Mike McFarlane likes to live hard. Which is good, because outdoor photographers don’t often have it easy. The spherical panoramas here are just a few of the 12,000 frames he shot during a year of work for a massive series of 92 panoramic 360° virtual tours (which you can only see in their true immersive [...]
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The soul needs fuel every ...
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Photographer Todd McLellan has shot chickens, cars, and burned stuff, but his coolest project is Things Come Apart. Like so many glaringly obvious titles, it doesn’t even begin to capture the magic of what he actually does: disassemble products whose complexity we take for granted — bikes, of course, but also chainsaws, fire extinguishers, SLR [...]
The best bike ad ever? Hurry before it’s gone: http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/bik/3778359479.html Note: at last check, Craigslist had taken it down. Here it is in full: Grab a paper bag, breathe into it, and calm your ass down. You’re hyperventilating because you ain’t never seen a deal like this before. Now collect yourself, then keep reading this [...]
Jenny Oh Hatfield is a bike-thief avenger. And as an interactive producer for San Francisco’s KQED public radio and TV station, she’s pretty uniquely equipped to understand the advantages as well as shortcomings of using social media to counteract a dirty business as lo-fi as stealing a bike. She starts with sharing info on Facebook, [...]
The 2013 Bespoked Bristol Show has finished for another year, after profiling a varied range of exhibitors intrinsic to the UK scene. There were some well-placed bets on a few of the award winners, while others were pleasant surprises, especially the award given for Best Off Road: a heavily modified version of Shand Cycles‘ ‘all-road’ bike, [...]
Barely legal might be one way for Specialized to market its Turbo electric-assist bike. That was the spin when we first spied the then Euro-only, $7,300 steed last year. The story was Specialized couldn’t offer it here because the 28 mph top speed exceeded what you could sell without a license. In reality, the law [...]
It’s illegal to ride a bike on Tanzania’s Mt. Kilimanjaro. But if you’re Doug Pitt, brother of Brad, and on speaking terms with Tanzania’s president, Jakaya Kikwete (who has the 19,341-foot peak as the wallpaper of his twitter page), you can pull strings. Pitt was part of the first team of riders to descend the [...]
Carson Leh has been producing some beautifully upholstered saddles. We first saw his work on his Deluxe TECH2, he’s since been refining his style with plenty of new saddles, profiled on hisnew website. The site is now live, under his new brand, LEH SPLY&MFG. Have a look at the news feed while you’re there, which presents an interesting [...]
The soul needs fuel every bit as much as the body. Something for your dreams… Photo by Brian Vernor
In summer 2011, Zac Davies, at the time a 27-year-old professional road bike racer from Madison, Wisconsin, privateered in Central America instead of racing for his team of record, Fly-V, because his team of record was corrupt and unscrupulous and was in the process of shamefully dissolving, the result of illegal and amoral directorial transgressions. [...]
Our dear friend Martha Williams took a three-month break from documenting women (mostly) cyclists of Chicago — winter in the Windy City might give one pause, indeed — but now she’s back, and her first subject of spring is Jazmin. Where are you going? I am just taking a mid day trip around the West [...]
What, you thought going big was a new thing? The exhibition, called the “jump of death,” took place in the late 1800s on the Île des Cygnes, the Island of Swans, which no longer exists as an island but is now a part of the Rive Gauche. Red Bull, people had wings long before you [...]
As a dude who’s never even worn a kilt, let alone a skirt, and as a worker bee whose employment setting is eight steps from his bed, the issue of rideable work clothes isn’t a personal pressing concern, but I know that it is for some of you, especially for those with two X chromosomes. [...]
It’s a revelation to look at Thomas Callahan’s early work, like the mauve Priest Sport and his latest exercise, the Urban Tour Project. Thomas and Horse Cycles have begun a run of production models with a limited edition range of complementary gear. There are two frames offered in the Urban Tour Project: a mixte and a versatile frame that really [...]
Word has it some people are getting sick of winter, which continues to lurk about some parts of the country like an unwanted redneck cousin. But spring is coming, and not even the odd April snowflake can change that. And this sweet little shot from Cristina Passo perfectly captures the fun, eagerness, and stoke of [...]
Does your first crush sentence you forever to have a soft spot in your heart for, say, blonde bangs or freckles or blue eyes with black hair? Road bikes are cool, touring bikes are evocative, and the Sting-Ray is, of course, an icon, but I still remember the first mountain bike I saw, the way [...]
Fat bikes are big in Japan. Hell, all bikes are big in Japan. But fatties are coming into their own. The first (hopefully annual) fat bike race is being held on the Morning Mist Trail of Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture, on May 11. Yeah, I know, you’d go if you could. Sign up here: singlespeedjapan.info.
Attentive Daily Bike readers will note that we have featured images from the amazing South Africa series, Bicycle Portraits, on more than one occasion here. Stan Engelbrecht and Nic Grobler set out to document bike commuting and explore why so few South Africans actually rode their bikes to work, but what they ended up producing [...]
We have been known to poke fun at doping, to be outraged about doping, to be cynically expectant about doping. But the story of Brit Tom Simpson is a reminder that doping on a personal, physical level is a very serious business. Simpson was one of Britain’s most talented mid-century cyclists. In 1956, he took [...]
Georges Massias knew the soaring feeling of bike freedom, that’s for sure. In 1895, Alexandre Darracq commissioned him to illustrate advertisements for his Paris-based Cycles Gladiator company. Cycles Gladiator was four years old, and bikes were sweeping Europe — tapping into this kind of joie de vivre, it’s easy to understand why. The brand eventually [...]
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