This is an interesting video taken by someone on while commuting on their electric bicycle. The video appears to be taken in either England or Ireland, or perhaps another European country. The commuter is using a Currie electric motor attached to their bicycle for this commute. The video is made in the style of a music video. For more info on the electric bicycle, see the film maker's website.
This is a new, sexy video, of an electric scooter, with close ups showing the shapes, colors, and lines of this electron powered machine.
This is a short video clip showing someone riding an "electric scooter". That is different from an electric bicycle, in that it has no pedals for propelling the vehicle using human power.
Another form of alternative transportation of the future?
"Honey, I'm taking the walking suit robot to the store for the grocery shopping"
This is a video taken in France, in 2005, of a test run of some prototype bicycles. One is using compressed air and electricity as its power source to propel the vehicle. The other is using compressed air with a little human power assistance to propel the vehicle
You can find more info on these vehicles and other innovative designs using compressed air as a power source at www.electroairbike.com (This website is in French language)
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- Air Powered Bicycle
- Pneumatic Bike
- Vintage Compressed Air Bike
Recommended Links:
- Air-Powered-Vehicles community forum
- Cycle Santa Monica! community forum
Check out this trophie, a gold plated bicycle bell on a wood(?) base with brass plack.
They are issued by FUBicy, "Fédération française des Usagers de la Bicyclette" (english translation, "French federation of the Users of the Bicycle")
(see english tranlation of thier website)
Also, see thier article titled
"The helmet with bicycle: a false response to road insecurity"
(french to english translation)
The picture to the right is of a Santa Monica Fire Department officer using a gasoline powered circular saw with a special circurlar blade for cutting hardened steel, cutting through a U-lock. The owner of the u-lock and the bike, had lost his key and couldn't open his lock. He asked the a Santa Monica police officer for assistance. The SMPD called to the Santa Monica Fire dept to see if they could help. They sent a crew out to the location of the bicycle with that special saw. It took several minutes to make a single cut. The blade created a light show of flying sparks. And it created blaring sounds as the blade grinded through the hardened steel and as the gasoline motor revved up, to make that cut.
The picture to the bottom right is what the lock looked like after it got cut off by the Santa Monica Fire Department.
The lock was cut off in downtown Santa Monica, near the store space which is now occupied by REI at 4th and Santa Monica blvd, sometime around 2002.
Putting a little Bling in your ride.
See the video of the electric motocross motorcycle doning donuts.
"Angry Kid" takes a solo bicycle ride. It kind of comedic version of a mass ride, of sorts.
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Angry Kid take a bicycle ride. Tries to ride with no hands. Funny.
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TVLink Europe just released a new video "You Control Climate Change"(June 7, 2006). Watch it online. It is 8 minutes and 24 seconds long. It has updating news on what people and government agencies in the EU are doing today to cut down the emission of Green House gases and other pollutants of the air and water. (Reference for the video, transcript, and other info to this video)
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The picture to the upper right is of the northwesterly sky above Santa Monica California, on May 23, 2005, at about 6pm.
The 2nd picture to the right is of a sign at the "Right to Breath Healthy Air" rally at West L.A. Federal building May 20, 2006.]
At the "Right To Breathe Healthy Air" rally at the West L.A. Federal building last Saturday, there was an announcement of aabout a special news report by Paul Moyer scheduled to be broadcast on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 (NBC - Channel 4), titled "Toxic Skies"(link 1)(link 2)
The rally was the second one they have done so far. They plan on doing more. They would like to raise consciousness to the subject of what is being emitted in our skies. And they are raising health concerns. And they would like the US government to disclose or to investigate what is being emitted by the airplanes in our skies.
For more info about the "Right To Breathe Healthy Air", contact: phone 310-657-5174 or send email to: kathyornstein (at) hotmail.com.
There are about 15 videos hosted on Google Video on chemtrails which can be viewed for free.
Additionally, there have been two recent produced documentaries on a related subject. One is called "Global Dimming" produced by the BBC and another titled "NOVA - The Dimming Sun" broadcast on the PBS network(video link).
Also, see what Astornaut, US Marine Corp Fighter Pilot, and US Senator John Glenn has to say about Al Gore and "Global Warming" at an event at Ohio State University on Global Warming.
Also, you may want to watch a documentary aired on TVLink in the European Union on "Air Pollution"
MTA, AKA "Metro" (Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority) just launched a new advertising campaign for those who are vitually handcuffed to a gasoline pump. In it they encourage more of these people to ride the "metro" public transit system in Los Angeles county. Thanks to John from Trans-Port+Station for the tip on this info.
[see picture to the right. click on picture to enlarge.]
In the campaign ad there is a picture of a well manicured hand handcuffed to a gasoline pump with the words "Free yourself. Go Metro."
On the MTA website you can create an itinery to get from one place to another using the public transit system.
Some people think riding the bus is kind of like being handcuffed to a bus stop pole. The passengers waiting for the bus are waiting, blindly for the next bus to come, which may be late, may have come early(it happens), broke down, or forced to detour, etc. Thus, the passengers, must wait for seeming eternities, and with a watchful eye and concentration in the roadway horizon for the glimpse of the first bus they can see. And tract this distant bus until they can determine if it is the bus they are waiting for, by seeing a bus line # desplay in the front of the bus. And sometimes those buses do not have a working bus number indicator, or they have set them incorrectly. Some people have visual impairments and can not read those signs, etc. So passengers must wait and wait, with their body and mind virtually handcuffed to the bus stop. This is especially problematic for buses with a frequency of twenty minutes or more.
In some cities, such as San Francisco, they have incorporated new technology which tracks buses on the ground using GPS, (see: Nextbus ) which is already standard equipment on all public buses, and interfaces that with software, and a publicly accessible website to give passengers access to real time information, including forecasting information, which incorporates traffic levels, detour info, ect. to predict the time it will take to arrive for the next bus at the stop of your choosing.
With this technology, which can be access using a cell phone or PDA with access to the web or through a wifi connection, to check in for this info.
There is also some software out that is kind of a hack, that allows users to have their computer, pda, or other handheld mobile internet connected device to automatically check with the server on a set interval and alarm you when the bus is within a certain number of minutes away from the stop.
Presumably this software can be set by you with the amount of minutes you will need to get to the bus or train stop, without having to just wait at the stop. This will also allow you to continue to do other things, such as having lunch, running errands, shopping, visiting the library, beach, or park, etc instead of having to wait at the bus stop.
This may be a boom for public transit safety as well. Passengers could plan waiting for the bus in a sheltered, secured area, and just a lot themselves enough time to get to the bus as they need, with accurate real time information.
According to Source at Big Blue Bus, a service like this will become available for passengers to track, in real time where Big Blue Buses are on the ground and predict, using traffic and whether data, when the bus will arrive a the bus stop you are picking it up at. This service will probably be available sometime in the end of 2006 or early 2007.
Cost of gasoline hits $4 per gallon (May 11, 2006) at Pico and Barrington gas station(Westside/West L.A.).
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Notice the billboard ad of a "Real estate Wealth Expo" with the face of a Donald Trump seemingly looking at the gas price sign and scouling, in the background.
Anyone have any good thoughts how to describe this scene and a play on what Donald Trump is thinking as he overlooks the gas prices sign?
How about, "Start riding your bicycle or... YOU'RE FIRED!"
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