Bicycle Kung Fu

BMX fight from "Lady Is The Boss". Don't mess with Tuff Wheels.

Jackie Chan dishes out some bicycle pain in Project A - even a bit for himself.

They're years ahead of us!

BMX = Insane People on Bicycles

There's a Handlebar Mustache Joke Going Here...

Bicycle advocacy in Hungary. Noice.

Hal Grades Your Bike Locking

Hal doesn't carry bolt cutters (maybe for his hair), but he's still a reason to be afraid of lousy locking technique.

These two videos, filmed five years apart, showcase the most typical mistakes.

Be nice if cycling got some air time over here...

I'd like to see something like this UK ad on the teev down under.

In case you haven't seen it yet...

This is the extent to which relations have soured between Critical Mass and the NYPD.

As most comentators on the web and elsewhere have already noted, Critical Mass are a tough nut to crack. On the one hand, they are a cyclist advocate group focused on reclaiming not simply 'the streets' (as per their ambiguous catch-cry), but a place for the bicycle in the collective psyche as a serious means of transportation, one deserving of recognition and thereby safety on said streets.

On the other hand they are a bunch of bike lifting, tunnel obstructing zealots in desperate need of a steady job and/or a hobby. Too slow for crits, too clumsy for XC, too impatient for brevets, too sane for cyclocross, but still eager to participate in group activites with their bikes that don't require a polo mallet, they turn bicycle advocacy into a kind of bicycle supremacy - Homo Velo Superior. They are the Magnetos of the road. Sure, it's great for 3Aw's talkback hour, but perhaps not most effective way to get motorists to hand over a piece of the asphalt pie.

My point, before anyone rushes to their keyboard in defense or denunciation of this or that, is not that Mr Long (the cyclist) deserved to be hoisted from his fixie in such a manner. Personally I think Officer Pogan (the hoister) is a disgrace. My point is that this is the kind of inexcusable behaviour that springs from either side of any 'Us v. Them' arrangement given enough time, people, and collective myopia. First a motorist nearly kills 50 elite cyclists, then cops start shoving people off bikes, then articles about deadly scofflaw cyclists claim that we're mowing down the elderly. It's tempting to think of the roads as a battleground, but it's a mistake. The CMers need to see what it's like to try and hold down a job with long hours 60-150kms from home, and the motorists and cops and journos need to get on a bike in traffic and see how long it takes for someone to almost kill them.

They need to, but they probably won't.

Stay tuned for red t-shirts featuring Stuart O'Grady smoking a cigar in a beret I guess...

Do This!

As if I didn't already feel like a clutz...

That Eastlink Ride

Both Pamela and Jason had plenty to say about the organisation of Ride The Eastlink - not much of it complimentary. 

It's not hard to see what they meant.

Find more videos like this on Melbourne Cyclist

Derailleur Adjustment Made EZ

This would have to be the most concise, sensible explanation of derailleur adjustment I've found yet. Very useful info for anyone who has to contend with the bloody things.

Brooklyn to Manhattan Transportation Alternatives Race

Car v. Bike v. Public Transport.

Jamie Favaro (above) rolled to two-wheeled victory in 16 minutes; 6 minutes faster than Emmanuel Fuentebella and his car, and 13 minutes ahead of MTA traveler April Greene.

Nice to see everyone involved was such a good sport.