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Loopwheels Are Bike Wheels With Built-In Suspension

SIMPLY COOL, WHEELS

We’re pretty sure there’s no need to reinvent the bicycle wheel. That, of course, won’t stop anyone from trying to and the Loopwheels definitely seem like a nice upgrade. Designed by Jelly Products, it’s an erstwhile standard 20-inch bicycle wheel with a twist: it comes with a suspension system built into the wheel itself. Switch them in place of your bike’s standard wheels and enjoy the most stable ride you can imagine. Or, better yet, use them for your folding [...]

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Siva Cycle Atom Is A Kinetic Power Generator For Bicycles

GADGETS, WHEELS

Taking your Glow-in-the-Dark Bicycle to work is one of your smartest ideas ever. It helped you get in better shape, saved you a small fortune in gas, and allows you to act like a stuck-up treehugger while only feeling half-pretentious. Now, if only it can get you laid, too, it will be your smartest idea ever. While the Atom can’t help with that, it will let you reap one more benefit from your daily bicycle runs: using all that pedaling [...]

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Bike All Hangs Your Bicycle By The Saddle

FURNITURE, HOME

We’re no strangers to bicycle racks around these parts and we’re loving the creativity that’s going into a lot of them, from the carved-in style of the Bike Shelf to the freestanding talents of the Michelangelo Gravity Stand. The Bike All, though, doesn’t just intend to be a rack for hanging your bike, it’s meant as an all-in-one spot for holding your daily bicycle accessories, too. Created by Colorado-based Board by Design, it’s a wall-mounted storage unit with a bottom panel [...]

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ONDA Cycle Brings Drifts And Spins In A Tiny Recumbent Trike

WHEELS

You know those tricycles designed for kids aged 3 or 4 years old? Yeah, that’s, pretty much, what the ONDA Cycle is, except it’s for grown adults. Well, that’s not exactly a fair comparison. Although it does look like a child’s trike, the unique contraption is actually an incredibly versatile stunt trike that should make it an entirely new experience of fun on wheels. The team even goes so far as to claim it can be used to commute to [...]

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Pro XL-C Bike Box: How You Ship Your Bike Like A Pro

SPORTS, WHEELS

Traveling with a bike in tow isn’t an easy job. While you can use your travel bags to hold disassembled bike parts, it’s probably also the fastest way to damage expensive luggage and trunks. The Pro XL-C Bike Box should prove a better fit for the task. Made by Crate Works, it’s a shipping box designed specifically for holding all the parts of your favorite bicycle. That way, you can simply send your bike via UPS instead of lugging it [...]

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Trophy Bicycle Holders Add Style To Your Bike Storage

HOME, WHEELS

In the market for bike racks to hang your pedaled rides up in the living room? If those industrial-looking mounts don’t look very appealing for that area of the house, maybe you’ll find some appeal in these Trophy Bicycle Holders. Made by Outline Works Ltd, they’re, basically, bicycle mounting hardware clad in the outlines of erstwhile trophy heads. That means, they’re bound to find a fitting home in your wall right next to trophies of various beasts of prey. Or [...]

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Metrofiets Cargo Bikes Combine Classic Style With Serious Utility

WHEELS

Cargo bikes come in all shapes and sizes. Few of them, however, combine personality and utility as well as a Metrofiets Cargo Bike, which pairs classic styling with heavy-duty carrying capacity. If the name sounds familiar, that’s because they’ve been around since 2007. In fact, we featured one of their custom builds, the Pub Bike, which features a literal mini-bar atop one of their cargo rides. Metrofiets hand-manufactures the front-loading cargo bikes, which they call “Long Johns,” modeled off Dutch [...]

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Donky Bike Maximizes Cargo Space

SIMPLY COOL

Sometimes, you need to haul more than a couple bags of grocery on your bicycle’s handlebar crate. And when you those times come, there’s no choice — you have to take multiple trips. That might change with the Donky, a bicycle created specifically for cargo-carrying duties. Instead of a simple basket hanging across the handlebar or a platform on the rear for hauling items, the bike features two cargo spaces — one in front and another in the rear. You [...]

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2×2 Cycles Bicycle Rack Puts Your Mountain Bike On Your Ducati

SPORTS, TO DO, WHEELS

Traveling with a bicycle usually means you need to bring a car or a truck with bike carriers onboard. That means hitting the road on your Ducati Streetfighter 848 is out of the question. Well, it used to be anyway until the Motorcycle Bicycle Rack came along. Made by 2×2 Cycles, it’s a bike rack designed to mount on a motorcycle, allowing you to carry your favorite two-wheeled vehicle on the back of your other favorite two-wheeled vehicle. Mounting is [...]

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PostPump 2.0 Hides A Floor Pump In Bike Seat Post

SPORTS, WHEELS

Strapping one of those handheld pumps on your bike is always a smart thing. Problem is remembering every time to carry it on the next bike trip, so you almost always either end up leaving it in the garage or losing it by virtue of being a mess. The PostPump 2.0 seeks to solve that problem, providing you with a tire pump that’s built into your bike, so you neither leave it at home nor lose it again. Made by [...]

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Cervelo P5 Is World’s Most Aerodynamic Triathlon Bike

SPORTS

At the highest levels of competitive triathlons, most athletes are at a similar level of peak physical condition, so their gear plays a huge part in the kind of performances each athlete turns in. So if you’re a competitive bloke angling for a first place finish, the Cervelo P5 is exactly the kind of ride you’ll want in your corner. Billed as “the most advanced and the most aerodynamic triathlon and time trial bike ever engineered ,” it boasts 75 [...]

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A Shelf For Books, Shoes And… A Bike?!?

FURNITURE, HOME

We’ve seen plenty of bike storage solutions before. And while the Shoes Books and Bike Shelf doesn’t even come close to the clever space-saving tricks some of those products pull, we can’t help but love the sheer madness of it. Designed by Thomas Walde for Post Fossil, it’s a multi-purpose standing shelf with designated spaces for books, shoes and a bicycle. Yep, a bicycle. That way, you can keep the bike in your room, instead of the garage or another [...]

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Someone Wants To Build A Rooftop Velodrome And We Love It

SPORTS, TO DO

I have a bunch of friends who literally go over the top spending on accessories and parts for their bicycles. When people are that dedicated about their pedal-powered rides, they deserve an equally dedicated bike club. This proposed Bicycle Club with Rooftop Velodrome accomplishes that exorbitant standard. Designed by NL Architects for a resort under development out in Southern China, the proposed installation brings a different take on the banked oval bike tack. Instead of setting one up under the [...]

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Monkey Light Adds Colorful Illumination To Your Bicycle

ENTERTAINMENT

Turning your favorite green ride into a light show spectacle with these bicycle lights might be tacky. But being the guy who walks around wearing Starfleet shirts and Bobba Fett helmets, though, we both know you’re the kind of guy who loves being the nerdy spectacle. So might as well give in and install this Monkey Light 8-Bit Wheel Light in your bicycle. Unlike most wheel-installed LED units, this doesn’t just give you a simple lighting system for nighttime illumination. [...]

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Flipphandle Locks Your Bike’s Handlebar To 90-Degrees For Storing Flat

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Bicycle storage is rarely pretty with those handlebars sticking out, making it impossible to push under tight, narrow spaces. There might be a way to manage that soon with the Flipphandle, a replacement handlebar stem that turns the bars 90-degrees for storing flat. Invented by Alejandro Lacreu, the unique bicycle component won a silver medal winner at the 36th Salon Des Invention in Geneva back in 2008. Lacreu and his team have been testing and improving it since then. Now, [...]

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Denim For Urban Cyclists: Levi’s 511 Commuter Series

FASHION

There’s no bigger name than Levi’s when it comes to jeans. So when they put out special products servicing your market, you know you’ve arrived. And bicycle-riding commuters finally get something specially for them: the Levi’s 511 Commuter Jean and Trucker Jacket. Designed for folks who choose to leave the cars at home for everyday city-roaming duties, the denim garments come fashioned with bicycling-specific performance traits, all while being perfectly functional street wear. Just like the cyclist-friendly Osloh Pants. Except [...]

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SSCY Bandolier Is A Body-Strapped Bike Bag

FASHION

Your Traveler’s Security Bandolier may be great for holding on to your valuable stash for trips. But it’s a little too lacking in pretty to make do for everyday city use. If you love the body-slinging convenience, though, you could hit the road in style with the SSCY Bandolier. Aimed at the bicycle crowd, the body-strapping container offers a middle ground for those who find their free-swinging messenger bags a tad too big and a fanny pack a whole lot [...]

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ElliptiGO 3C Is A Three-Speed Elliptical Machine For The Road

SPORTS, WHEELS

I don’t know how things are in your gym. In the places I’ve worked out in, though, elliptical machines are consistently some of the most rarely used equipment and for good reason — they’re impossibly boring. I don’t know if the ElliptiGO 3C bike is any more tolerable than those, but being outdoors and actually moving probably won’t hurt the experience. This latest model of the world’s first elliptical bike adds something that should make it even more interesting: a [...]

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Bicycle Speakerphone For The Always Connected Cyclists

FEATURED, GADGETS

Bike-mounted commuters can do that “I’m so busy, I need to call while I’m driving” crap, too. Heck, they can even do it so that everybody within the vicinity hears their conversation. As long as they have this: the Bicycle Speakerphone. Take that, busy executives driving fancy cars. Just like any regular wireless speakerphone unit, it connects with your handset over Bluetooth, giving you the magical powers of piping audio from your phone into the speakers. Unlike them, however, it’s [...]

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