The Bamboo Bike Project. The goal of this project is to introduce a locally sustainable and low cost bike to poor areas in Africa. Cool idea.Few plants can match bamboo for pure growing ability. I used to have bamboo outside my house in Seattle, and no matter how much you cut it, every week, it was as high as the house. Also, in Hong Kong, the use it as scaffolding for building skyscrapers. What I didn’t know was that Bamboo has a higher tensile strength than steel. These bikes are “welded” with …

I was going through a few of my old photo files this afternoon and noticed that almost exactly a year ago from today in November of 2007, a bunch of fixed gear riders came over to Tokyo from the States and gathered in my beloved Yoyogi Park. At the time I was there skateboarding in the entrance area of the park like I had done every other day for the last 7 years. The bike riders were in town to celebrate the release of the Mash DVD. It was quite …

thanks Kyle!

When I visited Amsterdam as a kid, my mind was blown by the insane number of bikes there. When most people think of Amsterdam,they think of pot and the red light district. I think of it as the city of Bicycles and Butter Cookies. What I mean by butter cookies is actual butter cookies, that’s not slang for smoking weed with a hooker.  “Bicycle” is the title of a 100-day event (Jun.22 - Oct.5) full of activities and lectures anchored by a central exhibition at the Designhuis in Eindhoven. The exhibition …