Candy Cranks

Nada Bike/Project M believes that less is more. “Less cars. Less gas. Less smog. Less paint. Less gears. Less lycra. Less fat.”

They are aiming to change the way young people commute through their new initiative; join Nada Bike for just $100 and they will send you an unpainted single speed bike frame as your membership card. Best membership card ever!

Nada Bike is also competing for a a $25k grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project - help them out and vote for them!

via Yimmy Yayo

The ever-fashionable Betsey J found these great images of Catherine Baba in Paris, shot by Tommy Ton. Amazing - makes me wish I looked so glam on my ride!

via Betsey J

13-yr old fashion blogger, Tavi shot by JakandJil’s Tommy. See the rest of the story here. What a gorgeous red cruiser!

Would you rock one of these on your ride? Found in Beijing by Adrian Lai

Beautifully carved Nitto stems by artist Ko. He also customs cranks and handlebars - check them out on his site, www.ko5.jp.

So gorgeous - I’d love one of these on my whip!

Pretty sure that reads as “No Fah King Pah King.” Ride Shanghai!

Take a look at Pedaling.tv, a series of webisodes exploring the intersection of food and cycling. Interesting.. the first episode follows a “fixie crew” around NYC  on their culinary adventures. Pretty straightforward branding push here.. Specialized bikes and Whole Foods are featured prominently.

What do you guys think of Pedaling?

BSNYC has a hilarious review here.

Picked up these babies for my man while I was in NYC. The perfect cycling shoe in an SF colorway. (represent!) Thanks Suz & Massan! Nike, time to do somethin for the ladies!

The fellas behind Shanghai Fixed have launched their all-new site, Peoplesbike.com. The new site features a revamped layout in English & Chinese, and contributions by writers from Hangzhou to Dalian. Hit it up for your China-cycling news fix.

MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory has brought technology used on the racetrack to your bike. The project is called the Copenhagen Wheel and features a back hub that captures kinetic energy generated when you brake. The energy is stored in batteries in the hub until you need it - like when you’re pushing up that last hill. When hooked up to your iPhone, the Copenhagen Wheel does even more:

By using a series of sensors and a Bluetooth connection to the user’s iPhone, which can be mounted on the handlebars, the wheel can monitor the bicycle’s speed, direction and distance traveled, as well as collect data on air pollution and even the proximity of the rider’s friends.

The team also added an anti-theft system that can text message you to location of your bike if it ever gets stolen. So smart!

What do you think? Would you ride the Copenhagen wheel?

Think back to your childhood - remember your first bike? Sparkly pink streamers, little white basket in front, and a coaster brake.

Coasties (no I’m not talkin the Ugg-boot wearing variety) are offering deep-v wheelsets with coaster brake hubs that allow you to pedal backwards in order to brake. The site says coasties “give you the clean look of fixed gear without all the danger.”

Hmmm, interesting. What do you think? Cool idea? Or is everyone just trying to make some money by jumping on the fixie bandwagon?

While I was stuffing my face with beef noodles in HK, Shanghai had its very own alleycat this weekend. Nice job, Tyler & co!

Sorry to have missed it, but glad to see the ladies reppin it right.

Pix by Stephen Alexander & full recap at Peoples Bike.

Shanghai is the home of the xiao long bao, or soup dumpling. Since moving here, I haven’t really been impressed, so my friends & I got together to seek out the best the city has to offer. And with the Shanghai Alleycat coming up, we thought this would be good training for the race.

We followed this ride map and hit up a bunch of spots around Shanghai.

Our whips

Our reward!

Dumpling details at www.phatsh.com

Angled wheels are the new aerospoke

via China.org.cn

Shanghai is a city where most cyclists secure their bikes by just throwing a U-lock around the back tire. Shanghai is also a city where most cyclists come back to find that their whip has been lifted into the back of a sketchy truck and carted off to a Chinese chop shop.

Enter Cyclehoop

Cyclehoop is a product designed to easily create and install more “fly-parking” (locking to street furniture) in urban cities.

Pretty cool design, the two loops enable cyclists to lock both wheels, plus they keep bikes from falling over (you ever see Williamsburg, BK after a storm?)

A great idea, hope to see it in use!

http://www.cyclehoop.com/

Hey Candy Cranks! Sandy here representing the lady riders out here in Shanghai, China. I just moved here from NYC, and its been pretty great so far.

Shanghai is an awesome cycling city - lots of bike lanes and flat streets. You also have everything hitting the road; traditional Chinese Forever cruisers, shiny new Airwalk fixies, and.. these guys:

Expect lots of dope stuff coming out of the ‘Hai!