too much, and you knock over your bike. We all hate that. Either you have to pick it up, clean off the dirt, or fix scratches, or all 3. Totally sucks, and happens too often. 

But this one is way awesome. I love it. No, I didn't get one for free. I paid Amazon for it. I'm not a big enough deal to get free merch for a puff piece post. I post cause I dig the stuff, like that Dewalt folding work bench... also really cool.

https://www.amazon.com/Bike-Freedom-Compatible-Telescopic-Connection/dp/B01G6C0OD8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1529555925&sr=8-1&keywords=double+thread+bike+pump   23 dollars, really great reviews 89 ratings, 100% approved!
https://www.amazon.com/sp?_encoding=UTF8&asin=&isAmazonFulfilled=1&isCBA=&marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER&orderID=&seller=A2G545PPV6ETVW&tab=&vasStoreID=

I think most smart people would say it's time to stop making bikes, or figure out how to distribute them better. 10s of thousands are abandoned in Shanghai and other areas of China

Shanghai is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China and the most populous city in the world, with a population of more than 24 million as of 2017. It is a global financial centre and transport hub, with the world's busiest container port.

Dozens of bike-share companies quickly flooding city streets with millions of brightly colored rental bicycles. However, the rapid growth vastly outpaced immediate demand and overwhelmed Chinese cities, where infrastructure and regulations were not prepared to handle a sudden flood of millions of shared bicycles.

those are bikes, not flower fields.

and these have become a permanent part of the junk yard, with vines overgrowing the thousands of bikes that have been there a year or more

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/03/bike-share-oversupply-in-china-huge-piles-of-abandoned-and-broken-bicycles/556268/

I came across a bicycle radio history page

https://stevenjohnson.com/bicycleradios/index.htm

Bicycle Models From 1818 to the 1890s

70s bike parts

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1766998369991196&set=p.1766998369991196&type=3&permPage=1&ifg=1

a mangled pile of bicycles in China, from the south-eastern city of Xiamen, with thousands of bikes from each of the top three bike sharing companies, Mobike, Ofo and the now-defunct Bluegogo.

The large number of cycles on Chinese streets have led to scenes of clogged sidewalks no longer fit for pedestrians and piles of mangled bikes that have been illegally parked.

But the scene in Xiamen appears to be one of the largest amalgamations of discarded bicycles, with trucks unloading bikes from around the city.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/25/chinas-bike-share-graveyard-a-monument-to-industrys-arrogance

China’s third largest bike sharing company, Bluegogo, has reportedly run into financial trouble, amid a wave of busts and consolidations in an industry that took the country by storm this year.

Bluegogo burned through 600m yuan (£68m) in investor funding in the year since it was founded by its youthful CEO Li Gang, deploying 700,000 bikes across cities in China.

At least three other bike sharing companies have also gone bust in recent months, although Bluegogo is by far the largest.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/17/anger-as-chinese-bike-sharing-firm-shuts-up-office-with-riders-deposits

the 2017 season of Burning Man ended 3 weeks ago, and about 5000 bikes were left behind. But they are getting sent to Houston and the Caribbean

thousands of perfectly useable bicycles were abandoned by Burning Man attendees, they are the most common form of transportation around Black Rock City, and they are tossed aside at the end of the festival.

Burning Man partners with local charities to take, refurbish and sometimes donate the bikes to needy families, but this year, the sheer number of bikes overwhelmed even these partners. An estimated 5,000 bicycles were left behind.

Matthew Rockwell, a Burning Man contractor and founder of the charity start-up Disaster Hack, immediately made the connection between the abandoned bikes and the hundreds of thousands of dead cars in Houston.

The photo of the bikes also caught the attention of Meg Kiihne, who lives about four hours from the site. Kiihne once lived and ran a bike shop on Turks and Caicos, and saw pictures all over Facebook of her friends' and family's collapsed homes. She says she knew bicycles could be useful in the recovery effort after Hurricane Irma.

"There are parts of the island which will not have power for months," she says. "Bikes can enable somebody who may have lost their home and staying with a friend, they can get to their job at a resort so they can continue to make money to help rebuild their home... they can get around on a bike and get to food."

After a hastily arranged Go Fund Me, Kiihne and some friends rented a truck and a storage unit in nearby Reno, Nevada, and headed for the playa. They managed to harvest 110 bicycles.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41312810
https://swarfs.tumblr.com/

last month I mentioned a franchise bike repair business operated from a van that takes care of customers in a city, and I just learned of a more specialized bike repair company, they service bike fleets. Cops, security patrol, etc

American Bike Patrol Services doesn't get jumbled up in the hit or miss business of on call repairs, they are more scheduled, and that's by doing preventative maintenance on fleets of bikes, the ones that cops, security companies, etc have.

That's a pretty damn good idea too! Because patrolling bikes are often crashed when used in cityscapes, like the inevitable stairs

https://www.bikepatrol.info/
https://www.facebook.com/bikepatrol.info/

looks like 1974 again

http://goodsparkgarage.com/kokomoto-2014/