This is kind of creative. Swap out your bottle cage with this dock that encapsulates the iPod, then acts as a bike-mtd. speaker system, with a remote, wireless controller for the handlebars. Good for the yuppie at Burning Man or to spew pre-recorded vitriol at ballgame pedestrian and vehicular traffic.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/ … 272319.php

I have an alternate bike speaker system: ride with earbuds loud enough to blow your eardrums, and then repeat.

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I like it, and not JUST for the rad colors and radder design language. Solar collector and wind harness???

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British designer Paul Smith created an energy triple play with Navitas, a bike trailer design concept that generates power three ways. You charge up its onboard 24-volt battery as you tow it behind a bicycle. When you reach your overnight destination, use its quick release mechanism to detach the trailer from the bicycle, and then you convert the trailer’s wheel into a wind turbine that also collects solar energy with its small photovoltaic array.

When you’re settling in for the night, plug in all your devices to its electrical outlet that resembles a car’s cigarette lighter, and you can also hook stuff up to its USB port. At the same time, if it’s a sunny or windy day, the trailer is still generating energy to charge up its battery. Made of recyclable materials, let’s hope this contraption is light enough so that it won’t be too much of a burden on its rider.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/design-conce … 272459.php

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Dig this Kenyan who uses his bike to sharpen people’s knives for them. Lung could CERTAINLY find a use of this technology… in traffic…

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/06/22/di … afric.html

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You make the call if you want. I personally LOVE subterfuge and guerilla power-plays, ESPECIALLY when they involve cyclists.

According to Toronto newspaper THE STAR,a group called the “Other Urban Repair Squad” is painting their own bike lanes onto the streets of their city, complete with bicycle logos and diamond indicators. They’ve got eyes on the street, complete with orange vests, signalling traffic around the projects as they’re completed. They look official enough that passers-by are even calling out to them with inquiries about the new lanes.

The thing that helps this seem less like a vigilante move to me and more like positive frustration venting, is that back in 2001, the city began implementing a plan to install bike lanes around Toronto. But they’re two years behind, and have only spent about 50% of what they said they would.

Fuck it, I endorse it fully.

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