No matter the city...

Image yoinked from Walkenworks.com.

...in peak hour a bike is your weapon of choice.

This time it's Tel Aviv. Previously London, and NYC before that. Even Melbourne's been officially conquered by two wheels.

Speaking of potential weapons; this from the Herald Sun about scooter riders wanting a piece of the bike lane pie. I don't think the lanes are wide enough, personally, and may have said something to that effect in the comments. All due respect to the motorised.

Also, it's nothing new, but Calfree make bikes (serious ones) out of bamboo. How sweet is that? If the carbon footprint of transporting the frame from the US wasn't so huge I'd be saving right now. I mean, look at the cross model. Looks like something found in a shipment of 1930s Japanese office furniture. Sweet. The lugs are hemp soaked in resin. No, not that resin.

Wish you could pump your tires while riding? Little weird, but okay, sure, Uber Bike Nerd to the rescue. Audaxers are gonna love it.

On the subject of bike nerds (I'm on a segue roll), who said recumbents weren't cool? Check this thing out.

Saw a very stylish woman on a very stylish yellow Cecil Walker fixie with red anodised Velocity rims ride past Vic Gardens and up the bridge on Barkers Road this Sunday. Badass. Anyway, reminded me that Velocity USA have gone powdercoat crazy on their new Deep Vees. Of course, if you're low on funds you could always roll your own. Ahem.

They're years ahead of us!

Wacked Out Invention of The Week

Now when you blast through a red light, people will know exactly how fast you were hurtling toward that minivan at the moment of impact!

Okay, so there is a certain cool factor in this safety device, it's just that the person most likely to become one of these rolling speedometers is also the person most likely to be popping wheelies in traffic.

The design itself is quite clever - perhaps animated turn signals in the future?