I was in NYC on Saturday to demo and purchase a Brompton from NYCeWheels. I spent half the demo trying to fold and unfold the bike and probably looked like a street performer outside of Carl Schurz Park (think someone tossed me a quarter at one point). The staff at NYCeWheels was great and after [...]
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ritratto pietra (1) The War Without a Loser (WSJ) (2) Olympics fever will help to make 2012 the year of the bike (3) Colouroids // Illustrations by Kevin Dart (3a) The Art & Illustration of Kevin Dart
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First ride of 2012! It was mostly an excuse to test the installation of a Brooks Flyer Saddle. I rode to the post office and stopped for coffee. I had a copy of the Wall Street Journal in the basket which I retrieved from the end of the driveway before my ride. I thought about [...]
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The proprietor of Limestone Roof doesn’t want to stay a monk forever and is prone to look at pretty dresses from time-to-time (and not for myself) AND the Bike Lane Dress from Antropolgie is gorgeous. There are days when solitude is a heady wine which intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter [...]
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Yeah. I’ve added a category for tires/tyres because of my obsession with vulcanized rubber. Photographs of tires/tyres for me are like hi-res food shots to foodies. I watched Tokyo Story last night and Noriko [Setsuko Hara] was employed by the Yoneyama Trading Company whose business was tires apparently (?). Speaking of pron; here is some [...]
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(1) Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of 1373 (2) Fantastic hyperrealistic oil paintings by Steve Mills (3) Ways to Manage an Image (WSJ) (3a) The Art and Soul of Disney (4) Jean Nouvel: The Pritzker-winning French architect checks in on hotels, carousels and burning down the house (WSJ) (5) Nintendo Introduces Free Airport Hotspots For 3DS Users (5a) [...]
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(1) Happy By Design (2) Reinventing the Two-Wheeler: Built for the long haul, new bicycle prototypes are making a case for just how far we could go in a car-free society (3) Zündapp Janus
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(1) Confessions of a Typomaniac (WSJ) (1a) 20 Nice Elegant Fonts (2) High-Value Rust on Wheels (WSJ) (3) Peer-to-Peer Pioneer Sees New York Bicycles Pier-to-Pier (4) Illustration by Rory Kurtz
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Absolutely gorgeous summer day in New England! (1) Bright Colors Struggle to Bloom in South Korea’s Silver-Car Nation (WSJ) (2) Adventure on the Rails (WSJ Magazine) (3) Custom Cycling’s Big Wheel (WSJ) He hired two people to take care of the business side of the shop. ‘The big thing I have learned is to free [...]
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(1) Coast to Coast in Eight Days (WSJ) (2) Lost in a World Without Roots (WSJ) (3) ‘Down and Dirty’ with the Disney Girl (4) A Macy’s branded bicycle? (5) Forget Vinyl; Band Releases Album as Location-Based App (Credit: J2) (6) Stephen Burks: The industrial designer spins traditional crafts into luxury goods with a conscience [...]
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