Bikes

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Velomobiles

Bike race on ice

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"Toronto Ice Race '08 - Elite Rubber Class

A YouTube video 

I enjoyed it (for a minute or so, anyway).

 

The video was posted here :
"Videos about cycling and community events in Toronto. Critical Mass, commuting and other personal films about a bike and me"

 

Driving in isolation, in big machines, and on a lot of pavement

Simon's summary of that photo -
This "picture, taken by the Press-Office City of Münster (Germany), demonstrates the amount of space required to transport the same number of passengers by car, bus or bicycle."

Toban
(http://tobanblack.net/blog/)

"What Sprawl Looks Like"

by Andy Singer

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Andy doesn't exaggerate much there, does he? 

I think he pretty much captures what some areas of sprawl are like.

Toban
(http://tobanblack.net/blog/)

Bicycle Trailer

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Does anyone know how to build a bicycle trailer?  I've got blueprints of how to build one out of old bicycles and was wondering if anyone has built one before or has the resources to weld pieces together?  This needs to be 75 words in length so the rest of this is pure hogwash.  Actually, I'm just going to cut and paste this again. 

Does anyone know how to build a bicycle trailer?  I've got blueprints of how to build one out of old bicycles and was wondering if anyone has built one before or has the resources to weld pieces together?  This needs to be 75 words in length so the rest of this is pure hogwash.  Actually, I'm just going to cut and paste this again.  read more »

Pedal Power Lights Up Shelter

The Salvation Army’s shelter on Jarvis Street in Toronto plans to launch it’s WeloBike Project 2008/02/12. The initiative will depend upon volunteers to pedal old exercise bikes that have been retrofitted to allow generated energy to be stored in attached battery packs. That reserve of energy will then be used to light the shelter’s rooms.

Read the rest HERE.

 

New progressive event calendar

Hi everyone,

There now is a London area web calendar for progressive events at the new London Indymedia web site -
http://londonontario.indymedia.org

You can get to the listings for the current month through links off of the main page of the Indymedia web site,
or by going here: http://londonontario.indymedia.org/?q=event

Anyone can add event listings to the calendar -- with or without an account on the site.  Anyone also can post without entering a name, let alone a real one.
To add an event listing click "Post to the site" (near the top left) and then click "Event".

(That process is almost identical to posting events at the London Commons.  The setup of the two sites should be even more in synch in the near future; on the Indymedia site we'll probably be changing the way you enter the "Body" text.)

Any event postings that are ...
pro- environmentalism  and/or  pro- peace  and/or  pro- social justice  and/or  pro- genuine democracy
... should be appropriate,
though we may not accept event postings with strong ties to political parties.  The calendar also likely will be very local.

I mention what the editors will and won't "accept" because additions to the calendar will be reviewed by us after they're posted (though anyone on the site can view them in the meantime; they're not kept in a queue).  We may remove postings.  If anything is removed from the calendar it will be moved to the "Hidden posts" section, which you can get to through a link near the top left.  (Advertising spam is an exception -- we usually just delete that.)  Ideally we wouldn't hide any posts, but there is a broadly progressive mandate behind the web site that we work to uphold.  read more »

Crit Mass London-Ottawa Sympathy ride for Jeff Preston

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Jeff Preston, a fine fella at UWO, is wheelchairing to Ottawa to make a point at how poor civilization is at doing what it says it will. If transportation is "equally accessible", why are the disabled beholden to poorly formed taxis, and why are the totally abled (cyclers) beholden to cars? Forgive the poor phrasing above, but the meaning is there. This is Jeff's website for his march http://www.getmobilized.ca/index2.html He's also meeting at Up on Carling Jan Thurs 10 at 9pm.  read more »
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