Yesterday was the final Tour De Fat event for this year, in Austin. I went last year but this was my first time riding the parade. I hung out mostly behind one of the mobile sound bikes. With the tunes and the bells and the yelling…it was pretty loud for a bike ride. Highly recommended.
Lots more pics over here.
Austin is also having a contest to design new bikeracks for downtown (idea evidently stolen from NYC, see my previous post).
Of note, the organizer said:
“We’re going to install plaques at the base of the sculptures that say ‘bike rack’ and take old junk bikes, paint them, and hook them up to the racks when they’re unveiled,”
So I suppose that means they are expecting less than obvious designs or else they figure us Austinites are just too dumb to figure out where to park our rides.
Interesting read about David Byrne’s involvement and sponsorship of some artistic test racks for the NYC Bike Rack Design competition (hosted at WordPress, no less).
A few years ago I made this handlebar mount for my camera.
Now, Lifehacker is linking to a pale imitation from Photojojo. Not a bad design, but mine’s better.
And…this folder actually fits my 6′04″ frame. I’m still not sure how to get it on the plane, but it definitely fits in the trunk of of the BackAmp Research staff car.
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