Posted on 21. Jul, 2008 by in Trends | No Comments
A DJ and a bike shop from Montreal built up a bike with stock frame and components! The custom head tube badge is neat, but otherwise it’s just a regular pieced-together track bike like anything you’d see around town. Can someone at Cool Hunting please explain what the big deal is? Thanks.
Posted on 26. Jun, 2008 by in Marketing, New Media, Trends | No Comments
Puma has released I-Cycle, a series of video shorts featuring the founder of the Recycle-A-Bicycle program in New York, actor Matthew Modine’s Bicycle For a Day, the guy who had the first pedicab in New York, the organizer of the Bicycle Film Festival, and Puma’s bike collecting CMO.
One thing that jumped out at me immediately [...]
Posted on 20. Jun, 2008 by in Client News, Trends | No Comments
Last night was the opening of the “Pressure” art show, a collaboration between RVCA and Cinelli. The show featured bike-themed works by some really well known graphic artists like Barry McGee, KAWS, Phil Frost, and others. MASH was given the corner window display to play around with, and Mike came up with this giant dreamcatcher [...]
Posted on 17. Jun, 2008 by in New Media, Trends | 4 Comments
TechCrunch reports that garbage and recycling company Waste Management has launched a social network called Greenopolis that encourages users to “Learn. Act. Reward. Together.™” It’s a full-on social network with user profiles, friends lists, blogging and media, forums, etc. It’s also an example of a company hopping on the social networking bandwagon a bit too [...]
Posted on 13. Jun, 2008 by in Bike industry, Trends | No Comments
Michael Z from SRAM was telling me in Philly about a private fundraiser for Barack Obama that was organized by Stan or F.K. Day. (I forget which, sorry guys). It turns out that at the event, Obama promised to “increase funding for cycling and pedestrian projects,” according to Bicycle Retailer & Industry News. My [...]
Posted on 09. Jun, 2008 by in Personal, Trends | No Comments
After a year off, I spent this past weekend in Philly for the Commerce Bank Philadelphia International Championship testing hardware and web tools to produce content for my project with SRAM. I’ll post some of the results soon, but I came across this giant wooden track bike in the airport and it’s arguably the coolest [...]
Posted on 23. May, 2008 by in Bike industry, Trends | No Comments
More evidence that bikes are cool, this time courtesy of Cannondale and jeans maker G-Star Raw. They get a little carried away talking about coolness (“The Cannondale BAD BOY, cycling’s original benchmark in coolness just got cooler.”) but this bike is really, really fresh. Check out the microsite.
This video, however, is not so fresh.
via PSFK
Posted on 21. May, 2008 by in Bike industry, Trends | No Comments
Check out Cool Hunting’s list of “12 Bikes for Girls“, as selected by Sarah Huston. I’m not sure that the flat, swept-back handlebars on this Specialized Langster Seattle “scream racing style” as she claims, but it’s nice to see another notch in cycling’s Coolness Belt.
Posted on 20. May, 2008 by in Bike industry, Trends | No Comments
Nike and BMX legend Bob Haro have put together BMX-inspired art show, currently on display in Beijing as part of the buildup to BMX’s Olympic debut.
This kind of themed art show is a standard practice in skateboard and streetwear circles, so it’s great to see that sense of creativity, aesthetics and individuality make its way [...]
