Google updated Maps for Android yesterday with some welcome new features that continue the app's reign as the best maps app on any smartphone, period.READ»
Sporting a super-private location, the master-planned community of Scottsdale Mountain is an exclusive guard-gated enclave just north of Shea Boulevard on 136th Street. Tucked tight against the fabulous foothills of the McDowell ...READ»
Wondering whether it's a good idea to ride your bike to work? Bicycling Magazine has put together a handy list of the top 50 bike friendly cities in the U.S. (Spoiler alert) Congratulations, Minneapolis, Minn.! Some of the choices ...READ»
Sanyo's just finished installing the bicycle sheds of the future: "Solar Parking Lots" that capture sunlight and turn it into electricity to charge up 40 electric bikes parked beneath. Shelter, green power, and the health-benefits ...READ»
Los Angeles is known for its freeways, sure, but trying to make use of those four-lane traffic pileups as a cyclist could prove disastrous. That's where a proposal from a cycling activism organization called the L.A Bike Working ...READ»
If you are seriously involved in fitness as a body builder, weight trainer or endurance athlete you’ll want to get more out of your workout without having to invest more time. Serious athletes give their workouts a boost by taking natural performance supplements. These allow you add repetitions to a set or increase weights and recover faster to achieve greater benefits during the same time period. Several of these ingredients are discussed in this article.READ»
Biking is a great way to get around--until you get sideswiped by a car. Enter Kolelinia, a wacky-sounding urban transportation concept that proposes bike lanes on steel wires in the sky.
Believe it or not, the system could ...READ»
So much depends upon a reddish-brown bicycle: namely, the comfort of your ass on a rough trail. So how do modern mountain bikes take the grunt out of backwoods biking?
If we're talking about the Bionicon Supershuttle, above, the ...READ»
Today at the COP 15 Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, M.I.T. students introduced the technologically advanced Copenhagen Wheel. In addition to including various sensors and Bluetooth capability, the tire stores kinetic energy ...READ»
While the rest of us spin our wheels waiting for that infrastructure cash to kick in so that we can have a smooth new bike path to ride on, Los Angeles-based designer Joseph Prichard has a much better idea--one that not only gets ...READ»
Both automobile and bicycle purchases fell overall in the first quarter of 2009, but in a surprising twist, bike sales trumped car sales (2.6 million bicycles vs. 2.5 million cars). And while bike sales are down 30% overall from the ...READ»
Design concepts are a dime a dozen, but every once in a while you see one that seems too good not to be real. One example: The Light Lane, which allows any bike rider to project a traffic lane around them.
If you've never ridden a ...READ»
Every year, more than 2,000 bicycle companies pour millions into research and development to make bikes faster, stronger, and lighter. Here are six two-wheeled machines that represent the cutting edge of bicycle design and technology.READ»
"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother started walking 5 miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today, and we don't know where the hell she is." -- Ellen DeGeneres, comedienne
"All I need is my cup of coffee and some friends to ...READ»
"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother started walking 5 miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today, and we don't know where the hell she is." -- Ellen DeGeneres, comedienne
"All I need is my cup of coffee and some friends to ...READ»
