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. [...]

ArtPrize is a radically open competition from September 23 – October 10, 2009 in Grand Rapids Michigan, home of the TerraTrike clubhouse. It is open to any artist in the world who can find space. Open to anybody in Grand Rapids, Michigan who wants to create a venue. Open to a vote from anyone who [...]

We try to do this several times a year, and since we had absolutely perfect fall riding weather today we closed down the shop and all rode as a group to lunch several miles down the trail. It is always awesome to see a large group of trikers having fun on a nice summer day. [...]

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It has been around for a while and cost a million yen, but the (FAIYATORIKKUBOBU) was a beautiful looking jet-powered bike. I cannot figure out the specs from the crazy google translation, copied below the fold, but suspect it would make one fast commute! Help run the engine, for aircraft equipped with TABINJETTOENJIN RAJIKON structured [...]

From Slate.com When we talk about transportation, we tend to talk about things in motion. What is often left unremarked upon, in conversations about crowded highways, is something without which those crowds would not exist: parking. That humble 9-by-18-foot space (the standard size of a spot) is where traffic begins and ends. It is the [...]

Putting heart and muscle into the term “bespoke,” Josh Hadar creates hand-crafted metal sculptures that double as functional bikes. He describes his process in a recent interview with RocketBoom. Intrigued? A bicycle custom built to your whims could run from $12-$35k, or if you live in NYC, you can try your hand at welding and [...]

Theo Jansen is an artist and kinetic sculptor living and working in Holland. He builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals which are able to walk using the wind on the beaches of the Netherlands. His animated works are a fusion of art and engineering. In the current BMW commercial Jansen says “The walls [...]