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Via RapidGrowth.com he rollers and berms on the pump track are in place, ready for the inaugural ride of Mayor George Heartwell during the Grand Rapids Bike Park grand opening Saturday, May 15. The mayor will lead his annual family-fun Mayor’s Bike Ride after a morning of park cleanup by Friends of Grand Rapids Parks [...]
For all those who wished they could paddle their dinghies or kayaks to the grocery store, or pedal their bikes across a lake, river or bay, a Czech inventor named David Buchwaldek has just come up with a solution. He has designed an electric hybrid tricycle that can travel on water! Called the HEPAV (Human-Electric [...]
If you have a tandem bike but no one to ride it with you, perhaps Joules could be your partner. The robot’s creator, Carl, devised Joules after being challenged to create a tandem electric bike based on actual pedal pumping, plus try to make it effective enough to manage the steep hills in Carl’s neighborhood. [...]
Because the bike is one of the most efficient forms of transportation ever devised by man, it is sometimes hard for us hard-riding bicycle proponents to remember that not everybody loves bicycles. In fact, escalating road rage shows just how much some people can’t abide bikes. What’s amazing is that so many places exist in [...]




