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 This has to be one of the wildest, yet most sensible motorcycle and bicycle safety devices ever. The Hövding is basically a wearable airbag for your head. It goes around your neck like a slightly oversized scarf. Inside the collar are sensors that tell the device when to inflate, which it does with ... read more on Inflatable Bicycle Airbag Collar Helmet...  I’m a cowboy. On a steel horse I ride. And I’m wanted (wanted). Dead or alive. Turn your bicycle into a horse with this simple add-on wooden kit called “horsey”. Soundtrack by Bon Jovi not included. Cool stuff but I’m holding out for the Liger, Zorse, Beefalo, or Wholfin ... read more on Horse Bicycle...  Locking up bikes to poles in an urban environment is always a tricky proposition. Often you will see bikes with two locks, one for each wheel and of course the frame. But with this ingenious invention by 21 year old Kevin Scott, the bicycle will fold over itself around the pole: A ratchet ... read more on Bendable Bicycle Wraps Around Poles...  Apparently bicycle helmets are supposed to be used for multiple crashes. There’s a point at which the helmet is structurally damaged on the inside and should not be used again. Unfortunately most cyclists who’ve reached the “breaking point” so to speak have probably been hit one too many times to realize it. So ... read more on Helmet Reeks of Cheese When You Fall...  The Monsterbike certainly doesn’t look like the easiest thing in the world to pedal but clearly speed is not what they’re going for this. It’s a “regular” pennyfarthing bicycle (you know, those old timey ones with the giant wheel in front and small wheels in the back) taken to the extreme by attaching ... read more on Bicycle with a Monster Truck Wheel...  Learning to ride a bicycle is something almost every kid went through and chances are you learned with a pair of training wheels. And once you got good on the training wheels, you would take them off and basically learn to ride again. Because training wheels don’t really “train” you, they just convert ... read more on Gyroscopic Bicycle Wheels Eliminate the Need for Training Wheels...  I’m pretty certain that the Joby Gorillapod flexible tripod is not actually strong enough to work as a real bicycle but this display piece kinda makes you think- what if? It would be an incredibly flexible folding bike. You could twist the frame so that the bike just rides in circles like ... read more on Joby Gorillapod Bicycle...  Design firm JRuiter + Studio has designed this super minimalist “City Bike” that takes the complicated bicycle down to just it’s essential core components. The designers had a complete rethinking of what was needed on the frame of the bike, eliminating parts that were not absolutely necessary. While practical on some levels, with ... read more on City Bike is So Minimal It Doesn’t Need a Chain... |   | ||||
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