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Last year we did a story about a man posting on Craigslist about his bloodlust for the person who stole his bicycle. That man was Matt O'Rourke and, 18 months later, the bike is back. Here's O'Rourke's hilarious explanation of how we helped get his stolen bike back. — Ed. More »
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On a per-passenger basis, the average SUV uses more fuel than a Boeing 737, an Amtrak train, and the average bus combined. Also, 40 Burger King Whoppers hold as much energy as one gallon of gas. Click to enlarge. [Good.is] More »
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Typically an act of frustrating desperation, a cyclist has turned hailing a New York City cab into a congratulation. He's probably trying to get people to think about cycling instead of taxis, but really he's just scaring commuters and tourists. More »
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Along with a multitude of oddball oil burning two and a half box hood-scoop equipped hatchbacks in Frankfurt are more bicycles than you can shake a fist at. Most are set up for city trawling, some complete with mini trailer balls for what we assume are human pulled trailers. This vintage Bauer caught out eye first day in, and looked as if it had seen a few chancellors after logging many miles. More »
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Apparently the Woodward Dream Cruise ain't just all about the cars — but about the bikes as well. And when we say bikes, we don't mean something by Harley-Davidson or Suzuki, although there's plenty of those hangin' round these here parts. Rather, we mean the two-wheeled people-powered kind of transportation. And this here proud Mary bike's got a serious case of a swollen back wheel. Maybe the owners should apply a cold compress to it or something — you know, to cut down on the swelling. More »
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We hear it was a passion for motor racing that led Gianpiero Moretti, the former race driver to found the design company Momo to market his steering wheel he'd used to win the '64 Formula 1 World Championship. His success in marketing a steering wheel led him to think he was good at designing other stuff using race-inspired themes. Thus was born MomoDesign — a company fulfilling the needs of men like "Maximum" Bob Lutz for high-end luxe fighter jet helmets as well as wrist watches and leather motorcycle jackets for Euro-trash d-bags. The latest partnership for Moretti's designing machine is with the little Fiat-owned Italian automaker Lancia, first working on the MomoDesign Ypsilon Sport, and now it's for — cue the drum roll — a bicycle! It's called the Urban Bike — and umm, it's a nice looking limited and numbered series bike with a full carbon handlebar and Shimano 8-speed gearbox. Full press release on the bike filled with the all-Italian all-French taste for 'savoir vivre' after the jump. Also, Momo's website claims some connection to the new Transformers movie, but for the life of us we can't figure out what that connection is. – Ray Wert More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=268382&view=rss&microfeed=true Back in early 21st century Oakland we started to see later eighties and early nineties Oldsmobile Cutlass Cieras, Chevrolet Celebs, Buick Park Aves, and even the occasional Pontiac 6000 rolling up and down San Pablo. At first they were mostly stock, but time brought Daytons and plenty of metalflake. We found out later these cars were collectively known as Scrapers. Although the whistle tip fad has come and gone the Scraper lives on, and has come to influence the kids. They're always coming out with something new in the O, and the Trunk Boiz got some hella hekka critical mass. – Mike Bumbeck More »
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A number of us around here are cycling enthusiasts and a majority of the regular Jalops have spent time living in the Bay Area, where cyclists — especially in Berkeley and San Francsico — have decided that yes, they do in fact hold the lease on the area's byways. So much so, in fact that there's a very real tendency for them get extremely aggressive when one nearly plows a two-wheeled denizen, despite the fact that the cyclist in question was making an illegal maneuver. So the story of 70-year-old Harlan Head, who ended up in a serious altercation with Berkeley Critical Mass riders yesterday simply doesn't surprise us. Head's claiming he was assaulted. The riders claimed Head yelled, "I'm sick of you people," and drove into them. Both parties deny the allegations. Based on our experience with Bay Area bikes-not-bombs enthusiasts, we wouldn't be surprised if both accusations are true. – Davey G. Johnson More »
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Spied at the beginning and end of a Midnight Ridazz urban cycle crawl was this fine example of German engineering meeting California utility. Long buried in the memory of a cell phone, this image is only now resurfacing from an Echo Park past to work its way into the pantheon of minos. We pedaled the ride on a fourteen year old Bridgestone MB-3 accompanied by cycling daredevil Cole Coonce. We can't remember if the Bug-a-Mino had anything to do with bicycles. Bicycle ride helicopter escort was supplied courtesy of the LAPD. – Mike Bumbeck More »
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Guess we'd better make other plans for this week, lest we run afoul of one pro-bicycle group that aims to shut down the Chicago auto show. The group, AutoShowShutdown.org recently launched a web parody of the Chicago show's site, on which they provided counterpoint to the show site's content. The group even rebuffed a cease-and-desist letter from the show's organizers, with the support of online free-speech advocates the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Their plan is to protest the show's "egregious display of automobile glorification" this coming Saturday, the first of the show's public days at Chicago's McCormick Place. Kind of reminds us of ourselves when we were wee lads protesting arrogant roadway bikers. Of course the only slogan we could come up with at the time was "We won't pedal, death to false metal!" Right, we didn't quit our day jobs. – Mike Spinelli More »
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We were talking to Antonio tonight; he wanted advice on buying a cheap van he could tow a Toyota with. We suggested a Chevrolet, as parts are cheap and plentiful. We then suggested he do it up dekotora style. Imagine a cross between a Japanese custom van and a '70s sin bin. How can you lose? So, as Los Jalops are wont to, we then got to obsessing and ran across Japan's dekochari subculture. Dekochari are sort of like Chicano lowrider bikes. Only much, much weirder. – Davey G. Johnson More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=223147&view=rss&microfeed=true Carscoop brings us this clip, indicating what happens when steroid rage meets law enforcement. A bicyclist on an interstate highway outruns police in a typical chase video shot from a helicopter. Undoubtably a viral video with some arcane commercial purpose, this one's clever enough to pass along. Aaaa, choo! – Mike Spinelli More »
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We guess the euro boys n' girls are big fans of biking. All we know is we can rarely get our asses out from behind the laptop long enough to even ride a bike, much less require a rack to carry them. Nonetheless, we're sure there's a decent sized chunk of the population — both in Euro-land and here in the good old US of A — that'd love what Opel's cooked up. It's called the "Flex-Fix" and it's coming as an add-on for the '07 Opel Antara and Corsa. It's a rear-end hatch popping open and pulling out a two-bike carrier out of the bumper without the need of tools. And speaking of tools, the Antara's expected to replace the tool-mobile that is the current Saturn Vue. No word if we'll get this little tech-goodie over here, but if Saturn knows what's good for them, they'll drop it into some accessory package. Maybe they can call it the "trail mix" option pack. Full press release below the jump and gallery located via the link. – Ray Wert More »
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We still have no real evidence whether Clarkson still strides among the living, but we do know he's being implicated on a rash of assaults on cyclists in Oxford. Cyclox spokesman James Styring says, ""It could be that the Jeremy Clarkson-types have taken umbrage to cyclists." Apparently, a number of the assaultees have been attacked by a man driving a white van. Shown here is Clarkson, having exited his Starion in Oxford, immediately before commenting, "Did you see that? I was damn near nearly knocked down by a cyclist." Anyone in the Euro press-fleet biz know if Jezza was loaned a white Transit or similar in the last few weeks? Could the whole "death" thing be a ruse to cover his underground bicyclist-bashing scheme? More »
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Considering we spend most waking hours thinking about vehicles with motors, though we do travel by bike on occasion, we never considered how far we could bike in 24 hours. If we had to guess, it'd be in the mid-double-digit range (after a substantial break-in period, of course). One tech entrepreneur and triathlete, however, plans to break the current record for human-powered travel of nearly 635 miles in a 24-hour period. He'll be doing it in the "Critical Power," a recumbent bike sheathed in a carbon-fiber faring — the work of a Canadian designer using several software packages and (we're guessing) several cases of Canadian Orange soda. The venue for the attempt is the Redwood Acres Motor Speedway in Eureka, Calif. More »
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We've always been good to cyclists — we've only a hit a few over the years. We feel the two aren't mutually exclusive and that bikes and cars can, like Ebony and Ivory, live together in perfect harmony. Some of our best friends work with bicycles, so we can't be all that bad. So then why do the nudists want to rain on our symbiotic love-in by protesting against petrol-dependence and "car culture" with some kinda crazy naked bike race called the Ciclonudista? Don't they know how much that hurts all the work we've done building a dialogue with cyclists? And all of it's been thrown away by some hippie who likes a banana seat between his butt cheeks. More »
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Maybe not a Hoon in the strictest sense, but definitely one in the broader Jalopnik sense, the Swiss Rocketman is truly a Swiss man unafraid. Literally rocketing down a stretch of tarmac — on a bicycle fueled by more hydrogen peroxide than the members of Poison applied through the entire 1990s — Genevois Alec Beney hit nearly 150mph back in 1999. The clip is old, but true hoonage knows no age. (Send 'em to tips@jalopnik.com.)[Thanks to Steve for the tip.] More »
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