Posts Tagged ‘Cycle’

One of Two Videos shown during AIDS Life Cycle Closing Ceremonies

Cycle ball

A quick look at the bike that is soon to be all over london

A short insight into the test junctions so far.

As seen on TV and in the national press... This amphibious cycle was designed and built by seven engineering students at the University of Southampton, England in 2008. It is powered on water by a paddle wheel. Group Members: Anthony Chesshire David Edwards Simon Halford Jo Hutchinson Jack Marriott Andrew Webster Simon Wiles Video compiled by David Edwards Images... farm4.static.flickr.com farm4.static.flickr.com Project supervisors... Dr A. Bhaskar Dr S. Syngellakis Dr K. Djidjelli Music: Enya - Sail Away -

Dave Scott, a 6-time Ironman World Champion and Team Timex member, provides tips for cycling, how to pedal, and proper foot position on a bike. For more information, please visit www.TimexIronman.com

Cycle Right series on the proper cycling pedal technique. Two common pedal techniques are discussed; heal down pedaling and pull on the up stroke. The disadvantages of both in power delivery are discussed.

A cinema advert about cycling and climate change for the cycling organisation CTC

It is known the Dutch are world champions in utility cycling. That they combine public transport with cycling is lesser known. What it leads to can be seen in this video. Thousands of parked bicycles at the city's main station. Utrecht has the Netherlands' biggest railway station. Next to this railway station we find the light rail and bus stations. Many commuters park their bikes near one of these three stations and continue to work in other cities. They have a street of 800 meters (half a mile) full of bike racks (mostly 4 rows of them) at their disposal. And we don't even see the numerous indoor bike parking facilities both above and underground. A lot of commuters also arrive by public transport and continue by bicycle to their workplace in Utrecht. The bicycles of the latter group of commuters is parked over night and will not be visible in this video.

Has Japan designed the world's best bike shed? It's not often something stops you in your bike tracks. But a spectacular "bike tree" invention from Japan bowled me over when I was in Tokyo a couple of weeks ago. Fed up with bicycles locked to railings, piled on top of each other, blocking doorways and roads, a local council in the city installed the mechanical masterpiece. It's basically an automatic storage system for cycles and operates with computer tagging of bikes and either storage in a building or a basement structure. There are a number of locations where these bike trees are now in place in Tokyo some hold 600-odd bikes, others more than 6000. The concept came from the massive Japanese steel company JFE, whose engineering works division first started them in 2007 but are now spreading. The idea is quite simple, although no doubt the technology is fiendishly complicated. Bike owners who want a secure parking spot must register and pay a monthly fee 1800 yen (around £12 a month) and students get discounts. Bikes are fitted with a small electronic tag. When the bike is placed into the ruts of the bike tree machine, a sensor logs the owner's details. A mechanical arm then emerges, pulls the bike into a cylindrical well and stores it at high speed in a free location. To retrieve the bike, the owner swipes a card through a reader and the bike is plucked from racks and brought back down or up if it's a basement design to earth. The process of retrieval normally takes 15 ...