BIke helmet heads up display

The ARider plugs into your iPhone to provide a heads up display to help you navigate as you ride a bicycle.



This is a prototype from Ubiquitous Entertainment in Tokyo.



Via Core 77.

Interbike 2009: Fashion show photos

Elly Blue of Bike Portland was at Momentum Magazine's Urban Legends Fashion and Art Show at Interbike 2009 tonight. Here's a sample. Click here for the full set.

Interbike 2009 news and link

Interbike TV: Rich "Mr Interbike" Kelly talks with Mavic about their new shoes and wheels.



Urban Velo is at Interbike and found some interesting products:

• Duro reflective tires.
  
• Knog solid state bicycle lock.
  
• Masi has a new line of bike components they call Brev.
  
• Cute bike lights

Singletracks:

• Interbike tidbits.
  
• Cool stuff from Camelbak.

Bike Rumor:

• Basket Buddy liners (with booth babe)
  
• Pashley Clubman fixed gear.
  
• Giant carbon CX bike?
  
• Sillgey has a bike components brand called Bullous.

Bike World News Interbike photo gallery.

Timbuk2 Freewheelin at Interbike.

Lots and lots of Interbike photos at MTBR.com and Road Bike Review, including the always popular Interbike hotties gallery.

San Jose bike rodeo help needed

Last spring, Dave, I, John Brazil and some other people made a stink about Noddin Elementary School's bike ban in San Jose, California. The school administration agreed to lift the ban after "Streets Smarts" safety instruction and a bike rodeo.

The Bike Rodeo is coming up on Saturday, October 10, and the organizer Tara Jones, has no volunteers yet. She needs six to eight volunteers at Noddin Elementary School. Her plea for help is posted below. If you think you can help, please contact me and I'll forward her email address to you. Her phone number is also posted in her note. Noddin Elementary is located at 1755 Gilda Way, San Jose, CA. This is just off of Blossom Hill Road between Camdem Avenue and Union Avenue.

I have a Bicycle Roadeo schedule for Oct. 10, 2009 from 8:30am-2p.m., and yes, that is a Saturday. I have put an email out to my usual volunteer list, and have had NO OFFERS. I am down to two weeks before the event, an I'm starting to panic. I need at least 6-8 volunteers and have one possible. The great thing about this particular Roadeo is that we had heard the Principal at this school, Noddin Elementary, would not allow any students to ride their bikes to school, because she had deemed it unsafe. She agreed to a sit down meeting with me to see what Street Smarts and DOT had to offer. When I explained everything, she agreed to a helmet giveaway, series of safety presentations, and a Bicycle Roadeo; students will now be allowed to ride to and from school.

If you or ANYONE you can think of would be so kind as to help me out, it would be so appreciated!!! If you're not familiar with a Roadeo, there will be four stations that groups of kids at a time will go through, and each station teaches a simple safety technique. For example, there is a station to learn avoiding objects in the street, or learning to check over your shoulder for cars. It's fun, and very rewarding. It just is impossible without help! So again, if you know any bike enthusiasts, people who need community service hours, or if you're bored, please let me know!! Thanks in advance.

p.s. we will probably pack up way before 2pm! And I'll provide lunch!

Tara Jones
School Safety Education Coordinator
Department of Transportation
City of San Jose
200 East Santa Clara Street
San Jose, Ca. 95113
(408) 975-3296

Interbike 2009: Big Bamboo

Calfee's bamboo bikes have always been a hit at the bike shows they attend, and Brano Meres can always be counted on to do something interesting like he did with the bamboo composite bike he brought last year.



Biomega introduced their Bamboo bicycle in 2005 and they brought it to the show this year (as shown above).

One of the hits of this year's Interbike, though, are the bamboo road bikes from startup Boo Bicycles. National Time Trial champion Nick Frey from Des Moines, Iowa just received his mechanical engineering degree from Princeton University and immediately moved to Colorado to launch his bamboo bicycle business.



Another interesting exhibitor is Kilowatt Bicycles with their flagship Bamboo Electric, an electric assist bike with a bamboo and carbon fiber frame.



Kilowatt Bikes also has non electric bamboo bikes with the Bamboo Pedal and Bamboo Mini. I particularly like the Mini bike.




Another bamboo bike that caught my attention is from Organic Bikes from Appleton, Wisconsin. They have people at Interbike but they're not exhibiting (as near as I can tell), but I like the clean, simple design of their Dylan frame.



Photo credits: Brian at Industry Outsider; Elly Blue of Bike Portland; Organic Bikes; Boo Bicycles; Kilowatt Bikes; Richard Masoner.

Interbike TV: Santa Cruz Blur mountain bike

David from the FredCast talks with Santa Cruz Bicycles Mike Ferrentino to talk about the Blur LT.

Interbike 2009 photos: Trade Expo Day 1

I hope you enjoy this collection of photos from Interbike 2009 Day 1. Click on the thumbnails to go large and for attribution.

Montague Bicycles booth.



Steephill.TV talks with Tour of California executive director Andrew Messick and gets the inside scoop on the Tour of California 2010.

People

Steve Hed talking Aero. George Hincapie signing autographs. Eddie Merckx signing posters.



Bike porn and products.

Bike Parking - Kryptonite Booth.



Relaj bottle. Cinelli track bike. Carbon fiber coat hanger. Colnago bicycles. Gary Fisher SuperFly. Kirk Less carbon bikes. Surly fixed gear. Boo Bicycles Bamboo bikes. Lance Armstrong's bike. Storck Time Trial Bike. Independent Fabrications fixed gear. Showers Pass commuter jacket. Bamboo bike. Mark Cavendish's bike "The most photographed bike at the show." Electra Ticino. New MTB pedal from Speedplay.





Big crowds at Cross Vegas



Nanyang Truck Bike.



Larger photo credits: Elly of Bike Portland and Todd of Makai Bikes.