Hey, thanks for stopping by! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the RSS feed. You can also subscribe to BikeHacks by email. Thanks for visiting!While you can buy a Kickbike, you can also make you own hacked scooter. This comment was posted to the Kickbike post:
Weekend warrior in Manhattan on [...]

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Sometimes a standard bike rack just doesn’t cut it. Cyclists in NYC are quite creative when it comes to creating customized solutions for cargo issues. The common plumbing clamp and zip ties are two of the oft used devices to secure apparatuses to standard racks.
This rider used plumbing clamps to secure [...]

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Here are some instructions for building yourself a pretty simple bike computer using readily available materials (provided you’re an electronics guru) and free tools.
The thing is, the computer is simple, but the building part assuredly is not. Best of luck to any intrepid non-electrical-engineer-types that embark upon this hacktastic journey. It is not for the [...]

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The post last week on the Kickbike garnered quite a bit of attention. Many people left comments and I exchanged emails with a few of them, resulting in a news scoop. From the smoky back room of FBUSA I was told that the following information (and pictures) is yet to go public, but [...]

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Via Great Green Goods comes a great use for bike tires . . . jewelry. The jewelry is made by Christiane Diehl and you can view more pictures on her site.

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Some NYC denizen obviously had a little free time on their hands.

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Via bicycle design, via dyson (yes, that vacuum dude) come another jacket with lights for cyclists (picture from dyson site).

The explanation from the dyson site:
Michael was inspired by the Nintendo Wii to come up with Reactiv - a responsive cycling jacket.
The jacket uses an accelerometer that senses movement to change the colour of the [...]

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On my daily commute a few times over the past months I had seen someone riding what appeared to be a hybrid bike/scooter. Dude was always coming at me so I never really got a good look at what he was riding. While walking around the other day I found the mysterious contraption locked [...]

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One of Bikehacks favorite sites is bicycletutor.com. It is run by Alex Ramon and we recently interviewed him. Enjoy!
Q: Tell us a bit about yourself. Where do you live? How’d you get interested in biking? Etc.
A: I was raised in Kitimat, BC. My Mother taught me to ride [...]

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I’d give this an “A” for creativity, but I can’t imagine it’s a very smooth ride.

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