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Andy Lee
Design Engineer
Menlo Park CA. 94025
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5.16.2011
bicycle activist
I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy. ~ Leo Tolstoy In response to criticism for learning to ride a bicycle at age 67
The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ~John Howard
If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. ~ Prof. Carl Sagan
When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ~ Elizabeth West
It never gets easier, you just go faster. ~ Greg LeMond.
Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~ Charles M. Schulz
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~ Ernest Hemingway
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off. ~ William G. Golding (English Novelist and Poet. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1983.)
Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race. ~ H.G. Wells
I thought of that while riding my bicycle. ~ Albert Einstein on the theory of relativity
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike. ~ John F. Kennedy
As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got he bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed. ~ John Lennon
The bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in the world. ~ Susan B. Anthony 1896
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammelled womanhood. ~ Susan B. Anthony 1896
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. ~ Lance Armstrong
Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does. ~ Lance Armstrong after his third Tour de France victory
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain -- at least in a poor country like Russia -- and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. ~ Leon Trotsky
Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing. ~ Helen Keller
Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym. ~ Bill Nye the Science Guy
Government must help to eliminate cars so that bicycles can help to eliminate government. ~ Advocacy slogan in Holland
It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels. ~ Heinz Stucke Bicycle touring for 47 years and still going.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. ~ Emo Philips
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.~ Christopher Morley (American author and editor 1890-1957).
A bicycle does get you there and more.... And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. ~ Bill Emerson, "On Bicycling," Saturday Evening Post, 29 July 1967
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. ~ James E. Starrs
The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community. ~ Ann Strong
Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. ~ H.G. Wells
You never have the wind with you -- either it is against you or you're having a good day. ~ Daniel Behrman, The Man Who Loved Bicycles
Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world. ~ Grant Petersen
It's not about the bike ~ Lance Armstrong
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving ~ Albert Einstein
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India. ~ Dervla Murphy, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~ Lao Tzu
And a bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke. ~ Scott :)
The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind. ~ William Saroyan (Nobel prize winner)
I began to feel that myself plus the bicycle equaled myself plus the world, upon whose spinning wheel we must all learn to ride, or fall into the sluiceways of oblivion and despair. That which made me succeed with the bicycle was precisely what had gained me a measure of success in life -- it was the hardihood of spirit that led me to begin, the persistence of will that held me to my task, and the patience that was willing to begin again when the last stroke had failed. And so I found high moral uses in the bicycle and can commend it as a teacher without pulpit or creed. She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. ~ Frances E. Willard , How I Learned To Ride The Bicycle (1895)
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast. ~ Paul Scott Mowrer
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history. ~ P.J. O'Rourke
The bicycle, the bicycle, surely should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.~ Christopher Morely (Nobel prize winner)
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The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ~John Howard
If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. ~ Prof. Carl Sagan
When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ~ Elizabeth West
It never gets easier, you just go faster. ~ Greg LeMond.
Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~ Charles M. Schulz
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~ Ernest Hemingway
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off. ~ William G. Golding (English Novelist and Poet. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1983.)
Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race. ~ H.G. Wells
I thought of that while riding my bicycle. ~ Albert Einstein on the theory of relativity
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike. ~ John F. Kennedy
As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got he bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed. ~ John Lennon
The bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in the world. ~ Susan B. Anthony 1896
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammelled womanhood. ~ Susan B. Anthony 1896
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. ~ Lance Armstrong
Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does. ~ Lance Armstrong after his third Tour de France victory
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain -- at least in a poor country like Russia -- and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. ~ Leon Trotsky
Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing. ~ Helen Keller
Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym. ~ Bill Nye the Science Guy
Government must help to eliminate cars so that bicycles can help to eliminate government. ~ Advocacy slogan in Holland
It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels. ~ Heinz Stucke Bicycle touring for 47 years and still going.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. ~ Emo Philips
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.~ Christopher Morley (American author and editor 1890-1957).
A bicycle does get you there and more.... And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. ~ Bill Emerson, "On Bicycling," Saturday Evening Post, 29 July 1967
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. ~ James E. Starrs
The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community. ~ Ann Strong
Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. ~ H.G. Wells
You never have the wind with you -- either it is against you or you're having a good day. ~ Daniel Behrman, The Man Who Loved Bicycles
Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world. ~ Grant Petersen
It's not about the bike ~ Lance Armstrong
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving ~ Albert Einstein
On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India. ~ Dervla Murphy, Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. ~ Lao Tzu
And a bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke. ~ Scott :)
The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind. ~ William Saroyan (Nobel prize winner)
I began to feel that myself plus the bicycle equaled myself plus the world, upon whose spinning wheel we must all learn to ride, or fall into the sluiceways of oblivion and despair. That which made me succeed with the bicycle was precisely what had gained me a measure of success in life -- it was the hardihood of spirit that led me to begin, the persistence of will that held me to my task, and the patience that was willing to begin again when the last stroke had failed. And so I found high moral uses in the bicycle and can commend it as a teacher without pulpit or creed. She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. ~ Frances E. Willard , How I Learned To Ride The Bicycle (1895)
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast. ~ Paul Scott Mowrer
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history. ~ P.J. O'Rourke
The bicycle, the bicycle, surely should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.~ Christopher Morely (Nobel prize winner)
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Andy Lee
Design Engineer
Menlo Park CA. 94025
Mobile: +1 (415) 341-7124
4.27.2011
Cyclehoop’s Car-Shaped Bike Racks Store 10 Bicycles in a Single Parking Spot
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via INHABITAT by Lori Zimmer on 4/25/11
In an effort to encourage the use of bicycles over gas-guzzling vehicles, London's Cyclehoop has created a clever car-shaped bike rack, which was commissioned for theLondon Festival of Architecture. Cyclehoop's motto is that ten bicycles take up the space of one car, so each portable rack is designed to fit nicely in a regular car parking space. Not only does the design provide a safe place to lock a bike, but each rack also has an integrated bicycle pump as well!
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4.07.2011
Cyclehoop: Kitting Cities Out for Bikes
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via Core77 on 3/31/11
Cyclehoop is a UK-based design firm dedicated to "[encouraging] cycling by increasing bicycle parking infrastructure and tackling bicycle theft, at the same time improving our streets by reducing street clutter through intelligent design." Check out three of their innovations:
Their eponymous Cyclehoop is designed to be easily retrofitted to existing street signs and parking meters, obviating the need to spend city money on installing a new structure.
The Public Bicycle Pump could replace one of the sidewalk pylons you see around government buildings or be integrated into its own bike rack, providing free sips of air to deflated tires.
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2.13.2011
Slovenia - Promoting Cycling Positively
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via Copenhagenize.com - Building Better Bicycle Cultures by Mikael on 2/10/11
Yanez from the Ljubljana Bicycling Network in Slovenia sent us the link to this film comparing the benefits of bicycles vs automobiles. It's in Slovenian, but it's completely understandable. Wonderful shots of urban cycling.
Are the Slovenians giving the Hungarians a run for their money in the Promoting Cycling Positively Championships?
Copenhagenize the planet. And have a lovely day.
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2.04.2010
214 MPG DIY Super-Aerodynamic Modified Honda 125cc Motorbike
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via TreeHugger on 1/27/10
Photo: Velomobiel Should be Able to do 235 MPG The Honda ANF125i Innova motorbike is a super-efficient bike to start with, but to bring it to the next level of fuel economy, from merely "super-efficient" to "holy crap efficient", it takes a certain level of ingenuity and craftsmanship, as well as a good understanding of the factors at play in how much fuel a vehicle uses. Allert Jacobs obviously has those qualities; he turned his 100+ MPG Honda (see photo of what it looks like unmodified below) into a 200+ MPG low-CD streamliner. ...Read the full story on TreeHugger
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1.21.2010
Nubrella
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via Cyclelicious by Yokota Fritz on 1/21/10
I need one of these "Nubrella" space bubbles.
Just $50 from Nubrella.com.
Bike Hugger, on the other hand, suggests you can stay dry with the Raingo.
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1.20.2010
Yay rain...!
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via Change Your Life. Ride A Bike! by caryl on 1/20/10
rain in Los Angeles = lovely scenery. (okay. not quite like this video but, I'm loving the gray weather so yeah)
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1.18.2010
L'américaine et sa bicyclette à Copenhague
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via FIXED GEAR GIRL TAIWAN by noreply@blogger.com (FIXED GEAR GIRL FORM TAIWAN) on 1/17/10
好可愛的紅色淑女車!!! 冬天到每天都要穿厚重的衣服，禿然發現騎淑女車其實很方便!一直非常喜歡 copenhagen cycle chic這各BLOG，發現歐洲的女生騎腳踏車穿搭的衣服配件都非常好看! ♥ ♥
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Biker-centered design in Denmark
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via Core77 on 1/18/10
Check the railings that the man is holding onto and resting his foot on. It's located on a little Copenhagen traffic island where cyclists often wait, reports Copenhagenize.com.
The City of Copenhagen has implemented this double railing simply as a convenience for the cyclists who stop here. A high railing to grasp with your hand and a foot railing for putting your foot up, if that's what you fancy doing. Either way you can also use the railing to push off when the light changes.
The foot rest reads: "Hi, cyclist! Rest your foot here... and thank you for cycling in the city."
It certainly is a fine example of the City understanding human behaviour and basic anthropology.
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