Posts about 'Video'

Bike Buddy

Posted on 10. Mar, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

Riding your bike with others is not only a great way to make your daily commute all that more fun, but it is also cited as improving your safety (ie. safety in numbers).  To that end, Transportation Alternatives in New York City is working on a new project called Bike Buddy to help people find others to ride with.  Read more about it at Streetsblog and enjoy the video below.

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A Great Utility Cycling Trailer

Posted on 09. Mar, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

David Hembrow has a great review and video of a new versatile and easy-to-use utility cycling trailer.  The Wandertec Bongo is a flatbed trailer, which can be easy adapted to fit a wide range of uses.  In general, bike cargo trailers – such as the Bongo – are a great way to expand a bicycle’s carrying capacity and enable utility cycling in the form of transportation, delivery, and more.  Enjoy!

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A Tour De France Inspired Bike Commuter

Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by josh.

Here at UtilityCycling.org, we are inspired to define the idea of utility cycling as opposed to recreational and sport cycling.  And while we spend most of our time discussing the various aspects and categories of utility cycling, we are also interested in those places where sport and recreational cycling cross over and influence utility cycling.

The most obvious crossovers from sport cycling and utility cycling is the fact that using your bicycle for all sorts of thing can be a good way to achieve fitness beyond regular training. From the opposite perspective, sport cycling can be used to inspire cyclists on their daily bike commute, bike delivery route or other inspired use of their bicycle.

With this in mind I’m posting this recent video that I came across at Kent’s Bike Blog.

Whatever inspires you to use your bike, whether its a soundtrack, the solitude, the simple fun of it, saving money or reliving the triumphs of the Tour, we applaud you.

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Autocentric Development

Posted on 03. Mar, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

Streetfilms has a new series on “Fixing the Great Mistake”, which examines urban planning in the 20th century and its overwhelming focus on the automobile, and consequently the effect that has on our lives.  The episode re-posted below focuses on Park Avenue in New York City, and autocentric development – or development focused around the automobile – in general.  Enjoy!

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Bike Share in India

Posted on 26. Feb, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

Cyclelicio.us posted this great video today of a new bike sharing system in Mumbai, India.  The bike share is called FreMo (Freedom to Move), and the video provides a positive overview of the system.

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Planning for the Bicycle in Copenhagen

Posted on 22. Feb, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

I stumbled across this interesting video today at Austin on Two Wheels about infrastructure planning for bicycles in Copenhagen.  What I find most fascinating about this story is Copenhagen’s ability to change notions of what it means to use public space in order to encourage bicycle use.  It certainly gives one hope for other cities around the world.

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Seattle’s Mayor Rides to Work

Posted on 21. Feb, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

The latest film from Streetfilms is all about the now-famous mayor of Seattle – Mike McGinn – who is well-known for riding his bike to work.  Streetfilms rides to work and around the streets of Seattle with McGinn in the film below, and it’s clear that for McGinn, riding to work is not a publicity stunt.  He rides because he likes it, and it seems he is set on sharing his positive riding experiences with others and expanding the possibilities of riding in Seattle.

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A Wide Array of Early Bicycle Inventions

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by josh.

Tony of Tony’s Trailers sent us this link to a video of an amazing array of bicycling inventions.  From a 4 person sewing machine bike, to tandem racing with chariots, to a variety of bike cargo trailers, to tall bikes, with everything in between, this video provides some great insight in to the roots of many of the ideas that seem cutting edge and innovative today.

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OV-Fiets

Posted on 17. Feb, 2010 by Melanie Meyers.

In the spirit of bike sharing systems this week, I wanted to share this video that I saw on David Hembrow’s site about the Dutch OV-Fiets bike sharing system.  OV-Fiets can be roughly translated to Public Transport Bikes.  The OV-Fiets system operates in tandem with public transit, due, in part, to the fact that bicycle use is so common in the Netherlands that trains can’t allow every commuter to bring their bike on the train.  Additionally, as the video shows, 400 OV-Fiets were recently sent to Vancouver for the Olympics.

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