The automobile has always been a measure of success in North America. This is hardly a controversial statement. Car ownership has not only been a measure of personal success but
Hillary Clinton on a Biomega? At the very least she will be shaking hands over one this week at the COP15 summit. Leaders have been invited to the house of
Mikeal Colville-Anderson, in his popular blog Copenhagenize, recently posted a very interesting article around the issue of ’subculture’ in emerging city bike cultures. Mikeal argues that city cycling needs to
New York has its bike lanes. Portland has its homegrown bike manufacturers. Toronto has bicycle-choked traffic. And Montreal? Montreal has always had thousands of (very fashionable) people riding their bikes
Joebike is a whole new breed of bicycle store. Not surprisingly, its based in Portland, home of some revolutionary bicycle shop concepts. Joebike is an art gallery, a bicycle repair
Many people in North America are jumping back on bikes again, but are – legitimately – scared of theft. This, of course, is fair enough. In Europe a large network
Hudson Urban Bicycles presents the first ever NYC bicycle fashion show, “Bike Style”. Located in the West Village, the HUB aims to change the way New Yorkers view bicycling. “By
We go to Interbike every year and we have never – and we mean never – seen so many city bikes. Sure, there were road and mountain bikes in varying
The Batavus BUB is the classic omafiets-meets-Rem Koolhaus. Expressively modern, the Batavus BUB (Batavus Utility Bike) deconstructs the classic Batavus omafiets while constructing a more cosmopolitan – yet equally iconic
It all started with the NY Times article early this summer, on April 15th, 2009. Stating that the “great downturn may have its first status symbol,” the article romanced a
Copenhagen Cyclery started about a year ago in Chicago, seeking to ‘copenhagenize‘ the Chicago streets. Chicago has often played second fiddle to the media obsession with the urban infrastructure of
It was in his Ethics that Aristotle insinuated the task of philosophy to provide the principles for ‘the good life.’ Since then, the interest in the ‘good life’ has been
