THE BIKE BLOG BOOK: July 2009

Friday, July 31, 2009

'Founded in 1991 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana by Matt Chambers, Confederate Motor Company set out to create machines utilizing a holistic, avant-garde process for celebrating the art of rebellion. American rebellion is adopted as fundamental to the pursuit of personal empowerment. We remain forever determined to challenge the establishmentarian view of what honest “new world” American industrial and mechanical design can be.'

'The Fighter clarifies opaqueness and nullifies hype with straight-forward true to concept certitude.'

photography by JR Bite

1974

Playboy Magazine

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facehunter.blogspot.com

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

London Cyclistas

(via warehouse.co.uk / photo by Sveinung Skaalnes)

Grangegorman Residence

'Whilst befitting the scale and character of it's urban context, this metallic house for a motor-cycle enthusiast challenges those preconceived typologies of traditional terraced housing.'

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http://pixs.media.mit.edu/picture/image/1017/sander_bike.jpg

Bike Culture

Freedom Machine

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nilsvik/

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Attack on derailleurs

thanks Paul!

On Art...

http://www.kozyndan.com/

www.kevincyr.net

Velocandy

Boutique Cycles is a user submitted gallery dedicated to custom and boutique bikes.

http://www.boutiquecycles.com/

the velorution has begun...

coming to your city...

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25726298-421,00.html

Junior Cycle Chic

Check out these cute wooden bikes from Growing Up Green. They have been selected from around the globe and are environmentaly friendly. The third one down is from Sydney. However my fav is the first one which is handmade in Germany and called Like a Bike ‘Forest’.

http://growingupgreen.com.au/?p=1196

ku.

http://www.kujewelry.com/

Velocommerce

'Velocommerce is commerce that is dependent on the bicycle.India is a fantastic place to observe velocommerce in action.This project has opened our eyes to this crazy universe of activities, products, services, design, economy and humanity that is mobile using bicycles. The interesting thing about being on a bicycle is that it immediately frees you as an entrepreneur from the shackles of immovable real estate. Velocommerce is all about the mobility of property, and it challenges notions of ownership and private capital. It is special because it exists at the intersection of entrepreneurship, mobility, sustainability, grassroots innovation, cultures, local economies and decentralized, last-mile service delivery.'

http://www.velowala.org/pages/velocmmerce.html